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	Debbie Downer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While her opinions and pronouncements are all negative in nature, Debbie Downer is especially concerned with the epidemic of feline AIDS, which is, as she puts it, "the number one killer of domestic cats."
		When the family is making small talk, Debbie (who is wearing a depressing brown shirt compared to bright colors by her family), makes depressing comments on current events followed by a look in the camera and a "wah-wah" sound made by a muted trumpet or trombone.
		Debbie Downer appeared in another skit later that year with Ben Affleck as the guest host.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Debbie_Downer (652 words)

	SNL Transcripts: Lindsay Lohan: 05/01/04: Debbie Downer
		Debbie Downer: With that costume on, he's probably under the early stages of heatstroke.
		Debbie Downer: By the way -- [ cracks up ] By the way, it's official -- [ pauses extensively to hold in her laughter; Jimmy Fallon is looking at her.
		Debbie Downer: It's the number one killer of domestic cats.
	snltranscripts.jt.org /03/03rdowner.phtml (925 words)

	Urban Dictionary: debbie downer
		a: a person who says something terribly depressing (a downer), typically only tangentially related to the present circumstance or topic of conversation, and thereby destroys the positive atmosphere.
		Usage note: In the skit, following each downer Debbie voices, a trombone plays a "wah waaah" (sad trombone) sound effect and the camera zooms in on Debbie Downer's face, which is twisted in comic despair.
		Debbie Downer: Well, if I don't get enough potassium every day, I awaken in the middle of the night by crippling leg cramps.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=debbie+downer (223 words)

	Downers are on the rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Famous downers on the big and small screen include (clockwise from top left) Debbie Downer, played by Rachel Dratch on "Saturday Night Live"; The Underminer from the animated film "The Incredibles"; Paul Giamatti as Miles in "Sideways"; and a host of characters in the films of Woody Allen.
		While not from precisely the same charm school, Debbie Downer, a recurrent character on "Saturday Night Live," has a similar effect on the unfortunates around her.
		In real life, counsels Greer, the strategy for dealing with a downer or underminer - defined by her as a "narcissistic personality who presents as looking out for you, but who're really out for themselves" - depends on how much the friendship is worth.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/pop/articles/0302downer02.html (1238 words)

	MacAddict Forums / someone named "debbie downer" was on mancow this morning
		someone named "debbie downer" was on mancow this morning
		probably not the same debbie downer that is here, but i thought it was interesting.
		Re: someone named "debbie downer" was on mancow this morning
	www.macaddict.com /forums/post/805445 (245 words)

	SNL Transcripts: Ben Affleck: 10/02/04: Debbie Downer
		Debbie Downer: If I had a wish, I'd wish they'd release the British hostage in Iraq.
		Debbie: Well, if I don't get enough potassium every day, I awaken in the middle of the night by crippling leg cramps.
		Debbie: (shakes finger) It's the number one killer of domestic cats.
	snltranscripts.jt.org /04/04adowner.phtml (517 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
		She is Debbie Downer, the glass-half-empty girl who can drain the fun out of anything.
		What makes the Debbie Downer sketch so hilarious is that her behavior echoes something so recognizable in our own lives.
		There is a little Debbie Downer in each of us, and we all know someone who is Debbie incarnate.
	www.thejewishweek.com /top/editletcontent.php3?artid=3649 (993 words)

	Debbie Downer - The Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Here is the 1st IM conversation I had with Debbie (gif images, taken from IM screen).
		Debbie herself will resume posting when she gets home from her Saturday Night Live standby adventure.
		I arrived home and put my new calendar in a place of honor: on the desk in the kitchen, where every morning I could welcome the dawn of a new day by reading about a new disaster.
	debbie-downer.blogspot.com (4641 words)

	Rachel Dratch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later, the show was performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, where it was dubbed "the funniest thing to be found on any New York comedy stage" by Time Out New York.
		After joining SNL in 1999 as a featured player and becoming a repertory player in 2001, Dratch imitated many people, both real and fictional, including Calista Flockhart, Nicole Richie, Barbara Walters, Jane Eyre, Jenny Jones, Harry Potter, Hillary Duff, and the recurring characters Sheldon Green, Denise "Zazu" McDonough, and Debbie Downer.
		The Debbie Downer character debuted on the May 1, 2004 broadcast of Saturday Night Live.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rachel_Dratch (542 words)

	Downer - Wheat kickback claims outrageous: Downer. 07/12/2005. ABC News Online
		His father, Sir Alexander "Alec" Downer, was a member of the Australian Parliament Downer referred to wife-bashing husbands as "the things that batter".
		Downer is a raucous, satirical look at Dungeons and Dragons through the eyes of a Fool's Errand follows Downer and his band of wandering monsters as they
		From 1889 to 1938, EM Downer was among the most influential and prominent In 1915 Mr.
	webinfofeed.com /wifd/downer.htm (347 words)

