- Their comedy's
always a slam dunk,
and now they're playing
the sisters Clüsterfünke,
it's "Watch What Happens Live,"
with Ana Gasteyer
and Rachel Dratch, now.
[cheering and applause]
* Andy Cohen's
Got the 411 *
* King king
Of midnight fun *
* Midnight
MC AC *
* Late night
on Bravo TV *
Hey everybody. Welcome to
"Watch What Happens Live."
I am your host Andy Cohen
in the Bravo Clubhouse,
with one guest who famously
played a music teacher,
and another whose
favorite music is this.
[sad trombone sound]
As two of SNL's most
iconic leading ladies,
my guests tonight are
the reason Jill laughed
until it hurt in the late 90s
and early 2000s.
Their new movie,
"A Clusterfunke Christmas,"
is sure to give you
a clusterfunk load
of holiday cheer.
You can catch it
all season long
on Comedy Central,
Pop, and Logo.
Please welcome Ana Gasteyer
and Rachel Dratch.
[cheering and applause]
Ladies, you're so festive.
- It's the season.
It's the--
- Wow, and Rachel,
look at those shoes.
They're almost fit
for a real housewife.
- I know, right?
- Yes.
Uh, over at the bar,
there's not one,
but two Project Runway designers
getting into my alcohol stash.
One to toast her
win tonight,
and another to
drown his sorrows.
Say hi to Kristina
and Prajje. Hi.
[cheering and applause]
How are you guys--
how are you enjoying
the show so far this season?
- Pretty good.
- Yes. Not this show.
Your show.
- Pretty good.
- Okay.
[laughing]
Drinking game alert.
My guests won't know it,
but anytime you hear
anyone say this word,
if you're 21 or over,
drink until you're the drunkest
zinger in ze world.
Um--
- Ooh!
- You are just bringing them
fast and furious.
There's rhymes.
There's iambic pentameters.
- Yes!
- God.
- Yes. There's Clusterfunkes.
- Basic-- yes.
- How did you get that
title approved, by the way?
- Oh, I don't know.
- Was it hard?
- No. Nobody cared.
- Nobody said no.
- Oh, good.
- Because it has two--
it has-- it has two umlauts.
- It has two umlauts.
- Yes.
- Oh, and people like umlauts?
Perhaps umlauts
make it authentic.
It's from the old country.
- Well, it harkens
the old country.
- Yes, the old country.
Now, you know,
it's so funny, Rachel,
seeing you here in all of
our holiday splendor
is reminding me
of when you were
our elf on a shelf for
our Christmas Spectacular
several years ago.
- One of the highlights.
- What do you remember
from that broadcast?
It was-- well, it was me
and all the-the Housewives,
who were, like, six feet tall,
and then I was the elf
sitting on the shelf
right there.
- Yes.
- And it was great, 'cause I
didn't have to say anything.
I just could
sit there, like--
- Yes. We were all amazed
that you agreed to do it.
It was a--
- Are you kidding me?
- It was quite
a coup for us.
- Oh, it was a coup for me.
It was so fun.
- Well, thank you.
By the way, number one question
for you ladies,
you know, people always want
to dissect all the SNL-ness.
Um, the number one was,
"Who was both of
"your favorite hosts to work
with during your time on SNL?"
Does one stick out
for-for-for each of you?
- Well, Andy, we get
this question a lot, and...
- Ooh!
- And I never know what to say,
because there's
so many different--
-Yes.
- Like, different vibes
of people, right?
- Yes.
- So, can you think of anyone?
- No.
Exactly what you were gonna say,
like, you-you-you--
it's every-- everyone from,
like, a movie actor
that you didn't expect to
be able to do characters,
like a Julianne Moore or
obviously like a Buscemi
or somebody, but then, like,
athletes are incredible,
because they come in
and they're unflappable,
like Jeter was incredible.
I mean, it's kind of
wild like the--
- Jeter.
- Yeah.
- And you two famously
had a one night stand
after the show, right?
- I was gonna say,
like when she said--
- We did.
- Jeter was incredible.
- Yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah.
I don't know how famous
it was before now.
- Oh, okay.
- But yeah.
