There’s people’s lives involved here so I’m not really… There are decisions that you intuitively come to, that now we have to do something different, that’s all. It’s whether or not they’re - I don’t know. Fred Armisen was I don’t know how many years. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd were there for four years. Chevy Chase was there for a year-and-a-half. I’m just curious what the difference was between Taran and Jay and other veteran cast members that end up staying with the show much longer? Every now and then new voices come in - both in the writing staff and the cast. You know? I can’t explain it any other way, because there’s no way of explaining it. And if you don’t keep making changes you don’t change. I love Taran, I love Jay, I think they’re both super talented. I think that the lifeblood of the shows change. Can you explain what happened to Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah? There have been some big casting changes this season. Next week, Lin-Manuel Miranda will be sitting in the office and we’ll start again - so, no, we never go that far. I’m just thinking right now about Saturday. Have you had “what if” discussions about what direction the humor will take if Trump wins versus if he doesn’t win? You have to stand back enough from the actual event and find a take on it that you think is funny and smart. It’s much more in the writing than almost anything else. Whether it’s Bush-Gore or Ford-Carter, it’s getting a take. We read it yesterday and it was really funny. Have you laughed out loud watching it in rehearsals? We have a long tradition of doing these debates and I think, hopefully, it’s funny. I think the people writing the debate sketch - Chris and Sarah. Some say Trump has gone past the point of satire. And she said, “Well, the person that should really play it is Alec.” And I went, “Yeah!” A light went on. But I just thought he’d be brilliant doing it and I thought he and Kate would be a match. There were a lot of obstacles in the way to working it out. Then I mentioned it to Alec but he’d already committed himself to a movie and were about to have their third child. The idea came out of a conversation with Tina Fey at some point during the summer. Carole.When did you come up with the idea to make Alec Baldwin your new Donald Trump and how did you present it to him? McKinnon stepped away for a time to play Carole Baskin in the Tiger King limited series Joe vs. McKinnon, perhaps known best for her political impersonations on the show, has taken turns as Hillary Clinton, Jeff Sessions, Elizabeth Warren and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg since joining the cast in 2012. Then, for the last time as a cast member, she opened the show: "Live from New York, it's Saturday night." This time, McKinnon boards the spaceship with extraterrestrials, bidding farewell to the audience. All of the departing cast members had been on the show for eight years or longer.įor her sendoff, McKinnon brought back a favorite character, alien abductee Colleen Rafferty, for a recurring "Close Encounters" sketch in the show's cold open. Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney and Pete Davidson are all leaving the show, marking a major exodus of talent at the end of a season that boasted the biggest cast in SNL history. Saturday Night Live said goodbye to four longtime cast members this weekend as the show wrapped its 47th season. Kate McKinnon, pictured in March, is one of the cast members leaving SNL.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |