For those of you who were out drinking/socializing/dirty-dancing on a table** this past Saturday night, we regret to inform you that you missed the funniest SNL sketch since "Dick in a Box."
The skit purports to be an episode of the (thankfully) fictional "The Dakota Fanning Show," and is essentially an excuse for an extended, dead-on parody of the creepily-adult child star.
Example: Fanning (Amy Poehler) waxes intellectual about the latest Thomas Pynchon work and NYT book critic Michiko Kakutani, but proves ignorant on all references to mainstream pop culture, (fave line: "I am not familiar").
We especially enjoyed the banter between "talk show host" Dakota Fanning and her band-leader, as well as the interactions with far-more-normal Abigail Breslin (Drew Barrymore), prompting Fanning to sigh, "oh, to be ten again. Those were heady, heady days."
Enjoy the video.
**Yes, you, TomKat!
Editorial Director
Like most SNL skits, it goes on about 2 minutes too long.
Um, this is AMAZING. Dakota totally creeps me out, loove that she referenced Michiko Kakutani. Genius.
The bandleader was the funniest part. But the writers should have done more research: Dakota has done VO work for Family Guy, and has mentioned often she is a big Harry Potter fan.
jonny3