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((Short description|Series of sketches on Saturday Night Live))
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[[File:Coffee talk.JPG|thumb|Mike Myers, [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] and [[Roseanne Barr]] as their characters]]
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"'''Coffee Talk'''" is a series of sketches performed by [[Mike Myers]] on the [[sketch comedy]] show ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. It ran from October 12, 1991, until October 15, 1994, although Myers (who had since left the show) reprised the role once more on March 22, 1997.

In the sketches, Myers plays a stereotypical [[Jews|Jewish]] middle-aged woman with an exaggerated [[New York City English|New York accent]] who sports long, [[nail polish|painted]] [[fake nails]]; much gold [[jewelry]]; gaudy sweaters; large dark glasses; and [[big hair]], which she constantly adjusts. This character was a spoof on Myers' real-life mother-in-law at the time, Linda Richman.<ref>((Cite web|author = Witchel, Alex|date= January 14, 2001|title=Counterintelligence; What's So Funny About the 'Coffee Talk' Lady|work =[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/style/counterintelligence-what-s-so-funny-about-the-coffee-talk-lady.html?pagewanted=1|access-date= December 13, 2011|author-link= Alex Witchel))</ref>

==Paul Baldwin period==
Introduced on the January 12, 1991, episode, this sketch was originally called "Coffee Talk with Paul Baldwin", with Baldwin played by Mike Myers. The main joke was the use of as many words that accentuated the stereotypical New York accent as possible, particularly the [[New York City English#Vowels|low back chain shift]] that changes the vowels in words like "dogs, daughters, lofts and coffee" as Baldwin describes the show's preferred topics.

Starting with the October 12, 1991, episode, Paul Baldwin was written out and replaced with the character of Richman as the substitute host. In subsequent episodes, Richman explains that Baldwin is a good friend of hers and is recuperating in [[Boca Raton, Florida|Boca Raton]], [[Florida]], because "he developed ''[[Yiddish words used in English#S|shpilkis]]'' in his ''genechtagazoink''".

==Ongoing gags==

===Streisand fixation===
Richman's hero was [[Barbra Streisand]]. She constantly "dedicated" the show to her, often claiming her to be the greatest actress in all of history.

In what could be considered to be the sketch's most memorable moment, Myers was joined on February 22, 1992, by special guests [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] and [[Roseanne Barr]] as other stereotypical Jewish women. Madonna also [[wikt:lampoon|lampooned]] herself by having her character attack Madonna as a bad example for teenage Jewish girls ("She's a tramp. Every week with the different boyfriend! And this week in the papers with no clothes on! Who needs her? Feh!!"), referring to the hitchhiking scene from Madonna's "Erotica" video. They discussed Streisand's film ''[[The Prince of Tides]]'' (1991) on the show.

Near the end of the sketch, the women compared Streisand to "[[butter|buttah]]"((spaced ndash))and suddenly, a voice announced, "All this talk about food, I'm getting hungry, girls." It was Streisand herself in a surprise appearance; none of the actors had any idea that she was to appear.((Citation needed|date=February 2015)) All three managed to remain in character as the audience went wild. (Myers as Richman screamed, "I can die now! That's all the time we have for this week; I have to go and die now!") The real Richman, sitting in the audience that night to watch her then son-in-law lampoon her, has acknowledged having been "tickled to death" at that particular moment, as Streisand is one of her actual heroes as well.((Citation needed|date=April 2010))

Streisand only stayed long enough to give each character a kiss and wave to the audience. Streisand later revealed that she had been giving a performance at [[Radio City Music Hall]] (which is located across West 50th Street from [[NBC Studios (New York)|NBC Studios]]) and happened to overhear that the sketch was being done that night. In the television special ''Saturday Night Live: 101 Most Unforgettable Moments'', this particular sketch is moment number six.

===Call-ins===
Richman would occasionally take callers. The number to call was always 555-4444, each "four" again said with the same accent (though, in some later airings, the 555 is bleeped out and covered up on screen, as 555-4444 is no longer a [[fictitious telephone number]]). "Give a call, we'll talk, no big whoop."

===Mannerisms===
Richman occasionally added [[Yiddish]] or [[Yinglish|pseudo-Yiddish]] words into her speech: "OK now, this show used to be hosted by my friend Paul Baldwin, but he developed ''shpilkis'' in his ''genechtagazoink''. So now he's in Boca Raton, Florida, recovering nicely, thank you very much." The [[catchphrase]] often used to describe things Linda admired was "like butter", which in the accent becomes "like buttah". A typical example is, "Her voice, it's like [[butter|buttah]]."

