Snl Quotes

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  I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

  Christopher Walken

  Fever, Skit, Saturday Night Live

  "Fictional character: Bruce Dickinson". "Saturday Night Live/ Christopher Walken/Christina Aguilera", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Smart, People

  "ABC's This Week Promotes Dem. Al Franken: 'Traded in Comedy for Politics'". Interview with Jeff Zeleny, www.newsbusters.org. May 4, 2014.

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• People are always nice, so I can't complain. My name used to be SNL! More and more, people call me by my name.

  Fred Armisen

  Nice, Names, People

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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• When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Team, School, Class

  Interview with Rachel Rosenblit, www.elle.com. July 31, 2009.

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• I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I'll be sure to look right into camera.

  John Mulaney

  Cutting, Player, Cameras

  Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2011.

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• Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

  Andy Samberg

  Want, Ends, Cases

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.

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• I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

  Andy Samberg

  Past, Night, Parent

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• I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.

  Andy Samberg

  People, Realizing, Bash

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.

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• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

  Harry Shearer

  Cutting, Years, Cameras

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• Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

  David Wain

  Tv Shows, Mad, Groups

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• I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.

  Nasim Pedrad

  Fun, Heart, Rooms

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• I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

  Kimbra

  Thinking, America, People

  "Kimbra And Gotye 'excited' For 'SNL' Appearance" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Girl, Fun, Thinking

  "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

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• People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity -- just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, Smart, People

  "Kanye West has acquired some 'Kim K. skills'" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2014.

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• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  Hannibal Buress

  Jobs, Writing, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• I always took pictures, but about five or six years ago, I started taking more behind the scenes at SNL, and now I have some 60,000 photos sitting on my laptop.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Years, Sitting, Behind The Scenes

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jason Sudeikis". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 29, 2016.

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• One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Couple, Kansas

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Being on "SNL" was a goal that I had when I was younger. When I got fired, I just felt really mad and I felt really grossed out by the system and grossed out by myself and it just sort of knocked me on my ass.

  Jenny Slate

  Mad, Goal, Ass

  "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.

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• I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

  Taran Killam

  Theatre, Trying, Stuff

  "Taran Killam on the SNL Christmas Show". Interview with Terron Moore, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I can apply myself to the format of 'SNL,' I can apply myself to the format of 'Conan,' but at the same time, I'm still being J. B. Smoove. I'm not changing up my style, I'm not changing up how I think, what's funny to me, my delivery, the way I carry myself.

  J. B. Smoove

  Thinking, Style, Way

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. January 9, 2011.

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• People used to say, "Oh, I like SNL show, it's funny." And this 2017 season, people were saying, "Oh, I love the show, I needed it, thank you." It started towards the end of last year, when the Primary started to heat up. I remember in the summertime people were excited for it, talking about SNL in July and August.

  Michael Che

  People, Summertime, Remember

  Source: deadline.com

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• The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him.

  Louis C. K.

  Night, Idols, Pbs

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• The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.

  David Spade

  Real, Communication, Mean

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• I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Believe, Reading, School

  Source: collider.com

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