Editing Christopher Walken (section)

===Appearances on ''Saturday Night Live''===
Walken has hosted the comedy sketch and satire TV series ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (''SNL'') seven times.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/playlist/christopher-walken-collection-129711|title=Christopher Walken Collection|work=[[Saturday Night Live]]|access-date=September 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911000848/http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/playlist/christopher-walken-collection-129711|archive-date=September 11, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

One of Walken's ''SNL'' performances was a spoof of ''[[Behind the Music]]'', featuring a recording session of [[Blue Öyster Cult]]'s "[[(Don't Fear) the Reaper]]". In the guise of record producer Bruce Dickinson (not to be confused with the real [[Bruce Dickinson]], lead singer for [[Iron Maiden]]), Walken makes passionate and slightly unhinged speeches to the band and is obsessed with getting "[[More Cowbell]]" into the song. The phrase "I gotta have more cowbell" has since been adapted to merchandise. The producer who suggested the cowbell on the original BÖC recording is [[David Lucas (composer)|David Lucas]].

Walken appeared in one of [[Will Ferrell]] and [[Rachel Dratch]]'s "The Luvahs" skits.<ref>[https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/luvahs/n11683 "The Luvahs" sketch on ''SNL''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211215018/http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/luvahs/n11683 |date=February 11, 2019}} (February 23, 2003) at nbc.com</ref> His character brought a lady friend to meet The Luvahs and she is subjected to learning the history that Walken's character shares with The Luvahs. He also divulges private information about his sex life with his girlfriend, much to her horror ("She was willing to accept her lover's body in places no one had ever trespassed... specifically, the ear canal").

Walken spoofed his starring role from ''[[The Dead Zone (film)|The Dead Zone]]'' (1983) in a sketch titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial [[Psychic]]" (1992).<ref>[https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ed-glosser-trivial-psychic/n10314 ''SNL'' sketch "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916035234/https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ed-glosser-trivial-psychic/n10314 |date=September 16, 2019}} (10/24/92) at nbc.com</ref> In the film, Walken's character can predict deaths and catastrophes, while Glosser can accurately predict meaningless, trivial future events but with the same emotional intensity as in the film: "You're going to get an [[ice cream headache]]. It's going to hurt real bad, right here, [touches forehead] for eight, nine seconds.").

His character in ''[[A View to a Kill]]'' was parodied in a sketch titled "Lease with an Option to Kill", in which he reprised his role as [[Max Zorin]]. Zorin, who had taken on some qualities of other Bond villains ([[Blofeld]]'s cat and suit, [[Emilio Largo]]'s eye patch), was upset that everything was going wrong for him. His lair was still under construction; his henchmen had jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank lacked sharks, having a giant [[sea sponge]] instead. A captive [[James Bond]], portrayed by [[Phil Hartman]], offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lair if Zorin let him go, to which he reluctantly agreed.

He performed a song and dance rendition of the [[Irving Berlin]] standard, "[[Let's Face the Music and Dance]]". Finally, there was the "Colonel Angus" sketch,<ref>[https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/colonel-angus-comes-home/2750240 ''SNL'' sketch "Colonel Angus Comes Home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819150039/https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/colonel-angus-comes-home/2750240 |date=August 19, 2018}} (February 22, 2003) at nbc.com</ref> laden with ribald [[double entendre]]s, in which Walken played a dishonored [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] officer.

Until 2003, Walken had a recurring ''SNL'' sketch called "[[The Continental (Saturday Night Live)|The Continental]]",<ref>[http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/christopher-walken-57396/character/the-continental-16691 Christopher Walken in three "Continental" sketches] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115234122/http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/christopher-walken-57396/character/the-continental-16691 |date=November 15, 2019}} on ''SNL'' at nbc.com</ref> in which Walken played a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot do anything to keep a woman (a neighbor in his apartment building) from giving him the cold shoulder. Though he is outwardly chivalrous, his more perverted tendencies inevitably drive away his date over his pleading objections. For instance, he invites the woman to wash up in his bathroom; once she is inside, it becomes obvious that the bathroom mirror is a [[two-way mirror]] when he is seen lighting up a cigarette. In "The Continental", only the hand of his neighbor is ever seen; the camera always shows her point of view.

[[File:Christopher Walken 2012.jpg|thumb|Walken in 2012]]

The April 5, 2008 ''Saturday Night Live'' show was the first time an episode hosted by Walken did not have a "Continental" sketch or a monologue in which he sang and danced. This episode, however, did include one sketch titled "Walken Family Reunion",<ref>[https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/meet-the-family/n12231 ''SNL'' sketch "Walken Family Reunion"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115133002/https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/meet-the-family/n12231 |date=November 15, 2019}} (April 5, 2008) at nbc.com</ref> which spoofs many of Walken's [[idiosyncrasies]]. The sketch depicts a fictional Walken [[family reunion]], where all of Christopher's relatives have his mannerisms and speech patterns and sport his trademark [[pompadour hairstyle]]. In order of appearance, the other Walkens are Christopher's cousin Stanley ([[Bill Hader]]); Stanley's brother John ([[Jason Sudeikis]]); John's son Scott ([[Andy Samberg]]) and daughter Maxine ([[Amy Poehler]]) (who carries a [[doll]] that also has a pompadour); Nathan ([[Fred Armisen]]), a gay relative for whom "[[effeminacy|flamboyance]]" means dressing all in black and running his finger around the rim of a [[cosmopolitan (cocktail)|cosmo]] glass; Uncle Richard ([[Darrell Hammond]]) and Aunt Martha ([[Kristen Wiig]]), who think that ''The Deer Hunter'' was hilarious and who are hosts of a [[Nigerian]] [[foreign exchange student]] named Oleki ([[Kenan Thompson]]). When he came to live with them, Oleki—who has absorbed all of the Walken Family traits—could not speak any English. But now (he says) he "talks like a normal teenaged American boy". The biggest laugh of the sketch occurs when Christopher expresses his sympathies for Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your situation. For a Walken, adolescence is a difficult time. You feel like you're the only normal person in a school full of nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you're lookin' right into my noggin!" ([[Will Forte]] also appears as a waiter at the beginning of the sketch, but does not do a Walken impression.)

In September 2004, ''SNL'' released a DVD titled ''The Best of Christopher Walken'' through [[Lionsgate]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Saturday-Night-Live-Christopher-Walken/dp/B0002I84EE |title=Saturday Night Live - The Best of Christopher Walken |website=Amazon |date=September 7, 2004 |access-date=September 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226061547/https://www.amazon.com/Saturday-Night-Live-Christopher-Walken/dp/B0002I84EE |archive-date=December 26, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Walken returned to the show for the first time in 15 years on October 28, 2023, in a cameo role as the "Spirit of Halloween" in which he gave advice to [[Joe Biden|President Joe Biden]] ([[Mikey Day]]). Walken also introduced the musical guest [[Foo Fighters]] instead of host [[Nate Bargatze]]. Foo Fighters were the musical guest during his 2003 episode, during which [[Dave Grohl]] pranked Walken into speaking with the emphasis on "Fighters" instead of "Foo". Clips of the introduction later became an [[internet meme]] and Walken pronounced the band's name correctly in 2023.