Laura Palmer as a late night talk show guest.
That's the premise of a sketch from last night's episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, which featured Meyers entering the mysterious Red Room from Twin Peaks to interview none other than murdered homecoming queen Laura Palmer.
The two-minute sketch begins with Meyers mentioning the Showtime series, remarking "It's been a very exciting year for fans of the television show Twin Peaks. It has been back on the air. Uh...It's a weird show, it's a classic show, and one our writers thought it would be fun, if instead of Studio 8G, one night we filmed Late Night inside the mysterious Red Room from Twin Peaks."
The sketch cuts to a meticulous recreation of the original 1990-91 Twin Peaks that aired on ABC, right down to the original 4:3 screen format. We see the original series credits, with the Twin Peaks title replaced with Late Night, then dive into the classic dream sequence from the original series' third episode, "Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer".
"Welcome back to Late Night," says Meyers in a monotone, dressed as the 25-years-older version of Kyle MacLachlan's character, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, even including the older Cooper's distinctive necktie. "I'm here with Laura Palmer."
"Hello, Seth Meyers," replies an actress dressed as Sheryl Lee's character, speaking in the odd reverse-speak used inside the Black Lodge by characters other than Dale Cooper. "I'm happy to be your guest tonight."
"So, what's new?" asks Meyers.
Laura gets up from her chair and slowly walks over to Meyers, bends down and whispers something into Meyer's left ear, just as Sheryl Lee did in the original sequence. Afterwards, she stands up and slowly walks back to her chair and sits down again, blinking her eyes as Lee also did.
"What a great story," remarks Meyers.
Laura laughs in reverse-speak, and then we see a regular-sized actor as Michael Anderson's character, The Man from Another Place, who has his back to us at first, rubbing his hands together as Anderson did in the sequence. He claps his hands together and says "Let's rock!" as Anderson also did.
And naturally, we then hear the sounds of Twin Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti's "Dance of the Dream Man" featured in the original sequence. The Man from Another Place gets up and starts dancing as Anderson also did.
"We'll be back with comedian Ray Romano..." Meyers says with a monotone in standard talk show fashion as the show heads to commercial.
If you'd like to check out the sketch, you can view it below thanks to the official Late Night with Seth Meyers account on YouTube...