88t: Steve Martin / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Get To Know Me
[ open on Jon Lovitz sitting at a table in the russian Tea Room with Paulina Poriskova ]
Jon Lovitz: Hello, I'm Jon Lovitz, and I'm having lunch in the Russian Tea Room with the most beautiful woman in the world - Paulina! Well, we can't all be me. But if you'd like to fulfill your dream like I did, then I have one piece of advice for you - Get To Know Me! When did I chip my tooth? Why do I drain my foot? Where is my extra bone? Get To Know Me! Got to go - listen to him!
Don Pardo: Hello! Before I got to know Jon, I was nothing, nowhere, nobody! I was stuck in a room reading voiceovers I could barely understand! And then, I got to know him, and now I get to be on TV! And today, they call me.. Don Pardo!
Jon Lovitz: Get To Know Me! Why do I never wear a hat? Why was I banned from Bangkok? Why do women call me "The Anchor"?
Paulina Poriskova: You.. stud! You gorgeous hunk of male flesh.
Jon Lovitz: [ to the camera ] Yes! [ to Paulina ] Uh.. a little lower and to the left. Get To Know Me! Still wondering if you should? Then listen to him!
Lee Iacocca: Before I got to know Jon, I was nothing, nowhere, nobody! I couldn't get a job to save my life! And today, they call me.. Lee Iacocca! Get to know him! And buy a Chrysler..
Don Pardo: It works, I tell you, it works!
Jon Lovitz: Get out, I tell you, get out! Get To Know Me! Why do girls speak to me? Do I shave my eyebrows in the middle? Get To Know Me! And now, a final testimonial, from a man who speaks the truth!
Steve Martin: Before I got to know Jon, I was nothing, nowhere, nobody! I was a two-bit comic with an arrow stuck through my head! And then, I got to know him, and now I just starred in a movie called "Parenthood", directed by Opie! And today, they call me.. Steve Martin!
Jon Lovitz: Thank you.
Steve Martin: Thank you!
Lee Iacocca: It's true, I tell you, it's true! Buy a Chrsyler..
Paulina Poriskova: He's a stud!
Steve Martin: I might do a movie directed by Potsie!
Don Pardo: I'm on TV!
Jon Lovitz: Get To Know Me!!
SNL Transcripts
A random thought occurred to me during my morning run today (as they are wont to do), and for some reason this skit came to mind. Which got me wondering, was this the watershed moment in the personal branding movement? I mean, don''t Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and WordPress (oh yean, and Posterous) just seem like a fast route to "Get to Know Me"?
So go ahead, ask me where my extra bone is. Or, maybe don't.
I'd love to have found a (non-copyright) video clip for this, but regrettably could not.
