The star maker has become a star himself in the leadup to SNL50, and apparently he’s not thrilled about it. “Everybody who had to know me, knew me,” he tells Maureen Dowd in a new New York Times profile.
“While he wrote bigger hits than ‘Long White Beard,’ I’m posting it because it’s ridiculous and funny and as Conan-y as it gets.” [Robert Smigel on Threads]
“Nobody went by my office and yelled, ‘F*g,'” Terry Sweeney tells Vulture. “Instead, it was, ‘I don’t really have any ideas for you. We need a mailman in the sketch; we don’t need a gay mailman.'” [via TV Tattle]
“This is my last season. I’m not coming back,” Che told an audience last week at the University of Rochester. He’s made similar statements going back several years now, only to end up the returning the following season.
Free tickets for Friday’s live event are being released as they become available via Shadowcasting.com
The 2 block-long promo for Sunday’s anniversary special features large cut-out photos of classic SNL characters and even a 3D recreation of the show’s famed home base set.
