SNL-tortyen och lyckan

Parisa Amiri 17:15 29 Aug 2013

Jimmy Fallons celebrity walk-a-thon måste vara den mest sedda auditionfilmen från SNLs rekryteringsprocess, med kass videokvalitet, löjlig frisyr och något slätare ansikte (i hans fall verkligen NÅGOT). Fyra av SNLs storfavoriter ska ju sikta på en större skärm/få eget program i Meyers fall och producentgiganten Lorne Michaels ska ha letat ersättare sen länge när jag knappt vant mig vid/accepterat de nyaste på showen. Fyra för mig okända namn och ansikten har börjat läcka och fastän det verkar lovande i och med att de alla har varit en del av Upright Citizen Brigade känns det som att pappa helt plötsligt introducerar en ny mamma till frukosten och jag förväntas vara fine med det.

Mina irrationella känslor aside, New York Times publicerade för någon vecka sen ett mäktigt rep om vägen till SNL  och att utsättas för Lorne Michaels byggt på forna och nutida SNL-stjärnors historier, med godis som att Chevy Chase som head writer passade på Bill Murray till exempel. Det vill jag inte att ni missar. 

But what exactly is Mr. Michaels looking for?

CHEVY CHASE:  I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford. It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy. I was taller than everybody, and very handsome.

TRACY MORGAN: I was married, I had three sons, and I was on welfare. I didn’t want that no more. I knew that if I got “Saturday Night Live,” it would change me and my family’s lives forever.

SETH MEYERS The hotel I was staying at, everybody was somebody who’d been flown in for the audition. If you went and got ice, you would hear snippets of auditions. Everybody else’s stuff sounds better than yours.

BILL HADER I got in an elevator, and there was a guy who was also auditioning, and I thought: “That guy brought a lot of props. I didn’t bring anything.” And he was looking at me, going, “That guy didn’t have to bring any props.” We were just sizing each other up in the elevator. And that was Andy Samberg.

WIIG I did a very timely impression of Jane Pauley. [Laughs.] That was just a sign of things to come, because I always played older women with short hair.
 
ANDY SAMBERG The only person I for sure knew was laughing was Tina [Fey, then the “SNL” head writer], which, outside of Lorne, is the best thing you could hear. 
 
(VRÅLADE NÄR JAG LÄSTE DETTA)
 
FALLON I was sitting there with Lorne’s assistant for three hours, and I’m like, “Whenever he’s ready, I’m here.” And she’s like, “You know, Chris Farley waited for eight hours.”
 
KILLAM I said: “I don’t want to be so presumptuous to say I’ll come on your show and I’ll kill. But I definitely think if you hired me, I’d do a very good job.” He said: “No, no, no, no. Confidence isn’t your problem.” And he just left it at that. But all I could think is: “Wait, what is my problem? Tell me what my problem is, I’ll fix it!”
 
OTERI I waited for Will [Ferrell] outside, and we said nothing to each other. We held each other’s hands and walked to the parking lot and then jumped and let out the biggest scream in the world. We stopped at a restaurant and called our dads.
 
Unna er helheten HÄR.

 

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