what a story! i like it

spaceye just watched that interview a couple of days ago lol. It's funny to hear that Bill was a bit of a nervous wreck for the first 4 seasons on SNL.

spaceye

Samberg and Hader will forever be one of the best duos on SNL.

What a great anecdote to show that there's never a one-size-fits-all way of doing things.

HJAJWJ IKR AND THE WAY HE WAS STANDING IS POSTURE IS SO FUNNY

It’s so on brand for him

😕

Why is that?

His line was the best one in the video - 20 year olds have sex is like Green Day... one minute and 52 seconds of the same thing every time... lol

R S that WASNT hugh grant???

Omg it sounded exactly like him 😂

R S my thoughts exactly

i literally thought he was eddie redmayne at first lol

@@TheBETZINATOR omg i watched this at least twice before i realised it wasn't eddie redmayne!

Jimmy

@@angelamary31alisonannadj40 no dana

Church lady 😊

Apparently, he was talking to Pete Davidson!

Is that what she was doing? All I knew was it was as unfunny as she always was on the show.

@@tejaswoman Then you have zero concept of comedy or humor in general. Kristen is the only cast member in 40+ years to get the job after one audition, so it's safe to say you have no clue what you're on about.

@@stevencocky19 I'm sure it's just a 'bait' comment.

I was so happy when she did Target Lady. She didn’t even know that it would turn into a real skit!

target lady is goals

And Colbert is rocking Late Night.

Thank god Colbert didn't make it otherwise we would never have gotten the Colbert Report

Muarif Sumahar Zach Galifianakis looks sooo young

...Colbert did make it. He was a writer

Ikr..makes ME feel good about not winning a singing competition....

while not being funny.

I think he's a lot more confident now. This was only his second season

@@linnycrocus6023 still not funny.

i quite like pete's personality, seems like a likeable guy but that dude was so fucking lucky to get that spot on SNL...

Love him!!

Or just upload it on KZfaq

Oh yeah!

what the fuck is a dvd?

@@SKRUBL0RD An old Blu-ray. A new CD.

Yes

A B he looked like josh Randor from how I met your mother

Because he was young haha

No fucking shit scholar

is that JImmy Fallon?and im thinking he`s Josh Radnor aka Ted Mosby

Nyema Sobia That would be awesome. That was my sentiment as well.

Nyema Sobia yes please!

Who's at 2:38?

@@gregorbaby4269 the one dude from night at the roxbury

Seriously?? I wanna see them all

That was her first skit!?

@@sparshitasahu2539 Yes, and she was perfect

I SECOND THIS

I THIRD THIS

I FOURTH THIS

I FIFTH THIS

I SIXED THIS

I know, nice legs 😍

and still are

Frida Pena You call that muscles?

Frida Pena method actor.

Seriously that’s not even that big

I saw an SNL audition tape of a guy named Joe Hursley he started the audition wearing all his characters outfits layered on top of each other and he’d strip them off when he switched characters. By the end of his audition he was dancing in just his briefs.

So not a fan. Dana Carvey too ugh

Right! To think that she started only impersonating a somewhat not so popular Penelope Cruz ( phenomenaly) but who knew she had so much range with all these new impersonations

Ok Kate's mother - Calm down now.

@@BedwetterCDN shut up incel. You sound so insecure

@@myJDside the joke sucks. And if you think that was a joke you need to go out and touch grass

@@sieekakhan6761 yeah it did suck, and so did your reply

Aww baby poehler bear

They look so alike sometimes, their expressions are similar too

because he looks just like him... lol

Right? His was one of a tiny handful where I wasn't sure which person was auditioning, having disappeared so completely out of the character. Will Ferrell was another one, the one where he has a wig and glasses.

but his hair ... so 90s

Eric Lites jim is very individualistic and independent... it would have been really hard for them to handle... probably impossible to handle him... he is... some how... larger than the show itself

They had one opening at the time and they gave the SNL part to Will Ferrel

show stealer, Jim is Jim

No, He auditioned during Season 6. That would've been post In Living Color

!Ali Shahbaz In Living Color handled him just fine, so SNL would've managed. Besides, it isn't like SNL hasn't had larger than life cast members before (John Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, etc.).

