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00:25:26I walk into this kitchen and I see a cantaloupe on that table, I will lose my mind.
00:25:39That's a perfect version, right?
00:25:41Because you can see Al Pacino impressions, right?
00:25:44Obviously, he has a good Al Pacino, but it's like, it's not just doing a great impression.
00:25:48It's like making it like talking about cantaloupe, you know?
00:25:51It's, that's what makes the brilliant people even more brilliant, right?
00:25:56Is that they can, they can make something really fun and different.
00:25:59What?
00:26:01Juji Fruits.
00:26:04Always.
00:26:06Don the Butler loves his Juji Fruits.
00:26:10You know, what's amazing too is if like some people would have had the Juji Fruits.
00:26:14Like he didn't need the Juji Fruits.
00:26:17I came in the elevator at 30 Rock and there was another guy there that had a ton of props.
00:26:22I had this big bag of like props and wigs with me because I was like, oh, I want to
00:26:26show them
00:26:27all these characters with these incredible props I bought at the Halloween store.
00:26:30And I was looking at him going, oh man, this guy brought props.
00:26:33I didn't bring props.
00:26:34And I remember looking over at Bill thinking like, oh God, he doesn't have anything with
00:26:39him.
00:26:40He doesn't need any literal props to prop him up.
00:26:43Shit.
00:26:44I'm screwed.
00:26:46Hey, I'm Billy Bob Thornton and welcome to Billy Bob Thornton's show about Kangles.
00:26:52I miss that body.
00:26:56Kangles are of course the brand of hat that I adore so much.
00:26:59And this is the only show that explores all facets of the Kangle lifestyle.
00:27:04Had to bring the Kangle because the whole bit was based on Kangles.
00:27:09I think that was the first and last time I ever bought a Kangle.
00:27:13This is Jimmy Fallon at a funeral.
00:27:16I did do Fallon.
00:27:17I knew he had done Sandler.
00:27:20Why don't you go to the store with your mother?
00:27:22So it was kind of a thing.
00:27:24I think Higgins even was like, you should do Jimmy.
00:27:26So I did.
00:27:28Hey, hey, what's going on, my man?
00:27:29Oh man, this funeral is so sad.
00:27:31Am I right?
00:27:31It's so sad.
00:27:32And by the way, I got you a gift basket for the occasion.
00:27:34There's like four kinds of me's.
00:27:35It's fantastic.
00:27:36All right.
00:27:36Ross Trent.
00:27:38Oh my God, that wig is atroosh.
00:27:40Looks like Milli Vanilli.
00:27:42The white guy with dreads.
00:27:44Excuse-I.
00:27:47Blessings.
00:27:47Blessings, everyone.
00:27:49And welcome to this super iry board meeting.
00:27:51Ross Trent was based on an actual person me and my friends met.
00:27:55I grew up in Berkeley, California.
00:27:57And we would go to lots of reggae shows.
00:27:59And we went to this reggae show.
00:28:01And we were all like sitting on the steps of the lobby theater.
00:28:05And this really like buttoned up white dude walked up.
00:28:09He came and we were blocking his way.
00:28:10And he went, excuse-I.
00:28:12And we all went, what?
00:28:14And we like let him pass.
00:28:16And then all just died laughing for like an hour.
00:28:18And then for the next, you know, 10 years, we would say that to each other all the time.
00:28:21So like most ideas that we had, we just shoehorned it into a song.
00:28:26Excuse-I.
00:28:27Oh, hot stepper.
00:28:28The cartridge is out of ink.
00:28:32Repatriation!
00:28:32In his audition, he did this thing that I've never talked to him about.
00:28:35But I think about it a lot.
00:28:37It was just something about the way he held his hands when he said that he was a triple threat.
00:28:41Oh, and P.S. I totally wrote that jingle and sang it so triple threat.
00:28:45And it's just like, oh yeah, that.
00:28:48On all of those people, I'll never forget those moments.
00:28:53Yeah, I had a unique experience, I think, there from an audition point of view.
00:28:57This is what I was told, or this is a story I'm making up, I don't know.
00:29:01But they had seen me do a bunch of characters.
00:29:05All right, you know what?
00:29:05It's Judgment Day, bitch.
00:29:07What?
00:29:07Come on!
00:29:08No.
00:29:09Go through this.
00:29:12And so I was told they wanted me to kind of be myself, so they could kind of see what
00:29:18that was like.
00:29:19So my audition, if I am to remember correctly, was me doing kind of like an update piece.
00:29:25But I didn't do impressions and characters.
00:29:31How did I swing that?
00:29:33Did I ask for that?
00:29:34Did someone ask that of me?
00:29:35I don't know.
00:29:36I don't even want to watch it, because I don't remember it.
00:29:40I don't think I do.
00:29:41Here's why.
00:29:42I have like a nice feeling about it.
00:29:45And I don't think I'm going to have that feeling after I watch it.
00:29:51What if I watched one minute of it?
00:30:01I'm so nervous.
00:30:03Oh, yeah.
00:30:04I did a bit about sports.
00:30:08What is the joke?