	Figlet: Adoption for Dummies
		If you mention to Debbie Downer that your dog got run over by a car, Debbie will chirp that her dog was blown up by an Al Qaeda terrorist cel in her neighborhood.
		If you happen to complain in passing to your Debbie Downer that you were laid up for the weekend with a cold, she'll tell you she knows someone who went into a coma because they took too much Benadryl.
		Now Debbie did say that her agency was absolutely wonderful and did a great job preparing them and helping them out in that (horrible) country.
	figlet.blogs.com /figlet/adoption_for_dummies (8168 words)

	The Pink Shoe Diaries
		What I am noticing, however, is how funny it is to observe a Debbie Downer in action when you are not the one having direct contact with her.
		Debbie Downer(appropos of nothing as usual): So, my mother is probably gonna have to be put in a home.
		Debbie Downer: Yeah she is not doing well anymore.
	ilookgood.blogspot.com /2006_03_01_ilookgood_archive.html (7401 words)

	Does anyone else love SNL?
		"Debbie Downer" is one of the most hilarious things I have seen on that show recently.
		I remember seeing the first "Debbie Downer" skit and absolutely losing my mind.
		Debbie Downer was the funniest thing I've seen on SNL in a few years...
	www.broadwayworld.com /board/printthread.cfm?thread=788776 (846 words)

	Matt's Idea Blog: Debbie Downer and the Six Thinking Hats
		I had two reactions, and thankfully they helped to moderate this person's toxic effects on me (which I'm pretty certain she was unaware of - I believe she felt she was helping).
		The first reaction was a little internal chuckle as I remembered the Saturday Night Live character Debbie Downer, whose comments in conversations are always depressingly negative (e.g., "By the way, it's official...I can't have children.") And I had a live one!
		My second reaction was to think of this person's response in terms of Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, which I've been working though lately.
	ideamatt.blogspot.com /2005/11/debbie-downer-and-six-thinking-hats.html (999 words)

	The New SteveSilver.net: Giggling at 'SNL'
		The cast was, however, up to their old tricks in a sketch called "Debbie Downer." In the bit Debbie (Rachel Dratch) was supposed to constantly bring up death, destruction, and disease in order to ruin her family's trip to Disney World.
		Except- you guessed it- Jimmy Fallon and Sanz couldn't get through the sketch without laughing, to the point when Debbie Downer started giggling as well- and since every one of her punchlines was accompanied by a quick zoom, the entire premise was essentially ruined.
		That Debbie Downer skit was one of the funniest I can remember.
	www.stevesilver.net /mt/archives/004540.html (737 words)

	Business Evolutionist: Debbie Downer & Other Grenade Throwers...
		There is a great skit on Saturday night live called Debbie Downer.
		You recognize Debbie Downer and her kin, so you already have the gist of what makes the organization and its good people become walking wounded: looking for blame, finding fault, post-mortems, taking sides, win/lose, expecting the worst, snuffing out creativity and vision.
		The alternative is to tap into the incidental and unnoticed success, innovation, and collaboration that's already there and build from that (while intentionally making the negative stuff undiscussable).
	jstrande.typepad.com /blog/2005/07/debbie_downer_o.html (1120 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - The Now Infamous SNL Debbie Downer Sketch
		The problem with the sketch, at least the way it should have been, is that the other characters were supposed to react all too normally to Debbie's depressing stories.
		Say the other characters start off cute, bubbly and happy to be at Disneyland, but then by the end of Debbie's depressing comments, they all start killing themselves right there in the restaraunt in various interesting ways.
		I'd just like to state for the record--and as a rallying cry for those who feel the same--that the Debbie Downer sketch was the funniest thing I've seen on SNL in, like, two years.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=337815 (1333 words)

	whatevs (dot org) \| SNL Season 30: Episode 1 - Ben Affleck / Nelly (10/2/04)
		Low points of the episode were Debbie Downer, Dr. Porkenheimer and Camp David.
		What gave Debbie Downer so much word of mouth after its initial appearance last May was the on-camera laughter from the cast.
		Equally ludicrous was Debbie Downer, which should have seriously been kept as a one-time sketch.
	www.whatevs.org /snl30_affleck.htm (1106 words)

	Saturday Night REWRITTEN Sundays 8pm
		Marcisak tells everyone to jot down his or her best debate jokes for a "collective sketch." Then they jump on "SNL's" Debbie Downer sketch with Rachel Dratch as a relentless kill-joy.
		They decide to end the Debbie Downer sketch with the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson.
		On stage, the spoof of Debbie Downer features Bulimic Belinda and Profane Pam.
	www.saturdaynightrewritten.com /pressdailynews10062004.htm (619 words)

	NBC.com: October 1st - Host Steve Carell / Kanye West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)*
		Debbie Downer - why??..I think I am being forced into the I can't look but I can't look away situation with her..
		(Yeah, so I'm not a "Debbie Downer" fan.) I like to imagine the hurricane sketch was something very horrible, like maybe a stage filled with bloated, floating corpses.
		debbie downer was pushed all the way to the end.
	boards.nbc.com /bb/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=197127&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=2&vc=1 (1906 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / TV / Killjoy was here
		The comedy in their pairing -- and there is plenty -- lies in the way these two torture each other without trashing a friendship that appears to be built more on loyalty and longevity than logic.
		Redbook magazine published a recent feature titled ''Toxic Friends," in which two of the seven types identified in the story are -- hello -- The Underminer (''She chips away at you with subtle, delicate strokes") and The Downer (''.
		In real life, counsels Greer, the strategy for dealing with a downer or underminer -- defined by her as a ''narcissistic personality who presents as looking out for you, but who're really out for themselves" -- depends on how much the friendship is worth.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2005/02/23/killjoy_was_here?pg=full (1207 words)

