Cookie Monster to host SNL?

The character Cookie Monster, from 'Sesame Street' has made an audition tape for the sketch...
The character Cookie Monster, from 'Sesame Street' has made an audition tape for the sketch program to convince 'SNL' that he can host the show. Photo Sesame Workshop/AP>
Cookie Monster has made an audition tape to convince Saturday Night Live that he can host the show.

Sesame Street posted the video Wednesday on YouTube and Facebook.

Introducing the tape, Cookie Monster says he wants to "branch out beyond me cookie-eating career."

The four-minute video follows with Cookie Monster doing a run-through of an episode of SNL.

He performs a brief opening monologue, a "MacGruber"-like sketch dubbed "Macarooner," a few "Weekend Update" jokes and a musical guest appearance as "Monster Gaga."

Cookie Monster likely wants to follow Betty White's lead. The 88-year-old White hosted an episode of SNL earlier this year after a Facebook campaign urged such casting.

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