00:30:10I've already been talking for 30 seconds, and there's no joke, and I'm dying.
00:30:16Oh, okay.
00:30:19And he's too huge.
00:30:20I'm just doing a, I'm doing like an update piece about Shaquille O'Neal being too big for basketball.
00:30:29Okay, that's enough.
00:30:34Oh, boy.
00:30:35Oh, boy.
00:30:36Do you ever make a video for someone for their birthday, and you send the wrong one?
00:30:40That's what that audition feels like, like a draft of an audition, like, like what I would tape to get
00:30:46ready for an audition.
00:30:47And I don't know who let him in, but they should be fired.
00:30:50That's rude.
00:30:52We knew we were hiring her before she did this.
00:30:55This was more like formality.
00:30:57I mean, when it comes down to it, I think Tina got me the job.
00:31:01I scratched and clawed through mud and barbed wire, and you just glided in on a dog sleigh.
00:31:13You know, Lauren always said, let's get people through recommendations of cast members and writers.
00:31:18Andy Samberg on the show because Jimmy Fallon recommended him.
00:31:21George Wendt called me about Jason Sudeikis.
00:31:24Gwyneth Paltrow called me about Maya Rudolph.
00:31:27Everyone knows it's my birthday!
00:31:31I feel like every story's pretty different.
00:31:34There were people who went on that stage, and they already had the job, and then others that came in
00:31:38the side.
00:31:39Sometimes we would do a studio test towards the end of a year or middle year if we were really
00:31:44missing somebody.
00:31:45Like Kate McKinnon, she was at it at the end of a season.
00:31:47Hello, I'm Penelope Cruz.
00:31:51I'm always searching for the most perfect moisturizer.
00:31:54I chose L'Oreal Bermra Venesis with proselyne and haragama pastel.
00:32:00It's not already molly and never very happy in a tough skin layer, leaving skin feeling totaled with a duvillo.
00:32:08L'Oreal, because of everything.
00:32:11Over there is your antique four-poster canopy bend.
00:32:14And this, okay, this is actually the centerpiece of the room right here.
00:32:18This is a hand-woven Amish quilt.
00:32:21Just try not to cum on it.
00:32:26Sometimes Lauren would just be like, we're hiring them.
00:32:28And you'd be like, I mean, it's a little nerve-wracking, right?
00:32:30Because you're like, it's a big choice.
00:32:33And you don't ever want to be wrong.
00:32:35And then sometimes you'd be like, nope, coming back.
00:32:37Like, Andy auditioned twice.
00:32:39Taron Killam over the course of two years.
00:32:42Sometimes it is the question of, is that five minutes all that they have?
00:32:47Or is there more there?
00:32:49Because sometimes you get a sense from somebody, oh, there's so much more behind that five minutes.
00:32:53And other times it's a little less clear.
00:32:55And you kind of want to see what else.
00:32:58Oh, God, I'm going to hate this.
00:33:02No!
00:33:02Hi, this is an impression of an esteemed member.
00:33:07No, no, no, no.
00:33:10Oh, God.
00:33:12No.
00:33:1330 seconds.
00:33:14How much time do we have?
00:33:16Ding dong, bookworms.
00:33:17It's famously acerbic former book critic for the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani.
00:33:23Okay, all right.
00:33:25That's enough.
00:33:26Everyone says this, but like, your first audition, it's like when a musician comes out with their debut album, right?
00:33:30It's like their whole life had led up to that.
00:33:32And then the sophomore album is kind of the thing that gets a little tricky because now you're supposed to
00:33:37deliver on something that, like, has to be, like, the sediment on top of what's already been established.
00:33:41We had auditioned twice.
00:33:43Second night.
00:33:43Second time.
00:33:44Second callback.
00:33:45Second audition.
00:33:46They said, want to see her again, but, like, full new audition.
00:33:50And I was like, excuse me, I did the 12 things I had.
00:33:55They were like, you're getting a second audition.
00:33:57I was like, cool, see you next year.
00:33:59And they're like, actually, no, we're doing it in two weeks.
00:34:02It was like, you're going to test on a Monday.
00:34:04And I was in Studio City sitting at, like, some coffee shop.
00:34:07And it was, like, Friday at 7 p.m. West Coast time.
00:34:10And then they were like, come back and audition again on Monday.
00:34:12And I was like, son of a bitch.
00:34:14My first audition was, like, here I am as a comedian.
00:34:18I hope I get it.
00:34:19And my second audition was, like, this is me.
00:34:22I'm right.
00:34:23I hope.
00:34:24I don't do impressions.
00:34:25This is Danny DeVito.
00:34:27Hey.
00:34:31Oh, no.
00:34:41Holy shit.
00:34:43They were like, we need more impressions from you.
00:34:46And I was like, I don't think there are that many prominent Asians.
00:34:51I think I, like, cycled through all of them.
00:34:54So then they put me on this deal that made me come back and screen test again in August of
00:35:012018.
00:35:02So at that point, my fourth screen test, I was like, I've done this enough times now.
00:35:06I don't think I'm that nervous anymore.
