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Join Thomas, Matt, and jD as they welcome Ashley Bower to the show to discuss the shoo-in candidacy of Kate McKinnon. Do you agree she'll end up in the Hall. Time will tell. Transcript: Track 2: [0:42] Hey, it's J.D. here, and thank you so much, Doug DeNance, for that warm welcome. We are thrilled to be back here in the SNL Hall of Fame. Before we go anywhere, take a look at that mat outside that says, Wipe your feet, sucka. And wipe your feet, sucka. So there's that. Listen, I'm going to get right to it. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive Dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. And that's how we play the game. It's just that simple. Track 2: [1:30] So, you're chomping at the bit to get voting. You've only got one more week to wait. If you are listening to this in real time, May the 6th is the date that we will be starting the voting and it will run through to May 17th, at which point we will tabulate the ballots and we'll check in with you on May 20th for our finale extravaganza and let you know who made the Season 5 SNL Hall of Fame. name. It's going to be interesting. And today's nominee is about to throw a monkey wrench in all your plans because, well, let's go to Matt Ardill because I've got a question to ask Mr. Ardill. Matt, my friend, I hope you're doing well. I have a question for you. Track 3: [2:22] Where do you start with a girl named Kate? I don't know. There's so much, there's so much Such an incredible talent. I'm just going to have to start at the beginning. I guess that's all I can do. Go for it. All right. Kate McKinnon, height 5'3", born January 6, 1984. 78 acting credits, 4 writing credits, 5 soundtrack credits, and 1 producer credit. She was born in Seacliff, New York, and attended Columbia University. University uh growing up she had a pet iguana and she attended ucb in ucb manhattan school and uh yeah she grew up in a funny house full of funny people she and her sister were encouraged to watch mel brooks the producers on a weekly basis always watched snl growing up uh she thought Madeline Kahn was the tops and that that's a fact. You can't argue with that. That is, that is a. Track 3: [3:24] Great choice. Yeah, yeah. Now, her parents, they encouraged her to approach the world through the lens of comedy. Now, Funny runs in the family. Her younger sister, Emily Lynn, is also a comedian and does stand-up and is part of a comedy double act with Jackie Abbott. Check her out on YouTube. Super funny. Unfortunately, their father passed away when Kate was quite young, at the age of 18. Track 3: [3:51] But that didn't slow her down. She's a multi-instrumentalist, able to play piano, cello, and guitar. She can also speak three languages, English, French, and German. She makes me sick. Yeah. Well, that explains why her prime minister is such a good impression, because she can actually speak German. Right, yeah. It's not just making the noises. She knows the language. Her first job was as a little league umpire, but she left because she didn't actually know the rules for little league baseball, which is, you know, that's fair. No, it's foul. Yeah, it's foul. It's foul. She was PETA's sexiest vegan in 2017, but she actually gave that up that title because she just like a true New Yorker missed cheese pizza. Pizza um now she is an extreme introvert which she deals with by adopting funny voices uh which honestly sounds like 72.4 of the comedians i know her comedy heroes were molly shannon anna gasteyer. Track 3: [5:03] She says Kellyanne Conway, but that's obviously a joke because you can't ever give a straight answer like that. Her dream role, and this is another one I would...

Join us this week in the SNL Hall of Fame as we welcome Jon Schneider onto the podcast to discuss the one of kind, Will Forte. Will he be enshrined in the hall? Only you can decide. Transcript: Track 2: [0:42] Hey, it's J.D. here, and I want to thank Doug DeNance for another lovely introduction. Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. As I mentioned off the top, I am your host, J.D. I am joined by Matthew Ardill in the trivia corner, and of course, our chief librarian, Thomas Senna, will handle the conversation with John Schneider today. So that's really exciting. But who are we going to cover? Well, before that, the SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. And that's how we play the game. It's just that simple. May the 6th is the date you're going to want to circle on your calendar. That is when voting opens in the SNL Hall of Fame, and we have one hell of a ballot. There are some stakes here, as there are people that are on their fifth ballot that if they don't make it in, they will be removed from the ballot. And that is as high stakes as it really gets here on the SNL Hall of Fame, except for that time that we had lava on the floor. You bet your ass people wiped their feet then. Track 2: [2:10] Let's go to our friend, Matt Ardill. Matthew, my friend. Track 3: [2:13] How are you doing, JD? I'm great. I'm great. Thanks for asking. How about you? I'm good. I'm great as well. Yeah. Yeah. I've got, I'm really excited. I love Will Forte on so many levels. I can't wait to share. Well, learn me up. Okay. Well, Will Forte, 5'9", born June 17th, 1970. He has 132 acting credits, 26 writing credits, 20 soundtrack credits, and five producer credits. He was born in Alameda County, California, and attended the University of California. He was a member, and this shocked me. He was a member of the varsity football team, varsity swim team. So he was a jock. Track 3: [2:57] That's not what I would have expected. Me neither. I want a picture of Theater Nerd. Yeah. Exactly i would have imagined that as well but i mean it's that's just you know that's i guess us not seeing past the stereotype but uh yeah he went on to earn a history degree valuable lesson you just taught us matthew yeah let's do just because somebody plays sports doesn't mean they don't have the the love of theater in them that's right but yeah so thank you for that yeah not from but yeah got a degree in history from ucla and um then he realized his true love was comedy so he joined the groundlings he also tutored faye dunaway's 12 year old son in mathematics while he was in high school which is like that's just a weird i mean this is the weird connections you get living in california yeah i suppose so yeah yeah you know so it's just it i i don't know No, I feel like living in Canada, we don't get those wacky connections, but, um. Track 3: [3:59] At a young age, he went to see Tony Orlando, and Tony brought him and his friend up on the stage, and he encouraged them to follow their passions. So much so, he wrote him and Tony a nice letter many years later. What a class act. Yeah, yeah. And he, in fact, is a class act in multiple ways. He is also a class act video game player. He is the 36th highest scorer in the world in Donkey Kong. Long whoa yeah he watched the that fistful of quarters documentary and he's like i can do that and is now registered on twin galaxies as number 36 in the world that's brilliant that movie also very very good yes and it's not to go on a tangent you watch that fistful of quarters that the villain in that show is a total nut bar you can go down a rabbit hole all on its own as As well as an...

