“Saturday Night Live breakout Sarah Sherman portrayed SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher in a Halloween-themed sketch that took aim at the studios, the guild’s controversial Halloween costume recommendations and The Nanny star herself.
The sketch showed children running around in IP-branded Halloween costumes being stopped by Drescher, who was there to “teach you how to do Halloween during a strike”. This includes SAG-AFTRA asking members not to wear costumes based on film or TV characters, otherwise “we’ll be promoting the companies we’re striking against, which makes all these kids look like a bunch of adorable scabs”.
Drescher then recommended safe costumes such as “Harry Potter as only described in the book” and “minor characters from the Bible”.
After Drescher says, “That’s why we’ve been picketing for 100 days,” and another character replies, “That must be exhausting,” she deadpans, “Hey, did you just call me exhausting? Well, a lot of people did.” The joke may have been in response to the recent A-list pressure on Drescher and the Guild to make a quick deal.
Despite the barb at Drescher, she ends the sketch with a monologue aimed at the AMPTP, saying, “Negotiating with the studios is a lot like trick-or-treating. You know how you go to the biggest house on the block and all the lights are off and they pretend they’re not home? But you can see them through the window eating Kit Kat bars, dozens of Kit Kat bars, billions of Kit Kat bars, record numbers of Kit Kat bars? All the actors are saying is, “Break me off a piece of this Kit Kat bar.
