Sunday, November 3, 2019
‘SNL': Yes, Farrow & Ball Is a Real (and Crazy Expensive) British Paint Company (Video)
No, that wasn’t a parody sketch on “Saturday Night Live” with an unemployed woman (Aidy Bryant) who splurged on crazy-expensive paint from Farrow & Ball.
Farrow & Ball really is a “high-end British paint company that offers unparalleled depth and colour,” as Bryant’s character Beth said, and its paints comes in cans that look like the one she showed to her brother Tom (Beck Bennett) and sister-in-law (guest host Kristen Stewart) in the sketch.
“It sounds like you’re saying ‘color’ but with a U in it,” Stewart’s character tells Beth about her Brit-style pronunciation of the word.
“Well, I am,” Bryant’s Beth replies, who goes on to put the stress on the second syllable of words like labor and squalor.
And yes, the premium paint costs $110 a gallon and comes in a select 132 colors — sorry, colours. And those colors do have names like Ammonite — which the Farrow & Ball website says is “named after the treasured fossils often found on the Dorset coast” — and Lulworth Blue, whose “comes from the shade of the sea at beautiful Lulworth Cove, Dorset.”
Other colors have names like Charlotte’s Locks, Mole’s Breath and Dead Salmon.
In addition, Bryant’s out-of-work day bartender is right when she talks about how the paint requires special primers and brushes — and can’t be easily washed if it gets scuffed.
A lot of “SNL” viewers seemed to think it was a completely made-up product.
I legit thought this was a parody and Googled it only to realize Farrow & Ball is an actual product ???? #SNL pic.twitter.com/x2Cpn4DJ0m
— sarah mceneaney (@sarahmceneaney) November 3, 2019
Farrow and Ball literally has a colour called Dead Salmon. Also, this cracked me up. #SNL
— Jayelle Has a Plan for That ????????????????️???????????????? (@GreenEyedLilo) November 3, 2019
The Farrow & Ball paint sketch on SNL was so good, so monstrous, so accurate. I mean, who buys this amazing paint? Only ladies from the Hamptons, Connecticut and Pacific Heights/San Francisco? You wonder. The cult of paint. I loved it SO much. Thank you! @nbcsnl @FarrowandBall
— San Diego Broker (@housesandme) November 3, 2019
That Farrow & Ball sketch was so random and so great #SNL
— Adam Smith (@SerenityValley1) November 3, 2019
Watch the full sketch above.
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