May 5, 2022-May 6, 2022 – I was sitting and talking with David Spade at what looked like an airport lobby. We were discussing potential SNL sketches. David was working on something set at a POW camp. I said, “What if we had something with POWs (I might’ve said “refugees,” but I was thinking of POWs) waiting in line and they all talk about themselves? The entire cast could be in it.” David seemed into it. We got up and headed downstairs. I went into the SNL pitch meeting. I had just been hired as a writer. It was May, so the season was almost over. Lorne was at the meeting. Somebody asked who I was, so I introduced myself and said that I was a new writer. I was going to ask where the host was. I was thinking it was Christopher Walken, but then I remembered that it was Benedict Cumberbatch. I wasn’t looking forward to the all-night writing session. I was thinking I would insist that I not have to be there all night.
Posts Tagged ‘Lorne Michaels’
Live, From the Airport, It’s Me and David Spade!
Posted in 2022, tagged David Spade, Dream Journal, Dreams, Lorne Michaels, Saturday Night Live, SNL on May 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Colin Jost and Michael Che’s Favorite Jokes
Posted in 2020, tagged Bruce Chandling, Colin Jost, Dream Blog, Dream Journal, Dreams, Jerry Seinfeld, John Salley, Kyle Mooney, Lorne Michaels, Michael Che, Saturday Night Live, SNL, Weekend Update on April 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »
April 28, 2020-April 29, 2020 – I was watching the behind-the-scenes preparations for the next new SNL. I was there as it was happening. Colin and Michael were discussing what they were going to do for Weekend Update. They were going to end by telling their “favorite jokes” that they hadn’t been allowed to tell before. Colin wanted them to memorize these jokes instead of reading them off the cue cards. Michael wasn’t so sure about that. He knew Lorne wouldn’t be happy. They were at the craft service table. Then they were at the kitchen counter. Kyle Mooney was also there. He was working on a bit he was going to do on Update. I read what he was working on. I told him that it sounded like Bruce Chandling. Jerry Seinfeld read Che’s joke from a basketball court. After he finished, he asked if he could get paid for that. $100 seemed fair. Che said he would give him $102, as the two-dollar bill was “the one with the help.” John Salley was talking. Then he fouled someone at the court where Jerry was.
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