{"id":401250,"date":"2022-01-29T19:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T19:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:00:33","slug":"9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#9 Celebrities Who Auditioned (Unsuccessfully) for &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dcbe13aa81\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dcbe13aa81\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#Jim_Carrey\" >Jim Carrey<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#Jennifer_Coolidge\" >Jennifer Coolidge<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#Zach_Galifianakis\" >Zach Galifianakis<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#John_Goodman\" >John Goodman<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#Kevin_Hart\" >Kevin Hart<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#Mindy_Kaling\" >Mindy Kaling<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#Lisa_Kudrow\" >Lisa Kudrow<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#Kel_Mitchell\" >Kel Mitchell<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-celebrities-who-auditioned-unsuccessfully-for-saturday-night-live-video\/#Amber_Ruffin\" >Amber Ruffin<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#9 Celebrities Who Auditioned (Unsuccessfully) for &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; (VIDEO)<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GettyImages-958975250.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div> Add John Goodman to the long list of talented individuals <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> has overlooked. The star of <em>The Conners<\/em> and <em>The Righteous Gemstones<\/em> revealed recently that he once tried out for the venerated sketch-comedy show.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Goodman might not have done the requisite prep work for his tryout, as you\u2019ll see below. But in other cases, <em>SNL<\/em> producers just didn\u2019t recognize stardom in the making.<\/p>\n<p>Other times, they did, but they said no anyway. \u201cThere were lots of people who, you\u2019d see how brilliant they were, but you knew on some level that it wasn\u2019t going to work,\u201d creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels explained to <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/lorne-michaels-40-years-snl-769101\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> in 2015, reflecting on <em>SNL<\/em>\u2018s former aspirants.<\/p>\n<p>But Michaels also acknowledged that he and the other <em>SNL<\/em> producers are fallible. \u201cNo one gets it all right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Here are more details on Goodman and the other big names who were turned away.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jim_Carrey\"><\/span>Jim Carrey<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jim Carrey SNL audition.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_7Y_7QKST9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carrey broke out on another sketch-comedy show, <em>In Living Color<\/em>, after <em>SNL<\/em> turned the then-18-year-old down in 1980. \u201cI wasn\u2019t at the Jim Carrey audition, but somebody who was there said, \u2018I don\u2019t think Lorne would like it,\u2019 and they were probably wrong, but it doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d Michaels told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/lorne-michaels-40-years-snl-769101\/\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>. \u201cOr maybe they were right \u2014 who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jennifer_Coolidge\"><\/span>Jennifer Coolidge<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9ICxYFnE3-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>White Lotus<\/em> star revealed in a 2004 interview with <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140226011234\/http:\/\/www.lamag.com:80\/features\/2004\/10\/01\/comedy-central\">Los Angeles Magazine<\/a><\/em> that she auditioned alongside Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, and Chris Kattan, and she was the only one turned down. \u201cThey chose Will and Cheri and not Chris and I, and six months later they called up Chris,\u201d she said. \u201cI was the one who got rejected. I was spared a bullet. I think of all the demons, and playing politics. \u2026 I probably would have self-destructed on <em>SNL<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Zach_Galifianakis\"><\/span>Zach Galifianakis<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zach Galifianakis Saturday Night Live Audition\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qwu0ySVKgKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This <em>Baskets<\/em> star\u2019s 1999 audition \u2014 a snippet of which you can see above \u2014 didn\u2019t land him a spot on the <em>SNL<\/em> stage, but he did join the show as a part-time writer that year. It would be another decade before his onscreen break in <em>The Hangover<\/em> came about.