Three Not Ready for Primetime Players are teaming up in a galaxy far, far away.
Former SNL cast members Laraine Newman and Bobby Moynihan, as well as current repertory player James Austin Johnson, are set to take part in a live staged reading of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones in Los Angeles this month.
It’s all going down at LA’s Dynasty Typewriter on Saturday, August 10, but livestream tickets will also be available for those who want to tune in virtually.
Dubbed “The Great Kamino Kaper: A Live Reading of Attack of the Clones,” the event is being staged by The George Lucas Talk Show and the Star Wars Minute podcast. (The George Lucas Talk Show is a long-running live improv talk show hosted by comedian Connor Ratliff, in character as Star Wars director George Lucas. Star Wars Minute debuted in 2013, covering every Star Wars film one minute at a time through daily episodes.)
The reading follows a previous live reading the same team staged for The Phantom Menace in May, which Moynihan and Newman were also part of. In fact, those two former SNL stars are also fellow alumni of the Star Wars universe. Moynihan has lent his voice to several Star Wars projects, including Resistance and LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. Newman voiced a character in the 2011 video game Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Newman, Moynihan, and Johnson are all from different eras of Saturday Night Live. But Newman, who was part of the inaugural cast of SNL and stayed with the show until 1980, praised James Austin Johnson after his debut episode on the show in 2021. “I’ve never seen such an impressive debut of a new SNL cast member like James Austin Johnson’s,” she wrote on X/Twitter. “He’s superb, confident, and damn funny.”
The show’s “all-star cast” includes a ton of other performers, including actor Haley Joel Osment, Seth Green, and Matt Gourley of the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast.
Tickets for “The Great Kamino Kaper” are available at this link.
