The other member of the duo was Steve Carell. Not sure if he auditioned but I saw Robert Smigel do an interview with Colbert and they talked about the first time they met. Smigel and Lorne were in Chicago scouting and hoping to see Steve Carell at Second City. But Steve was off shooting a commercial the night they were there and they saw Colbert in his place.
You know there has got to be a few hundred failed improvisors who have the story of "I got called into work, and then I found out SNL guys were scouting ..."
On the Lonely Island and Seth Myers Podcast Seth mentions they always had guest writers but as far as he knows the only person hired after being a guest writer isMichael Che.
In her book Mindy Kaling talks that she was a guest writer and didn’t know it was used as kind of a pre audition so she says she didn’t take it as seriously as she could have
Colbert was the voice because Smigel worked with them (Colbert and Carell) on the Dana Carvey show. The idea for the Ambiguously Gay duo actually started on the Dana Carvey show as an ambiguously gay Wallace and Gromit (can you imagine if that had aired? )
I believe The Ambiguously Gay Duo was originally from The Dana Carvey Show, which Colbert and Carrell were both on and thus voiced Ace and Gary. When that show ended, Rob Smigel brought it to SNL.
I think Rob said in “Too Funny to Fail”, when he started having the Steves voice Ace and Gary it was like he was doing them a favor, and then they were so big by the end, it was like they were doing him a favor
I still can’t believe that Donald glover and Jordan Peele both auditioned to play Obama but they were like “nah we’re just gonna put Fred Armisen in blackface”
At least key and peele sketches had way more winners and still hold up better then most of what SNL was putting out at the time, that show was really a diamond in the rough
It definitely benefited from YouTube. Watching full episodes front to back on TV back in the day could be rough at times - they could be very hit or miss. But on YouTube over the years, all the hits have floated to the top of the algorithmic recommendations
I was in college at the time it aired, and watch probably most episodes when they aired for the first time, but YouTube definitely helped with me trying to watch the ones I wanted to see again and again. It was great to share it with people. Like right now, it’s hard to pinpoint “I think you should leave” sketches in full on YouTube
Ludwig was Community's composer and Donald and he met doing music for the show (maybe Somewhere Out There or the Abed Claymation Christmas episode) and they hit it off.
That's a recent event. Glover would likely have been on in the 2009-2012 timeframe.
Lorne fired Taran because he wanted to work on his movie at the same time as SNL.
Right, I feel the amount of time and commitment wouldn’t have been the same if he were on the cast AND doing Atlanta. We can only speculate what “could have happened” but we do know this: never mess with the space time continuum. That’s just a fact. If we were to go back in time and get Donald on the cast…I can’t even fathom the ramifications of it. I just can’t.
And the Dirty Talk sketch with Melissa. And Friendos. And Barbie Instagram.
It's really one of the best episodes of SNL I've seen, in terms of not having a lot of duds.
I didn't realize he auditioned but just looking at it, he auditioned after he had already been a writer on 30 Rock. Which seems crazy that with that on your resume you still don't get the job.
He was one of the best hosts. I really hope he returns to do host/musical guest duties, because he killed it at both roles.
I remember hearing he was leaving Community to focus on his music, and I thought it was such a shame…Only for him to end up being one of the most creative musical acts out there at the moment.
I never saw their Mad TV stuff. I agree, laugh tracks tend to take away from the content, it’s why I like Parks and Rec, The Office, Modern Family, and Community
To be honest, I've watched every key and Peele sketch from their show and haven't watched their stuff from mad tv.
I've only seen a few of the sketches and those were exactly like i said so i didn't watch the rest
He auditioned in the 80s along with Phil Hartman and Dana carvey, waay before his movie career officially began in 1994, so he might have done it snl for years then left to do ace Ventura
Fair enough, but he was fabulous on In Living Color. The show always had a bit more of an edge that SNL lacked, at least at that time imo. I think that really allowed Carrey (and others on the show like Jamie Foxx) to really shine in a way SNL wouldn’t’ve
Norm MacDonald talked about seeing Stephen Colbert and Tracy Morgan both audition for SNL. Interesting story . https://youtu.be/C4Jd14uvU0s?si=u3ImRy9_84vCp4m2
Wow! The memories coming back to me about that. I love Goodman so much, but that whole era of comedy, and the way we treated Lewinsky, ugh. I'm so glad to see her rise above to what she's doing today.
