-"SNL" 40th --
they used all our dressing rooms for fancy people.
Taylor Swift was in here, and she very sweetly
left a thank-you note, and I was like,
"Yeah, this is my life now."
Which I still do all the time.
But mostly my life is, like, picking up my dog [bleep]
and stuff like that, you know.
♪♪
-In my first season, I shared a dressing room
with Kate and Cecily.
We were right next to the women's restroom,
which I always thought was a big win,
'cause I'm a dumper.
Let's see. Is this going good? [ Laughs ] Um...
Our first year, I do feel like our dressing room kind of became
like the hub for all the new cast
and new writers, so, like,
Timmy Robinson and Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider.
You know, I mean, like, it's also like, you're in there
for hours and hours at a time,
especially in your first seasons
'cause you're not in that much.
It is, like, where the three of us really bonded,
which is very nice.
My second season, Cecily and I shared a dressing room,
and then the following season I got
the beautiful digs that I'm in now.
You know, no windows.
They actually just redid the carpet.
Gave us new couches 'cause they were eaten by moths.
So I'm living the high life.
You know, we're in these rooms, like, all the time.
I've tried to just surround myself with little things
that just, like, make me happy.
Almost everything in here is like some little
reminder of a person either I worked with
or something that someone gave to me.
So this does become like my home three days of the week.
I have a framed photo that Colin gave me
that is my husband I giving the finger in the back of a taxi.
I really like that one.
Truly, like, some of my darkest times have happened in here,
which is why I have so many, like, lotions and potions
for, like, camouflaging.
But it's like, you know, we work these insane hours.
At the end of it you still have to come back here usually
and keep going, and so I mostly use this space
to, like, recoup in some way.
-Featuring Aidy Bryant.
-My first season,
I hosted a presidential debate,
and it was maybe like my fifth show ever.
It was this weird scenario where
I couldn't have cue cards in front of me.
They had cue cards guys dressed up as extras,
and then they would pop up a single card
and then pop it back down.
And I was so nervous.
I remember just over and over again
in my dressing room going, like,
"Good evening. Good evening."
Full psycho.
Couldn't stop practicing that
'cause I was so nervous.
I still, to this day, am, like, haunted by that
first line where I'm like,
"Good evening from Hofstra University
in Hempstead, New York."
Right before air, a note was sent down, I think from Lorne,
that they were like, "She looks too young.
Add age makeup."
So they were literally counting down like,
"5, 4, 3..."
The makeup artist was, like, desperately trying to put,
like, shadow under my eyes and stuff.
He didn't mean to, but he poked me in the eye.
And they were like, "3, 2, 1."
[ Laughter ] Good evening from
Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
I'm Candy Crowley from CNN's "State of the Union."
[ Applause ] But it worked out okay,
and, like, I got to say "Live from New York" --
the very first time I ever got to say "Live from New York."
Thank you, and live from New York, it's "Saturday Night"!
Tom Hanks was also in the sketch, and Bill Hader,
and they both, like, came on either side of me
and, like, ran me down the hall,
and all the hair and makeup and costumes people
were there, and they clapped for me,
and it was, like, one of the coolest moments
I've ever had here.
I think of my office as, like, a place for collaboration
and people to come by and us to, like, write together,
and I think of this as, like, a much more quiet space.
If people come in here, it's usually to, like,
talk about how nervous we are. -..."Saturday Night"!
-Every time a sketch ends, you have to run
and someone's pulling your pants down
and you're ripping your shirt off,
and this is like one of the few places
that we get to, like, find a little quiet,
and I think it's nice to have a nice little cozy home.
♪ And that's what I have here ♪
[ Laughs ]