	The Don &Mike Show:Freda from the Don and Mike Show
		Actually,all this meant is that I would be l would be more like Don,but I didn't want to insult him so I left that part out.
		Spring is too close and it's hard not to be optimistic when you hear the birds and feel the sun after a dreary winter like this.
		But at least for today,as I look out the window and see more friggin' snow,I'll let myself be Debbie Downer.
	www.donandmikewebsite.com /Product/Debbie-Downer-FF030805.html (810 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - SNL 10/2 - Host: Ben Affleck; Musical Guest: Nelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Debbie Downer and the Bush thing at the end were the only low points.
		Who's the idiot that thought leading with "Debbie Downer" would be a good idea.
		Later, the entire (horrible) Debbie Downer sketch was replaced with the dress rehearsal version.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-388360.html (4437 words)

	Fresh N' Tasty
		I guess I'm a little behind in discovering this SNL character, because apparently she has been around awhile, but I was recently watching a re-run on Comedy Central hosted by Lindsay Lohan.
		The skit involves a family on a Disneyland vacation and Debbie Downer ruins the entire trip.
		The best part about it is the fact that almost all of the skit involves everyone cracking up and totally losing it.
	freshntasty.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_freshntasty_archive.html (464 words)

	The DIS Discussion Forums - What is your LEAST favorite SNL regular segment? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Debbie Downer was funny when they were at Disneyworld, but that was because noone could keep a straight face in it.
		I agree that the Debbie Downer skit is pretty bad.
		I like Rachel Dratch and Amy Poller too but I agree that Debbie Downer and Weekend Update aren't as good as they used to be.
	www.disboards.com /showthread.php?t=751546 (891 words)

	Colleen - Re: Last night's SNL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		> I just finished watching a tape of SNL hosted by Lindsay Lohan last night, and I have to say that the Debbie Downer skit last night was the funniest thing I've seen in that show in years.
		Not only was it a funny concept, but every single member on stage just completely broke down after each "downer" line.
		The rest of the show wasn't nearly as good, but it's definitely worth checking out for the Debbie Downer sketch (as well as the always hot Lindsay Lohan).
	www.tvshowboards.com /tv/view.php?rpl=040511052923 (202 words)

	Citizen of the Month » My “Debbie Downer” Moment
		I had my own little "Debbie Downer" moment last night at a Santa Monica restaurant.
		I was having dinner with some new acquaintances when the woman next to me tapped my shoulder.
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	www.citizenofthemonth.com /2005/05/03/my-debbie-downer-moment (443 words)

	FootnoteTV® : Saturday Night Live (Luke Wilson)
		He did accept "full responsibility" for the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in a May 7, 2004 Senate hearing (prepared remarks on-line here), acknowledging that it was his ultimate responsibility toe ensure proper training of Army personnel and that "these events occurred on my watch."
		Debbie makes a reference to African conflict diamonds, which are diamonds sold by forces in the African countries of Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo to fund their military operations.
		The Clinton Presidential Center (on-line here) opened on November 18 with an event attended by former President Bill Clinton, as well as President George W. Bush and former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter.
	www.newsaic.com /ftvsnl30-06i.html (817 words)

	Ad-Aware® SE Update 4.11.05 - Neowin.net
		To me, this is the equivalent to posting every-time Norton released new Detection files, which is not really news, just a company doing their job...
		Again, sorry to be debbie downer, but for the last 3 weeks I have seen this posts, and every-time I think it is an actual software update, when all it really is is detection rules.
		I did not want to be like her and bring anyone down by what I was saying...
	www.neowin.net /forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=585760447 (825 words)

	Hoffmania!: $5 $10 Per "Scream" Two "Screams"
		Debbie ruins happy and jovial moods by sharing stories of woe, death and destruction.
		On a recent performance, Debbie ruined a trip to Disneyland for her friends by talking about cancerous melanomas, feline death rates, exploding passenger trains and global warming devastation.
		That's not the news one wants to hear when they visit "The Happiest Place on Earth." Debbie's political ideology has never been disclosed during these skits.
	www.hoffmania.com /blog/2005/02/5_per_scream.html (441 words)

	It Calls Itself Julie
		Her name is Pat (don't worry, nobody at work even knows my last name), and she is the most negative person I think I've ever met...
		That's how this woman is. She gripes about her husband and her stepkids and every other word is "Jesus Christ" and she ain't praising Him, either.
		We've gotten into the habit of calling her Debbie Downer behind her back, and it's so bad that when she lights her cigarette and fires up the Gripe Machine otherwise known as her mouth, the rest of us can't look at each other, or we'll burst out laughing.
	www.fidlerontheroof.blogspot.com (2560 words)

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