00:35:07Like, by the fourth time, I was just like, oh, this is just another day at the office.
00:35:12Hi, Bowen Yang, 5'8", in for choking victim poster model.
00:35:20Oh, yeah?
00:35:22Oh, I was thinking it was, like, a piece of bread or, like, a dry cracker.
00:35:26I met with Lorne.
00:35:28His parting shot from that conversation was him going, and, Bowen, you've gotten better every time.
00:35:34And I was like, I'm in.
00:35:36And then he was like, just kidding.
00:35:38You should be a writer instead.
00:35:39I was like, no problem.
00:35:41There were a lot of people that auditioned, and they wound up being writers.
00:35:44Donald Trump is not just a rich man.
00:35:47Donald Trump is, like, what a hobo imagines a rich man to be.
00:35:51When you see writing and you recognize it, that counts for a lot.
00:35:57And that's just another example of, like, oh, I really like when they do this.
00:36:01Oh, we don't have any more.
00:36:02Let's make them a writer.
00:36:03It's not a consolation prize for them.
00:36:06It's a way for us to get to keep them.
00:36:13I finished my audition.
00:36:15I walked out of 30 Rock.
00:36:16And, by the way, this is, like, the second time I'd ever been to New York.
00:36:19So I was, like, you know, Midnight Cowboy, like, whoa, look at all this.
00:36:23So I felt really good.
00:36:24And then I flew back home.
00:36:27And then, like, a week later, I was with my manager when we were having lunch.
00:36:32And I went to the bathroom.
00:36:33I came back, and she had her phone.
00:36:35And she just handed me her cell phone.
00:36:37And I was like, hello?
00:36:38And it was Marcy Klein.
00:36:39And she said, you know you got hired, right?
00:36:41I said, no, I didn't know I got hired.
00:36:43She goes, oh, well, congratulations, you got hired.
00:36:45We need you to fly to New York tomorrow.
00:36:46We're going to be flying with this guy, Andy Samberg.
00:36:49He's hired, but he doesn't know he's hired yet.
00:36:51We're going to tell him, so don't tell him.
00:36:54So the mind game started immediately.
00:36:59I had heard nothing after that second audition.
00:37:03I had gone back to L.A.
00:37:04I did not get the meeting with Lorne.
00:37:06I knew other people had.
00:37:08And from everything I'd read, it was like, the meeting is important.
00:37:11You need to get that meeting.
00:37:13I tried to stay hopeful for, like, four days.
00:37:16I watched a lot of Great British Bake Off.
00:37:18And by the ninth day, I was like, okay, it's time to grieve this.
00:37:24I remember going to the grocery store just to walk around the cereal aisle
00:37:29because I knew the boxes would feel nostalgic and comforting.
00:37:33So I was, like, getting ready to just go look at, like, Froot Loops and Lucky Charms.
00:37:38And I saw a New York number come up on my phone.
00:37:41And I was like, oh, my God, New York.
00:37:43And I answered it.
00:37:44And I was like, hello.
00:37:45And it was like, Heidi Gardner, I've got Lorne Michaels on the phone for you.
00:37:49And I immediately just tried to act like that was normal.
00:37:52And so I was like, put him through.
00:37:56And they were like, is this Heidi Gardner?
00:38:00I was like, it is.
00:38:01Put him through.
00:38:03And then I heard Lorne on the other end.
00:38:06And he said, I'm bringing you on to the show.
00:38:09And then he proceeded to kind of just brief me for three minutes on what even the next 24 hours
00:38:16would look like,
00:38:16like that I was moving to New York.
00:38:18And I would be meeting him on Tuesday.
00:38:21And it was Saturday that or it was a Friday.
00:38:24And I really don't even know what he said.
00:38:25And then I was like, oh, my God, this man just changed my life.
00:38:29And I haven't even said a word.
00:38:31And so then I was like, thank you so much, sir.
00:38:34I think I screamed it.
00:38:36When Marcy Klein called me after to say, like, I think this is going to work out, I remember saving
00:38:42it on my phone.
00:38:42I saved the call as best call ever.
00:38:45And it was best call ever.
00:38:47What a call to get.
00:38:51I would always give orientation.
00:38:53And then it's like, here's your office.
00:38:55Like, when you start, you kind of have to make it mundane because you do have to know where the
00:38:59bathrooms are.
00:38:59Like, that's the reality.
00:39:01Nobody has patience for you not knowing the shorthand.
00:39:04Like, I remember sets of notes.
00:39:06Once you are in the cast, you've got your office.
00:39:10But then you get there and, you know, you realize you're still sort of auditioning.
00:39:15You still have to get your stuff on.
00:39:18I walked in the first day and was like, you guys want to have a sleepover in the studio?
00:39:21No.
00:39:22Does everyone hate me?
00:39:23What?
00:39:24I'm going to get fired every day, I think.
00:39:26Every week feels like you have to prove yourself again.
00:39:30Sketches get cut.
00:39:32They die on the table.
00:39:34Jokes don't make it.
00:39:35I made the mistake so many freshmen make where you tell your parents, like, I'm going to be in something.
