Matthew Claybrooks, Ali Leroi, Jon Macks, and April Rock all have ties to the SNL alum. It’s not clear whether their contributions to last night’s episode extended beyond Rock’s opening monologue.
“What the hell do Olympians do after they go to the Olympics,” the SNL alum asks in the trailer for her upcoming comedy special. “Google said Olympians tend to become teachers and mentors…and I thought ‘Oh, f*ck that. I don’t want to do that.”
“Great show! You were so good,” Heidi Gardner tells Chris Rock as she and musical guest Gracie Abrams hug the bewildered host.
“Five Seconds!” Those screamed words from the original SNL stage manager’s mouth are nearly as iconic as the show itself, but as actor Justin Smith—who played Dicso in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night—describes, that’s basically all he had to base his performance on.