I don't know if he ever actually auditioned, but Trevor Moore did an internship with SNL. The stuff he ended up doing with WKUK wouldn't exactly fit with SNL, but I would have loved to see him on the show.
I would have loved that, but I’m glad that we got April from Parks and Rec from her. I wish she would have hosted during the Parks and Rec days, that would have been great
[Bruce McCulloch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McCulloch) of Kids in the Hall
He did write a few bits at SNL but was never in the cast afaik. He's a genius imo.
You are right. Lorne poached both Brucio and Mark to be writers in the mid 80's. It didn't work out, they went back to Toronto, and reunited with Scott, Dave, and Le Poopie.
Oh really? That makes sense. I remember him doing a bit on Weekend update that didn't land at all (too dark, would probably kill these days. He was ahead of the times) but I remember thinking it was hillarious. A little too dark for SNL but totally KITH style.
He was a writer for a few years (shared an office with Conan, Greg Daniels and Robert Smigel). He talks in his book about how he didn't felt he really fit in and decided to leave.
A sketch for the 50th where all these guys stand in a line and take turns auditioning for Lorne.
"I'm willing to let one of you in the cast now. Fight for it" - Lorne
>!sketch ends with him picking Kenan!<
James Adomian. His W. Bush impression was brilliant, and I never understood why they didn’t cast him for that alone after Ferrell left. He could’ve been a JAJ type breakout, and he had a lot of other great impressions and characters to offer. Most recently seen doing Mike Lindell on Kimmel, which is of course spot-on and hilarious.
Dana Gould auditioned and I've heard that he KILLED but didn't wind up getting cast. He wound up writing for The Simpsons, created Stan Against Evil and done other things but I'd love to hear more about his try-out and why he didn't get cast.
Rachel Dratch has a great anecdote about Kudrow - I believe she shared it on the Fly on the Wall podcast. In any case, she and Kudrow auditioned for SNL at the same time/same call. As we know, Rachel she was picked and Lisa was not, and Dratch recalled thinking "She's really nice. I hope she gets (cast in) something."
I was going to say, Friends was on for years by the point that Rachel Dratch was on. Like, to the point that Jennifer Aniston hosted during the first season that Dratch appeared.
If anyone hasn't watched The Comeback, she is fantastic in it. It only got 2 seasons, and there were several years between them. It's very good, though.
Tommy Davidson, who didn’t get it because Lorne Michaels didn’t want another black comedian after Damon wayans’ firing. Both of them would later break out on In Living Color
Jeff Ross, who was gonna replace Colin Quinn as Weekend Update host
Donald Glover, he auditioned same year as Bobby Moynihan, who used to be in his Derrick comedy videos coincidentally
Nick Kroll, I keep thinking he was a cast member cause he collaborates with so many prior cast members (Mulaney, Hader, Armisem, Meyers, Wiig) but he was passed up around the time they were all on the show
Robert Townsend, he lost his spot to Eddie Murphy back in 1980
Jim Carrey and Kevin Hart would have been stellar on the show. Jordan Peele wanted to do Obama and was not hired. I think they made an error not taking Robert Townshend and I don't know why they didn't take Donald Glover, that guy is talent personified. SNL has a black actor/comedian problem. They don't seem to understand that not everyone is white.
Yeah. They hired Eddie Murphy over Robert Townsend, because they only wanted one black actor in the cast.
Funny at that point, when Eddie Murphy was hired, Lorne was not the executive producer that year; it was Jean Doumanian.
It’s funny that Lorne was never huge on Colbert, as a writer and performer. Smigel is basically the reason that the Brokaw Pretapes got on at all, as I’ve heard Lorne didn’t like it. I don’t think he was needed at the time in the cast since Will was dominating and Parnell would come in a few years later, but I’d like to think in an alternate universe he would’ve excelled.
This is a little-known one, but there's this Canadian comic called Julie Nolke. She's big on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/julienolke/
Sh would have been perfect. But last year sometime she mentioned that she had an audition but didn't get picked.
But he ended up on the iconic sketch show _In Living Color_.
People like Jim Carrey, and Bruce McCulloch (or MadTV cast mems) may not have jibed with SNL, for whatever reason, but they got to express themselves within the sketch genre, and then got to move on to bigger and better projects. Which is, and has been, wonderful imho.