- And he was a good lover?
- He was. I-- well, yes.
I took him as a lover for
some time thereafter--
- He was a fervent lover.
- He wasn't as good a friend
as he was a lover though.
- I love that lover sketch,
by the way.
- Oh, that was so fun.
- Oh my God.
That was just-- I-I-iconic.
- Oh, the hot tub.
Yes.
- Hot tub.
- Um, Ana's holiday album
is called, "Sugar and Booze,"
but what we're about to do
is so much of both,
that we all might have
hangovers until January.
I want to play a round of
"Sugar and Whose?"
- Huh?
- Ana, I've got
a round of super sweet
questions designed to give
your former co-stars
some sugar.
Uh, while you answer, Rachel
and I will enjoy some booze.
Right, Rachel?
- I love it. Perfect.
Perfect combination
for the holidays.
- Yes. Absolutely.
Uh, when you worked with
Lindsay Lohan on "Mean Girls,"
what was the sweetest
mother/daughter moment
the two of you
shared offscreen?
- It was very sweet actually.
She had, uh, lots of
little girls piled--
like, lined up to see her
when you were filming,
and she was really nervous
about going over
and getting an autograph,
and it was just a full on
mother/daughter moment,
as an actor though,
where I turned to her
I was like--
she was heading back--
and said, "We-we sh-should--
you should go over there
and sign some autographs
for those little girls,"
and then we went over there
and she signed all of them and
they got pictures and stuff.
It was actually
really sweet.
- Oh.
What was the best advice
Will Ferrell ever gave you?
- Oh, gosh.
Um, so-- I mean, hi-his being
is the ri-right advice.
He is so present in what
he does comedically.
He has so much fun
with what he's doing,
and when he bombs, he doesn't
get in his own way.
He has the best time bombing
of anyone I've ever met. Yeah.
- Um, what's your most
cherished memory
of working with Tina Fey?
- Um, cherished...
oh, well we wrote a lot of
Martha Stewerts together.
- Really?
- So, yeah.
Um, so we wrote the turkey--
the Thanksgiving one.
We wrote the St. Patrick's one.
We wrote the one where,
uh, yeah.
We both wrote
a lot of them.
- Did Martha have a good
sense of humor about your--
- Amazing.
- Yes.
- Absolutely amazing
and has been nothing
but gracious ever since.
- You and Dratch have been
friends and co-stars
for over 20 years.
What's the nicest gift that
Rachel has ever given you?
- She gives a nice gift.
She's given me--
of given me?
- Yeah.
- Um, she's--
well, she's given
me some wonderful coasters
at the house
on Fire Island.
- Oh, I did. Remember that?
- I said, "I love those,"
and she's given me,
uh, earring-- oh really great
earrings for my birthday.
Those little pom-pom earrings
for when I turned 50?
- Oh, we can do
better than that.
- Well-well, I love them.
- Thank you very much,
Ana Gasteyer.
- I think they were nice.
[cheering and applause]
- Um, well we all
associate Rachel Dratch
with her most iconic character,
and I'm of course referring
to her demented version
of Erika Jayne
called Rachel Jayne.
- Yes. Rachel Jayne.
- That was incredible.
You played Rachel Jayne
several times
on the show, right?
- I believe so, yes.
Yes.
- Yes.
It started just
as an appearance,
and then I had my own video.
- Yes, you did.
- Yes.
- Uh, I thought we could give
her second most iconic
character the floor
for another crack
at making us all
second-guess
life's blessings.
It's time for,
"Debbie Downer: Round 2."
Rachel, I'm gonna throw some
light and cheery situations
your way. You will channel
Debbert-- Debbie Downer--
- Debra Downer.
It's Debra. Deborah.
- And tell us why each thing
should totally bum us out.
- Deborah died.
Downer, Deborah Downer.
- Devorah Downer.
Yes, Devorah Downer.
Yes, of course.
- Alright.
- Uh, Devorah Downer.
Christmas is less than
two weeks away.
- Great, only two weeks
to fix the supply chain.
[sad trombone sound]
- A good Samaritan in Detroit
anonymously tipped
a hard working waitress
$10,000.
- After taxes, it'll
probably be ten cents.
[sad trombone sound]
- Broadway is
breaking records
after last year's
shutdown from COVID.
- They may never recover
from the loss
of Sond-Sondheim.
[sad trombone sound]
She's a bummer.
- Devorah Downer.
Devorah Downer.
- Yeah.
- Uh, reports are that
we're gonna be having
a mild winter
in the Northwe-- Northeast.
That's something to celebrate,
right, Devorah?
- Thanks climate change.
[sad trombone sound]
- Thank you very much
Devorah Downer.
- Debbie Downer!
- Diminishing returns!
Yes?
- In their new movie,
Ana and Rachel
play kooky innkeepers
in a fictional
Christmas town.
I'm hoping these
double queens
are ready to spill
the mini bar tea
on the moments
that ended up--
they ended up
on the naughty list
this time of year.
Ladies, get ready to
"Jingle My Bells."
- Uh-oh!
- Uh, I'm gonna throw
some "never have I ever"
scenarios your way.
- I've never done
any of these.
- If you've done us--
If you've done it,
tell us by jingling...
- Does it have to be this year,
or in life?
- ...your bells. In life.
It doesn't have to be
this year.
- Okay, good, because I mostly
just made sourdough
during the pandemic, yeah.
- Right. Yes.
Um, I have regifted an item
to a family member or friend.
- You've never regifted--
- I really don't think
I've ever regifted.
- Wow.
I've dressed up in
holiday-themed outfits
in the bedroom.
- Oh, in the bedroom?
- Yeah.
- I mean...
Maybe-maybe when
I'm going--
Maybe when I was going out
somewhere else,
I had it on
in the bedroom.
- I have been surprisingly
attracted to a mall Santa.
[laughter]
Uh, I have taken back
a hostess gift
the hostess never saw.
I've done that.
- Oh, take it--
Oh, you mean they gave you
the gift and returned it?
- Yes, like,
I've been somewhere,
and then I'm like,
"Oh, this is ridiculously fancy.
"This person's never
gonna see this.
"Like, I'm taking it."
- Yeah, I like it.
- Yeah, you know what?
It's about waste.
- Yes.
Um, I am secretly
sick of the song
"All I Want for Christmas
is You"
[gasps]
Really?
- I love the song.
I love it.
- Yeah, I love it, too. Yes.
- Oh, okay. Okay.
- Wow, Ana.
- No, I was just--
I heard the words "music"
and I had to dance.
- Um, let's welcome
Mariah Carey, everybody!
No, um, I've watched
those old claymation movies
while stoned.
- I'm so boring.
I don't do anything
like get stoned.
- Um, I left a price tag
on a gift
so someone could see
how much I spent.
- [laughs]
Nope.
- Uh, I've had sex
under a Christmas tree.
- Ew, itchy.
- That would be hard.
I've cried at a Hallmark
Christmas movie.
- I probably have done it.
Let's just ring the bells
for something.
- I've embarrassed myself
at a work Christmas party.
- I mean, I just embarrass
myself generally.
- Right.
- Maybe without knowing.
- Yeah.
- I think in general.
- I've forgotten to tip
my doorman for the holidays.
- No, never.
- No, no, never.
Thank you very much, ladies.
[cheers and applause]
Oh, my gosh. Um...
- We're kind of a bunch of duds.
- Ana-- Not at all.
Ana, Greg D. wants to know
which "SNL" sketch you
were most unsure of
but ended up being
a total success.
- Uh, well, NPR.
Going in, I was--
I had confidence in it
because, uh,
I had done a character--
I had done a similar sketch
already at The Groundlings,
but coming in, I think
it was pretty much assumed
it was gonna be a bomb,
and was so much--
Actually, a lot
of my things.
Bobbi and Marty, too.
The music teachers were not--
were not, uh,
in-house favorites early on.
I enjoyed them,
but it wasn't until, like,
basically, a host put us up
at the beginning of the show,
and then it worked.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
- Uh, interesting.
Coming up, we have more
with Ana and Rachel.
Here's who's coming up
this week.
Don't go anywhere.
[cheers and applause]
- Oh, well, where you
comin' in from, hon?