I had been grinning as I watched those. But when Nuclear Elvis appeared, I actually guffawed. It was just so so unexpected.

I’m miss Gilda Radner 💔. Damn ovarian cancer 🤬

She's the First Lady of SNL

She is overrated.

TheJoker 175 no. youre just perhaps too base to get her. brilliant lady. she does feel YOURE overrated tho. Fair?? bwahagahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Ayu Thakur you’re making a race joke way too easy right now

@@TheMurrmursonbottle what race joke did I make?

Still.

+IWriteSinsNotEssaysOK Very true statement!!!

IWriteSinsNotEssaysOK yes!

Phil's edited intros to every segment was a dagger to my heart.

@DinnerBells, yes, it still makes me sad!😩😢

Very true

Best part xD

How the fuck did they NOT hire him after that audition?

Steven C it's so weird, because that was a killer clip. Guess Lorne Michaels was asleep for that audition. 😁

He is on another level of comedy.

i feel so bad for laughing but it just caught me off guard lmaoo

He'd a been getting prime movie scripts in 2 weeks for inevitable movie career. Too big a star on too big a showcase like Eddie Murphy, even Chevy only lasted a year before getting cherry-picked.

@@peterwieser4631 I don't think people get that SNL is an entry level job, the showbusiness equivalent of flipping burgers. It doesn't matter how funny or talented you are if they don't think you're a good fit for what is a horrendously demanding and cut-throat job.

@@johnbull1568 Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, Julie Louis Dreyfus and Larry David would agree with you.lol.

@@peterwieser4631 Julia was deeply unfunny on SNL. Sarah Silverman didn't last long enough to prove herself. Larry was fired because he hated work with too many people - even on "Seinfeld" he announced that he was going to quit every season. Chris was indeed underused but he was member of a very solid cast.

@@johnbull1568 Yes, but it was also a seal of quality in the 90's and early 2000s. It was a rough job but it wasn't a dead end job by any means - any player, crew member, writer, director, musician had some guaranteed work if he said he worked on SNL.

maybe, after all it's SNL

Yes. It´s every comedian´s dream

SNL is to comedians, what Google is to programmers.

Sooo many amazingly big actors were discovered on SNL

Lyanno99 o

Blue Palmer And hot

Tokyo Beans Andy Kaufman.

@@Maazel456 yes Sherlock, we know his full name

rushe p in his defense, I thought they were talking about Andy Samberg

Eeyore The Donkey me too

Andy and Phil and Gilda made me tear up..... They were gone far too soon....

Plus SNL was too crowded with huge talent at the time and he might have drown there while in living colrs he was with very few people, seriously not more than 10 people at the same time and got more room

He was just for in living color.

Scary thought, omg.

Exactly while SNL is amazing for the greatest height of comedic career you can't do anything else once you get out. Most people have either done shows or movies that dudually didn't get much show light ( except Andy samberg, Bill hader and all the other late night hosts like Seth, Fallon and others) meanwhile Arminsen's portlandia wasn't known and Wiig usually did comedic movies like bridesmaid, Ghostbusters and others. So you can't really go into other genre.

I almost choked on my spit after seeing Jim Carrey's "post-nuclear Elvis" impression. That was brutal and hilarious.

sad he never got on

you'd be amazed at how shy so many performers are. their job is to entertain, but even they get nervous and have stage fright. I was involved in theatre growing up and when I'd have to do a presentation I'd always tell the class that I'm nervous and please be easy on me. my English teacher asked me how can I be nervous if I'm so involved with theatre. I told her it's because on stage I am someone else. it's not me up there, it's my character( and mind you, I was always cast as the most outlandish part). she told me to just pretend that I was in a play and that my character has to make a class presentation. boom. my mindset completely changed. my point is even pros get nervous.

Same!

She actually did that Penelope Cruz shampoo skit just on her second week with SNL.

Sanne Derks So hot...

She actually did that one in her first episode

Watch out for the die hard Kate McKinnon lesbians

*was the cutest person on the planet*

@@gator9339 shit, u right

if she were still here i feel like she'd be snl's sweet grandmother who always has candy in her bag for kids :(

@@seabunnie1218 this is so sweet

Good thing In Living Color snatched him

Too talented. LOL.

just goes to show you how bad SNL have gotten ...

SNL probably thought he was too slapstick. He was always destined to have a career though, where he got on tv or not.

***** No, Lorne was in charge when Carrey auditioned, but he wasn't physically present for it. Those that were, Al Franken in particular, told Lorne that he wasn't right and the rest is history.

Just search up the seperate auditions they're on youtube you know...

💔

What did he say before he said always? I could never make it out.

@@ryils6889 jujyfruits

she was incredible ❤

The Gilda part almost made me cry. She was such a legend.

She seemed so sweet

It’s accurate!

I love Jim Carrey but I thought his Elvis bit was very corny to the point of it being unfunny. Will Ferrell, now his audition was genius.

He was great In Living Color - the black version of snl

Emani Burton SNL wishes it was In Living Color

In Living Color is the funny version of SNL.

nassauE snl during in living color's run was great.

I love and agree with everything in your post. I almost cried too.

so incredibly cute

she has the sweetest face of any person i've ever seen and if she were still here i'm sure she'd be like the sweet snl grandma

Before that rich people food

he truly was a starving artist

He got kinda fat and old, as we all do.

@@KuueenKumi nah I think he looks great!! Just not as skinny was when he was probably struggling comedian and had a college metabolism! Cuz yeah he slightly resembles a recently-sharpened pencil.

It's because he hadn't started drinking like a fish yet.

yeah, but his brother Brad was the real genius of the family(my neighbors). Brad Carvey invented the wire wrapped toaster- the first CGI.

chopping broccoli still impresses me more, lol.

actually Fallon's audition is really good, he does lot of impressions, I was surprised at Robert Smith from The Cure, it was so good

Eh, not my cuppa. We all have our faves.

well, I also love chopping broccoli :)

I love Jim Carrey but I thought his bit was unfunny and corny.

gps433fool you died?

akhan727 Unfunny? No. But No one does Corny better than Jim Carey and Will Ferrel. thats what makes them funny.

Julian needssomereggae KIND OF!?

nah, actually young Robert Downey Jr was in cast of SNL at 1985-86 season, go check him

😂

The waiter revolted by food? Not his best sketch. Probably why he didn't make it.

omg, i thought nobody noticed!!!!!!!!!

WTH 🤦🏽! Never would have recognized Zach. Thanks

Yes, in fact, I got a little teary! Such great stuff!

yes !!!! omg its so touching and inspiring it makes me so happy !

i grew up watching snl gilda, chevy, eddie, john, bill...do not make them like they use too.

***** That's true! I'd forgotten about that.

he was hired as a writer briefly

they said no to Jorma Taccone, he was hired later as a writer because of Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island thing

Norm Macdonald talks about this audition on his podcast. He was sitting in on it with Lorne, and apparently he lobbied hard for Colbert, but they ended up picking Tracy Morgan over him.

Martin Allen Well, I imagine it must've been a tough decision then

+Christine Magill He was doing Hugh Grant.

Yeah and because of that he was hired by the Daily Show :D

***** A lot of greats got turned down by SNL.

Chaz Smith he talks about his snl audition in an interview. he knew he blew it the minute it was over hahaha

3:34

Chaz Smith you shouldnt, he’s mediocre talent at best. His stand up is all the same: tell a story, giggle 2-3 times mid story, voice goes up an octave and weird bodily movements at the punchline.

Cuz hes not funny?

Sometimes good people have bad auditions. It happens.

Stefon is that you?

Some SNL fans call Carrey 'the one who got away.'

omg unbelievable

:o

what the fuck hahaha.

:)))) i freaked out too but recognized him by his voice... ALL the greats started at SNL

what?!?!

Because he would always steal the show in every skit

Jkkkkkkk

Ivani Gomcalves What?

Well, Lorne LOVES improvisation, and probably saw Jim as a frequent improviser.

Guy Incognito Lorne was not working on the show when Jim auditioned, which was 1980. That may be why he didn’t make it in. Also, had Jim made it, he would’ve been in the same cast as Eddie Murphy, so it might’ve made that era more balanced, honestly.

Kelly Fulton LMAO

That's what I was thinking!

hahahahahahah HIMYM for life!!

I didn’t realize Jerry Seinfeld disguised as Ted Mosby made it on 😂

That's Jimmy Fallon 😂💀