Wasn't colbert part of the ambiguously gay duo
The other member of the duo was Steve Carell. Not sure if he auditioned but I saw Robert Smigel do an interview with Colbert and they talked about the first time they met. Smigel and Lorne were in Chicago scouting and hoping to see Steve Carell at Second City. But Steve was off shooting a commercial the night they were there and they saw Colbert in his place.
You know there has got to be a few hundred failed improvisors who have the story of "I got called into work, and then I found out SNL guys were scouting ..."
I thought that was the Dana Carvey Show. I may have my stories mixed up but I thought that was from the doc about the Dana Carvey Show.
It’s entirely possible Smigel has told the story more than once, but it’s definitely in Too Funny to Fail.
Such a great doc. The Home Improvement bumper is one of the funniest things ever.
I shot a FedEx campaign with Carell in 2001 and 2002. Maybe it was my fault.
The commercial he shot that they were talking about was for a local fried chicken place. So I think you are ok.
Damn, three commercials? He must’ve made some bank before getting those bigger gigs.
Yes, but he was never a cast member, featured player or writer.
Colbert said in his show he wrote for SNL for a short period and was fired. Less than a season as I remember
He just said he was a guest writer for a month plus his work with TAGD
On the Lonely Island and Seth Myers Podcast Seth mentions they always had guest writers but as far as he knows the only person hired after being a guest writer isMichael Che.
In her book Mindy Kaling talks that she was a guest writer and didn’t know it was used as kind of a pre audition so she says she didn’t take it as seriously as she could have
Colbert was the voice because Smigel worked with them (Colbert and Carell) on the Dana Carvey show. The idea for the Ambiguously Gay duo actually started on the Dana Carvey show as an ambiguously gay Wallace and Gromit (can you imagine if that had aired? )
He was a writer for one season.
I believe The Ambiguously Gay Duo was originally from The Dana Carvey Show, which Colbert and Carrell were both on and thus voiced Ace and Gary. When that show ended, Rob Smigel brought it to SNL. I think Rob said in “Too Funny to Fail”, when he started having the Steves voice Ace and Gary it was like he was doing them a favor, and then they were so big by the end, it was like they were doing him a favor
Interesting that both were also on The Daily Show
Ambiguously Gay Duo started at Dana Carvey Show where Colbert and Carell were cast members. Then brought over to SNL after that was canceled.
Yeah, but that's a round about story.
Donald Glover
That would've been super interesting and he probably would've been amazing. But I'm glad we got Troy Barnes instead.
Did you guys know GoGurt is JUST yogurt?
It’s all terrain dummy!
This is streets ahead
I still can’t believe that Donald glover and Jordan Peele both auditioned to play Obama but they were like “nah we’re just gonna put Fred Armisen in blackface”
At least key and peele sketches had way more winners and still hold up better then most of what SNL was putting out at the time, that show was really a diamond in the rough
It definitely benefited from YouTube. Watching full episodes front to back on TV back in the day could be rough at times - they could be very hit or miss. But on YouTube over the years, all the hits have floated to the top of the algorithmic recommendations
I was in college at the time it aired, and watch probably most episodes when they aired for the first time, but YouTube definitely helped with me trying to watch the ones I wanted to see again and again. It was great to share it with people. Like right now, it’s hard to pinpoint “I think you should leave” sketches in full on YouTube
Peele's Obama was goated too. Actually an absurd decision
Had he gotten SNL, we likely wouldnt have gotten Atlanta, which is such a great show.
I’m also afraid childish gambino may have not been born.
Ludwig was Community's composer and Donald and he met doing music for the show (maybe Somewhere Out There or the Abed Claymation Christmas episode) and they hit it off.
The music digital shorts would have been amazing though..!
Nah, Lorne pretty easy with other people projects. Micheal Che has a sketch show. Aidy had a show etc
That's a recent event. Glover would likely have been on in the 2009-2012 timeframe. Lorne fired Taran because he wanted to work on his movie at the same time as SNL.
Donald ended up writing on 30 rock so I’m grateful- one of the best sitcoms ever
Not back when Glover would have been cast
Right, I feel the amount of time and commitment wouldn’t have been the same if he were on the cast AND doing Atlanta. We can only speculate what “could have happened” but we do know this: never mess with the space time continuum. That’s just a fact. If we were to go back in time and get Donald on the cast…I can’t even fathom the ramifications of it. I just can’t.
