SNL Hall of Fame

Meet Joe and Shari as they assemble around the SNL Hall of Fame watercooler to discuss a variety of things relating the SNL and its Hall of Fame.

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[0:22]All right. Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame Water Cooler Podcast. I'm Joe Gannon and I'm sitting at the water cooler with...

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[0:30]Me, Shari Fasco. I'm very excited to be here. I've got my cup and I'm filling it up.

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[0:38]All right. And then there I go. All right. Let's get into it. All right. So on On this podcast, we're going to be talking about the SNL Hall of Fame and who we believe should and shouldn't be in it. But first, let's kind of just introduce ourselves. I'm Joe Gannon. I've been an SNL fan since, I guess, 1991. 91 and what I enjoyed about it was as I was watching it like as it was going on since 91 I got to watch the reruns like on Comedy Central E and whatnot so it's kind of cool seeing a show develop and then learn its history at the same time and I just found it absolutely fascinating about how important it is to our society about because the show makes fun of our society and politics, and everything. And the last thing is, I grew up in the central time zone, so the TV show was on at 10.30 to midnight. So to me, it was like a show that waited until the last hour and a half of the week to make fun of the previous week. And you, Sherry, introduce yourself.

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[2:00]Hi, I'm Shari, rhymes with Starry, as I tell everybody, and I am a Michigan native, and I have been into Saturday Night Live probably since I was about nine, since it started in 75. I was really, really young in 75, so I don't remember it that young, but I definitely, definitely remember watching it at like eight, nine, ten. I was really into Mr. Bill. I vaguely remember having a Mr. Bill t-shirt. I just always loved the show and it's always been like a rock for me. It's been something that I've always come back to when things are good and when things are not so good. My husband is also into it. He's been watching a lot of sketches with me lately, getting ready for this podcast. And it's just, it's really just, it's comfort food. Just like what Joe's saying, it's comfort food. It's something that's always been there. and now it's going into its 50th year. I'm 54. It's kind of incredible. It's kind of crazy to think that it's been around. So I'm really excited to be here with Joe. I think both of us are super excited to be talking about these incredible people. I think we're ready to get into it. Are we ready, Joe?

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[3:15]I believe so.

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[3:16]We're going to talk about the season six draft. We're each going to do the two people we would like to see get in. And then the two that we don't think really have much of a chance of getting in possibly. I will let you go ahead and go first, Joe, and then I'll go after you.

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[3:33]Okay. So the first person I think should get in is Lorraine Newman. I believe that the only reason why she hasn't gotten in sooner is there's just a series of people that are a little bit more obvious. Uh you know that just i feel like should be uh you know people that just feel like they should be in uh like will ferrell but um as far as the original cast like obviously everyone from the original five years should be in um as far as where lorraine is in that uh group she's not She's not really a household name. She wasn't a Ghostbuster. She wasn't a Blues Brother. She didn't have a sitcom afterward. Everyone knows Aykroyd, Murray, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase, John Belushi. And I feel like Lorraine Newman, who is extremely talented, just doesn't have that star power name. So when people are voting and they see her name... It just doesn't connect, or they don't immediately remember all of the great sketches that she was a part of. Or, if they do, they remember someone else that was in that sketch.

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[5:01]So that's why I chose Lorraine Newman. All right, and who's your pick?

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[5:06]My pick, I just stuck to strictly the season six draft. So I went with one, two of the draftees for this coming season that I would like to seek it in that I'm not really hopeful about. But my first is Sherry O'Terry. For all of the reasons you just said about Lorraine, I think Sherry is very, very, very, very, very underappreciated. She is absolutely hilarious. hilarious she stands up against the likes of will freaking farrell and holds her own yes even though she's this diminutive little she can't be more than five two but against will farrell who's like i don't know six four she still holds her own her comedic chops are that strong that she can hold her own and i feel that way in the zimmermans with chris katan i i watched her playing against Sylve...

