Robert De Niro Strangles Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer at ‘SNL50’: ‘You’re Going to Shut It’

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J. Kim Murphy Robert De Niro and Rachel Dratch faced off on “SNL50,” with the Oscar winner confronting the former cast member in her Debbie Downer character, playing a bartender, during a sketch in the home stretch of the anniversary special. “At this point, we’re all walking landfills,” Dratch said, in a reference to microplastics. “Odds are they’ve already taken up residence in your testes.” “Deborah, I’m going to talk now, and you’re going to shut it,” De Niro, as a bar customer, responded. “I do not appreciate this conversation.

I don’t want to talk about plastic in my balls. … I came here tonight to get a little frigging break from our world right now, which is like living in a full diaper.” “Diapers are a leading culprit in the microplastic saga,” Dratch fired back, prompting De Niro to playfully strangle her.

De Niro was a walk-on for the sketch, which began with Downer tending bar for visiting celebrities Drew Barrymore and Ayo Edebiri.

Jimmy Fallon also appeared, breaking up De Niro’s beef at the end of the sketch. “Bobby, Bobby, stop! It’s not worth it! She thinksshe is helping, okay?” Fallon said. “My kids taught me to see the best in people.” “Speaking of kids, it’s official: I can’t have children,” Dratch’s Downer exclaims.