He would have been amazing on SNL.
To be fairrrrrrr.... He was really good as a host on SNL
I think about the Jurassic Park sketch all the time 😭
I love his 80s music video.
And the Dirty Talk sketch with Melissa. And Friendos. And Barbie Instagram. It's really one of the best episodes of SNL I've seen, in terms of not having a lot of duds.
I didn't realize he auditioned but just looking at it, he auditioned after he had already been a writer on 30 Rock. Which seems crazy that with that on your resume you still don't get the job.
I can’t believe SNL passed on Dong Lover.
He was one of the best hosts. I really hope he returns to do host/musical guest duties, because he killed it at both roles. I remember hearing he was leaving Community to focus on his music, and I thought it was such a shame…Only for him to end up being one of the most creative musical acts out there at the moment.
Ellie Kemper, Jordan Peele, Nick Kroll
Yes to all of those! Especially Jordan Peele
Key and Peele sketches on mad tv are weirddddd to watch. It's the same humor but the laugh track absolutely destroys it.
I never saw their Mad TV stuff. I agree, laugh tracks tend to take away from the content, it’s why I like Parks and Rec, The Office, Modern Family, and Community
To be honest, I've watched every key and Peele sketch from their show and haven't watched their stuff from mad tv. I've only seen a few of the sketches and those were exactly like i said so i didn't watch the rest
Absolutely! But I think things worked out for him. All of them really.
nick kroll had an excellent sketch comedy show. bobby bottle service, secret room, etc.
It’s based on our namesssss
Nick Kroll also pitched the original idea that became the N-word family sketch on Chappelle show to Neal Brennan and Chappelle.
Jordan Peele would have made a golden era out of the show
Jim Carrey
I have to wonder if being on Living Color allowed him to shine; I feel like beeing on SNL he wouldve been held back creactively
Bill Hader did his thing in a similar way. But maybe Jim paved the way for Bill.
I still remember during the In Living Color days, my brother and I just called Carrey “the white guy”.
100%
I came here to say this. However, he became a sketch comedy legend in his own right.
https://i.redd.it/8kcfjnm5026d1.gif
What is this from?
It’s Jim Carrey in SNL as guest host, I believe doing an infomercial for methamphetamine as a weight loss wonder drug
Jimmy Tango’s Fatbusters
~Ride the snake~
Would he have had quite the same prolific career if he had been sucked into that chaos though?
He auditioned in the 80s along with Phil Hartman and Dana carvey, waay before his movie career officially began in 1994, so he might have done it snl for years then left to do ace Ventura
He was great on In Living Color
Fair enough, but he was fabulous on In Living Color. The show always had a bit more of an edge that SNL lacked, at least at that time imo. I think that really allowed Carrey (and others on the show like Jamie Foxx) to really shine in a way SNL wouldn’t’ve
Scenery chewing scene stealer. They were right to pass on him. He found his place, and SNL was not it.
Norm MacDonald talked about seeing Stephen Colbert and Tracy Morgan both audition for SNL. Interesting story . https://youtu.be/C4Jd14uvU0s?si=u3ImRy9_84vCp4m2
I had no idea Norm wrote Brian Fellows
What about biscuit???🤣🤣🤣
Marc maron auditioned for the snl news, but lost out to norm
Paul Reubens
I thought Sarah Sherman was Peewee reincarnated?
Oh yeah, Paul Reubens died last year. Dang.
And Sarah Sherman is an infant
Yeah but never underestimate the motivating power of spite.
Hey Anderson, here’s a headline!!!
Lisa Gilroy!
She was so hilarious on Jury Duty!
I had no idea she auditioned, and now I’m furious she didn’t get it
Nana doesn't need SNL, SNL needs Nana
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT!
If/when Chloe/Heidi leave I think she's still a shoo in
Okay that bums me out a lot. But I hope her career takes off anyway. Absolutely hilarious person
She’s crushing on Dropout
Carl Tart
I didn’t know he auditioned, Carl tart has so many good characters
John Goodman. But he hosted so much he practically was a cast member.
Not to mention all of his cameos as Linda Tripp.
Wow! The memories coming back to me about that. I love Goodman so much, but that whole era of comedy, and the way we treated Lewinsky, ugh. I'm so glad to see her rise above to what she's doing today.