- Uh, New York City.
- Ohh.
- Oh, New York.
Never been there myself.
Mnh-mnh. Too many lights
and honking horns.
- Oh, yeah.
- Ooh, all that hustle
and bustle.
- That's a great story.
Could I just get my key?
- Yeah.
- Let me ask you something.
In New York City,
can you see the stars
when you look up at the sky?
- Uh, not really.
Not with all the lights.
- No stars? How ya
gonna make a wish?
[Andy cackling]
[cheers and applause]
- That was a clip of
"A Clusterfunke Christmas."
- Very magical.
- Airing all holiday season
on Comedy Central, Pop and Logo,
starring my guests Ana Gasteyer
and Rachel Dratch.
[cheers and applause]
- We should explain
it's a parody
of those Hallmark and Lifetime
Christmas movies.
- Yes.
A little dash
of Christmas magic.
- A little context for you.
- A little context.
- Yeah, and they are
the Clusterfunke sisters.
- Yeah, they own
the Charming Inn
that the, uh,
sharp businesswoman
wants to come in and ruin.
I mean, you know.
It writes itself.
- Like, how these movies go.
- Yes.
- An executive gets
sent to a small town
to buy up a quaint business
which we own,
and then she might just find
love and the spirit of Christmas
in the process, but we don't
want to ruin any of it.
- Yes. Right. Wow.
- It's hard to say
whether or not the couple will
end up together, honestly.
- Yes, you'll just have
to watch and find out.
- You'll have to watch
and find out.
- Who plays the male?
- Uh, Cheyenne Jackson.
- Oh, perfect.
- America's hunkiest lumberjack.
- Absolutely.
Welcome back, everybody,
to "Watch What
Happens Live."
I'm Andy Cohen
in the Bravo Clubhouse
also here with our bartenders
Kristina and Prajje
from "Project Runway."
Who's the toughest judge
this season, do you think?
- Say what?
- Who's the toughest judge
this season?
- Aye.
- Guest judge?
- No, just judge.
Oh, you think the guest--
- So the-- just--
I think, um, Brandon.
- Brandon?
- Yeah.
- You agree?
- I think it depends
on the challenge,
you know? So you--
- Right, right.
- You, actually,
you never know.
- Right, that's the--
that's what keeps you guessing.
Drinking game reminder--
Any time you hear this word,
in honor of my guests'
Clusterfunke characters,
drink until you put
the "spins" in "spinster."
[laughing]
Let's go to our virtual fans.
Thanks, Ana,
for the laugh.
Dawn and Mike
from Washington,
let's hear your question
for Ana Gasteyer.
- Woo!
- Hi, Andy.
First of all, we want to
wish you a happy Hanukah
to you and Ben.
- Thank you.
- And I wanted
to tell Rachel
I read your book
several years ago,
and I loved it.
It was fabulous.
- Thank you!
- That was lovely.
- Thank you.
- But my question is for Ana.
- Sorry.
- Ana, what do you think--
[laughter]
- Sorry. What was the question?
- Did Cynthia Erivo--
Okay, what do you think
of the recent news
that Cynthia Erivo
will be Elphaba
in the new "Wicked" movie?
- That's such a great question.
I think--
- And do you have
any advice for her?
- Uh, you famously
played Elphaba.
- I did play Elphaba,
um, and I mean--
- You've been very vocally
against the casting
of Cynthia Erivo, haven't you?
- Never. Never.
- Yes, you-you were tweeting
up a storm.
- How dare you?
- Yeah, you said
it was terrible.
- I did not. That was you.
- Oh. No, it was not.
- Um, I actually love
the casting.
- Good. Yeah. Me, too.
- I think it was
really exciting, and, yeah,
I think--
I think both of them
are gonna be incredible.
I think Ariana Grande's
gonna be amazing, too.
And I think it's time
for the movie,
and I think they're both
vocally up to the task.
I think it's not just,
like, a giveaway job.
As advice, I mean, it's gonna
be different for the movie,
but, uh, you know, try not
to, uh, I don't know,
eat all that green paint
before you sing.
- Rachel, you were
famously very upset
that you didn't get cast
for the role of Glinda.