Hey there and welcome back to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. On this week's program jD, Matt, and Thomas welcome back Matti Price to discuss Rosie Shuster being nominated in the writing category. Join us won't you?

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[0:42] Thank you so much, Doug Donats. It is great.

No, it is fantastic to be here with you all this week inside the SNL Hall of Fame.

Before you come on inside, I've got the door wide open for you here.

Just take a look down at your feet. There's a mat there. Wipe them.

The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot foryour consideration.

That's how we play the game. It's really quite simple.

You tune in, you listen to who we're nominating, and then you decide whether or not they belong inside the Hall of Fame by voting when voting opens.

And voting will open in this case around the 11th of December when we get into the round table discussions and whatnot, but for now, I won't waste your time with that information.

I think we should get right into Matt's Minutiae Minute because I'm excited about this week's episode. In fact, when I first launched this podcast, this was one of the pilot episodes Irecorded.

It was with Maddie Price and it was covering Rosie Shuster.

[2:02] And that's what we're going to do again this week. We are going to have Thomas this time, though, sit in conversation with our friend, Maddie Price, and have a great conversationabout Rosie Shuster and whether or not she belongs inside the SNL Hall of Fame.

Like I said before, though, let me not give you any more information at this point, an information dump.

Let's go right into Matt's information dump in his minutiae minute corner.

Hey Matt, are you excited about this one? Let's go.

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[2:38] Hey Jamie, oh, this is gonna be a fun one. I am so excited. I grew up watching her dad on TV and listening to his old radio programs.

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[2:47] Yeah.

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[2:49] Rosie Schuster is a comedy icon from a family of comedy icons, responsible for a lot of things I love.

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[2:58] Okay, tell me about them.

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[3:00] Hey, Rosie Schuster bit of a mystery height unknown born June 19th 1950 no height Rosie was born and raised in my town of Toronto She is the child of Canadian comedy royaltyFrank Schuster for whom there is a Toronto Street named after and Is one of my earliest comedy memories?

That said, she's not just a child of comedy royalty. She's also the cousin of Joe Shuster.

You know, the Joe Shuster, like the Superman Joe Shuster. Remember that Canadian Heritage Minute where Lois says, oh, find out what your cousin Frank thinks.

Well, that was Frank Schuster of Wayne and Schuster, father of Rosie.

Rosie was followed home by a strange little fellow during her junior high years named Lauren.

In order to meet her dad.

And I mean, really, for American listeners, these dudes were serious comedy royalty. I mean, you had a teenager following another teenager home just in the hopes to meet her father.

That's a little weird.

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[4:21] Yeah, I would agree.

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[4:22] Her aunt, Geraldine. This is my personal connection to the Schuster family, which I only found out about from my uncle last night.

Her aunt, Geraldine Schuster, went to Juilliard and as part of her exams, played my grandfather's Sonatina for piano as part of her exams.

I did not know that so technically I am within six degrees of separation not just from Rosie.

But Frank and Joe Shuster.

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[4:53] Holy shit.

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[4:54] I am having a nerd fantasy come true right now.

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[4:57] And Lorne, you're close to Lorne, too.

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[4:59] Before moving south to start a little project close to our hearts, she and Lorne started on the CBC with a show called Heart and Lorne, where they first worked with Dan and Gilda.

They followed this by a stint in L.A. writing for the Lily Tomlin show.

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[5:16] Right. I remember that. OK.

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[5:18] After leaving SNL, she wrote for Broadway, including a project for Gilda called Gilda Live that was at the Winter Garden Theatre.

She co-wrote that along with Michael O'Donohue, Marilyn Miller, Alan Zwiebel, and Annie Beetz.

The production was directed by one of the founding members of Second City, improv innovator and Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols.

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This week we're changing things up on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast!

We've got a round table panel consisting of, Matti Price, Jamie Burwood, and Thomas Sena. Their task; reveal and justify their voting for the first half of the SNL Hall of Fame season 2.

Join us won't you?

