Season 5 Draft
01/15/24 • 59 min
jD and the gang are back it! This week Thomas, Matt and our special guest Kirstin Rajala pick our nominees we'll be discussing this upcoming season.
Transcript:
[0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug Donat. It is great to be here with you all as we kick off season five inside the SNL Hall of Fame.
How are you doing? My name is JD and I am joined every week by my friends Thomas and Matt.
Matt handles the trivia corner.
Thomas handles the conversations conversations, and me, well, I just blather.
I just blather at the top and bottom of every episode. So you're stuck with me.
The SNL Hall of Fame 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 we add them to the ballot foryour 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 for perpetuity inside the hall.
That's right, it's an easy game. That's what we play here each and every week.
[1:38] We kick things off every season with a draft, and we're going to do that again this season.
The draft will be handled this year by Thomas, Matt, and our special guest, Kirsten Rajala.
So buckle up and get ready, because this is going to be great.
They are going to go through and choose who will be nominated in season five.
And then you will listen to those episodes and then you will vote on who gets in the hall of fame, just like we did in season four, three, two, one, et cetera.
Well, there's no et cetera because one is where we started. So there's that.
Let's go right now to Thomas and have him kick this thing off.
I'll talk to you at the back end.
Track 3:
[2:54] Alright, welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.
We are in Season 5, officially the first episode of Season 5.
We're so excited because we're going to let everybody in on essentially how the sausage is made here at the SNL Hall of Fame in terms of choosing the nominees and choosing the lineup.
So this is a wonderful episode. We did a Season 4 draft that worked really well.
Well, it was myself, Matt Ardill, John Schneider.
This time around, we invited another guest, a five-timer, possibly a six-timer.
I really lost track of how many times Kirsten's joined us. Kirsten, do you know? Have you kept track?
I know this is super important to you. This has got to be the six because our last conversation, I was making a big stink and getting really excited about being a five-timer. So this is six.
Awesome. So we have, as the draftees today, to draft our Season 5 lineup, we have myself, we have Kirsten Rayula, and we have Matt Ardill.
So, Matthew, how are you? Good, good. In Chicago, I'm going to try to get you a Second City performance while I'm here.
[4:07] Oh, wonderful, wonderful. You'll have to let me know how that goes.
I'm going to be in Chicago soon, too. So you'll have to share notes with me.
So so how it works today again we are drafting the nominees for season five we do have some draft rules to go over so there will be three of us drafting first pick we're giving it to ourguest kirsten we'll have the first pick in the draft matt ardill will have the second pick in the draft and i will have the third pick in the draft it's not snake so we're just going to to go one twothree then one two three no snake drafting here on this episode we each get five picks and there are parameters to this so each person must draft one musical guest or a writer, one nomineefrom season one of the SNL hall of fame so we can re-litigate somebody's candidacy and also you know the other three then can be like the cast member host musical guest or writer or Idon't know if it's just at your win at that point. So those are the draft rules.
Matt, did you have like a strategy coming into this draft? Like what's your thought process heading into this? I just went with my heart.
That's what I came down to. That's really sweet. Who do I really want to be in there?
[5:27] Yes, yeah, definitely. Kirsten, how do you feel being like a first-time draftee?
A lot of pressure on you to decide the fate of the SNL Hall of Fame podcast for an entire season. It is, but there's still such good people that no matter what, I think folks will be happy.
And I love being able to make a case for why people should be included. So it's exciting.
But I did a snake with...
[5:53] Another crew and it got it got tense so i'm glad this is not a snake draft because i won't be as anxious about it yeah but it still might get heated i don't know mad ardeal kind of getsriled up with this stuff so you have to watch out for it passionate yes definitely so i guess we We will commence with the draft.
So, Kirsten, you are first...
jD and the gang are back it! This week Thomas, Matt and our special guest Kirstin Rajala pick our nominees we'll be discussing this upcoming season.
Transcript:
[0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug Donat. It is great to be here with you all as we kick off season five inside the SNL Hall of Fame.
How are you doing? My name is JD and I am joined every week by my friends Thomas and Matt.
Matt handles the trivia corner.
Thomas handles the conversations conversations, and me, well, I just blather.
I just blather at the top and bottom of every episode. So you're stuck with me.
The SNL Hall of Fame 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 we add them to the ballot foryour 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 for perpetuity inside the hall.
That's right, it's an easy game. That's what we play here each and every week.
[1:38] We kick things off every season with a draft, and we're going to do that again this season.
The draft will be handled this year by Thomas, Matt, and our special guest, Kirsten Rajala.
So buckle up and get ready, because this is going to be great.
They are going to go through and choose who will be nominated in season five.
And then you will listen to those episodes and then you will vote on who gets in the hall of fame, just like we did in season four, three, two, one, et cetera.
Well, there's no et cetera because one is where we started. So there's that.
Let's go right now to Thomas and have him kick this thing off.
I'll talk to you at the back end.
Track 3:
[2:54] Alright, welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.
We are in Season 5, officially the first episode of Season 5.
We're so excited because we're going to let everybody in on essentially how the sausage is made here at the SNL Hall of Fame in terms of choosing the nominees and choosing the lineup.
So this is a wonderful episode. We did a Season 4 draft that worked really well.
Well, it was myself, Matt Ardill, John Schneider.
This time around, we invited another guest, a five-timer, possibly a six-timer.
I really lost track of how many times Kirsten's joined us. Kirsten, do you know? Have you kept track?