00:39:41You just jinx it.
00:39:42I do this one because people tell me I look like them.
00:39:45Ted Allen, the food and wine guy from Queer Eye for the straight guy.
00:39:49All right, so your new haircut looks fantastic.
00:39:51After we're done here, what we're going to do is go to Cocoa Deluxe, which is one of the best
00:39:55chocolate stores in the entire city, okay?
00:39:57Now, look, I just want you to stand there.
00:39:58Let me just put a little pomade in your hair.
00:40:00Just run that through there.
00:40:01Okay, just real quick.
00:40:02Just go ahead and face forward.
00:40:03Okay.
00:40:04You just want to get that?
00:40:05All right, good.
00:40:06Okay, cool.
00:40:07Let's go.
00:40:08There we go.
00:40:10All right.
00:40:11There we go.
00:40:12He's like, I got shit to do.
00:40:13I got to get out of here.
00:40:14I mean, I watched that audition.
00:40:15I'm kind of like, I don't know if I'd hire me.
00:40:17But I did not get hired as into the cast.
00:40:19You know, I got hired as a writer.
00:40:20But I had a really good, you know, good first month.
00:40:24First episode with Jack Black, I got a sketch on.
00:40:27My child arrived just the other day.
00:40:30He came to the world in the usual way.
00:40:33He was made in the usual way, too.
00:40:35On a futon.
00:40:36Hey, hey!
00:40:37The second week, I got a sketch on, and that was the punk sketch.
00:40:40Oh, my God.
00:40:41What's wrong with me?
00:40:42I've been sick all morning.
00:40:44You're going to be a mom.
00:40:46What?
00:40:47You just got punked.
00:40:48We switched out your birth control pills.
00:40:52I mean, here I was, worked on television for five days, and now I'm producing a sketch
00:40:56on SNL.
00:40:57And then I didn't get shit on for, like, I don't know, like, months.
00:41:06That's when I started calling home, being like, I think I want to go back to Second
00:41:09City.
00:41:10Well, it's the show kind of teaching you that it's a marathon, not a sprint.
00:41:14I feel like those first two years, I was just, like, so stressed out.
00:41:17Could not relax enough to think properly.
00:41:22It was always just sort of reactive and trying to just survive a little bit.
00:41:26And then, like, the third and fourth year started doing, like, more political impressions
00:41:30and finding some footing there and getting more comfortable as a performer.
00:41:34Mr. Vice President, my first question is for you.
00:41:38Thank you.
00:41:39The topic is coronavirus.
00:41:41Damn it.
00:41:42Once you get comfortable, you start to go, like, oh, that's what it is.
00:41:45You want to just be able to kind of have fun no matter what, be like, what's going to
00:41:49happen.
00:41:49After all that experience, your perspective changes a lot, you know.
00:41:54At first, I had blind confidence.
00:41:56And then the sketches started getting pulled.
00:41:58And it just started changing.
00:42:00And then I would say that third year, when Lauren hit me that summer, it was like, you
00:42:04should try Barack.
00:42:05And now a message from the President of the United States.
00:42:13The first night I did it, I got off stage and Kristen Wiig sent me a text message.
00:42:18She was like, that was television.
00:42:20That's what you're supposed to do.
00:42:22Great job.
00:42:23We've taken every reasonable step to end this crisis.
00:42:26Thursday, I spoke with President Putin on the phone for an hour.
00:42:29It did not go well.
00:42:32Everybody's talented, man.
00:42:34You're in this institution because you're talented.
00:42:38So you just got to find where your talent lays.
00:42:41You just got to maximize it.
00:42:43So I got hired and then I wanted to be a performer because it's easier.
00:42:47And they said, write.
00:42:48And I was like, ah, shit, I don't know how to write.
00:42:50Like, I was writing like 13 page sketches with nine sets.
00:42:54And everyone's like, what the fuck are you doing?
00:42:55I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing.
00:42:57That's what I'm saying.
00:42:58In, people that recognize me from this show, even though I've only been on twice.
00:43:02Out, people that think I'm Dana Carvey.
00:43:05After my first year, I actually called for a meeting with Lorne.
00:43:09I was like, please fire me.
00:43:10And he was like, why?
00:43:11I was like, I don't belong here.
00:43:13I was like, everybody here is so talented and they don't want to be my friend.
00:43:16I was a child.
00:43:18I was like, nobody wants to be my friend.
00:43:19And he said, you don't figure it out until your third or fourth year.
00:43:23I was like, what?
00:43:24He was like, yeah, it's just going to suck for like three or four years.
00:43:28I was like, all right.
00:43:29He was right.
00:43:31It's a lot of pressure.
00:43:33Even though we have writers, that doesn't necessarily mean they have to write for you.
00:43:37If it was just left up to the writers, you might not see a lot of people.
00:43:41And, you know, I was never cast much.
00:43:44So, I knew it was going to be up to me.
00:43:47And I did co-write most of my stuff.
00:43:49Because characters come from you anyway.
00:43:52You just have to keep creating for yourself.
00:43:55Like when Will and I did the cheerleaders.
