Throughout the year, the scouts invite promising prospects to a showcase with a live, paying audience, and evaluate the contender over the course of a minute set that consists either of straight stand-up or a mix of celebrity impressions and original characters. And sometimes if the performer is in another city, they ask him to send in an audition tape. There are no open auditions. Can you get on the show by putting your reel up on YouTube? Probably not. Most audition tapes that appear online are from comedians who have established themselves as live performers or were contacted through formal channels.
There is one other notable exception, though, from the days before YouTube. How tough are the auditions? I walked out of there thinking I ruined my career because of a Jolly Rancher. I don't even like Jolly Ranchers. Few stars have both hosted and performed as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live," but Donald Glover also known as Childish Gambino did just that in During Glover's opening monologue , he said he'd auditioned to be on "SNL" twice.
Even though he didn't make the cut, he went on to be a successful actor, writer, producer, and musician in his own right. In a interview with The Guardian , actress Aubrey Plaza said she got into comedy because she had hopes of one day joining the "SNL" cast. In , she interned at "SNL" and in she got to audition for the show, but she didn't get cast. However, her luck turned when she was offered a role in the Judd Apatow film "Funny People. During the "Saturday Night Live" 40th-anniversary special, the series aired a compilation of audition tapes from some of the show's most memorable cast members.
The compilation also included clips of auditions from stars that never made the show, including a pre-beard Zack Galifianakis. The actor told GQ that after not making the show in he worked as a part-time writer on "SNL" for just two weeks. Although his time on "SNL" was brief, Galifianakis went on to become a massive comedy star, appearing in memorable films like "The Hangover" and voicing characters on comedies like Fox's "Bob's Burgers.
Hart, famous now for his stand-up comedy and comedic film roles, has spoken often about his experience auditioning for the series.
In , Hart joked about how bad his "SNL" audition was in his opening monologue when he hosted the show for the first time. He said that he did an impression of Robert De Niro using only facial expressions and an impression of Denzel Washington from "Training Day" even though he'd never seen the film.
On " Conan" in , Hart said he also did a poor impression of NBA coach Avery Johnson and said it was evidence enough that Michaels was right to not cast him. In a interview with Los Angeles Magazine , Coolidge recalled the experience and said not getting cast was best for her because she didn't think she could have handled the mental stress of being on the series.
I probably would have self-destructed on 'SNL. Coolidge has since made her name in comedy by starring in popular films like "American Pie" and "Legally Blonde" Following the cancellation of "The State," she said she " went back with my tail between my legs and actually did audition. She described the audition as "terrifying" and said she didn't get any laughs from the staff and wasn't cast.
He was not cast, but this was perhaps for the best since it freed Goodman up for a major role on ABC's comedy "Roseanne. After becoming a household name and starring in numerous films and television shows, Goodman eventually ended up on the "SNL" stage at least 12 times as a host. Since being on "SNL" was her childhood dream, Kaling said she made a deal with "The Office" showrunner Greg Daniels, who said he would let her out of her contract if she was offered a role as an actress on the show.
Michaels did, however, offer her a job as a writer and Kaling hoped that she could take the position and work behind-the-scenes long enough to eventually become a performer. But Daniels said this wasn't the deal they'd made — and Kaling stayed with "The Office," which successfully ran for nearly a decade.
Another member of the improv group The Groundlings, Paul Reubens had perfected the art of his famous character Pee-Wee Herman by the time he auditioned for "Saturday Night Live" for the to season.
But in , Reubens told Entertainment Weekly that he knew he wouldn't get cast as soon as he saw actor Gilbert Gottfried in the audition room. I walked in the room, [saw comic Gilbert Gottfried], and I said, 'It's not going to be both of us.
We're the same type of performer. Was there any sort of vetting process for you that you were aware of? And I make fun of SNL a lot. You knew they were looking for that? Oh, really? How do you know that? Red-state appeal has been a thing that SNL has been looking for since Trump got elected.
They think of the South and Middle America as stupid racists, I guess. And as far as Shane goes, I met him just in the hallway before the audition, and he was a really polite, nice guy.
Taking that route is kind of cowardly and sort of egomaniacal. So why would SNL want to continue to have that person there? But at the same time, I feel like SNL should keep him. Now you gotta deal with all this shit he said or might continue to say.
And it really bit them in the ass in casting Shane. Casting Bowen [Yang] was really exciting, because Bowen is so funny and strange and interesting.
It still feels kind of weird. This is hack. Shut up about your hot take.
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