You're going to host SNL this weekend, aren't you?
I am hosting SNL this weekend, yes.
Wow!
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Uh.
Are you nervous?
I'm very nervous.
Yes, it's nerve-wracking.
Well, because it's all your pals though.
That should be easier.
Yeah, no that's true.
Yeah, but it's the red light going on.
It's live television, so.
But you used to do that all the time.
I know, and every time I was scared.
Really?
Yeah, well you would do a show, and in the middle of the show,
my friend from Oklahoma or whatever,
would be texting me like, oh, that was stupid.
[LAUGHTER]
You're checking your texts?
And you're like, oh, they didn't like Stefon this weekend.
OK, great, you know, whatever it is.
You're checking your texts during the show?
We all do.
Really?
[LAUGHTER]
If you really want to get us in our head,
yeah go on twitter during the show,
and everybody will go, oh let's not do that.
Oh that's hilarious, I didn't know.
And now I'm going to start texting Kate during the show.
Oh, usually I don't do it during the show because she's working.
Well she's a good cast member and isn't on her phone
during the show, unlike me.
That's the other weird thing is that, I'm
going in with all these people who
were freshmen when I was there, and Kate was the new cast
member.
And now she's--
--blown up.
Blown up.
And it's amazing.
But I went to her audition, and Lorne Michaels
said, you go to the auditions but don't laugh.
Don't laugh--
It's a good impression.
--because you don't want people to,
I don't know, enjoy the experience.
[LAUGHTER]
I don't know what it is.
It's so cruel.
But I remember when I auditioned, they didn't laugh.
And Tina Fey laughed.
Tina Fey went, "Ha!"
during my audition.
And I went, wow, I made Tina Fey laugh.
And I really relaxed, and it really
helped me in my audition.
So when Kate McKinnon--
Aw!
--started, I started laughing.
Oh my goodness.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, boy.
That's the nicest shirt I had at that time.
[LAUGHTER]
You can take the boy out of Oklahoma.
But when Kate McKinnon came on, she started her audition,
and I started laughing so hard that they were like,
get Bill out of here.
[LAUGHTER]
I thought she was unreal.
She's unreal.
Yeah, she's hilarious.
What did you do for your audition?
I did impressions.
I did Al Pacino.
I did Tony Blair.
You know, the hits.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
James Mason.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, lot of people are looking for that.
Yeah, a lot of people were looking for the James Mason
impression back then.
I can't remember what else, I think I did Peter Falk.
Like a bunch of things,
Was that the first time you auditioned?
You got it right away?
No, I actually did a show, this was terrifying,
I did a show with my sketch group.
And they flew us out to New York,
and we went to UCB Theater, and out in the audience
was Lorne Michaels, and Seth Meyers, and Tina Fey,
and everybody.
And that was the first thing I did.
And unbeknownst to me, in that theater
was also Bobby Moynihan, he was just a student at the time.
All these people were there.
And again, someone's laugh helped me.
We started the sketch, it was the first sketch,
and it was dying.
And Amy Poehler started laughing.
And I knew she was laughing to help us, give us
some confidence, because the sketch was not funny.
[LAUGHTER]
But you heard this, "ah ha ha ha!"
[LAUGHTER]
And we all kind of looked at each other
like, we just made Amy Poehler laugh.
And it helped us out.
It does help, I can't believe that Lauren Michaels says,
don't laugh.
That's so cruel.
Yeah, well because it helps, to see what kind a confidence
you have.
Well, yeah that's true.
First of all, I love this new show you're doing.
Oh, thank you.
But we'll talk about it.
What do you watch on TV?
I like the show, "Snapped."
Have you heard of this show, "Snapped?"
I've never seen it, but I've heard of it.
[LAUGHTER]
"Snapped" is rad.
[LAUGHTER]
It's about women who kill.
[LAUGHTER]
And there's always a moment in every show where they go,
and that's when she snapped.
[LAUGHTER]
Like they were just completely fine
and then they just snapped?
Yeah.
There's no history of them being a little off?
No, they're all off.
Oh, OK.
You're just like, don't.
You know?
There's one with a 911 call where the guy's like,
(SOUTHERN ACCENT): My wife, they're all very regional,
so he's like, my wife, she took a shot at me.
[LAUGHTER]
But I got the gun away from her, and we're OK.
We're OK.
And they're like, oh well sir do you have
any other guns in the house?
And he goes,
(SOUTHERN ACCENT): No, I don't think
we have any other guns in the house.
Oh, yeah we do.
[LAUGHTER]
Really?
And he's dead, it's not funny.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
But the show, I can't stop watching it.
[LAUGHTER]
What channel is this?
It's on Oxygen Network.
OK.
And I would sit, and the Super Bowl would be on,
and my friends would be like, hey man are you watching this?
And I'm like, I know, this guy's marrying an insane woman.
[LAUGHTER]
Now I want to watch it.
Oh, every time they say, and that's when she snapped,
I'm alone in my place going, yeah!
[LAUGHTER]
(SHOUTING): She snapped!
[LAUGHTER]
He's a dead man!
I love it!
[LAUGHTER]
Oh my god, that's hilarious.
I love shows like that, so now I'm going to watch that.
Yeah, it's the best.