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the jurogan experience well which with saturday night live was the first time of uh oh i also did uh i did a pilot i was out in l.a to audition for one pilot i didn't get and then a friend of mine a comic said i'm in this pilot uh you want to come and audition with me for it i'm already in it and and i got that nev it never had it was terrible and um that oh that one was called the uh the adventures of uh wally brown and the the one of the actors just died recently um peter scalari oh the guy from uh bosom buddies yeah yeah oh wow and so he was one of the stars of that wow and but that was my first time of i don't remember how much i got but getting a check and going wow this is actual money so was snl before or after that uh uh that was uh snl was after and was you said snl was terrible uh yeah the seat well the season i was on uh like the original well lorne michaels left and the original cast left oh really so people hated the show before it even got on the edge lauren michaels left at one point yeah i did yeah yeah he came back yeah uh then they got they got in dick ebersole was the next one and uh well no i think ebersole was after my season my season was gene dominion and but the idea back then of uh saturday night live with different cast members that just wasn't now it's like the cash changes every five minutes right but back then it was like no we could it would be like saying like in the middle of beatlemania that uh oh we're getting four other guys to be the beatles or or when friends was on we're recasting friends but just watch it same way and so they were they were news stories and articles saying how dare they this was sacrilege so that's funny so you were like the second
cast uh yeah we were the second cast and and it's like everybody left uh yeah yeah all the original people were gone and it was like uh see you you don't want to be the replacement you want to be the replacement of the replacement because then you get one guy that's the sacrificial lamb that they throw into the fire and then next it's like oh well it's better than that other guy yeah yeah right you then you come in after you and then you could actually be accepted yeah slightly god damn did you enjoy the like the process at all and not really and i i was uh nothing new i was always weird [Laughter] um when i was auditioning there were a few additions some at a comedy club others in their office and they would be like lots of people there and i would hear you know other people who auditioned who would say oh they were so hateful of everybody else who was against them in there and i remember just out of weirdness not courage out of weirdness i i didn't take auditioning for saturday night live as something important i don't know why i just didn't and i would go there and do bits and everything and when i was on it i didn't feel like well i mean there was a reason i didn't feel like a star there because everyone was torn to shreds in the press but and then when i got fired from it i you know thought okay oh the way i got fired from saturday night live there used to be a a table there that they would throw fan letters when there was a such thing as fan letters now it's you know who writes a fan letter anymore it's all uh you know emails stuff uh and that they so i was waiting they had fired or the producer and
uh dick ebersole came in he said all right well we're just going to make changes here and there nothing major uh come in next week and uh we'll discuss it and they were taking people in one by one and i'm waiting there and killing time i see a a girl writes a fan letter to me from like omaha whatever and i open it up before i even get into the office i open the letter and it starts off dear gilbert i'm so sorry about what happened to you so i found out from a fan letter from some uh 15 year old girl how did she find out yeah i don't know but maybe she saw it coming yeah yeah and she started writing it after the first episode oh the writing's on the wall yeah this guy sucks was it the same kind of environment because the thing about saturn live that i keep hearing from former cast members is that it was like a dog-eat-dog world over there and people would be backstabbing people and stealing their their ideas for sketches uh yeah jim brewer had a horrible time there yeah i remember well i remember like i didn't like the writers and the writers hated me and so one time to prove it how much they hated me they wrote a funeral sketch where i was the dead body so i just had to lie there in the coffin that's it yeah wow just to [ __ ] you yeah yeah that the the environment phil hartman said the same thing he said the environment over there was just toxic like everybody was like at each other's throats and just wasn't fun they were always like just hamstringing each other yeah always trying to [ __ ] each other over and ruin each other's sketches not laughing at each other's sketches and laying them out that kind of thing yeah that there was like a like a lot of politics over there and you had to learn the politics he hated it so did jim brewer hate him yeah i i think yeah i didn't have a great time there at all so those gut shows are just so different than stand
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