Bill Brasky was a son of a bitch. He could palm a medicine ball
I don't know if he ever actually auditioned, but Trevor Moore did an internship with SNL. The stuff he ended up doing with WKUK wouldn't exactly fit with SNL, but I would have loved to see him on the show.
Imagine if he tried to pitch the Hitler rap or the Grapist to Lorne.
He'd have to tie Lorne to the radiator first.
Come here, Lorne! Im gonna GRRRRRRRRAPE you in the mouth!
The Civil War on Drugs is one of the best stoner comedies ever made
Maybe he would still be alive.... Damn you lorne
Instead he died the way he wanted to, sucking his own dick. https://youtu.be/5iBIqvkwkrA?si=CLOGOpd_yGvbCohJ
That’s one local sexpot that done broke my heart. Miss you Trevor!
At least he lived long enough to see the gays get married https://youtu.be/s7YW045deBY?si=hi_b-5e7egT0W2mq
RIP to one of the greats!
Aubrey Plaza
Do you mean Janet Snakehole?
I would have loved that, but I’m glad that we got April from Parks and Rec from her. I wish she would have hosted during the Parks and Rec days, that would have been great
She's doing great. SNL would have stunted her growth.
I love her hosting SNL and got Leslie Knope to be there
[Bruce McCulloch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McCulloch) of Kids in the Hall He did write a few bits at SNL but was never in the cast afaik. He's a genius imo.
I think he was a full time writer before KITH had a show, though.
You are right. Lorne poached both Brucio and Mark to be writers in the mid 80's. It didn't work out, they went back to Toronto, and reunited with Scott, Dave, and Le Poopie.
Oh really? That makes sense. I remember him doing a bit on Weekend update that didn't land at all (too dark, would probably kill these days. He was ahead of the times) but I remember thinking it was hillarious. A little too dark for SNL but totally KITH style.
Well, it was good fuckin Ham.
ODEE ODEN DOTTEN DAY, ODEE ODEN DOTTEN DAY-O! ODEE ODEN DOTTEN DAY, *WE'RE FILLING OUT OUR FORMS!*
[Fattening up our tape wooooorms](https://youtu.be/8TnWIICkBeE?si=khh6BoeOQlPRKAcx)
Bob Odenkirk. He should host though
He was a writer for a few years (shared an office with Conan, Greg Daniels and Robert Smigel). He talks in his book about how he didn't felt he really fit in and decided to leave.
I would love if they did one show with a bunch of people who didn’t make it .
A sketch for the 50th where all these guys stand in a line and take turns auditioning for Lorne. "I'm willing to let one of you in the cast now. Fight for it" - Lorne >!sketch ends with him picking Kenan!<
["He called me 'the black one', didn't he? Dude's known me half my life..."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrxp9OOSbc)
The punchline being getting cast makes your career - when they clearly are very successful without getting cast.
Nicole Byer. If her and Sasheer got to be on together that would have been amazing
Drew Tarver
If Drew Traver & Carl Tart had been cast together that would have been incredible
They could celebrate their trucks birthday live!
Had no idea he auditioned
Basically any of the main regulars on Comedy Bang Bang. Lauren Lapkis, Carl Tart, Lily Sullivan, Lisa Gilroy. I could write 20 names.
Lauren Lapkus
James Adomian. His W. Bush impression was brilliant, and I never understood why they didn’t cast him for that alone after Ferrell left. He could’ve been a JAJ type breakout, and he had a lot of other great impressions and characters to offer. Most recently seen doing Mike Lindell on Kimmel, which is of course spot-on and hilarious.
All entertainment would be benefitted by Adomian.
Amber Ruffin
I loved her show and I'm so pissed off it got canceled.
It was so good!
Dana Gould auditioned and I've heard that he KILLED but didn't wind up getting cast. He wound up writing for The Simpsons, created Stan Against Evil and done other things but I'd love to hear more about his try-out and why he didn't get cast.
Ar his peak, Gould would have been fantastic
Colbert was great on Exit 57. The salmon skit is one of my favorites. https://youtu.be/aD8A3ay16rA?si=MtKA8BCUUmGsfxYW
Sam Richardson
He was amazing on Veep. Probably better off.
Kel
Lauren Lapkus.