We're back in the Hall after a hectic week with the whole foot-wiping thing. At any rate we're thrilled to welcome Rebecca North to the show to relitigate the case for Maya Rudolph who is appearing on her last ballot. Check it out and get ready to start voting May, 6th. Transcript: Track 2 [0:41] Thank you so much, Doug Donets. It is great to be here inside the SNL Hall of Fame with you all. Now, careful listeners of the show pointed out to me that I didn't remind you to wipe your feet last week. It's not lost to me. I truly thought I had solidified my stance on this matter to the extent that it would become the norm. But alas, if you are paying for the pay-per-view feed right right now, you can see that I'm holding a mop. Jeepers, creepers, peoples, wipe your damn feet. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. And that's how we play the game. Let's go to our friend Matthew Ardill right now, because the game that we like to play is learning a little bit about our nominee. And that's exactly what we're going to do. Let me just put this mop down and okay. Oh gosh, I'm parched. There's something going on with my voice. Track 3 [1:59] Matthew, old man. How are you doing this week? I am good, thanks. And you? I'm a little shaky in the voice, it seems. Well, maybe you need some water. Let me take a sip of this water. That's better. It is delicious. We talked about water last week. We'll put a pin in it until next week. We don't want to give away the farm, as it were. Maya Rudolph, huh? Yeah. I mean, I'm really looking forward to sharing about Maya's life. She is an incredible character. This is interesting because this is her last kick at the can. If she doesn't get in this time, and I believe she was hovering around 58% or 59%, so she needs almost 10% to get in, 10% more to get in. And if she doesn't get in, she's off the ballot. That would be a shame because she is an incredible performer and a hilarious person. So take this as a war egg, not telling people how to vote, but just be mindful of that folks. This is your last chance. Yeah. Track 3 [3:16] Well, let's hear some, uh, trivia to maybe sway some people. Yeah. Yeah, Maya Rudolph is 5'7", birthday July 27th, 1972. She has 118 acting credits, 12 producer credits, 2 writing credits, and 30 soundtrack credits. She was born in Gainesville, Florida, but was raised in L.A., the daughter of singer Minnie Ripperton and composer Richard Rudolph. Off her mother is the singer of the song loving you uh which i've now three times brought up to my wife and every every time we hear it and she goes if you're gonna tell me maya rudolph's mom saying this one more time i'm gonna throw a saw throw a pillow at you but yeah she did and uh in fact if you listen to the single you can hear her singing maya maya maya maya because this is a lullaby Bye. Track 3 [4:13] That she wrote for Maya and was used to sing her to sleep. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Now, and her grandfather on her father's side, Sidney J. Rudolph, owned all of the Wendy's and Rudy's restaurants in Dade County, Florida. Track 3 [4:29] So he was a- I know Rudy's, but Wendy's, that would be amazing. I love Wendy's. Fast food entrepreneur. entrepreneur. She was childhood friends with Gwyneth Paltrow, and their families were actually very close to the point that her dad was hired by Bruce Paltrow to supervise music on his film Duets. Music runs in her blood. Her brother is also in the music industry as an engineer. When she was seven or eight, this is actually when she fell in love with comedy. She saw a friend hurt themselves and start crying,...

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're joined by the delightful Victoria Franco to discuss the bona fidas of writer John Mulaney. Transcrlpt: [0:41] Oh my goodness gracious me, oh my, it is my privilege to be joining you once again this week in the SNL Hall of Fame. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. And that's how we play the game. It's just that easy. But before we get to voting, we need to discuss our nominee. And before we discuss our nominee, we need to speak with our friend Matt Ardill in his minutiae minute corner. What do you say we wander over there and see what old Matty is up to? Track 3 [1:39] Hey, JD, how are you doing? I am parched, and I just had an enjoyable sip of water, which has cleaned up the old pipes. Yeah, nature soda, I've heard it called. Nature soda, I like it. Yeah. I heard somebody say they won't drink water because fish have sex in it. I i think that's a fair you know i i can understand that but um you know run it through enough purifiers it should be fine i mean i'm a i'm a water fiend i drink like four liters a day oh it's yeah it's good for the body that's right that's why i'm so uh uh easy on the eyes yeah you are you are ripped are ripped right speaking of ripped this week we've got john, Yeah, back again. Um, so I did make the effort of finding new trivia, so it should be a long time listener listeners. It should be interesting. Track 3 [2:45] Um, uh, height six foot, uh, one of the taller, uh, uh, contestants for, or nominees actually. Yeah. Yeah. Born August 26th, 1982. Yeah. He has 28 writing credits, 42 actor credits, 13 producer credits. I have to say, when I saw him in The Bear, it blew me away. It was really intense. Did not expect that. So he's got a lot of good acting chops. He's released five stand-up specials and his Sack Lunch Bunch Kids special. Grew up in Chicago, child of a law professor, mother Ellen, and attorney father Charles Charles Chip W. Mulaney. Never mess with a chip. Anybody who's got Chip as a nickname, that's trouble. Track 3 [3:35] But he's descended from a lot of political go-getters. He's descended from the mayor of Salem and has congressmen on both sides of his family. Track 3 [3:49] So, yeah, he's got a good pedigree. His maternal grandmother, Carolyn Stanton, and Seth Meyers' mother, Hillary Meyers, performed together at a hospital benefit show called Pills a Poppin'. That's some foreshadowing. And it was directed by Tommy Toon when they were 19 years old. So there is some deep family connections going on there. Yeah. So he attended Georgetown University, and as most people know, with Nick. role where he studied English literature. He decided he wanted to go to show into show business at the age of five after watching a lifestyle program, uh, about Ricky Ricardo, uh, which is the most John Mulaney thing I have ever read. Um, like if anybody's going to set their life goals by watching Ricky Ricardo, that would be John Mulaney. Yeah. From that point, he started doing sketches for friends and family whenever given a chance and, And he was pushed, actually, by his high school teacher to pursue his love of comedy. He actually almost had the role, well, he almost auditioned for the role of Kevin McAllister in Home Alone, but his parents wouldn't let him. Track 3 [5:07] That is wild. Yeah, that would have been a very interesting and different Home Alone movie. Track 3 [5:14] I can only imagine what 10-year-old John Mulaney would have brought to the game. Um so instead he just started hanging around the museum of broadcasting communications until...

