Originally posted by: ricarleite

Originally posted by: CO
Originally posted by: CO
But when you watch it, you'll notice when Natalie says, "Everyone remembers me in the three SW movies.......(a couple of second pause from the audience) and then they clapped, it was very awkward.

Really? I wish they didn't clap at all, but in a way that it would be clear that it was not something like a deliberated joke about the prequels. I wish she really bombed there. Why didn't she say "you guys remember me from Closer and Vendetta and" other movies?

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The whole jist of the joke with the Q&A from the audience is that Natalie knew more about the PT than SW fans. They had these loser looking nerdy fans ask her questions (The way they looked was actually really funny, they just looked like complete losers), but they would ask a question like, "When Kenobi goes to Kashykk....?" and Natalie would interrupt, "No, Kenobi went to Utapau to find General Grevious....."

But to me the average person watching SNL would have no idea about that joke because General Grevious, Kashykk, or Utapau are not pop culture references, and it just didn't come off as funny, unless you were a diehard SW fan.

If this were Carrie Fisher in 1977, and they asked about Chewbacca, or the Death Star, or even the Millenium Falcon, anyone would get the joke because they were all pop culture references back then, and you didn't need to be a diehard fan of SW to get the joke.

I thought if would have been funny if they had the audience member, who was planted there of course says, "What was it like working with Harrison Ford & Mark Hammill?" Natalie would reply, "Uhh, that wasn't my trilogy, that was the original SW, mine was the prequel SW." The member would say, "The prequel SW? What was that?......." and then he just sits down.

But then again I guess that would mock Natalies own movie she was in, so why would she do it.