45 Bits of Trivia From Behind the Scenes of ‘Saturday Night Live’

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45 Bits of Trivia From Behind the Scenes of ‘Saturday Night Live’

Some of the show’s biggest stars have had some of its biggest beefs.

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VICTORIA JACKSON IVE CRACKED.COM Castmates returned her audiobook Bibles. Maybe I'm overcompensating because everybody here is dying and going to Hell, and I'm supposed to tell them about Jesus.

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ADAM SANDLER CRACKED.COM The writing sucks this season. If the show comes back next year, it better be a lot funnier, or you'll see the entire cast go to Hollywood.

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LESLIE JONES CRACKED COM I don't miss it. At all. That job was hard, man. That job was like two jobs, and very restrictive too. I wasn't very free there.

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CRACKED SARAH SILVERMAN STABBED AL FRANKEN Sarah Silverman said she was taking part in a rewrite session with Al Franken and some other writers, when the overwhelming urge came over her to poke a pen through Franken's frizzy hair, but instead ended up stabbing him in the temple. Silverman told Seth Meyers, I was just kind of like a million miles away looking at his hair. The whole table has really sharpened pencils, like super sharp... and in my mind, I just thought, I'm gonna like stab this through his hair. But what everyone saw, because this is what happened,

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CRACKED JON HAMM'S DARK JOKE THAT MADE AMY POEHLER STOP CRYING Amy Poehler's ob-gyn sadly passed away the day before she was supposed to give birth while she was still at 30 Rock. She was rehearsing a Mad Men sketch with Jon Hamm before she got the call and burst into tears. Poehler told Vulture, Jon Hamm held me by the shoulders and looked at me and said, 'I know this is very sad, but this is a really important show for me, so I'm going to need you to get your shit together.' This made me laugh so hard

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CRACKED FRED ARMISEN'S PRINCE MEETING Fred Armisen recounted the story of when he first met Prince as being at one of Prince's self-thrown afterparties after he had appeared on Saturday Night Live. Armisen recalls that the rock legend had a D.J. and a buffet filled with mac and cheese. Armisen spent much of his life idolizing the artist, as he performed an impression of him on the show and has a musical background himself so he decided to finally go meet him while he sat alone eating macaroni. Armisen said he approached Prince and said, I just want to let

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CRACKED THE WRITERS USED PEE JARS Tina Fey revealed that the Frank peeing in jars storyline from 30 Rock was actually based on the Weekend Update writers who had a jar of urine. Fey told the New Yorker, In the Weekend Update offices-which were like the smarter but meaner older brother of the regular writers' offices-there weren't any cups. There was a jar. It was a jar of p*ss with a lid on it, and, judging by its consistency, I suspect that the writers sometimes spat into it. Or that one of them was terribly ill. You could see it

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AUBREY PLAZA CRACKED.COM I wanted to be on that show for as long as I could remember, says Plaza. She landed an SNL internship in 2005 but didn't make the cast after her 2008 audition.

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LISA KUDROW CRACKED.COM The thing about my characters that I did at The Groundlings is they weren't the big crowdpleasers, said Kudrow. She was passed over for Julie Sweeney so you can blame Kudrow for Pat.

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TIFFANY HADDISH CRACKED.COM If they don't give it to me, f*** them,' Haddish said after her audition. They didn't. Haddish got the last laugh as the first black female comic to host the show.

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KEL MITCHELL CRACKED.COM Keenan's Good Burger buddy did a song about Michael Jackson if he was allergic to trees! I did like a moonwalk move and flipped the table with someone's drink on it over, it was a MESS!

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JIM CARREY CRACKED.COM Carrey was only 18 years old when he auditioned for SNL. Didn't get I N the gig but he was MING quickly hired at LOR

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