This week on the program we welcome our friend Deremy Dove into the hallowed halls to discuss the career of funny man Tracy Morgan. Join us won't you? Transcript: [0:41] Thank you so much, Doug and Nance. It is fantastic to be here with you all. And there are quite a few of you. I can see you queued up outside the SNL Hall of Fame. My name is J.D., and it is just a thrill to be with you here on this lovely Monday. We have got a fantastic show for you. But before we go any further, I feel it necessary to tell you to wipe your feet before coming into the hall. all. Now, back when I was a wee lad, my mother scolded me once for making a mess of the floor, and ever since then I feel compelled to tell people to wipe their feet. There. I've said it. It's finally out in the public, and I feel great. Thanks for being my therapist by proxy. The check is in the mail. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair fair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. And that's how we play the game. It's just that That simple. You listen. You vote. We tabulate. We announce. Track 2 [2:06] Repeat after me. You listen. You vote. We tabulate. And we announce. Speaking of announcements, our good friend Matt Ardill is standing around loafing. It looks like, hey, if you've got time enough to lean, you've got time enough to clean, young man. Track 3 [2:25] Hey, JD, I saw the new exhibits on the way in. I really like the Norm Macdonald hat collection that we've got going on. Turd Ferguson, that Turd Ferguson hat and that big hat. It's funny. Yeah, you can't go wrong with a funny hat. That's right. How are you doing? I'm excellent right now. Yeah, I'm pretty good. What have you got for us this week? I have got an awesome player of Tracy Morgan. So I'm really looking forward to sharing some facts about him. Well, let's do it. Great. Well, Tracy's 5'9", born November 10th, 1968. He has 67 acting credits, five producer credits, and eight writing credits. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Marlborough Houses and Tompkins Houses in Bedford. He was actually named after a platoon mate of his father who shipped off with his dad to Vietnam, but was killed in an action within days of deployment. Track 3 [3:31] So his dad was very close to this guy, and so that's why he got that name. Um yeah he went on to marry his high school sweetheart and began his comedy career at the age of 17 by performing stand-up on street corners in new york he had his date first debut as hustle man on the television show martin so he's been working hard since he was a kid um and it shows i mean he lists his influences as carol burnett lucille ball jackie gleason which i actually see the most in a lot of what he does uh martin lawrence eddie murphy and richard prior uh but he learned about that is a great pedigree huh yeah that's a that's a really good good lineup but yeah the thing is he he says he learned his comedy first from his dad who taught him about jonesing which is basically roasting people he put put him on his lap and they would roast people on the the street and he also drew from his uncles who he said were also very funny so you know it runs in the family um you can actually see his first stand-up gig which is an apollo theater amateur night on youtube so if you want to go out and see his first big break it's there for you to find. Track 3 [4:52] I'm going to have to watch that. Yeah. Yeah. You don't get that. See that with a lot of comedians. No. Yeah. He nicknamed all the talk show hosts that he's appeared with. So David Letterman is D rock. Jimmy Fallon is Jimbo and Conan O'Brien is C black. Track 3 [5:08] The line between...

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we welcome back to the show, the statistical guru of the Saturday Night Network, Mike Murray! He's here on the pod to discuss our third host in a row, this time it's Emma Stone. Get it wherever you get your podcasts. Transcript: Track 2: [0:42] Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be back inside the SNL Hall of Fame with you all. Track 2: [0:51] Big kudos for you showing up this week. It's been a stormy week here in Toronto where the Hall of Fame is and our guest count has went down. But I'll tell you what, the floors are a mess. I don't know what kind of message I need to send to you, but wipe those feet, people. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been chosen, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. That's how we play the game. It's just that simple. All you need to do is listen in for the argument that is being made by our special guest for the week and determine whether or not they make a strong enough case. From there, you'll get a ballot and you'll get to place your vote. If a candidate reaches 66.7% of the ballot, they are welcome to join us here in the SNL Hall of Fame. Did you know that if you're in the Hall of Fame, you get a pass that you can come in for free anytime you want, and we'll even provide you a bottle of water. So there's that. Track 2: [2:19] Let's track down my friend Matt for some trivia in Matt's minutiae minute. Let's see if I can find him here. I'll give him a holler. Track 3: [2:29] Matt how in the world are you doing this week i am good thank you i am good, busy busy but can't complain well you just did. Track 3: [2:42] Well stating a fact isn't necessarily complaining but yeah i was complaining. Track 3: [2:50] Well no one will be complaining about our nominee this week uh emma stone is who you're going to be be talking about learning me up real good here. What have you got for us this week, Matt? Emma Stone, height 5'6", born November 6th, 1988, making me feel very old again. She's accomplished much more in her shorter life than I have in my longer life. So I found out that her low voice stems from actually having colic as a baby that lasted six months. So I'm shocked that her parents didn't pull out all of their hair um it developed she developed nodules and calluses on her vocal cords which is how why she has such a distinctive voice she actually has a phobia of being lifted up or being high because uh when she was seven she was doing gymnastics on on the parallel bars and fell and broke both of her arms. Oh my gosh. Horrible. Yeah. Oh yeah. We need to have a warning at the top of this one, a trigger warning. Yeah. Trigger warning for anybody who's afraid of gymnastics. Yeah. She grew up blonde. Judd Aptow suggested for she go red for super bad. And she real, after doing that, she found that she was called back much more for auditions. So she just stayed a redhead. Track 3: [4:16] Originally named emily stone she changed to emma as there was already an actor named emily stone registered with sag and it happens amazingly a lot um a lot of actors uh go by three names or or a slightly different name um she actually prefers emily over emma so that's how she would would prefer to be called um but she took the name emma from a member of her favorite band the spice girls oh baby yeah she is she is a baby spice fan me too that was my favorite yeah there's actually pictures of her on the internet meeting them losing her mind like tears fanning out it's uh it's very endearing now she knew at an early age she wanted to be a film star and convinced her parents to move to Hollywood by putting together a PowerPoint presentation named...