00:44:12We had to do those cheers correctly.
00:44:14And I'm like, could I have made this any harder?
00:44:17He picked things up easy.
00:44:19I didn't as much.
00:44:27That was a big deal to say live from New York.
00:44:30I think that was the only time I said it.
00:44:33The schedule is so grueling.
00:44:36You're working on weekends.
00:44:38You're working all night.
00:44:39It's like a comedy emergency room.
00:44:42If you've ever been in an emergency room, people are so good at their jobs that people
00:44:47don't run around and scream and yell when something's going down.
00:44:50They get really quiet and they do their job.
00:44:53But emergency rooms are hectic.
00:44:55And they're filled with risk takers.
00:44:58And there's some trauma involved and stress and high stakes.
00:45:03It's hard, man.
00:45:04It's a tough place to work.
00:45:05Like, don't bullshit.
00:45:07It owes you nothing.
00:45:08And yet, it's designed to be fun.
00:45:10It's made to be fun.
00:45:11There are so many people I need to thank tonight.
00:45:14Maybe everybody, when he comes out, Stan.
00:45:17It's pure chaos.
00:45:18The show is pure chaos.
00:45:19But the magic is, like, keeping it chaotic so you can't overthink things.
00:45:23Here to comment is Boy George.
00:45:28To get the job, right, you have to be all these things.
00:45:31A great writer, a great performer.
00:45:33Know how to use your body on stage.
00:45:34Not be too big for the people at home, but not be too small for the people in the audience.
00:45:39That sounds all right to me, don't you?
00:45:42But the key, right, the key to, like, be successful on the show, can you be your authentic self?
00:45:51Are we, uh, rolling here?
00:45:53Yeah.
00:45:54Yep.
00:45:54Go ahead, Dan.
00:45:54Okay.
00:45:56Deltoid spray is made from the extracted liquid from the spleens of perfumed sheep.
00:46:01In show business, I've had a fairly limited career.
00:46:05It's hard to perform on stage in a wheelchair.
00:46:08Hi, my name is Sherry, and I was made to fly.
00:46:13God, it's so bitchin'.
00:46:15The thing about new people coming in is everyone's really excited about this thing that this person
00:46:20can do that we didn't have before.
00:46:22That carries the day more than anything else.
00:46:24Important call from the chairman.
00:46:26Chairman Kim.
00:46:26What's up?
00:46:28I let the fact that, like, there hadn't been an East Asian person who, like, couldn't pass as anything else
00:46:33be on camera here.
00:46:35That scared the shit out of me.
00:46:37But I think that attitude served me well coming in because I'm just like, I'm never going to get this,
00:46:42so fuck it.
00:46:44I'm just going to, like, do what I want.
00:46:46Wow, I do motto.
00:46:48Oh, glorious leader says, very impressive, but in a sarcastic way.
00:46:53I think that's the right thing to come in here with, is just to feel some, like, liberated sense of,
00:46:59this is who I am.
00:47:01Like, take it or leave it.
00:47:02Like, literally take it or leave it.
00:47:03First of all, you came to where I live and you hit me.
00:47:08My point of view will be maybe, like, that of an Asian person or that of a queer person, but
00:47:12also, like, there are just as many things outside of that that, like, have nothing to do with those things.
00:47:16There would be conversations I would have with writers who I felt like were maybe pigeonholing certain things about me,
00:47:25and thankfully that was never met with any sort of, like, toxicity or any sort of pushback.
00:47:29It was always, thank you for telling me.
00:47:31I'm so sorry that happened.
00:47:32It won't happen again.
00:47:34What I think has been a nice turning point is, like, being able to joke about those things in a
00:47:39meadow way.
00:47:40I'd really love to see you again.
00:47:42Oh, uh, yeah, I have a lot going on.
00:47:45Right, totally.
00:47:47Plus, I gotta keep up appearances with the whole gay thing.
00:47:51It's sort of my meal ticket.
00:47:52That's been, like, the nice 360 full circle thing on it where after an earned amount of time, I've been
00:47:59able to sort of expand that scope a bit.
00:48:02I was excited.
00:48:04I wanted to show them my world how funny it was.
00:48:08But the first three years, I felt like I was being culturally isolated sometimes.
00:48:12I'm coming from a world of black.
00:48:15I'm an inner-city kid to be, like, the whitest show in America.
00:48:19Sometimes I still don't even get recognized in my own neighborhood.
00:48:22That's all right, because I'm the other black guy.
00:48:26I felt by myself.
00:48:28I felt, you know, they wasn't getting it.
00:48:30But then Lorne Michaels had to talk with me.
00:48:32And he said, Tracy, I hired you because you're funny, not because you're black.
00:48:39Do your thing.
00:48:41And that's when I started doing my thing.
00:48:44And now I shall read some of my Hallmark cards.
00:48:48I will begin with this one here.
00:48:52It's my favorite.
00:48:54I lay down in my grave and watch my children grow.
00:49:00Proud looms above the weeds of death.
00:49:03I lay down in my grave.
00:49:06My grave to die.
00:49:09Happy fifth birthday, grandson.