====Discussion topics====
Whenever Richman would get upset, she would put her hand on her chest and say "I'm all ''[[Yiddish words used by English-speaking Jews#V|verklempt]]''" or "I'm a little ''verklempt."'' Then she would say, "Talk amongst yourselves," sometimes waving her hand in a dismissive gesture toward the audience. She would often follow this with an example by saying, "I'll give you a topic," which would typically have the structure of a [[bahuvrihi]]: "''[two- or three-part phrase]'' is neither ''[first part]'', nor ''[second part]'' (nor [''third part'']). Discuss."  Richman would then recover after a beat.

Examples:
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*"[[Dr. Pepper]] were neither a doctor, nor a pepper.  Discuss."
*"[[The Partridge Family]] were neither [[partridges]], nor a family.  Discuss."
*"[[Milli Vanilli]] is neither a Milli or a Vanilli. Discuss."
*"The Romanesque Church design was based on the Roman [[Basilica]]. Discuss."
*"[[Palmolive (soap)|Palmolive]]((spaced ndash))it's neither [[Arecaceae|palm]], nor [[olive]]. Discuss."
*"[[Grape-Nuts]]((spaced ndash))it contains neither [[grape]]s, nor [[nut (fruit)|nut]]s. Discuss."
*"The [[American Civil War|Civil War]] was neither civil nor a [[war]]. Discuss."
*"The radical [[Reconstruction era of the United States|reconstruction]] of [[Southern United States|the South]] after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] was neither [[wikt:radical|radical]] nor a [[wikt:Reconstruction|reconstruction]]. Discuss."
*"The [[Holy Roman Empire]] was neither holy nor [[Roman Empire|Roman]] nor an [[empire]]. Discuss." (This quote is based on a famous comment by [[Voltaire]].)
*"Jamaican Joe was neither [[Jamaicans|Jamaican]], nor named Joe. Discuss."
*"The [[peanut]] is neither a [[pea]] nor a [[nut (fruit)|nut]]. Discuss."
*"[[Ralph Fiennes]] is spelled neither ''rafe'' nor ''fines.'' Discuss."
*"[[Duran Duran]] is neither a Duran nor a Duran. Discuss."
*"[[Rhode Island]] is neither a road nor is it an island. Discuss."
*"The [[ThighMaster]] is neither a thigh nor a master. Discuss."
*"The [[Progressive Era]] was neither [[Progressivism|progressive]] nor an [[era]]. Discuss."
*"Did Truman drop the [[atomic bomb]] to defeat the [[Japan|Japanese]] or to scare the [[Soviet Union|Russians]]? Discuss."
*"The [[Mormon Tabernacle Choir]] is neither [[Mormon]] nor a [[tabernacle]] nor a [[choir]]. Discuss."
*"The [[New Deal]] was neither new nor was it a deal. Discuss."
*"The [[chickpea]] is neither a chick nor a pea. Discuss."
*"Transitional [[Romanesque architecture]] was neither transitional nor Romanesque. Discuss."
*"The [[internal combustion engine]] was neither internal nor combustion. Discuss."
*"The [[jelly bean]] is neither made of jelly nor is it a bean. Discuss."
*"The [[Italian neorealism|Italian neo realist movement in film]] was neither Italian nor neo nor particularly realist. Discuss."
*"The [[Industrial Revolution]] was neither Industrial nor a Revolution. Discuss."
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====Ethnic and religious references====
Richman would also make light jokes and good-natured ribbing about people raised in [[Interfaith marriage|interfaith]] families, such as: someone who came from a family with [[Methodist]] and Jewish parents is called a "[[Mu Shu]]", whereas people who came from families with Jewish and [[Roman Catholic]] parents were called "cashews". In one of the final episodes of the sketch, Richman is shown with an Irish-Catholic boyfriend, who is a retired [[NYPD]] officer (played by [[Charlton Heston]]). When the boyfriend proposes marriage to her, Richman acts stunned, which prompts tremendous cheering from the female audience members.