This week on the pod we welcome back, Jamie Burwood! To kick off the show we get Matt's Minutia Minute before we get into a fantastic conversation between Thomas and Jamie. Thanks as always for listening. Rate and review the show! Transcript: Track 2: [0:42] Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be here back in the SNL Hall of Fame. [0:50] Please, mind your feet, give them a wipe, use the map for what it's supposed to be for before you come into our hallowed halls. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballotfor your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity inside the hall. That's how we play the game. It's really quite simple. You follow along, you vote, you celebrate or complain about who got in or who didn't get in. It's really quite a bit of fun for us. I am walking down the hallway now to talk to our good friend Matt Ardill, and we're going to get some information on who we're covering today and who will be nominating them. Wait and see. Well, you don't have to wait and see because you can read the title. And I guess the title sort of gives it away. That's right. We're talking about Jon Hamm today, and we're joined by Jamie Burwood. But before we do that, let's go to our friend Matt Ardill and get the skinny on Jon Hamm. Track 3: [2:13] Hello, Matt. Hello, JD. What's shaking, my brother? Not much, not much. I am really looking forward to today's trivia. Okay, who you got for us? John the Hamaconda Ham. He is six foot one, born March 10th, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the son of a trucker and a secretary. He had a rough childhood growing up, which actually helped inform his backstory when he auditioned for his breakout role of Don Draper. But his first acting role was as Winnie the Pooh in a first grade production. [2:58] Oh, OK. OK, yeah, very early start. But he didn't follow that up until playing Judas on Godspell at the age of 16 at John Burroughs School, where he was the member of the football team, the baseball team and the swimteam, because, of course, he was. He actually dated actor Sarah Clark in high school. He went on to attend the University of Texas before transferring to the University of Missouri, where he answered a newspaper ad for someone to play in a production of MidsummerNight's Dream. [3:32] He's gone on to complete 118 acting credits, 10 producer credits, and he has one director credit. He almost didn't get the role of Don Draper, which I can't imagine anybody else in that role right now. But he was told by the showrunner that he was too handsome, which is not something I'm sure many people frequently hear in a like, I'm sorry, you're just too goddamn handsome for thisrole. Yeah, they reevaluated and decided that he was he was the right fit. [4:07] He rewarded he received an award nomination for Emmys for the show. Golden Globe SAG Awards, Annie Hall Awards, Critics Choice, MTV Movie and TV Awards, National Board of Review Awards, Satellite Awards, Teen Choice Awards and TelevisionCritics Association. Association um i'm guessing his teen choice was for something not mad men related there should be an acronym for all those awards like an egot you know yeah he should get some sortof uh preferential treatment in hollywood as a result of all those awards yeah they need to they need to broaden the awards like the mtv award teen choice award circuit that's right that'sright um the slimies I guess maybe I don't know that's good on television you know now before hitting it big he worked as a daycare worker and a high school teacher while teaching highschool he was actually Ellie Kemper's drama teacher and went on to help her break into the world of acting. [5:12] Um gee whiz yeah so he followed...

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're joined by first time guest Kaleena Steakle to discuss the merits of Anne Hathaway in the Hosts Category. Please rate and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Transcript: [0:42] Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is a thrill for me to be here with you all this week inside the SNL Hall of Fame. Before you walk inside, though, if you could just do me the simple favor and wipe your feet, honey child. That's what I'm looking for. So, clean shoes, clean souls, Clean eating Clean living Clean SNL Hall of Fame. [1:16] The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host musical guest, or writer and add them to theballot for your consideration, Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuityin the hall. That's how we play this game. It's just that simple. So I'm pleased that you're here with us this week. I'm here that you're pleased with us every week. But we have one heck of a show this week for you. I hope you have battened down the hatches, as it were, because business is about to pick up. Now, I am a little out of breath here as I walk down the corridor past the weekend update exhibit and oh there's the uh unfrozen caveman lawyer exhibit uh a real a real great one if you getthe chance to see it here, but where i'm actually headed is the intersection of two walls meeting and forming a corner and we We call that Matt's Minutia Minute Corner. And, you know, let me go get them. Track 3: [2:36] Matthew, my young boy, how are you doing today? I am good, thanks. And I'm good. And you, my good man? Uh, you know, I got a little case of the gout, but it doesn't stop me from wiping my feet. So I'm, you know, I'm relatively happy with that. That's good. Hopefully I'll be able to cheer you up a little bit with some trivia. I would love to hear about Anne Hathaway. Terrific. Well, she is five foot eight, born November 12th, 1982. 82. She was named after William Shakespeare's wife. Her family are theater fans. She is a native New Yorker and was a theater nerd growing up. She attended Brooklyn Heights Montessori School and Wyoming Elementary School, taking part in high school plays before going on to attend NYU. She is the granddaughter of radio personality Joe McCauley, and her mother, Kate McCauley, was an actor and singer who performed in the first touring company of Les Miserables,which Anne followed her all along the entire tour at the age of eight, which is when she fell in love with the stage. I guess so. Yeah. So as a teen, she was cast as Get Real for her first appearance. [3:55] Followed by her big breakout in The Princess Diaries. She grew up actually wanting to become a nun. And as the husband of a Catholic, I can say about 80% of Catholic girls, I think, for the first 10 years of their life want to be nuns until theyfigure out what it involves. [4:14] She re-evaluated her relationship, actually, with the church on finding out her brother was gay at the age of 15. And her family left the church at that point. Oh, she is the first and only teenager ever admitted into the acting program at the Borough Group in New York three days before getting cast in the TV show Get Real. [4:38] She's performed in two Carnegie Hall concerts as a high school honors chorus member, was almost cast in the Phantom of the Opera movie, but was unfortunately able or I don'tknow, maybe fortunately for her, unable to perform in it due to conflicts with filming of The Princess Diaries 2. She has gone on to 56 acting roles, eight producing role credits. [5:02] 17 soundtrack credits, currently has four upcoming films. She's been nominated for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes and a BAFTA, as well as having won one Oscar, a Golden Globe, a SAG, a BAFTA and a Primetime Emmy...

Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast! This week on the program we've invited back our dear friend of the show Kirsten Rajala to join Thomas in conversation about the former Cast member Taran Killam! jD and Matt are on hand to handle the rest of the lifting! Thanks for listening to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast! Transcript: [0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is cold outside here at the SNL Hall of Fame. So why don't you take a look down below and you'll see a mat. No, it's not Matt Ardill, but it's a mat for you to wipe your feet off. Get that snow out of here. Somebody might slip and fall. That could be a real lawsuit on our hands. So there's that. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. That's how we play the game. It's It's just that easy. This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast, we are talking about former cast member Taryn Killam. And we are joined by our good friend Kirsten Rajala, who is a regular on the SNN and a regular here in the SNL Hall of Fame. Do you know who else is a regular? Our friend Matt Ardill. Let's go down the hall and talk to him. Track 3: [1:59] Okay, I am walking down the hallway and I see him leaning on the wall ever so casually. Look at this cool cat. It's Matt. How are you doing, Matt? I am doing great, JD, and yourself? You're looking pretty fine today. Well, thank you very much. It's these new pants. They're very snazzy, very snazzy. Yeah, yeah. Track 2: [2:17] So, Taron Killam. Track 3: [2:19] Six foot one, born April 1st, 1982, which makes me feel very old. Born in Culver City. His mother toured with the Charlie Daniels Band and his father. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Singer, songwriter, performer. That went down to Georgia. Yeah. And his father was a member of the City Garage Theater Troupe. So he has showbiz background. [2:46] In his veins. And he was born April 1st, so it's got to be comedy. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. This is the great grandnephew of the actors Rosemary Bow and Robert Stack. Get out. Yeah, yeah. Like showbiz legacy kind of thing. Wow. If he was joining today, they'd like be shouting Nepo baby. So, but yeah, he attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and the UCLA Theater, Film and Television Program studying musical theater, which we will get back to. He graduated from the Groundlings in 2010 and is one of two cast members to be both on MADtv and SNL. Did not know that. Yeah, yeah. When he joined MADtv, he was actually the youngest cast member at 19 in 2001. He has 90 acting credits, four writer credits, and two producer credits, along with six soundtrack credits that we will touch on in a second. His first film appearance was in naked gun 33 and a third the final insult as the character named boy. [3:54] Very you know big long a big credit there uh it was 1994 and he was at the age of 12 when he yeah so as a child actor he he was also on unsolved mysteries uh the jersey and big fatliar He had a recurring role in Stuck in the Suburbs. He went on to play Mr. Rad in Community in their regional holiday music episode. He wrote the comic book miniseries for IDW called The Illegitimates, which I'm going to have to now cover on my comic book podcast. Give it a plug. What's the title? know detecting the marvelous so if you want to check out about comics the three comics chatting about comics yeah so he went on to marry colbysmulders and uh is a broadway star taking over the role of king george the third in hamilton in 2017 and he did so well with it yeah yeah and he also played lance a lot in the broadwayproduction of spam a lot Oh. So, I mean, that's tying his comedy and his musical...

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're hosting two guests, Gary Seith and Brad Robinson to discuss the career of an original Not Ready for Prime Time Player, Laraine Newman. Please subscribe, share, rate, and review the show where ever you get your podcasts! Transcript: [0:42] Thank you so much, Doug Donance. It is great to be back here on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast with y'all. Hope you're doing well. I'm doing spectacular, but I'd be that much better if you would just wipe your feet before you come on inside. Come on. You've listened to this enough times to know what I'm talking about. out the SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of aformer cast member host musical guest or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration once the nominees have been announced we turn to you the listener to vote for the mostdeserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall That's how we play the game. It's just that simple. So there's that. I hope that you're ready for a great episode today. We've got two special guests. We've got Gary Seeth and Brad Robinson from the Not Ready for Primetime podcast joining Thomas down in the bunker. And they're going to talk about Lorraine Newman, one of the original Not Ready for Primetime time players, and they're going to make a case for why she should be in the SNL Hall ofFame. But ultimately, it's up to you to cast the votes. Let's walk on down the hall and talk to our friend Matt Ardill in his minutiae corner. Let's do this. Matt! Track 3: [2:12] JD! We're here in your corner, and you know what that means. Time for trivia. That's right. What have you got for us on Lorraine Newman? Well, she's five foot five, born March 2nd, 1952. She was born in L.A. with a twin brother, Paul, attended Beverly Hills High School and the California Institute of the Arts. Uh, she is the self-proclaimed daughter and granddaughter ofJewish cowboys. Uh, the, the family comes from, uh, cattleman stock and her grandfather was the sheriff. Her father and grandfather both ran a cattle drive through Calabasas, which is very posh now, but back in the 1930s, um, it was a farming town. Wow. She began Improvit 15. [3:03] Edition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and the Bristol Old Vic, but she didn't make it past the second edition on any ofthose. So instead, she moved to Paris to study mime with Marcel Marceau. Wow. Yeah, yeah. She became a member of the Richmond Shepherd Mime Troupe, and at 19, then returned to LA uh as one of the founding members of the groundlings uh with her sister tracynewman who's a film uh writer and producer you know she has a very storied past before getting into comedy she worked as a rock band booking agent uh handling contracts and gigs andthe song never let her slip away by andrew gold is actually written about her because they were were dating and i'm guessing he regrets uh having blown that opportunity i bet you're rightyeah yeah i had a crush on her big time oh yeah definitely yeah now she landed her first role on the tv series manhattan transfer and followed that up by filming tunnel vision which wasfilmed before the first episode of snl but was released after that and it was alongside many of her her future castmates. She was actually hired by Lorne Michaels for a Lily Tomlin special in 1974. [4:29] She's gone on to acquire 244 acting credits. And she also wrote a memoir, May You Live in Interesting Times, a memoir, which is on Audible. [4:41] She later moved into voice acting and is in a bunch of cartoons, Danny Phantom, Avatar Avatar, The Last Airbender and Metalocalypse, amongst many. She's a contributing writer to One for the Table, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Believer and McSweeney's. Has been nominated for Primetime Emmys, Annie Award, Behind the Voice Actors Award and received a Television...

