John Mulaney On Hosting 'SNL': 'I Had No Idea How Hard This Was'
NPRJohn Mulaney On Hosting 'SNL': 'I Had No Idea How Hard This Was' Enlarge this image toggle caption Netflix Netflix After working for five years as a writer and producer on Saturday Night Live, comic John Mulaney thought he knew everything there was to know about the show. Mulaney had previously written for SNL cast members Andy Samberg, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader — and he called them with a confession: "I said, 'I just want you to know, I never said this before, but I always thought we had the harder job, and I'm so sorry. Sponsor Message But I believe I accepted on the spot, and I went back inside the restaurant and told my mom, and she's like, "You were 11 and you read an article about Conan O'Brien, and you said, 'I want to be a writer at The Harvard Lampoon, and then I want to be a writer on Saturday Night Live.' And you know, at the time, I was so excited, because I thought you were going to work harder to get into Harvard, but even though you didn't, now you're at Saturday Night Live!" And the waitress came over right at that moment, and my mom said to her, "My son just got hired as a writer on Saturday Night Live."
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