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Saturday Night Live Spoofs The Tenement Museum On The Lower East Side
The Lower East Side's Tenement Museum was the setting for an SNL sketch featuring Louis C.K. and Kate McKinnon.
LOWER EAST SIDE via 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NY — The Lower East Side's Tenement Museum hosted a different kind of museum tour this weekend, this one featuring Saturday Night Live comics instead of actual historians.
The museum, which focuses on the lives of immigrant, working-class Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the backdrop for one of SNL's sketches this weekend. Kate McKinnon and Louis C.K. star as "historically trained actors" who show a student group visiting the museum what life was like for Polish immigrants to the U.S. in 1913.
You can watch the sketch here:
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The museum took the sketch in stride, forgiving C.K. for his inventive Polish accent (which caused McKinnon to break out laughing in the middle of the live performance) and offering him a little help.
Don't feel bad, Louis CK - it takes our costumed interpreters a while to get the accent down, too. Come by and we'd be happy to help! #snl
— The Tenement Museum (@tenementmuseum) April 9, 2017
You can only visit the museum via a guided tour; you can book your own, sans McKinnon and C.K., here.
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Lead image via Saturday Night Live.
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