If you've got questions about the show or would like to be a guest on an episode in the future please reach out - [email protected]

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This is what we've been building up to! Now is the time to announce the newest inductees into the SNL Hall of Fame. Bill Kenney and Kirstin Rajala join Thomas Sena to reveal the inductees and breakdown the ballot as a whole. Who got in? Are there any snubs? Join us in discussion and celebration as we chat about the Class of Season 5.

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we welcome Ashley Bower back to the show, this time to discuss the four-time host, Adam Driver.

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[0:41] All right. Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is a thrill to be here back in the SNL Hall of Fame on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. My name is JD and welcome. Before you come on in, though, please do me a favor. Read the mat. Wipe your feet. eat. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. And that's how we play the game it's just that simple now one of the things we do before we play the game is we talk to our friend matt ardill and we get some trivia but before we do that i think it's important we know that we're going to be talking about adam driver today uh i gotta tell you he's one of my most favorite guests of this new era this new generation it would be mulaney and and driver for me for sure i could see them both being in the hall at some point it'll be interesting to hear what ashley bauer has to say in terms of building a case ash and we're thrilled so let's uh walk down the hall and talk to our friend mr ardill oh matt adam.

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[2:10] Driver yeah yeah um One of my favorite hosts, to be honest. Six foot two, born November 19th, 1983 in Fontana, California. Did not expect him to be a Californian. I don't know why. Just doesn't have that. Yeah, just doesn't have that California energy. He attended Mishawaka High School and the University of Indianapolis before going on to graduate from Juilliard. This is a another juilliard grad uh who appears on snl uh he has been in had he has had 57 acting roles six soundtrack credits and two producer credits um as a youth he appeared in how to succeed in business without really trying uh into the woods and guys and dolls uh he's he's one of of those people who's had you know when you see an actor and they're like they just have depths that you didn't expect, Because they have lived experiences, and I feel Adam is one of those. He worked as a door-to-door vacuum salesman.

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[3:19] He applied to Juilliard, was rejected, so decided, what the hell, I'll join the Marines. Where he was a Lance Corporal before being discharged due to an injury prior to deployment that made him unable to go into combat. So he decided, what the hell, I'll try Juilliard again. And this time was accepted. Does not like to watch his own performance and will decline to watch them in interviews, because he just does not like seeing himself on screen. Uh he's been nominated for oscars in lincoln a black k a kk black kk klansman i don't know how to pronounce the spike lee movie yeah it's a three k's it throws me off um and marriage story of course uh his wife is actor joanne tucker uh the uh their her grandfather is the politician henry Tucker, who is considered one of the most important politicians in Bermuda in history, who led the first government of Bermuda in 1968.

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[4:29] Um watching his roles it's clear he's a bit of an intense person um because like after watching fight club he actually came away with the wrong lesson and decided to start a fight club in his high school um yeah so that was a choice uh now he did appear on broadway in mrs warren's profession and man and boy before going on to appear in Girls. Growing up, he was raised by a father and a stepfather who were both preachers, who had him sing in the church choir, which he doesn't really show off to the best of his ability inside Llewellyn Davis.

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[5:13] Which is, to be honest, where I first fell in love with him as the singing cowboy. Boy uh but he's actually a very talented musician and in that episode where he played the piano on snl he actually played the piano he does know how to play the piano um now he's gone on found a charity uh called arts in the armed forces with his partner a non-profit that brings art to the active duty service members around the world and support staff free of charge uh together they have have a son uh but he actually kept it hidden for two years before the new yorker finally uh let it slip in 2019 so he is a man of uh many nuances and layers sounds that way what an onion he is yeah you know when i carve into an onion i often cry and when i listen to a thomas conversation Conversation with a guest, sometimes two, I often cry. Let's go to Thomas now.

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[6:19] Grab your tissues. How's that for a segue, Matty?

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[6:51] Well, hello, JD and Matt. Welcome to another edition of the SNL Hall of Fame Conversation. We are in the middle of a wonderful season six, continuing tha...