The Importance of Auditioning for SNL

"It proves anytime somebody says, you know, I don't understand why SNL doesn't work all year round to like bank sketches," he said. "I obviously wanted this a great deal." He was sixth in terms of who Tina Fey would cast but still got the job. The best commercial parodies on an SLS season are very rarely the ones that were written in late August and it's almost like necessity is the mother of invention.

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