In a 1997 Saturday Night Live performance of the sketch, Cleese added a line to the rant: "Its metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians!" In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Palin attributed an almost dead audience to his seeing guests reverently mouthing the words of the sketch, rather than laughing at it. To end the sketch, Palin reused the punchline from City Center and asked Cleese, "Do you want to come back to my place?" to which Cleese said, "I thought you'd never ask!"Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine:
