Dec.27 2010

Movie Pitch: SNL’s ‘Stefon’

This is a new segment on The Movie Mash where we will be pitching ideas for sequels, adaptations and new concepts that we feel should be made into a movie. The inaugural Movie Pitch is for an SNL skit that has become my absolute favorite over the past couple months; Bill Hader as Stefon. Stefon is Weekend Update’s “City Correspondent” who Seth Myers brings on to help give visiting New York tourists tips on what “traditional” New York places to check out. Instead, the flamboyantly neourotic Stefon describes “New York’s hottest clubs” that have extremely bizarre and psychotic features, such as Club Crece, where you’ll find psychos and screaming babies in Mozart wigs. If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, hit the jump to check it out.

Take a look at a couple of Stefon segments below, so I don’t keep sounding like I’m insane.

I don’t know about you, but I think this character is absolutely hilarious. My sense of humor totally gels with highlighting the absurd, and nothing is more absurd than the night clubs Stefon is describing. So I say now, make Stefon into a full-length feature film. I know adapting films from SNL characters and skits has been disastrous in the past. Just last year MacGruber completely bombed at the box-office, even though it was hilarious and ridiculous. I just think it would be amazing to see a story about Stefon as a travel reporter for some news outlet where he had to review all these insane establishments.

Just imagine if, in a movie, you saw: groups of guys with afros in graduation caps, grown men in wedding dresses, room after room of broken mirrors, entire rooms of puppets doing karate, human bathmats and human fire hydrants, etc. And each of these insane images could feature a cameo from a different SNL cast member and/or another high-profile actor. That would be so damn hilarious. So that’s my pitch, Hollywood. Make it happen!

Stefon, hopefully hitting theaters in 2013.

What do You Think? Discuss.

Categories : Features

http://www.myspace.com/zetusdeamos TheMovieMike

I agree, Stefon is hilarious and i have loved that skit since the first time they did it. Bill Hader is amazing!! Also, i agree with you on Macgruber, although rediculous, it was hilarious and underrated.
Master Snake

Ok but see, you're missing half of what makes the character funny if you make it so the clubs are just as he describes them. You're supposed to wonder if most of it is just in his head, on account of the drugs and his general craziness.
Rabstown

Interesting point, Master Snake. But it's just a wacky SNL character, I don't think we're “supposed” to think anything.
Jacques Cousteau

Part of the hilarity of Stefon is actually that so much of it is left up to the imagination. If you actually make a “human suitcase” I think it would just be really creepy and disturbing. The movie would have to maintain that element of separation, like have Stefon continue to do his thing throughout the film, but never actually show anything, and instead the storyline would be something like… hmm, not getting any ideas…
Openmy

Part of the hilarity of Stefon is actually that so much of it is left up to the imagination. If you actually make a “human suitcase” I think it would just be really creepy and disturbing. The movie would have to maintain that element of separation, like have Stefon continue to do his thing throughout the film, but never actually show anything, and instead the storyline would be something like… hmm, not getting any ideas…