TSA screener Chanel confiscates tweezers because they could be “pilot killers”; “iconic curmudgeon” Andy Rooney does a pointed essay on pencils; an artificially inseminated 70-year-old from Mississippi gives birth to a child who will be “convalescent-home schooled.” Ullman also impersonates Cameron Diaz and David Beckham.
Tracey Ullman portrays the most famous movie star in the African nation of Malawi who is in the U.S. to adopt an American child, and actress Judi Dench in an interview and clips from her latest film, a Martin Scorsese production in which she plays an Alzheimer’s victim.
Skits include Tracey Ullman portraying environmentalist Laurie David hitting on the pilot of her “green” jet, Arianna Huffington at a blogger awards show and Renee Zellwegger promoting her latest movie. Also: Padma the pharmacist performs a Bollywood production number about erectile dysfunction.
Tracey Ullman portrays a host of characters in day-in-the-life sketches about various U.S. residents, including Arianna Huffington, Tony “Paulie Walnuts” Sirico, Rita Cosby and David Beckham. She also plays Lindsay Lohan’s mother, the wife of a death-row inmate and an “undocumented worker from Bangladesh” who works for an elderly racist. Scott Bakula costars. Peter Strauss is the narrator.
