Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1998–99
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The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 26, 1998, and May 15, 1999, the twenty-fourth season of SNL.
Hello Dolly
An Ana Gasteyer sketch. Hello Dolly is a Home Shopping Network program hosted by Irish doll collector Deana Nolan-Gray (Gasteyer). She interviews other Irish doll enthusiasts, usually played by the guest host. The dolls displayed by the two for purchase are unusually inappropriate, such as "Jist Playin'", a boy doll playing with his mom's makeup and has lipstick over his face, and "Oopz", a girl doll in a full-body cast who is on a liquid diet. Debuted October 3, 1998.
The How Do You Say? Ah, Yes, Show
This sketch was furnished as a talk show featuring Chris Kattan as Antonio Banderas, the show's host. Kattan portrayed Banderas as a naïve chauvinist whose only objective was to seduce every female guest into sleeping with him, using his well-documented sex appeal and shaky-at-best mastery of the English language (as evidenced in the show's title). In the show, Banderas was always backed up by his three-man mariachi band, who aside from performing the musical duties on the show, constantly begged Banderas not to unbutton or remove his shirt, for it would be "too sexy". Jennifer Love Hewitt played a guest who was put off by his advances and questioned his amorous behavior by asking, "Aren't you married to Melanie Griffith?" His response was "Si.
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