Ellen Cleghorne, forged member, 1991–95: There’s this sketch that I wrote the place I used to be Reverend Hightower. It was a nod to Flip Wilson’s preacher character from the Church of What’s Taking place Now. It handed the desk learn, it went to decorate rehearsal, but it surely didn’t get to go to air. And I didn’t convey it again. I didn’t know that that’s what you do. You simply preserve attempting till you weaken everyone they usually’re like, “Oh God, let’s please put it on so she’ll cease bringing it to desk learn.”
Melanie Hutsell, forged member, 1991–94: Some persons are extra adamant about issues like that and do not hand over fairly as shortly as different individuals. I used to be fairly younger on the time, so I possibly did not deal with my feelings fairly in addition to I possibly ought to have. I’d get actually unhappy if one thing that I wrote did not get on. And now I look again on that and I am like, Oh my gosh, I used to be so fortunate to be there.
Jay Pharoah, forged member, 2010–16: When you resubmit it the following week, man, individuals have heard the jokes. They don’t seem to be going to behave the identical. You’re feeling me?
Andrew Dismukes, author, 2017–20; forged member, 2020–current: I did one with Beck Bennett the place he performed a man who had no brow. That was type of the entire sketch. It was very silly, they usually had been most likely proper to not put it on, however we put it to the desk learn like eight completely different occasions over 4 years, and each time it killed. And we had been like, you gotta allow us to do it. However they had been like, That is so silly, there’s no approach.
Chris Parnell, forged member, 1998–06: There have been a few issues that I did for my audition that we tried [on the show.] One was a dance routine to the Mortal Kombat theme, and the opposite was me doing this type of audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artwork as this character who was enjoying Zephyr the monkey from the Babar kids’s story books. Ian McKellen was the host, and we made it to decorate rehearsal, however I suppose it was extra of a stage piece. It was too bizarre for the present.
Sarah Silverman, forged member and author, 1993–94: I had realized some enjoyable truth at the moment about how flies’ entire life expectancy is 24 hours. I believed that was so cool and tragic and exquisite. Phil Hartman goes, “Hey, why don’t you write one thing for us do collectively?” So I did. He was an aged fly, like 23 and a half hours outdated, and I used to be a younger fly who’d simply sprouted wings.
It was him telling me the methods of the world, saying issues like “I keep in mind midday.” On the finish, a canine is available in and takes a shit and leaves after which Phil says, “Go get it, children.”
