'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'SNL' is one of those jobs where you are constantly reminded of how lucky you are and that you get to meet some of these people whose work you enjoy. Then you get to meet them, and they are just wonderful people. It turns out wonderfully, and you have a great conversation.
As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?
Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.
There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.
Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.
The good thing about 'SNL' is that it's the same people every week that you're working with, and we've all become so close and tight because we've worked together so long and so closely together.
I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, 'SNL'? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.
You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.
It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.