00:49:13Brian Fellows.
00:49:14Brian Fellows.
00:49:15Brian Fellows.
00:49:17Safari Planet.
00:49:18I bet if this goat could talk, he would say things like curse words and call people doodoo head and
00:49:24sing naughty songs.
00:49:26He's weird.
00:49:29Well, it's a she.
00:49:31I'm Brian Fellow.
00:49:33The first time I auditioned, I had heard that they were looking for a white guy.
00:49:38I'm not white or a guy.
00:49:40Spoiler.
00:49:41I gotta cut you a piece of this steak.
00:49:44This steak is bussy.
00:49:45Bleak me.
00:49:47Oh, my God.
00:49:48Can you just chill?
00:49:49He's trying to tell a story.
00:49:51Oh, my God.
00:49:53I felt like I could do the job in the way that would make it easier for the next black
00:49:59woman.
00:50:00And I say this not to say that, like, every day I'd go in thinking, like, this is for black
00:50:04women.
00:50:04I wasn't.
00:50:05I wanted the audience to have a point of reference of, like, a black woman they felt like had the
00:50:11skill set to do the job.
00:50:12And thus their brains could go, okay, yeah, she belongs.
00:50:15And then the next black woman who comes after me, my hope is her time was, like, 5% easier
00:50:21because of the work I did there.
00:50:23And my time was bounds easier because of the work of the women who came before me, including Leslie Jones,
00:50:29Sashir Zameda, Denitra Vance, Ellen Clegg Horn, Maya Rudolph.
00:50:33Now, I'd like to hear the vice president's response.
00:50:36And while he speaks, I'm going to smile at him like I'm in a TJ Maxx and a white lady
00:50:41asked me if I work here.
00:50:44Look, I promise you, the president has taken this virus seriously since the very beginning of last week.
00:50:54There's a million different ways to be funny.
00:50:58I love people that have zero point of view or have zero depth.
00:51:03I love people that are incredibly deep and smart and want to tell me, like, what their version of the
00:51:10world is.
00:51:11That's why I love comedy so much.
00:51:13I think it can be hugely varied as to what you laugh at.
00:51:17And what we laugh at is super personal.
00:51:20Funny is funny.
00:51:21Funny. If it's funny for you, know that. It's funny.
00:51:24If they laugh, it's just an appreciation of your sense of humor.
00:51:29Not everybody's going to appreciate it.
00:51:31If you let all other stuff get in your head, you're going to blow it.
00:51:35The one thing I've gotten used to is swings and momentum all the time.
00:51:41And the roller coaster of feeling so successful at something and then almost an immediate heartbreak.
00:51:49Honestly, the note from Lauren and the producers from the day you step foot in there is have fun.
00:51:57But, you know, most of us were all SNL fans from the time we were little and you're like, I'm
00:52:03in a serious spot right now.
00:52:05I am in the place.
00:52:06Okay, so Shape of Water was like, I don't know.
00:52:12It was like weird.
00:52:16But when you can just let go of that, know that all the people you're working with and working for,
00:52:21they do just want you to enjoy yourself.
00:52:24And you're just like, I can do this.
00:52:25I can be on SNL.
00:52:29It is so important for me to be the prettiest.
00:52:33And I always am.
00:52:34Always.
00:52:37And I like to win.
00:52:40And I hate to lose.
00:52:43Believe me, I am a sore loser.
00:52:47And if it doesn't look like I'm going to win,
00:52:51I cheat.
00:52:53No, I do.
00:52:54I really do.
00:53:06The feedback from an audience, the laughter, it's like a drug.
00:53:11You're having a shared experience in that moment that's fleeting.
00:53:16To have that exchange is amazing.
00:53:20Mary Catherine.
00:53:21Mary Catherine Gallagher!
00:53:25I flipped.
00:53:26When I did the first Mary Catherine Gallagher sketch,
00:53:30I remember coming on and just being so nervous.
00:53:34My heart was pounding.
00:53:36I was like, I'm going to use my real nervous energy that I have as Molly Shannon
00:53:41and pour that into the character.
00:53:43Sometimes when I get nervous, I stick my hands under my arms and then I smell my fingers like
00:53:47that.
00:53:49That's gross.
00:53:51But I remember when the sketch ended, there was like a roar from the audience.
00:53:55And I, it's exhilarating.
00:53:59There's nothing like it.
00:53:59It's the greatest feeling.
00:54:01It's almost like I'm presenting to a group of people like, hey, did you ever notice this?
00:54:06Or do you feel the same way?
00:54:08Is it just me?
00:54:09And then when there's a reaction to that, I'm like, oh, okay.
00:54:11Well, then now we're having a discussion.
00:54:13It's like the most fun.
00:54:15When a sketch really crushes here, it's, it's the greatest feeling.
00:54:20Best sketch I have ever seen here that I was very lucky to be a part of was Farewell, Mr.
00:54:27Bunting.
00:54:27Sit down.
00:54:31As you all know, Mr. Bunting will no longer be teaching here at Windermere.
00:54:37His unorthodox methods have done enough damage.