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we welcome back one of the SNN's Super-Fans, Sammy Kay! He's visiting the Hall to discuss writer Julio Torres with our very own Thomas Sena. Transcript: [0:42] All right. Thank you, Doug DeNance. It is great to be here in the SNL Hall of Fame. [0:50] Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast, A Weekly Affair. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote Vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. That's right. That's how we play the game. It's really quite simple. And we're thrilled to have you here with us. This has been a great season so far, and it's about to get that much better as we invite S&N correspondent, super fan, Sammy K, into the conversation room with Thomas Senna to todiscuss the career of writer Julio Torres. This should be a good one. I'm looking very forward to this. Will Julio be rewarded or will he be punished for being a writer? We shall see when voting commences. I'm getting way ahead of myself, though. Before you get into this building, you gotta wipe those feet. That's all there is to it. it. Let's walk down the hallway to my friend Matt Ardill in his Matt's Minutia Minute corner and get to know a little bit more about Julio. What do you say? Matt! Track 3: [2:13] Matt! Julio Torres! Yeah, JB! I can't wait. This is another one of my picks from the draft and I am looking forward to this one. I'm looking forward to all of them, but this one in particular. No, this is your pick. Yeah, I understand that. That's great. Yeah. So talk to me, because I know precious little about Julio Torres. Yeah, he's pretty private, to be honest. Julio Torres, I don't know his height. One of the few people I've not been able to track that down. So when I do the chart, he's going to be a big question mark. Oh, man. He makes me feel very old. He is born February 11th, 1987. Jeez, Louise. [2:57] He co-created Los Espookys with Fred Armisen and Anna Fabergia, as well as working on The Chris Gethard Show as a writer. [3:11] Oh, did not know that. Yeah, yeah. So he got his start on Gethard and then went on to SNL and then all sorts of stuff followed. Um he is born he was born in el salvador to a civil engineer uh who is his father and an architect slash fashion designer mother uh his mother has collaborated uh with him and his sisteruh on comedy projects um they he picked up some skills from his mom um and his mom and his sister actually make a lot of his clothes or have them made his quote i have of him is mymother and sister noah taylor in el salvador who can make anything i sketch with their assistance so when you see him doing shows it's often outfits that he his mom and his sister havemade together oh that's cool yeah so he took literary studies at the new york school or excuse me he took literary studies at the new school in new york okay um even as a student his goalout of the gate was to become a comedy writer which a lot of times you don't start that way you kind of fall into comedy writing yeah but uh yeah it was his goal um he has an hbo specialfrom 2019 called my favorite shapes and is credited with nine writing credits and 25 acting credits as well for producer credits. [4:39] He starts his Comedy Central stand-up special by introducing himself as Julio and Aquarius. His favorite color is clear and starts all of his emails well, well, well. [4:54] Um, his special is named I'm a vegan and I'm so sorry, uh, where he takes the stage with his best friend, crystal, a four foot tall talking crystal. Uh, so this sort of sets the tone of what to expect. Um, I think he and Sarah Sherman would get along very well, um, or fight to the death as they both seem to have very similar sentiments around comedy. Um he...

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Today on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast jD and Matt get their trivia on, meanwhile Thomas is joined by a friend of the show Bill Kenney to discuss the career of multi-time host, Martin Short. Transcript: [0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug Donatz. It is great to be back here with you all in the SNL Hall of Fame podcast studios deep within the SNL Hall of Fame. It's JD here, and I hope you're doing well. We are doing great here in the hall, but we would be remiss to remind you to please wipe those feet before coming inside, especially with the snowy weather now. It just Just makes things messy. [1:15] The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity inside the SNL Hall of Fame. That's how we play the game. It's really quite simple. It's all about you. You get to listen, you get to vote, and you get to brag about the fact that you inducted the Hall of Famers. So there's that. that i'm going to tell you that i'm excited about this week's episode but i always tell you that so it's a little redundant i suppose but i am excited we are welcoming back ourfriend bill kenny and he will be in conversation with thomas about our first host of the season martin short martin short of course uh a legend in showbiz and quite the character in the snlworld the SNL cinematic universe, the butt of many jokes in terms of the Five Timers Club, and. [2:34] He seems to relish it. He plays that role so well. But I don't want to get into too much minutiae because I like to leave that for my friend Matt in his corner, Matt's minutiae minute corner. So let's walk down to that intersection of walls where he is most likely loitering, and uh get to the bottom of this. Track 3: [2:56] Hey matt how's it going my friend hey jd i am awesome i am awesome i am looking forward to talking about today's potential inductee yeah i think it's pretty safe to say he'll be aninductee but uh you never know this place is weird you never know you never know like a lot of times you're thinking this person's gonna make it right away but you know it might be likehow he had to go to addition to second city for like a dozen times before he got out into the cast. Well, we're bearing the lead here, even though the title of the episode is named after this person. So you already know who it is. But it is Martin Short that we're going to be talking about this week on the program. Yes. [3:35] A who is actually not that short he's five foot eight i mean he's not a tall guy but he's kind of average that's average height yeah it's average height i always thought he was shorterthan that but i'm maybe only very minorly taller than that so we're about the same height are you plotting all these. [3:54] Are you plotting all these heights somewhere on a graph so that i should i should to like a uh i that will be my project over the summer who's the tallest uh nominee you know yeahwell will ferrell probably it's oh that's true yeah yeah but but who comes next kind of thing or is there somebody taller we never know we'll we'll find out kevin maybe yeah he hasn't beennominated yet no no oh you'll see well i'll i'll do them i'll do the math i'll do one of those comparison graphs okay um but yeah martin was born march 26 1950 he graduated from westdalesecondary school in hamilton and later attended mcmaster university where he shout out to the hammer yeah we have a kitty cat from from hamilton duncan he's toothless and weird and ilove him very much sounds very hamiltonian to me yes he does he does um now um martin studied social work before changing after leaving pre-med and then subsequently leavingsociology so academia probably wasn't in his in his future he has...

