Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 24: Episode 18
98r: Cuba Gooding Jr. / Ricky Martin
Lotto II
Black Man…..Tracy Morgan
Country Man…..Chris Kattan
Gas Station Attendant…..Horatio Sanz
[fade up to a black man]
Black man: The odds was against me.
[cut to a gas station attendant]
Gas station attendant: “Why don’t you give up?” they said.
[cut to a country man]
Country man: “People like you are just wasting your time.”
[cut to a middle-aged woman talking; moderately soft piano music plays throughout the rest of the commercial]
Announcer: All across America, people like these are [cut to a Native American man talking] proving the experts wrong. Believing in themselves and beating the odds. [dissolve to Lotto logo] Lotto.
[cut to an Asian woman]
Asian woman: I didn’t give up. [fade up caption “$50 Winner”]
[cut to country man]
Country man: I didn’t give up. [fade up caption “Won Extra Play”]
[cut to gas station attendant]
Gas station attendant: I didn’t give up. [fade up caption “$75 Winner,” then fade up “Shared with four co-workers” underneath]
[cut to Native American man]
Native American man: I didn’t give up. [dissolve to wider shot of Native American man with the other five people behind him; fade up caption “$11 Million Jackpot,” then fade up “Missed by only two digits” underneath]
[cut to Lotto logo]
Announcer: Lotto.
[cut to black man]
Black man: Don’t ever let them tell you you can’t make it. [fade up caption “Non-Winner”]
[fade to black]
Submitted by: Gregory Larson
