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Is the SNL/Mark Wahlberg “Say Hello To Your Mother” Thing Actually Getting Funnier?

Posted by Olivia Purnell

 

Answer: Yes. Really way back when (in October of the year 2008) the “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals” sketch first aired on Saturday Night Live, we weren’t huge fans. We thought to ourselves: “why is he with all those damn animals” and “what in the sam F does that mean?” and “why does he keep talking about that donkey’s mother?” (Insert Tracy Morgan's Brian Fellows intonation here).

But after Mark Wahlberg, (producer, animal talker, nose cracker extraordinaire) began responding to the sketch, the whole thing began to snowball into an abominable force of inexplicable funny.

Now, even Mark’s posse (the original Entourage) wants to get in on the joke . . .

After SNL aired yet another ‘hello to your mother’ bit this weekend with Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother, TMZ caught Mark outside of a Los Angeles Restaurant with one of his boys.  Wahlberg’s anonymous dude-friend actually bid Marky Mark adieu with a glib “say hello to your mother for me.” Ha! Also, Mark makes some thinly veiled threats that include busting the paparazzi in the face.  What’s funnier than that?

Get the video HERE.


Previously:

Marky Mark’s Snark
Mark Wahlberg to “SNL”: That’s Not Funny
Mark Wahlberg Will Crack Andy Samberg In His “Big F*ckin’ Nose”


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Posted Jan 13 2009, 05:00 PM
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Lynda said:

I would like to find out if Donna Black, which is Denise Farrell's mom is still alive.  I was her daughter's best friend back when I was 13.  I want to tell Donna, how much I loved her for being a great mom, even if Denise didn't know it.  I have been in the military now since I left Germantown and graduated since 1985.  I swam in your pool, at your house, even if you don't remember me, Denise, kinda big tried to fix me up with Donnie or Danny at the time.  I was 13 and had no interest or clue.  I just want to thank Donna for being my second mom, who I wished at the time was my first and Denise didn't respect for what she had.  I lost contact with Denise, we were so different after I went in the military and she stayed in the projects having kids with different men.  I tried to make her stay through high school. Lynda.  

I now live in Oklahoma, if you can give Donna my number I would love to thank her for being so wonderful, a long time past due.  405-514-9694 or 405-297-4152

January 31, 2009 3:45 AM

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