Celebrity Reenactment #1: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Summary

The sketch turns a tense Willy Wonka dispute into an angry, absurd rant. Wonka insists that a sign saying he’s working means “don’t come in,” then refuses to send the promised mountain of chocolate because the boy broke the factory rules.

When challenged, Wonka points to a contract he says is written in Latin and recounts the damage: The visitors flew into the ceiling after stealing fizzy drinks, crashed into his “death fan,” and left him to spend six and a half hours cleaning it with Windex. He complains that he can’t make the Oompa-Loompas work overtime because of labor laws, then calls the boy and his grandson vandals and thieves and dismisses them.

The other character protests that Wonka is crushing a child’s dreams. Wonka’s furious, bizarre defense—“I didn’t kill anyone. This is 1984”—provides the sketch’s final punchline.

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Christopher Walken and Jack Nicholson