'Saturday Night Live' #TBT: Channing Tatum Is Alright, Alright, Alright
What’s all that screaming? Oh yeah… Magic Mike XXL is now in theaters. Duh! That hootin’ and hollerin’ you hear is thanks to Channing Tatum’s abs. Oh, and his biceps. Those pecs, too. And some other body parts.
When Tatum hosted Saturday Night Live in February 2012, it was a given that he’d go shirtless. We didn’t realize he’d go shirtless basically in every sketch, but we’re not complaining! His hosting gig started with Tatum performing a striptease and ripping off his shirt. That shirt promptly went MIA for most of the rest of the episode.
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Tatum is a charming, game-for-anything actor, and he proved his comedy chops. But perhaps his finest moment on SNL was his spot-on, hilarious impersonation of Magic Mike co-star Matthew McConaughey in the “Getting Freaky With Cee Lo Green” sketch.
Tatum has the signature McConaughey drawl down pat, as he recounts drinking wheatgrass and skinny-dipping in the moonlight with Cee Lo. Later, he came back out with a pair of bongos attached to his, uh, “pair of bongos” to get freaky.