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're joined by Ryan McNeil to discuss musical guests Pearl Jam. Transcript: [0:43] All right. Thank you so much, Doug Nance. It's me, J.D., and I am back in the. [0:49] SNL Hall of Fame for the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. Thank you so much for joining us this week, as you do each and every week. Now, I've been told that I'm not formal enough with my ask at the beginning, so please, wipeth those feets. [1:09] It's muddy out. For heaven's sake, we keep a clean floor here at the SNL Hall of Fame. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballotfor your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. That's how we play the game it's just that easy this week we are going to delve into the career of a musical guest and that is the seattle band that goes by the name pearl jam we are joinedby a repeat offender on the show our musical guru ryan mcneil and we're very pleased to have him back. Now, I'm going to walk down the hall and I'm going to talk to our friend Matt Ardill. Track 3: [2:15] Matthew, who you think you're going to talk about this week? Pearl Jam! Oh, the world's worst Pearl Jam impressions. Yeah, yeah. I lived through that. I guess, like, the 90s are just a blur. [2:32] Talk to me about Pearl Jam. Ranging from 5'7 for Eddie Vedder to 6'2 for Jeff Ament. They were formed in 1990 in Seattle, Washington, and are still performing to this day. Yeah. So Vedder originally claimed that the name came from his grandmother, Pearl, who made made a drug-laced jam, but he later admitted in a Rolling Stone interview that it was thatwas just made up. It was actually. Yeah, he does have a grandmother named Pearl, but the jam was just inserted after they went to a Neil Young concert and watched him just do extended jams for 20, 30 minutes of musicalimprovisation at the end of each song. So they were just like, you know, we'll call it Pearl Jam. So that's where the name actually comes from. Yeah, They were originally named after the basketball player Mookie Blaylock, but changed it after signing to Epic. While they officially have 11 studio albums, 23 live albums, and three compilation albums with 42 singles between 2000 and 2001. [3:38] They released 72 official bootlegs. So up until that date, they had encouraged their fans to bootleg because they've always always been pro their fans, fighting for their fans' rights with Ticketmaster and all of that. But during that tour, the Binaural Tour, they released a recording of each concert, their November 6th, 2001 Seattle show, hitting the 98 on the charts for rock albums. Now, they had some big supporters in those early days. They opened for U2 at the height of U2's fame in 1992 touring Europe for the Zeropa tour, which I can't think of any tour of U2that's more. [4:19] More diametrically opposed to Pearl Jam style than Zeropa. I agree. They do have some synchronicities in style, but like that's literally U2 doing like a Depeche Mode concert. It was just like, it was so weird. Vedder had refused to release Black as a single in 1992, despite the push by Epic. So DJs just decided to play it regardless, thus pushing it onto the number three of the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts, even though it wasn't a single, which doesn't happen very often. In 1995, though, things kind of came full circle for the band when Neil Young partnered with Pearl Jam to release Mirrorball. So they got to work pretty early with one of their heroes. An environmentalist, Eddie, has the logo of Earth First, a stone hammer crossed with a monkey wrench tattooed on his leg. And the band has been very open with their activism, supporting freedom of choice environmentalism anti-bush...

jD, Matt, and Thomas are joined by Will Norman to discuss the potential Hall of Fame career of Rachel Dratch. Transcript: Track 2: [0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be back here at the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. Step inside the SNL Hall of Fame if you would, but please wipe your feet. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. That's how we play this game. It's all about you, ultimately. You get to listen, you get to vote, you get to enjoy the members as they regale us in the SNL Hall of Fame. So there's that i hope you're doing well this week we've got a spectacular episode for you we are talking about rachel dratch and we're going to be joined by a repeat guest will normanwho always brings the goods in conversation with thomas senna but before we do any of that it's time for me to walk down the hall to our friend matt's. Track 3: [1:56] Minutiae minute corner hey matt Matt, how's it going, buddy? Great, JD, and you? I am super star-rific. Talking about Rachel Dratch today, and I think she's funny as hell. Me too, me too. She is one of those people who I have always felt is underappreciated. Underappreciated, yeah. All of the heavy lifting that she does. So you want to hear some facts about Rachel? Sure do. Okay, Rachel Dresch, 4'11 and 1 1⁄2, born February 22, 1966. She grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, attending the National Theater Institute at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut. Now, she is a Second City alum, and she attended Second City and Improv Olympics with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Many of their sketches are still available on YouTube. So if you want to see very young Tina, Amy and Rachel, just Google them. And it's it's actually it's still it still holds up a lot of old Second City sketches done by the theater groups back then did not hold up. But this one did. [3:11] It's because it's pure Rachel just being Rachel. Now, she studied under Del Close and that for improv nerds out there is like improv Jesus. He is. Like one of the creators of the form. And additionally, she also spent time in the Groundlings. [3:34] And so she's done the improv trifecta, as well as being a founding member of UCB. Jeez. Not to mention, she was also on the Harvard Lampoon. So she is basically a member of the comedy Illuminati at this point. So she graduated in 1988 from Dartmouth College and has played cello since high school. So she's a talented musician in her own right. [3:59] She has 127 acting roles and was the original Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock before being recast. Right, I forgot about that. Yeah, if you watch that original pilot, it's a very different energy. As much as I love Rachel, I can understand why they changed the casting to mix it up a bit. The good thing about that is we have her variety of bonkers secondary characters, from the cat wrangler to the weird blue hallucination when the gas is left on in the gas episode. Her first television role was on SNL, but she simultaneously made her film debut on Serious Business that same year. She is also a published author with Girl Walks Into a Bar, which is flipping awesome. And if you get it, I recommend getting the audiobook because she reads that, which is really, it's on Audible. Not a plug for Audible, but it's on there and it's awesome. She has produced a one-woman show called My Life as an SNL cast member, which she ran at UCB before her Broadway debut in Wicked. [5:10] Um as tina after which she wrote the off-broadway play tail spin uh this tail exclamation mark spin exclamation mark which is why i said it a bit weird there yeah she's won thejoseph jefferson...