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"John_Goodman\"><\/span>John Goodman<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Goodman&#039;s SNL Audition Was the Worst Thing He&#039;s Ever Done | The Tonight Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7F5qr3_FhzU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Emmy winner has hosted <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> 13 times by now, but his 1980 tryout for the show didn\u2019t go so well. \u201cI just knew they\u2019d hire me, just \u2018cause I\u2019m a nice guy,\u201d he quipped on <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy<\/em> Fallon earlier this month. \u201cThat\u2019s the worst thing I\u2019ve ever done in front of people in my life. I wrote something about 15 minutes before I went over there, and oh God, it was awful.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kevin_Hart\"><\/span>Kevin Hart<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kevin Hart\u2019s Disastrous SNL Audition | CONAN on TBS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4rbvaqPDSVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you had seen this tape, you would understand why I didn\u2019t get it,\u201d the <em>Die Hart<\/em> actor said on <em>Conan<\/em> in 2015, recalling his failed audition for <em>SNL<\/em>. As he said at the time, he did an impression of Avery Johnson, a San Antonio Spurs player with whom Michaels supposedly wasn\u2019t familiar. (\u201cI found out that white people didn\u2019t know who Avery Johnson was,\u201d Hart said during <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lP-Aj9gBih0\">his 2013 <em>SNL<\/em> monologue<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mindy_Kaling\"><\/span>Mindy Kaling<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYcUJuoPCYn\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kaling told <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-last-laugh-podcast-mindy-kaling-on-the-office-late-night-and-turning-down-her-dream-job-at-snl\">The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em> in 2019 that she auditioned for <em>SNL<\/em> midway through <em>The Office<\/em>\u2019s second season, and <em>Office<\/em> producer Greg Daniels told her that if she was cast, he\u2019d let her out of her contract. After her audition, she learned she was being considered for the <em>SNL<\/em> writing room. \u201cSo I went back and talked to Greg about it and he said to me, no, that\u2019s not the deal we made. The deal we made is that if you get cast as a cast member, you can go,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it was really a life-changing thing. I think the course of my career would have gone really differently had I left <em>The Office<\/em> and done that instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lisa_Kudrow\"><\/span>Lisa Kudrow<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lisa Kudrow on auditioning for &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rrVEb48VIEo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before <em>Friends<\/em> made her a household name, Kudrow was in contention for <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>: The actress told the Television Academy in 2014 that Michaels visited the Los Angeles improv troupe The Groundlings to watch her, Julia Sweeney, and Kathy Griffin perform. And it was Sweeney who got the <em>SNL<\/em> job, joining the show in 1990. \u201cThe thing about the characters that I did at The Groundlings is, they weren\u2019t the big crowd-pleasers,\u201d Kudrow explained.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kel_Mitchell\"><\/span>Kel Mitchell<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fyahooentertainment%2Fvideos%2F10157111932049832%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kenan Thompson\u2019s <em>Kenan &amp; Kel<\/em> costar didn\u2019t make the cut at a 2003 <em>SNL<\/em> audition, unfortunately, even after trotting out impressions like DMX in <em>Toy Story<\/em> and a tree-allergic Michael Jackson. \u201cThere was some laughter, there was some \u2018What the heck is going on?\u2019\u201d he told <em>Yahoo!<\/em> in 2018, recalling the reaction in the room. \u201cI think they were looking for a certain thing. \u2026 I have no remorse about it.\u201d (See him discuss the tryout at the 12:10 mark of the video above.)<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Amber_Ruffin\"><\/span>Amber Ruffin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amber Ruffin On &#039;White History Month&#039; Skit, SNL Audition, + Black Women In Improv\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGv85thOLSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The host of <em>The Amber Ruffin Show<\/em> was one of nearly a dozen Black women who auditioned for <em>SNL<\/em> at a Los Angeles showcase in 2013, joining Nicole Byer, Tiffany Haddish, and others at the tryout, per <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/article\/2013\/12\/13\/snl-black-female-comedians\/\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI thought, \u2018For sure, I got this job. I\u2019ve been professionally writing sketch and performing for 10 years. I have it,\u2019\u201d Ruffin recalled on Hot 97 last year. \u201cBoy oh boy, you cocky little turd, that is exactly what you get!\u201d she quipped.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<p><em><strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Season 47, Saturdays, 11:30\/10:30c, NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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