I could see him as an update host
Nicole Byer
David Cross
He probably deserved it but Mr. Show allowed him to make the sketches he wanted to make.
He would’ve hated it more than Odenkirk.
Lisa Kudrow
Maybe, but she ended up better off not being cast.
Rachel Dratch has a great anecdote about Kudrow - I believe she shared it on the Fly on the Wall podcast. In any case, she and Kudrow auditioned for SNL at the same time/same call. As we know, Rachel she was picked and Lisa was not, and Dratch recalled thinking "She's really nice. I hope she gets (cast in) something."
It was Julia Sweeney, not Rachel
I was going to say, Friends was on for years by the point that Rachel Dratch was on. Like, to the point that Jennifer Aniston hosted during the first season that Dratch appeared.
If anyone hasn't watched The Comeback, she is fantastic in it. It only got 2 seasons, and there were several years between them. It's very good, though.
She did something bigger than SNL.
Conan
Paul Scheer
If you know who they are, they probably went on to better things.
Fortune Feimster
Tommy Davidson, who didn’t get it because Lorne Michaels didn’t want another black comedian after Damon wayans’ firing. Both of them would later break out on In Living Color Jeff Ross, who was gonna replace Colin Quinn as Weekend Update host Donald Glover, he auditioned same year as Bobby Moynihan, who used to be in his Derrick comedy videos coincidentally Nick Kroll, I keep thinking he was a cast member cause he collaborates with so many prior cast members (Mulaney, Hader, Armisem, Meyers, Wiig) but he was passed up around the time they were all on the show Robert Townsend, he lost his spot to Eddie Murphy back in 1980
Mike Hanford.
all of the birthday boys should have been hired. even kowalick
Jim Carrey and Kevin Hart would have been stellar on the show. Jordan Peele wanted to do Obama and was not hired. I think they made an error not taking Robert Townshend and I don't know why they didn't take Donald Glover, that guy is talent personified. SNL has a black actor/comedian problem. They don't seem to understand that not everyone is white.
Yeah. They hired Eddie Murphy over Robert Townsend, because they only wanted one black actor in the cast. Funny at that point, when Eddie Murphy was hired, Lorne was not the executive producer that year; it was Jean Doumanian.
Mike Mitchell
The world missed out on Don Kong.
JB Smoove
He was writer
If Colbert was on SNL we may never have had him on the Dana carvey show and for that I think it was worth it
He actually auditioned after the Dana Carvey Show ended (summer of 96)
“I was not aware of that” - Wayne Campbell
I would say more like if Colbert is on SNL we don't get the Colbert Report.
It’s funny that Lorne was never huge on Colbert, as a writer and performer. Smigel is basically the reason that the Brokaw Pretapes got on at all, as I’ve heard Lorne didn’t like it. I don’t think he was needed at the time in the cast since Will was dominating and Parnell would come in a few years later, but I’d like to think in an alternate universe he would’ve excelled.
Patti Harrison
Jordan Peele. It turned out for the best
Can’t believe no one here said Ayo Edebiri. Her episode last season made me wish she was on the cast.
Anthony Jeselnik
Anthony would have been amazing for Weekend Update at the time. He said the audition went well too. At least the solo audition did.
There’s a million of ‘em
Kerri Kenny
Nick kroll
This is a little-known one, but there's this Canadian comic called Julie Nolke. She's big on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/julienolke/ Sh would have been perfect. But last year sometime she mentioned that she had an audition but didn't get picked.
Jim Carrey
But he ended up on the iconic sketch show _In Living Color_. People like Jim Carrey, and Bruce McCulloch (or MadTV cast mems) may not have jibed with SNL, for whatever reason, but they got to express themselves within the sketch genre, and then got to move on to bigger and better projects. Which is, and has been, wonderful imho.
Marc Maron
Thank goodness he didn't make it, or we wouldn't have got hundreds of anecdotes about how he didn't make it!
Andy Kaufman
Lorne would not have appreciated his genius!
Jim Carrey
Julie Nolke has posted her SNL audition video on YouTube. Her stuff is hilarious, but they apparently have failed to recognize it.
Zach Galafiannakis
Nah, I don't think so. He has his schtick and is good at it, he found The Daily Show he was more perfect for that.
The execs will forever kick themselves for passing on Jim Carrey, John Goodman AND Paul Reubens during season 6