00:54:41That sketch was crazy because during the table read, there's no laughs.
00:54:45It's all stage direction and like serious, serious acting.
00:54:49And I was like, oh, I wonder how this is going to go.
00:54:54I sing my song for all to hear.
00:54:56Sit down this instant.
00:55:00I sing my song for all to hear.
00:55:03I will have you both expelled if you do not sit down immediately.
00:55:07Mr. Bunting, please.
00:55:08I sing my song for all to hear.
00:55:10I sing my song for all to hear.
00:55:16I sing my song for all to hear.
00:55:18Oh!
00:55:26It was the loudest sound I ever heard.
00:55:28People were standing up and going like,
00:55:29like cheering and while looking at each other.
00:55:32It was sick, dude.
00:55:35When it's live in here and everyone's having a good time,
00:55:39it's hard to beat that.
00:55:43I don't think you can be successful without connecting with the audience.
00:55:47I think comedy is very straightforward like that.
00:55:50Now you can jump 30 feet in the air while your feet are covered in sweet cocoa-daka-daka-daka
00:55:56-daka-daka-daka.
00:56:19I feel like we're all kind of in this moment, you know, a lot closer together.
00:56:23Samuel L. Jackson.
00:56:24Man, .
00:56:25Hey!
00:56:27All soul.
00:56:29Come on, Sam.
00:56:30It's a bull.
00:56:31Hey, come on now.
00:56:33That costs money.
00:56:37I always look at the cast photos and watch my maturation.
00:56:43I'm very lucky to be able to, like, have that kind of growth chart.
00:56:46Ah, wait, hey!
00:56:53Easy.
00:56:54Easy.
00:56:56A lot of people don't get a chance to reach their potential.
00:56:59And then the ones that do, I think, learn a valuable lesson here.
00:57:03My humble shoes are always on because I'm always aware that it takes a lot to do the show.
00:57:09You know, a whole lot of people came through these doors and put their blood, sweat, and
00:57:13tears into creating this shit on a week-in and week-out business.
00:57:17To see it, like, kind of naked like this is wild.
00:57:20You forget that it's just a studio.
00:57:23So much shit has gone on in here.
00:57:25Moet, wow.
00:57:26What are you celebrating?
00:57:28Averageness?
00:57:29No.
00:57:30No, I mean, she's joking.
00:57:32She's joking.
00:57:32Regine has a very, very refined palate, as well as a refined sense of humor.
00:57:37You know, watch what happens when I tickle her behind her knee.
00:57:39Here, give me that.
00:57:40Come here.
00:57:41Come here, you.
00:57:46He's live, and anything can happen at any point, from any place, in any direction.
00:57:51She's more than okay.
00:57:52Now, her body is like a heart that not only I know how to play.
00:57:57Her foot is in the guacamole.
00:57:59It doesn't matter.
00:58:01It doesn't matter.
00:58:01It makes it better.
00:58:05I'm fine with that.
00:58:07Can I?
00:58:10Don't bother me.
00:58:12When you bring people to the show, every time they come, they're like, that's the best show
00:58:14I've ever seen.
00:58:14Because they're in the vibe of it.
00:58:16And so to be in that and responsible for it, it's thrilling.
00:58:21You know, hour and a half.
00:58:23Let's see what happens.
00:58:29I have a theory that there is a chemical, like there's a DNA to the people who have ended
00:58:35up on the show.
00:58:35I don't know what it is.
00:58:37In my head, I'm like, I wonder if there's something physical in the way people's, like,
00:58:41vocal cords are.
00:58:42Or something, something concrete that's like, did you know that every cast member was born
00:58:49at nine o'clock in the morning?
00:58:50Whatever some weird thing is.
00:58:51And I see older cast members from casts before me, you're familiar with them.
00:58:57And same thing goes with new cast members.
00:58:59There's a little bit of a feeling of, like, I know what you're going through and what it's
00:59:04like to have to reinvent yourself every Monday.
00:59:07When all else fails, use your cell phone.
00:59:11Pretend like you're having a conversation and he'll leave you alone.
00:59:14Give me your money.
00:59:15Give me your money.
00:59:20Hope you guys learned a little something.
00:59:22Remember, no matter what the situation is, you fight back.
00:59:26You know, when I look at this audition and I'm like, well, it's so weird, but everything
00:59:29that I was a fan of is what you see in the audition.
00:59:34I've always loved watching comedy and music.
00:59:37And then to be on the other side of it, of doing it, it's a real dream come true.
00:59:42I'm in love with that show.
00:59:44I was a hairdresser.
00:59:45I remember telling some clients, like, I'm quitting the salon because all I wanted to do
00:59:51was perform.
00:59:51And some of them were like, no, don't become the cliché.
00:59:55Like, you moved to L.A. to do hair and you're doing it.
00:59:59Like, this is bad.
01:00:00Don't do it.
01:00:02But I had a lot of people that believed in me.
01:00:06And so I think they lifted me up onto a stage and made me perform.
01:00:09And now I'm like, okay, I'm doing it.
01:00:11This is an older woman at a wedding who doesn't want to dance.
