Sunday, August 16, 2009

Go Ahead and Make Fun of GOOP

The folks at FunnyOrDie.com have recruited SNL’s Abby Elliott to spoof Gwyneth Paltrow’s now-infamous
making-chicken video.

Elliott, who has some spot-on impressions of Angelina Jolie and Kirsten Dunst in her young repertoire, doesn’t do G.P. all that well, but she captures her essence, and plays up her perceived cluelessness and name-dropping for laughs.

The video hits its stride when the actress playing the actress is shown crying next to an oven to the tune of Coldplay’s “The Scientist”:



Paltrow’s clearly not an idiot, though. She’s tapped onto the zeitgeist with GOOP. The proof is in the spoof.

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