jD, Matt, and Thomas are back and joined by the returning Veronica Villanueva to discuss the career of Adam Sandler. Check it out! Transcript: Track 2: [0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be back here. Season five is underway, and there's no better way to ring it in than by asking you to wipe those feet before you come inside the SNL Hall of Fame, which is a podcast. It's a weekly affair. In each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity inside the hall. That's thegame. That's what we play here every week. We've been doing it for four years, four seasons, and we're going to continue doing it until we've exhausted the pool of potential nominees. So there's that. This week, we are talking about Adam Sandler, and I can think of no better person to kick off this conversation than our friend Matt Ardill. I'm walking down the hallway. I am tight to the wall where the outer wall, where the east wall meets the north wall, forms a corner, and that is, of course, the trivia corner, Matt's MinutiaMinute. Let's go. Track 3: [1:59] Oh, Matthew, how are you doing? Hey, JD, I'm good, and yourself? Track 2: [2:03] I am great, thanks for I'm really excited about this week's episode. It's the first episode of the fifth season, and that's pretty cool. Uh, we're starting off with a great one. Track 3: [2:17] Yeah, it is. It's got some great guests. Uh, and you can't start with a more interesting character than, than this, uh, Adam Sandler. That's right. Height five foot 10, born September 9th, 1966. Uh, he first took the stage at 17, uh, when his brother pushed him into doing standup and he did not turn back after that point. Jeez. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can't imagine at 17 what you would do, but yeah, he did it. He attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1991. And you'll note that's a year after he started at SNL. He was still going to school when he started at SNL as a writer. The thing is, he's incredibly prolific in a lot of ways. He's got 88 film credits, 63 producer credits, 29 writer credits and 37 soundtrack credits you can pretty much thank his wedding singer film right that one yeah um but yeah he has 21 filmsthat have been that he's been involved in that have grossed over a hundred million dollars and many of those are produced by his happy madison production company the the highestgrossing happy madison film is growing grown-ups with $272 million in box office with an $80 million budget. [3:44] So even factoring in another $40 million for marketing as the standard, that walked away with a pretty penny in his pocket for that film. I bet. Now, he was 35th on 2003's Power 100 list. He's the second highest earning actor in both 2011-2012, next to Leonardo DiCaprio, earning $37 million and is estimated to have a net worth of up to $500 million as of today. So he's done pretty good for himself. Not bad, huh? Not bad, yeah. Now, his first acting role, though, was as Theo Huxtable's friend, Smitty, on The Cosby Show. [4:28] And that was, yeah, so it was kind of an ignoble beginning, a little bit part. He followed that by roles on MTV's game show Remote Control before scoring his first film role in Going Overboard in 1989. One of his earliest roles was in an ABC After School special credited as Drug Dealer. Yeah, I just can't think of a less convincing drug dealer, but it was ABC After School special. When he does film, he tries to make sure any scenes that are being filmed on location are near a gym that has a basketball court. So he can go and play basketball between sessions of filming. He basically is just a dude who loves the people and things that he loves. [5:24] So he tries to fit in his...

jD and the gang are back it! This week Thomas, Matt and our special guest Kirstin Rajala pick our nominees we'll be discussing this upcoming season. Transcript: [0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug Donat. It is great to be here with you all as we kick off season five inside the SNL Hall of Fame. How are you doing? My name is JD and I am joined every week by my friends Thomas and Matt. Matt handles the trivia corner. Thomas handles the conversations conversations, and me, well, I just blather. I just blather at the top and bottom of every episode. So you're stuck with me. The SNL Hall of Fame is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and we add them to the ballot foryour consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for for perpetuity inside the hall. That's right, it's an easy game. That's what we play here each and every week. [1:38] We kick things off every season with a draft, and we're going to do that again this season. The draft will be handled this year by Thomas, Matt, and our special guest, Kirsten Rajala. So buckle up and get ready, because this is going to be great. They are going to go through and choose who will be nominated in season five. And then you will listen to those episodes and then you will vote on who gets in the hall of fame, just like we did in season four, three, two, one, et cetera. Well, there's no et cetera because one is where we started. So there's that. Let's go right now to Thomas and have him kick this thing off. I'll talk to you at the back end. Track 3: [2:54] Alright, welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. We are in Season 5, officially the first episode of Season 5. We're so excited because we're going to let everybody in on essentially how the sausage is made here at the SNL Hall of Fame in terms of choosing the nominees and choosing the lineup. So this is a wonderful episode. We did a Season 4 draft that worked really well. Well, it was myself, Matt Ardill, John Schneider. This time around, we invited another guest, a five-timer, possibly a six-timer. I really lost track of how many times Kirsten's joined us. Kirsten, do you know? Have you kept track? I know this is super important to you. This has got to be the six because our last conversation, I was making a big stink and getting really excited about being a five-timer. So this is six. Awesome. So we have, as the draftees today, to draft our Season 5 lineup, we have myself, we have Kirsten Rayula, and we have Matt Ardill. So, Matthew, how are you? Good, good. In Chicago, I'm going to try to get you a Second City performance while I'm here. [4:07] Oh, wonderful, wonderful. You'll have to let me know how that goes. I'm going to be in Chicago soon, too. So you'll have to share notes with me. So so how it works today again we are drafting the nominees for season five we do have some draft rules to go over so there will be three of us drafting first pick we're giving it to ourguest kirsten we'll have the first pick in the draft matt ardill will have the second pick in the draft and i will have the third pick in the draft it's not snake so we're just going to to go one twothree then one two three no snake drafting here on this episode we each get five picks and there are parameters to this so each person must draft one musical guest or a writer, one nomineefrom season one of the SNL hall of fame so we can re-litigate somebody's candidacy and also you know the other three then can be like the cast member host musical guest or writer or Idon't know if it's just at your win at that point. So those are the draft rules. Matt, did you have like a strategy coming into this draft? Like what's your thought process heading into this? I just went with my heart. That's what I came down to. That's really sweet. Who...

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