Saturday Night Live

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]