==List of ''SNL'' episodes featured==
# May 11, 1991 ([[Delta Burke]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e46ixX9_P6M | title=Coffee Talk: Paul Baldwin Hosts with His Ex-Girlfriend Audrey - SNL | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref> (Paul Baldwin's only appearance)
# October 12, 1991 ([[Kirstie Alley]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91ccoffeetalk.phtml | title=Coffee Talk - SNL Transcripts Tonight | date=October 8, 2018 ))</ref> (Linda Richman's first appearance)
# February 22, 1992 ([[Madonna]] and [[Roseanne Barr]]) ([[Barbra Streisand]] guest stars in this skit)<ref>((cite web | url=https://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91ncoffeetalk.phtml | title=Coffee Talk - SNL Transcripts Tonight | date=October 8, 2018 ))</ref><ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJkANps0Qw | title=Coffee Talk: Liz Rosenberg and Barbra Streisand - SNL | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref>
# February 20, 1993 ([[Bill Murray]])
# March 13, 1993 ([[John Goodman]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1GjMZjkVsU | title=Linda Richman's Cause - Saturday Night Live | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref>
# May 8, 1993 ([[Christina Applegate]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58grYzCcfHI | title=Coffee Talk: Mother's Day - SNL | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref>
# September 25, 1993 ([[Charles Barkley]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58grYzCcfHI | title=Coffee Talk: Mother's Day - SNL | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref>
# October 30, 1993 ([[Christian Slater]])
# December 4, 1993 ([[Charlton Heston]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmlvX26K7PY | title=Coffee Talk: Linda's New Boyfriend Patrick O'Callahan - SNL | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref>
# March 19, 1994 ([[Helen Hunt]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1-D8DjGhfw | title=Coffee Talk: Helen Hunt is a Family Friend - SNL | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref>
# May 14, 1994 ([[Heather Locklear]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCHb2yE4Gfo | title=Coffee Talk: It's Lila the Landlord's Birthday - SNL | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref>
# March 22, 1997 ([[Mike Myers]])<ref>((cite web | url=https://snltranscripts.jt.org/96/96pcoffeetalk.phtml | title=Coffee Talk - SNL Transcripts Tonight | date=October 8, 2018 ))</ref>

==Cultural references==
The [[Fran Drescher]] [[sitcom]] ''[[The Nanny (TV series)|The Nanny]]'' (1993&ndash;1999) made a direct tongue-in-cheek reference to the Richman sketches by showing brunette Fran Fine (Drescher), her blonde mother ([[Renée Taylor]]) and gray-haired grandma Yetta ([[Ann Guilbert]]) on the couch watching their respective "Coffee Talk" counterparts (Myers', Madonna's, and Roseanne Barr's characters) on television, all very similar in their appearance, voice and mannerisms. While fussing over their big hair in the fashion of the "Coffee Talk" regulars, they complain that the sketch is "so stereotypical".

The Richman character was inspired by Myers' then real-life mother-in-law, a woman of New York Jewish heritage who is actually named Linda Richman. During a [[Larry King]] interview of Myers, the real Richman called in and expressed good-natured amusement about the character. During his appearance on ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]'', he claimed that his impression for the character was "underplayed" and that his mother-in-law actually goaded him into performing the voice of the character when they were in public together.

Myers made an appearance as Richman during [[Barbra Streisand in Concert|Streisand's '93/'94 New Year's Eve concert]] at the [[MGM Grand Las Vegas]]. While Streisand discussed reporting made in ''[[The New York Times]]'', Richman was heard from the audience assuring Streisand to ignore such press ("Don't listen to that woman, Barbra; what does she know? Please! Feh!"). Streisand then invited Richman up on stage, and they performed a comedy skit lampooning the Coffee Talk discussion topics. (Streisand: "Now, I'm getting ''ferklempt''! [To audience:] Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic: ''The Prince of Tides'' was about neither a prince nor tides((spaced ndash))Discuss.")<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtjDKLOupU | title=Barbra Streisand - MGM Grand - 1994 - Special Appearance by Linda Richman | website=[[YouTube]] ))</ref>

==See also==
((portal|Comedy|Television))
* [[Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches|Recurring ''Saturday Night Live'' characters and sketches]] [[Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1990–1991|introduced 1990-91]]

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
*[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91ccoffeetalk.phtml Coffee Talk Script] from the October 12, 1991, episode that introduces Linda Richman.
* ((IMDb title|qid=Q13979|title=Saturday Night Live))

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