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If It Ain't Woke Don't Fix It

Lovett or Leave It

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SNL - What Characters Did You Do in Your Audition?

I met Lauren Michaels and we got to talking for a while. I had been known for writing a lot of political jokes. And at the end of the conversation, as if in passing, he said, well, we're doing auditions. It was around the time that I had left being a speechwriter. He turned into a character comedian. The hostile experience that is stepping onto that stage. My first time auditioning for anyone in my whole life,. The arrogance of it. This is the biopic that doesn't get made because there is the pivotal act one moment. Then there's the act two moment where you have never auditioned in front of anyone in real life before.

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