Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2001–02


The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 29, 2001, and May 18, 2002, the twenty-seventh season of SNL.

Donatella Versace

parodies fashion designer Donatella Versace. Donatella, a demanding diva, speaks in broken English and is always smoking or drinking champagne. She is usually surrounded by scantily clad manservants and hangs out with her celebrity friends like Elton John, Madonna, and Bono, or other designers. She gets easily impatient with her friends and guests, yelling, "Get ouutttt!" at them when they annoy her. In some sketches she hawks her own line of products, like Versace Hot Pockets and Versace Egg Nog. Debuted September 29, 2001.
;Appearances
SeasonEpisodeHostNotes
27September 29, 2001Reese WitherspoonDonatella promotes her video "Donatella Versace For the Children." Her guests are Grace Jones, Karl Lagerfeld, and John Galliano.
27December 8, 2001Hugh JackmanDonatella welcomes Karl Lagerfeld, Steven Cojocaru, and her friend Ingo.
27March 16, 2002Ian McKellenDonatella hosts an Oscars party featuring Yves St. Laurent, Elizabeth Hurley, and Bono.
28October 4, 2002Matt DamonDonatella advertises Versace Hot Pockets, endorsed by her celebrity friends Rosie O'Donnell, P. Diddy, Farnsworth Bentley, and Axl Rose.
28December 7, 2002Robert De NiroA Very Versace Chanukah. Donatella is visited by Siegfried and Roy and Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne.
28March 15, 2003Salma HayekVersace Oscar Fashion Preview. Donatella previews Oscars fashion with her assistant Adriana. Christina Aguilera makes an appearance.
28May 17, 2003Dan AykroydDonatella hosts her Backyard Barbecue, featuring Esteban, Anna Nicole Smith, and David Letterman.
29October 18, 2003Halle BerryDonatella hosts a Halloween party with Naomi Campbell and Elton John.
29December 13, 2003Elijah WoodDonatella promotes Versace Egg Nog. Rosie O'Donnell and Boy George stop by to promote the Broadway musical Taboo.
29February 14, 2004Drew BarrymoreDonatella celebrates Valentine's Day with special guests Courtney Love, Madonna, and Elton John.
30February 5, 2005Paris HiltonWhile skiing, Donatella runs into Paris Hilton.
30May 7, 2005Johnny KnoxvilleDonatella celebrates Mother's Day with her mother, Elton John, and David Furnish.
32February 3, 2007Drew BarrymoreDonatella hosts a Super Bowl party with guests Victoria and David Beckham and Prince.

Gay Hitler

Gay Hitler was a character loosely based on a theory described in German historian Lothar Machtan's book The Hidden Hitler, which attempts to prove that Adolf Hitler was a homosexual. The flamboyant Hitler character was known for the catchphrase "Sprechen Sie dick?" Gay Hitler was the author of the fictional autobiography Mein Boyfriend, a satire of Hitler's actual autobiography Mein Kampf. Gay Hitler also appeared as Speed Skating Hitler, rendering the Sieg Heil salute repeatedly as he skated in place. His first appearance was on October 13, 2001.
A scene in the film Step Brothers shows fellow SNL cast member Will Ferrell dressed as a Nazi asking the antagonist "Sprechen sie dick?".

She's The Girl With No Gaydar!!!

plays Nicole, a woman who is comically clueless about other people's orientations. The sketch begins and ends with a song-and-dance routine about Nicole's lack of gaydar. Debuted November 3, 2001.
Appearances:
  • November 3, 2001: Host John Goodman plays Julius.
  • April 13, 2002: Nicole tries to hit on men at a gay bar. Host The Rock plays Michael Anthony.
  • November 16, 2002: Nicole goes to a loft party that is attended by mostly gay men. Host Brittany Murphy plays Wanda, a lesbian woman.

    America Undercover

An HBO show, similar to Fox's COPS series, where a white trash couple fist fight and police are called in to break them up. Debuted November 3, 2001.

