The most successful “SNL” spinoffs have been about people with dreams that are too big and visions that are too narrow.

Ferrell’s Steve-no less dim than his brother-is down with the plan, except he’s also drawn to the idea of a normal life with Emily (Molly Shannon), the girl who works with her dad (Dwayne Hickman) in the lamp store next to the flower shop.

Doug, you see, has this dream, mildly unfocused, of owning his own version of the red-hot Roxbury club, with his own velvet rope, bouncers and gorgeous women. lives, for crying out loud! That is, if you call being past your mid-20s, living with your parents and working in your dad’s fake-flower boutique with limited prospects a life.Ĭertainly Kattan’s Doug Butabi doesn’t think it’s much of a life compared with the thrill of being thrown out of, or rejected by, every dance club in L.A. Together with Ferrell, Kattan and screenwriter-co-producer Steve Koren, they’ve given these guys. Nevertheless, she and “SNL” honcho Lorne Michaels went ahead and handed the directing chores to TV veteran John Fortenberry. Which doesn’t mean that it was necessarily a good idea for “Clueless” writer-director Amy Heckerling to co-produce a whole movie about these hopeless Butabi brothers. There’s a demented quality to the routine that keeps it fresh even when you know what’s going to happen every time. The “Saturday Night Live” skits featuring the head-bobbing, hip-shaking, we’re-so-cool-it’s-pathetic nightclub cruisers offered one of the few reasons to keep tuning in to the show, especially when Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan were joined at the bar by a similarly dressed guest star like Jim Carrey or Tom Hanks.

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