- I was very angry.
- She was.
- Yeah, you-you really
campaigned for the role.
- Yes, I sing it in the shower
all the time, popular,
and I was hoping someone
would hear, and they didn't.
- Right, wow. Sorry.
- Yeah,
that's not how you
get parts, apparently.
- Yes. Dana from Pennsylvania
has something
she wants to ask
Rachel Dratch.
What do you got, Dana?
- Hey, Rachel.
So since there is
so much drama
over how much Luann
paid Sonya for her cabaret,
did you get a solid
paycheck from Luann
when you did her cabaret?
- Oh, you were in
Luann's cabaret!
Well, now let's talk.
- Don't bring up the cabaret.
Please.
[laughter]
- Oh, Rachel!
- I would rather
she would talk about
anything else than the cabaret.
- Really? Re--
- It was one of my
show business low points.
But not 'cause of Luann!
- Right.
- Luann was great.
Everyone was great.
- Okay.
- Should I really go there?
- Yes, go there!
[cheers and applause]
Yes, Rachel! Rachel Jane!
- This is so nuts!
This is so not even, like,
'cause of anything, but--
so I don't really sing.
Okay? Big surprise.
But so then they were like,
"Why don't you sing something?"
I was like
"I don't really sing."
"Well, do you sing
anything?"
I was like, "Well, I just
sang 'Suddenly Seymour'
in karaoke the other night."
- I was there!
- "And that really killed it!"
So then I-- "okay, sing that."
So I thought I was gonna
go on at the end,
like, where everyone
would join in,
but they had me go up,
like, first up.
And with all these
Broadway people.
And you know, you need to be
a little more drunk
to get really--
'cause the crowd--
so it was just like--
I had such a flop sweat.
Oh, my god.
- Did you get paid--
- I just confessed
to everybody.
- Did you get paid?
- I don't think--
- Did you get paid?
No, you don't--
[laughter]
- I don't think you get paid
to do the cabaret.
You're just there as--
-You pay to do cabaret.
- You're there
to act above for Luann--
- Oh, you pay to do cabaret.
- Yeah.
- By the way then, I was
walking uptown once later,
and a voice came out
of a town car, "Rachel!"
And I turn around,
there was Luann waving at me.
- Oh!
- So I was like,
oh, my god, Luann recognizes me
on the street.
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- You know, Ana and Rachel's
"Clusterfunke Christmas"
characters
have a bizarre
obsession with strudel.
But this next game is gonna
require each of them
to use their noodle to summon
some ghosts of SNL past.
We're gonna play
SN-Elf on a Shelf.
Creepy doll versions
of your SNL brethren
will perch themselves on a shelf
right next to Ana.
Rachel, you'll describe each one
for Ana to guess.
If you can get 7 in 60 seconds,
you both win.
Ana, take these
Ramona eyes
and step on over
to the green screen.
- Is the green
gonna be a problem?
- Oh, isn't that interesting?
Well, we'll see.
I bet it might be.
- Okay.
- Yes, it might be, but this'll
make it even more fun.
- Let's see how it goes.
- Rachel, you can sit
next to me.
- Okay.
- What if I just turn into--
- And we will see how much
of a problem this is.
It might be, but that--
oh, it looks good, okay.
Rachel, now here we go, go.
- Where am I looking? Oh, oh!
This is-- he's Elf! And he's--
- Will Ferrell.
- Okay.
[cheering]
- Thank you, whoo-whoo.
- Oh, I can't even see this.
Oh, um, he's Gumby, damn it!
- Eddie Murphy.
- Very good.
[cheers and applause]
- Okay, oh, um,
he's Bass-o-matic,
Bass-o-matic!
And from the first cast.
Fred Garvin: Male Prostitute.
- Oh, oh, oh, Aykroyd.
- Yes, yes.
- Very good. You got three!
- Oh, this is our buddy.
She hosted Weekend Update.
- Tina Fey.
- Yes.
- Very good, four.
- This would be embarrassing.
- Oh, my god, this is, like,
a comedy icon of ours
from the first cast.
Lisa Loopner,
Roseanne Roseannadanna.