Drunk Girl

Drunk Girl was played by Jeff Richards between 2001 and 2003. Drunk Girl would stop by Weekend Update to talk about things like Spring Break Tips, but she would be unreliable because of her slurred speech and emotional behavior. Her eyes are always squinted shut and she has shoulder-length blonde hair, and often a bared midriff. Among Drunk Girl's frequent mannerisms are telling people to "shut up!", whether they have actually said anything or not; bursting into tears for no reason; and offering to make out with a disinterested Jimmy Fallon or Tina Fey, the Update hosts at the time. Drunk Girl commonly asks people if they want to know something repeatedly, and when they say no, she increasingly slurs the words as she repeats the phrase. In later episodes, she also takes off her bra and/or lets something inappropriate, such as food, fall out of it. Debuted December 8, 2001.

Astronaut Jones

A Tracy Morgan sketch. The sketch begins with a theme song, sung by Morgan in the style of a lounge singer. All sketches involve Astronaut Jones landing on other planets and encountering alien life forms. The aliens are usually female and give a long-winded speech to Jones about life on their planet, but Jones cannot focus on anything they are saying because he is too distracted by their breasts or other body parts. At the end of the aliens' speech, he then makes crude comments, like, "Let me slap those phat asses" and "I want to see it clap". Debuted February 2, 2002.
Appearances
SeasonEpisodeHostNotes
27February 7, 2002Britney SpearsJones encounters Kregelera.
27April 6, 2002Cameron DiazJones lands on Jupiter and encounters the Jupiterians.
28November 16, 2002Brittany MurphyJones is accompanied by Garrett Morris and musical guest Nelly. The trio encounter Bleeblora.
28May 17, 2003Dan AykroydJones and his chief science officer encounter Venalla.
34March 14, 2009Tracy MorganJones meets a Krilgarian woman.
41October 17, 2015Tracy MorganJones and his crew encounter Martiana.

The Leather Man

A Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz sketch. The Leather Man is the owner of a store that sells only leather items. When customers browse items or try on outfits, the leather makes loud, squeaky noises. The Leather Man is aided by his assistant Choo Choo, a bob cut-haired eccentric. Choo Choo makes frequent mistakes, which the Leather Man punishes him for by hitting him with a leather whip that makes Choo Choo cry out in exaggerated wails. Fallon and Sanz broke character in both appearances of the sketch. Debuted February 2, 2002.
Appearances:
  • February 2, 2002: Host Britney Spears. Spears plays a customer and Dan Aykroyd makes a cameo appearance as Judge Lindenwell.
  • November 16, 2002: Host Brittany Murphy. Murphy plays a customer.

    Amber, the One-Legged Hypoglycemic

An Amy Poehler sketch. Amber was "rockin' one leg". Poehler held one leg up behind her body so it would appear to have been amputated at the knee. She was impatient, bitchy, vulgar, dirty, and generally obnoxious. She saw herself as extremely sexy and desirable. Her catchphrase was, "Yeah, I farted. Jealous?!" Occasionally, another similarly boorish behavior would be substituted for "I farted". Apparently due to hypoglycemia, she would continuously munch on some unhealthy snack, usually a fatty fried food like french fries or potato chips throughout each sketch. The male characters in each sketch tended to appreciate her self-confidence, but fell well short of agreeing that she was sexy or desirable. She would never win the various beauty/popularity based contests that she would enter. Debuted March 2, 2002.
Appearances:
  • March 2, 2002: Host Jonny Moseley. Amber and her equally obnoxious frenemy vie for the affections of a goofy young man.
  • May 18, 2002: Host Winona Ryder. Amber auditions to be a Playboy centerfold.
  • November 2, 2002: Host Eric McCormack. Amber is a contestant on The Bachelor.
  • May 15, 2004: Host Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Amber appears on The Swan. While the other contestants on the show got radical plastic surgery makeovers, they essentially did nothing for Amber. The Olsen twins appeared as contestant Vicki, as well as Vicki's reflection in a mirror.
  • May 21, 2005: Host Lindsay Lohan. Amber is a contestant on America's Next Top Model.
  • February 23, 2008: Host Tina Fey. Amber competes to become Bret Michaels' wife on a reality program.
  • September 25, 2010: Host Amy Poehler. Amber gets her own reality show on Showtime.

    The Ferey Muhtar Talk Show

The Ferey Muthar Talk Show was a sketch on SNL, appearing only twice. It was a talk show from Turkey, with Horatio Sanz as the host and Darrell Hammond as his sidekick. It was a parody based on Turkish reality show Ateş Hattı by Reha Muhtar.