I know this is super important to you. This has got to be the six because our last conversation, I was making a big stink and getting really excited about being a five-timer. So this is six.
Awesome. So we have, as the draftees today, to draft our Season 5 lineup, we have myself, we have Kirsten Rayula, and we have Matt Ardill.
So, Matthew, how are you? Good, good. In Chicago, I'm going to try to get you a Second City performance while I'm here.
[4:07] Oh, wonderful, wonderful. You'll have to let me know how that goes.
I'm going to be in Chicago soon, too. So you'll have to share notes with me.
So so how it works today again we are drafting the nominees for season five we do have some draft rules to go over so there will be three of us drafting first pick we're giving it to ourguest kirsten we'll have the first pick in the draft matt ardill will have the second pick in the draft and i will have the third pick in the draft it's not snake so we're just going to to go one twothree then one two three no snake drafting here on this episode we each get five picks and there are parameters to this so each person must draft one musical guest or a writer, one nomineefrom season one of the SNL hall of fame so we can re-litigate somebody's candidacy and also you know the other three then can be like the cast member host musical guest or writer or Idon't know if it's just at your win at that point. So those are the draft rules.
Matt, did you have like a strategy coming into this draft? Like what's your thought process heading into this? I just went with my heart.
That's what I came down to. That's really sweet. Who do I really want to be in there?
[5:27] Yes, yeah, definitely. Kirsten, how do you feel being like a first-time draftee?
A lot of pressure on you to decide the fate of the SNL Hall of Fame podcast for an entire season. It is, but there's still such good people that no matter what, I think folks will be happy.
And I love being able to make a case for why people should be included. So it's exciting.
But I did a snake with...
[5:53] Another crew and it got it got tense so i'm glad this is not a snake draft because i won't be as anxious about it yeah but it still might get heated i don't know mad ardeal kind of getsriled up with this stuff so you have to watch out for it passionate yes definitely so i guess we We will commence with the draft.
So, Kirsten, you are first...
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Track 2:
[0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be back here.
Season five is underway, and there's no better way to ring it in than by asking you to wipe those feet before you come inside the SNL Hall of Fame, which is a podcast.
It's a weekly affair. In 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 inside the hall. That's thegame.
That's what we play here every week. We've been doing it for four years, four seasons, and we're going to continue doing it until we've exhausted the pool of potential nominees.
So there's that. This week, we are talking about Adam Sandler, and I can think of no better person to kick off this conversation than our friend Matt Ardill.
I'm walking down the hallway. I am tight to the wall where the outer wall, where the east wall meets the north wall, forms a corner, and that is, of course, the trivia corner, Matt's MinutiaMinute. Let's go.
Track 3:
[1:59] Oh, Matthew, how are you doing? Hey, JD, I'm good, and yourself?
Track 2:
[2:03] I am great, thanks for I'm really excited about this week's episode.
It's the first episode of the fifth season, and that's pretty cool.
Uh, we're starting off with a great one.
Track 3:
[2:17] Yeah, it is. It's got some great guests. Uh, and you can't start with a more interesting character than, than this, uh, Adam Sandler.
That's right. Height five foot 10, born September 9th, 1966.
Uh, he first took the stage at 17, uh, when his brother pushed him into doing standup and he did not turn back after that point.
Jeez. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can't imagine at 17 what you would do, but yeah, he did it.
He attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1991.
And you'll note that's a year after he started at SNL.
He was still going to school when he started at SNL as a writer.
The thing is, he's incredibly prolific in a lot of ways.
He's got 88 film credits, 63 producer credits, 29 writer credits and 37 soundtrack credits you can pretty much thank his wedding singer film right that one yeah um but yeah he has 21 filmsthat have been that he's been involved in that have grossed over a hundred million dollars and many of those are produced by his happy madison production company the the highestgrossing happy madison film is growing grown-ups with $272 million in box office with an $80 million budget.
[3:44] So even factoring in another $40 million for marketing as the standard, that walked away with a pretty penny in his pocket for that film.
I bet. Now, he was 35th on 2003's Power 100 list.
He's the second highest earning actor in both 2011-2012, next to Leonardo DiCaprio, earning $37 million and is estimated to have a net worth of up to $500 million as of today.
So he's done pretty good for himself.
Not bad, huh? Not bad, yeah. Now, his first acting role, though, was as Theo Huxtable's friend, Smitty, on The Cosby Show.
[4:28] And that was, yeah, so it was kind of an ignoble beginning, a little bit part.
He followed that by roles on MTV's game show Remote Control before scoring his first film role in Going Overboard in 1989.
One of his earliest roles was in an ABC After School special credited as Drug Dealer.
Yeah, I just can't think of a less convincing drug dealer, but it was ABC After School special.
When he does film, he tries to make sure any scenes that are being filmed on location are near a gym that has a basketball court.
So he can go and play basketball between sessions of filming.
He basically is just a dude who loves the people and things that he loves.
[5:24] So he tries to fit in his friends and, and, and music and things that he loves into every film.
So he's big Van Halen fan, a police fan and the sticks fan. And he, In his movies, he's made sure to include those, like Big Daddy had Babe by Sticks.
Every little thing she does is magic in The Wedding Singer and That's My Boy.
[5:52] His character asks the teacher he had a crush on in 1984 to go to a Van Halen concert at the local stadium with him.
And the film features And the Cradle Will Rock and Dance the Night Away Twice and Ice Cream Man.
Wow. Yeah, he really does try to incorporating the things he loves in there.
He's also a big wrestling fan, frequently and frequently referencing it in his films like Billy Madison, W...
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