- Gilda Radner.
- Yes!
[cheering]
- Oh, this is our buddy,
Donatella Versace.
- Maya Rudolph.
- Yes.
- Very good!
I think you need one more.
- Oh, my god,
oh, my god, um, um, um,
he, um-- he's been on the cast,
like, the longest of anybody.
- Kenan.
- Yes!
[cheers and applause]
- Yeah, you won!
Well done!
Thanks for playing.
You win these
All I Want for Christmas
fleece crew sweatshirts.
They are available
at ShopByBravo.com.
[cheers and applause]
- I just wanna say--
- Rachel, we have
All I Want for Hannukah for--
- Aww!
- Thank you for being inclusive.
- Look at your menorah earrings!
Oh, my god,
you're so glammed out.
We're gonna be right back,
everybody.
[cheers and applause]
* AC in the NYC
NYC *
- Wow, welcome back to
"Watch What Happens Live."
I'm having so much fun
with Rachel Dratch
and Ana Gasteyer.
Can I call you Rachel Drotch?
- You can. Drotch.
- Rachel Drotch.
- They are
the Clusterfunke twins.
- (both) Sisters.
- Right.
[laughter]
Okay.
- We're Irish twins.
- Check out Ana's new show,
"American Auto" when it
premieres Monday night on NBC.
Wow, congratulations.
[cheers and applause]
Over at the bar
it's Kristina and Prajje
from "Project Runway."
[cheers and applause]
Um, oh, boy, Ana,
Camden I. said,
"I still can't get over
that you're in
the 'Soup Nazi' episode
of 'Seinfeld.'"
- That's how I got
my SAG card.
- That's how you got
your SAG card.
- Yeah.
- You were the women expelled
before Elaine comes in.
- Yeah, I got yelled at
by the Soup Nazi.
- Wow, isn't that incredible?
Do you still get residuals--
- Yes, yeah.
- Really?
What kind of checks
are you getting?
- Like, 35 cents, maybe 37.
- Okay.
Do you cash a check
for 35 cents?
- Yes, I do.
- Yes.
- You know what?
That is money I earned.
- Yes, it is,
by the way.
- But make a pile of 'em
before you send 'em,
'cause you don't want 'em
to undervalue the stamp.
- Yes. What were you--
what were you doing
at that time in your-- you were
just in the Groundlings?
- I was in
the Groundlings, yeah.
I was in
the Groundlings, like--
It was about two years
before I got SNL.
So it was like
the beginning of my career.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
- Well, it is time for
Watch What Happens Five.
With all due respect
to Fenway Park,
the most important Boston
institution of all time
has gotta be Jimmy Fallon
and Rachel's impression
of Boston teens
Sully and Denise.
So I hope Rachel won't think
I'm a Masshole
if I asked her
to count down
her top five
favorite words
to say in
a Boston accent.
Okay, take it away, Rachel.
- All right.
Numbah five, sugah plumbs!
[laughter]
Oh, I forgot to say,
these are holiday-themed.
- Oh, okay,
it's a holiday-themed
Boston countdown.
- Numbah four, numbah four,
Pahkah!
- What was that?
- Pahkah.
You wear a pahkah.
[laughter]
- It's the holidays.
- Right, yeah, is that
holiday themed?
- Well, it's winter,
winter wonderland.
- Yes, okay.
[laughter]
- Your holiday pahkah!
- Yeah.
- Numbah three, bahgains!
- Right!
Oh, I found
a wicked bahgain.
Numbah two,
hahtwahming.
Holidays
are hahtwahming.
- Is our film hahtwahming?
- Our film is hahtwahming, yes.
And number one
Boston accent thing
I like to say is
Dunk's Peppermint Mocha
signahture latte.
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- Give it up
for Rachel Dratch!
[cheering]
I wanna thank
Rachel and Ana.
Everybody see
"The Clusterfunke..."
- Christmas!
- Christmas.
I've only said it
19 times.
The word of the night
was "Christmas."
We said it 12 times,
by the way.
I wanna thank Prajje
and Kristin behind the bar.
We'll see you Sunday night
after Salt Lake "Housewives."
Whoo! Whoo!
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