Saturday Night Live

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I'm telling you, I used to think Saturday Night Live, I said, "I know I made it when I get to Saturday Night Live one day." I'ma tell you right now, real talk, like this is my joint right here.

I've been waiting to get here on this couch.

Oh, man.

And it would be like-

From SNL?

... you know, it would be Gumby, and then it would be-

Yeah

There's Hollywood illusions.

AJ, the protagonist, she works at SNL, Saturday Night Live, for part of this book, and so I really do...

I'm a curious person, so I love any sort of, kind of behind-the-scenes look at anything that I may not be familiar with.

So yes, that one was a lot of fun, but it also did, definitely was pretty emotional.

Yes.

So he's, it, you, a man purposefully is like, it's like how, um, [laughs] like SNL likes younger comedians-

Yeah

... because they don't, they like are moldable.

Well, no, I, my, my concern was that I was going to, [clears throat] uh, be Chris Farley to your Paul McCartney.

And, uh, th- that, that's a reference for everybody for a Saturday Night Live sketch where Chris Farley-

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... was so taken by Paul McCartney, he just kind of swallowed his tongue and, uh, i- just made an idiot of himself.

Yeah.

I- It's, it's funny because, like, a, one of my favorite, uh, um, SNL sketches is, um, uh, Bronx Beat with, um, um, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph in the sweater weather, when they talk about sweater weather.

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And, uh, we don't get a proper sweater weather in, in Chicago.

Um, and, um-

Awesome

... and I'm gonna have her on my SNL podcast.

So, um, I don't know.

We're busy on set.

We're about to go back to SNL.

Oh my gosh,

right.

I don't know what's good, what's not.

Like, I'm not in the room, but that's really funny.

Yeah, that's just like the point of SNL.

It's like, let's talk about something that's going on in society, throw some comedy lenses on it.

Hallelujah.

This is like in Saturday Night Live, right? I never watched that show very much.

Okay, well, there's like certain hosts come back more than other hosts.

Oh, okay.

So I don't know what I was watching.

I've been to SNL.

I said what I said.

I think it was SNL.

What did you

say? Wait, that was a shot? That was a random shot at SNL? It's about to be.

It's about to be.

their ratio for how often something is good on there is really low but let me tell it is because rhythmically somebody in that space is out of touch with the rhythm of the world now so like you were saying like maybe some if some