01:00:37I don't want to dance.
01:00:49Oh, my gosh.
01:00:51Did other people cry?
01:00:53Yes.
01:00:54Okay.
01:00:55Okay, good.
01:00:57I just have never, I've never seen that at all.
01:01:01And I didn't even think I could because I was a little scared that I would just be a little
01:01:11too, like, critical or, you know, and there are things I think I could have done better.
01:01:18But I, like, cannot believe I did that.
01:01:24Just as far as, like, that's a lot of pressure.
01:01:27Yeah.
01:01:29Yeah.
01:01:31This is a really tough job.
01:01:33Like, you go through all the emotions with these people, but you all love each other
01:01:37at the end of the day.
01:01:39So, this is a really difficult place to leave.
01:01:41But you don't ever really truly leave.
01:01:44I'm not good at sex, you know, because, you know, I wasn't raised in a brothel.
01:01:48I'm 20.
01:01:48Like, I don't, I'm not good at it.
01:01:51I don't understand why my girlfriend gets mad.
01:01:53She's like, that's it?
01:01:54I'm like, yeah, like, what did you expect?
01:01:56Like, you know any good guitar players that have been playing guitar for a year?
01:02:02I grew up here.
01:02:04I was like a kid when I came in.
01:02:07And I'll always be proud.
01:02:09I'll always be grateful.
01:02:11And I'll always miss it.
01:02:13Someday when I grow up, you know, no matter what happens, no matter what happens, I'll say,
01:02:17hey, you know, that Saturday night audition, and that's nice.
01:02:20I, I appreciate that.
01:02:22I, you know.
01:02:22Everything that I do, I owe to Saturday Night Live.
01:02:27Everything.
01:02:28And especially when I had Eddie Murphy next to me, a man.
01:02:31It was a joy I could, you can't put into words.
01:02:34My gratitude is immeasurable.
01:02:36It really is.
01:02:43I turned to Bella, and I said to Bella, I go, Bella, you got more facial hair than he does.
01:02:47She says, you're bad.
01:02:48Oh, we left up a storm when I said that to her.
01:02:51Oh.
01:02:52I remember on my audition, just thinking, wow, I'll be able to tell my grandchildren I auditioned
01:02:58for Saturday Night Live.
01:02:59Never, ever, ever dreaming that big.
01:03:02Fidel Castro and I were roommates my freshman year in college.
01:03:06And girlfriends, let me tell you, he may be brilliant, he may be stubborn, but what I remember
01:03:12most is that he had some funky B.O.
01:03:16I feel so fortunate to have gotten that chance, to have people enjoy it the way I enjoyed
01:03:22it when I watched it.
01:03:23Believe me, it's not lost on me.
01:03:25I'm still in awe that I was able to do that.
01:03:30This is a bit that I used to do with my friends as a kid, but I still do it
01:03:33to this day when
01:03:34I'm driving.
01:03:36Hey, hi, excuse me.
01:03:38I'm sorry, do you know how to get to Arboloto Drive?
01:03:41No?
01:03:42Oh, okay.
01:03:43What you're going to want to do is you're going to want to go straight, and you're going
01:03:45to take a left at the second light.
01:03:48The night I got the show, Seth Meyers said, congratulations, you'll never talk about anything
01:03:55else for the rest of your life.
01:04:00It's completely true.
01:04:01It's the first thing that comes up at every dinner, every...
01:04:07It was everything.
01:04:10And it still is.
01:04:14Crazy.
01:04:14It's a lot.
01:04:15I loved that show.
01:04:16I was on it.
01:04:20I also murdered someone this morning.
01:04:22I feel terrible about it.
01:04:24Before me, the only hippos in media were either Hungry Hungry or Jada Pinkett Smith in Madagascar.
01:04:30The first time I was in this room was for an NBC studio tour.
01:04:34It just felt, like, electric just to be in the place.
01:04:39Like, even on the off-season, like, the hum of the electricity or something, it felt, like,
01:04:44so cool just to be here and be told, like, what paint cans was.
01:04:48Or be told that, like, the props are all kept in that room.
01:04:52And, like, this was, what, like, 20 years ago, basically.
01:04:58It's nuts.
01:04:58It's nuts that I'm here.
01:04:59And it feels like this fantastic thing that, like, was never supposed to happen.
01:05:09But I'm glad it did.
01:05:10It all started just coming in here to audition.
01:05:16Live from New York!
01:05:20And my name is Tracy Morgan.
01:05:22Thank you.
01:05:22Thank you.
01:05:23Thank you.
01:05:23Thank you.
01:05:24Thank you.
01:05:24Thank you.
01:05:25Thank you.
01:05:26Thanks a lot.
01:05:27Thank you very much.
01:05:28Thank you.
01:05:28Thank you.
01:05:29Thank you so much.
01:05:29Thank you so much.
01:05:30See y'all next week.
01:05:31Thank you.
01:05:31Thank you.
01:05:32That's it.
01:05:33Thank you, guys.
01:05:34I don't know.
01:05:36I don't know.
01:05:39I don't know.
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