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Variety
  • 2/17/2025
Famous hosts, musical guests and “Saturday Night Live” alumni turned out in full force for Sunday’s “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” tribute.

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00:00Can you just explain what your week has been like?
00:02Dude, it's actually, so, everyone's coming out to me like,
00:06oh, I'm exhausted, this week's crazy.
00:08But for some of us,
00:10because there's so many legends here,
00:12and they're really doing a lot,
00:14my week was pretty easy until, like, Friday.
00:18I kind of was, I had to try a few things on,
00:21but I was mostly at home.
00:24And then I came in and did a sketch with
00:27people I never thought I'd get to meet,
00:29and then I got to go to a concert
00:31with my girlfriend that was lovely.
00:33It's been a great week.
00:35Who are those people that you never thought
00:37you would get to meet, that you're in a sketch with?
00:39That just won't come out until after the show?
00:42No.
00:44So if you can't say it, don't say it.
00:46Okay.
00:47It's two of the biggest comedic people ever.
00:51One was a cop in Beverly Hills.
00:55I think we know who that is.
00:58You don't have to spoil anything about the broadcast,
01:00but in the past few days,
01:02have you gotten to sit down with any of these
01:04SNL greats and pick their brain at all?
01:06Yeah.
01:07I try not to be annoying or anything,
01:09but Dana Carvey I've talked to
01:11about economics for hours.
01:14He's the best.
01:16Sandler I've gotten to talk to a little bit.
01:19It's cool.
01:20This week feels like,
01:21when they come around every once in a while,
01:23it's like, oh my gosh.
01:25But once they're around two days,
01:27it's like, oh, we're friends.
01:29And I'm talking to this kind of Kristen Wiig,
01:32like I would a friend.
01:34It's cool.
01:35If you could plop yourself into any other SNL cast,
01:38where would you put yourself?
01:43My era was the hater,
01:46Fred Armisen, Kristen Wiig era.
01:49But it would have been cool to be in the Phil Harmon era.
01:52I would have loved to have worked with Phil Harmon.
01:54Who's the Phil hater tonight?
01:57I don't know.
01:59He's like the one guy.
02:00He's playing himself, doing whatever he wants,
02:02as he should, as he's earned.
02:05Is there a piece of advice
02:07or a note from Lorne Michaels
02:09that you have really taken to heart?
02:16Definitely, but let me think.
02:19He said,
02:21well, it was a good way to put it,
02:23none of this is normal,
02:25and you're pretending that it is,
02:28and that's kind of the job.
02:31He also said to get an apartment that I can't afford,
02:34because it'll make me work harder.
02:36That's true.
02:38And you did that?
02:39I did that,
02:40and I'm chasing the money.
02:44But he's the one who writes your paycheck.
02:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:48But I also can get other paychecks
02:50with the opportunities the show's created,
02:52stand-up and stuff.
02:54Get an apartment that you can't afford.
02:56It's scary, it's scary,
02:58but it makes you work more.