In the past, we shared a list of 32 celebrities who got rejected Saturday Night LiveBut rejection is a two-way street in Studio 8H, and these 10 equally funny celebrities SNL Cold attitude.
Say No SNL It wasn't Kaling's idea, but the timing wasn't on her side. In a 2007 interview, AV Clubshe revealed that she auditioned for SNL Just a few months ago (1 year later) office“They didn't offer me the role, but the audition went well and that night they said, 'Do you want to come write for the show?' [The Office creator] Greg [Daniels] Used for writing SNLand he SNL It was a big dream for me. He said, “Look, if you end up on the show, I'll break your contract and let you be on it. But if you want me to write for you, I can't do that. You've got a writing job here and you're on the show. So I'm not going to let you leave the show and go to New York.” And I missed New York so much. I'd always hated LA and I wanted to get out of there. SNL And I fell in love with a writer SNL“I had to give up my dream of getting married and living in New York. It was really tough having to turn that down, but then I ended up joining as a guest writer in the spring.”
SNL In the early 1980s, the show faced a major shake-up. After Lorne Michaels left, producer Jean Doumanian took over, but poor reviews led to Dick Ebersol replacing him after one season. Just as Doumanian tried to reinvent the show, so did Ebersol, turning to some of Second City's most talented actors. There was just one problem: the legendary comedy troupe had its own sketch comedy show, featuring John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, and Harold Ramis. Even that little detail got Ebersol trying to lure Candy to the show. SNL. According to the book by Doug Hill and Jeff Weinrad: Saturday NightCandy said, Saturday Night and SCTVHe stuck to the latter, SNL 1983 (with a few cameo appearances).
Dick Ebersol's SCTV Poaching Catherine O'Hara was somewhat more successful. She participated in the 1981 season, but did not last long. “Maybe two years. [weeks]” she said. Toronto Sun her SNL Many reports have suggested she left because she was intimidated by an incident in which writer Michael O'Donoghue yelled at other writers on the show, but O'Hara says it was simply a mistake to quit. SCTV “I never made the decision to leave in the first place. I was hanging out with good people and trying to bounce ideas off of them, but I never really felt involved,” she said of her decision to leave before the season started. “I had to leave. I said I made a big mistake. I'm not proud of it. I thought it was a stupid thing to do. But I had to go home. I couldn't be without them.”
“The ball kept rolling. Jackassbut it was progressing slowly.” Jackass Co-creator Jeff Tremaine said in a 2006 interview: AV Club“We are basically Jackass It was out there and it was really popular. SNL The show's producers liked it and gave Knoxville a spot. SNL“It was like, I say yes to my friend, we control everything, Saturday Night LiveNone of my friends were there and I had no control over anything,” Knoxville said. The Washington Times In 2005, he chose to simply say “no.”
Why Bonnie Hunt turned down the role SNL It all came down to a question she posed to Lorne Michaels: “I asked, 'If there's an ending to a scene that just doesn't seem to work, can you improvise it?'” Hunt recalls. Los Angeles Times“And he said, 'Absolutely not.'” And that was the end of it.
“At the beginning of my career, I just Saturday Night Live“They literally offered it to me,” Andy Dick said. Rough Spin In 2011, “I just The Ben Stiller Showbut the truth is, I was worried I wouldn't be able to play several roles every week. I didn't have the confidence I have now… I can now,” Dick continued. “But I'm 45, what's the point? I'm too old for the club anyway. They won't take me, unless they start a new club. Saturday Night Live: Seniors; Saturday Night Dead. When asked if he would say yes if he were offered the show today, Dick replied, “I would jump at the opportunity. But if Dancing with the Stars “I get a call and I'm like, 'I'm putting on my tap shoes.'” He wasn't kidding: Dick was a contestant on the reality dance show for seven weeks in 2013.
After Jane Garofalo retired in 1995, SNL They needed another funny woman, and Amy Sedaris auditioned for the position, but at the same time she was starring in a play she had written with her brother, David. “I met Lorne Michaels, and we were doing a play at the time,” she said. One Woman Shoes“It was everything I had hoped for,” Sedaris said. Interview Magazine When she made the decision to end her life in 2001, she said, “I wish it had happened three years earlier, but I thought it was too late then. A few years later, Stranger with candy “Television just fell into my lap, but it was never something I thought about or planned for.”
The story of whether Jennifer Aniston really, truly stole the spotlight is SNL It's highly questionable, but it was Aniston herself who started the rumours. Please continue. upon Oprah In 2011, Aniston's co-star, SNL Adam Sandler recalled that in the early 1990s, “I was in Lorne Michaels' office on the ninth floor and I saw Jen walk in. I thought, 'Oh my God. There's Aniston. Is she going to be on our show?'” friendShe said she turned him down because “it was an all-boys club and they thought I was making a big mistake.”
In 1976, six years after their breakup, The Beatles were offered $230 million to reform by promoter Sid Bernstein, but they promptly turned it down. Shortly thereafter, Lorne Michaels begged The Beatles to reunite as guests at a live show. SNLNBC said it had authorized him to provide a “certified check for $3,000.” What we want to sayJohn Lennon revealed that he did consider it: “Paul and I were watching the show together,” he said. “He was hanging out at our house at the Dakota, and we were watching the show and we jokingly wondered if we should just go to the studio. We tried to get a cab, but we were too tired.”
Legendary street performer and comedian Charlie Barnett was Dave Chappelle's mentor and suffered for years over a missed opportunity. SNLBurnett advanced rapidly through the auditions, but worried about his lack of education (Burnett had dropped out of school in the eighth grade), he abandoned the final round: “I was too scared,” he admitted. people magazine “I'm a good reader, but a slow reader,” he wrote in 1983. Though he eventually found success doing things his own way (he had regular appearances as “Noogie”), Miami Vice During her heyday, Burnett admitted that for a long time she harbored intense jealousy toward Eddie Murphy, who had supplanted her on the show.
