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SNL Transcripts: Jude Law: 10/23/04: The Adventures of Peter OToole & Michael Caine
Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 30: Episode 3
04c: Jude Law / Ashlee Simpson
The Adventures of Peter OToole & Michael Caine
Peter O’Toole…..Jude Law
Michael Caine…..Seth Meyers
Brett…..Rob Riggle
Employee…..Rachel Dratch
Gary…..Kenan Thompson
[Title graphic appears as announcer speaks.]
Announcer: And now it is time once again for “The Adventures of PeterO’Toole and Michael Caine.”
[A fast food restaurant, night. A drunken Peter O’Toole and an equallydrunken Michael Caine enter in tuxedos, carrying martinis. Peter alsocarries a cigarette in a holder.]
Peter O’Toole: Hello!
Michael Caine: Hello!
Peter O’Toole: Hello!
Michael Caine: Hello!
Peter O’Toole: Hello, everyone!
Michael Caine: How are you, then?
Peter O’Toole: Hello!
Michael Caine: Good to see you!
Peter O’Toole: Hello!
Michael Caine: Coming through!
Peter O’Toole: Coming through! Hello!
Michael Caine: Hello!
Peter O’Toole: Hello, everyone!
Michael Caine: Hello!
Peter O’Toole: Michael, I have one question for you: Where in God’s name are we?
Michael Caine: Well, let’s figure it out: a group of people…a TacoBell/Pizza Hut Express sign…and we’re wearing tuxedos. We must behosting a talk show.
Peter O’Toole: Excellent!
[They sit at a table and address the camera.]
Michael Caine: Hello, I’m Michael Caine.
Peter O’Toole: And I’m Peter O’Toole.
Michael Caine: And you’re watching “An Evening with Peter andMichael.” Please enjoy our combined 200 years of acting excellence.
Peter O’Toole: This man has been in over 300 films: “Hannah and Her Sisters”…
Michael Caine: Yes.
Peter O’Toole: …”Ipcress File”…
Michael Caine: Yes.
Peter O’Toole: …”Star Wars”…
Michael Caine: No.
Peter O’Toole: …”Garfield”…
Michael Caine: No.
Peter O’Toole: …”The Jigsaw Man”…
Michael Caine: Yes.
Peter O’Toole: …Sir Penny Marshall’s “A League of Their Own”…
Michael Caine: Absolutely not.
Peter O’Toole: …and the first season of “NYPD Blue.”
Michael Caine: David Caruso.
Peter O’Toole: And I have been told by many people that I am still making films.
[A customer at the next table gets up and walks behind Peter and Michael.]
Brett: Hey, can I grab a napkin there, Chief?
Peter O’Toole: Oh, wonderful, we have a caller! What is your name,and where are you from?
Brett: My name’s Brett, I’m from, uh…I’m from behind you. Look, I’mjust going to grab one of these napkins. [He does so and returns tohis table.]
Peter O’Toole: Thank you for your call! And remember, everyone, thenumber is 8…1…3…hundred…6.
Michael Caine: We would now like to pause for a word from our sponsor.
[Twelve-second pause. Peter smokes, Michael drinks.]
Michael Caine: Thank you, Walker’s Crisps!
Peter O’Toole: Britain’s best crisps since 1455…7…2.
Michael Caine: It is now time for a segment on our show we like tocall “Guess the Accents.”
Peter O’Toole: [clears throat, then speaks in his normal voice]”Hello, sir, I am here about the telegram.”
Michael Caine: Italian.
Peter O’Toole: Correct.
Michael Caine: [speaks in his normal voice] “Hey, you. You over there.I’m talking to you. I’m going to tell you something about how to treata woman.”
Peter O’Toole: German.
Michael Caine: Correct.
[An employee approaches the table.]
Employee: Do you guys need me to call someone for you?
Michael Caine: You’re in the shot, love.
[She leaves.]
Peter O’Toole: Michael, I’m getting the sneaking suspicion that we arenot hosting a talk show.
Michael Caine: I think you’re right. We must be teaching an acting workshop.
[They stand.]
Peter O’Toole: The key to acting is knowing what your character wants.
[Gary, a customer, walks by with a tray of food.]
Peter O’Toole: Othello!
Michael Caine: Hey!
Gary: Yo, dude, my name is not Othello.
Peter O’Toole: It was Wolverhampton Rep, the year was 1973. I playedIago, and you were marvelous!
Gary: Look, crazy dudes, I just want to eat my chicken soft taco in peace.
Michael Caine: You’ve told me what you want, but now make me believe it!
Gary: [frustrated] LEAVE ME ALONE!
Michael Caine: Now you are an actor.
[Michael and Peter put their drinks down and applaud Gary. They allsit down. The employee returns.]
Employee: Excuse me, I’m going to have to ask you to leave.
Peter O’Toole: Dear lady, where the hell are we?
Employee: At a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut Express.
Michael Caine: In that case, I would like a chalupa.
Peter O’Toole: And I would like your finest Gin Lover’s Pizza.
Employee: We don’t…we don’t have any gin.
[Peter and Michael stand.]
Michael Caine: That’s all the time we have.
Peter O’Toole: We’d like to thank our sponsors, Walker’s Crisps and the planet Mercury.
b>Michael Caine: Can anyone here direct us to the nearest gentlemen’s club?
[Gary stands.]
Gary: Uh, actually, uh…I know I’m going to regret this, but I’m headed to one right now.
b>Peter O’Toole: Othello!
Gary: Look, man, my name is Gary, you know what I’m saying? But wegotta get going, because after ten o’clock it’s a twenty dollar cover.
Peter O’Toole: Twenty dollars? Then we’d best hurry, for we arewithout money and have been so for ages! Exeunt!
[Peter moves toward the door, as Michael picks up a napkin dispenserand puts his hand on Gary’s shoulder]
Michael Caine: So, is this your first time in Kingsbridge?
Gary: Uh…dude, you’re in Detroit.
Michael Caine: That’s what you get for letting O’Toole drive.
[Michael staggers off as the title graphic reappears.]
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