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Amy Schumer, 'SNL' send up 'The Watcher'

By Karen Butler   |   Nov. 6, 2022 at 8:44 AM
Amy Schumer hosted this weekend's edition of "Saturday Night Live." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Amy Schumer appears backstage in the press room during the 70th annual Directors Guild of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills in 2018. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Amy Schumer arrive on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the opening of Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between in New York City in 2017. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Naomi Watts arrives on the red carpet at Prime Video's "Goodnight Mommy" New York premiere at Metrograph on September 14 in New York City. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Bobby Cannavale arrives on the red carpet at the "Motherless Brooklyn" premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival in New York City in 2019. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

Nov. 6 (UPI) -- This weekend's Saturday Night Live guest host Amy Schumer appeared in a sketch lampooning the Netflix thriller, The Watcher.

In the 3-minute, pre-taped video called The Looker, family members Schumer, James Austin Johnson, Marcello Hernández and Chloe Fineman receive a strange letter after moving into a new home.

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The missive is disturbing because it accurately details what each person privately does in the house, including the mother's apparent obsession with the home-improvement show, Property Brothers.

"Your life may seem perfect, but The Looker knows it's not and your poor wife seems to be having trouble in the bathroom," the voice of the person who penned the letter said.

"Just today, the kids practiced a TikTok dance, Dad worried about his hairline and Mom was on her exercise bike. She doesn't even pedal, just sits on the bike and looks at her phone, but she still ends up drenched in sweat."

The Watcher is said to be based on the true story of a New Jersey family spooked by a letter-leaving stalker in their new home. It stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale.