Damon Wayans on Why He “Purposefully” Got Himself Fired From ‘SNL’: “I Snapped”
Wayans basically “broke the ultimate [ SNL] golden rule, which is no surprises,” according to Live From New York author James Andrew Miller. Former writer A. Whitney Brown added, “You cannot go rogue. You cannot try to steal a sketch.”
Damon Wayans Explains Why He Did 'SNL' Sketch Stunt That Got Him Fired
Michaels said he canned him midseason because “it had to be done,” EW noted. Before his unauthorized improv, Wayans said in the doc he was warned by “SNL” great Eddie Murphy that as a Black man he would be pigeonholed into certain characters, so he’d better write his own, Deadline reported.
Damon Wayans ‘Purposely’ Got Himself Fired From ‘SNL’ by Going Off Script: ‘I Snapped. I Just Did Not Care’
Damon Wayans revealed how he 'purposely' got himself fired from 'Saturday Night Live' after going off script during a sketch: 'I just did not care.'
How One 'SNL' Star 'Snapped' On-Air and Intentionally Got Fired
"Having not fired anybody for the first five years, [firing Damon Wayans] was really, really hard," the producer admitted in an older interview featured in SNL50. "But it had to be done." Wayans had broken a cardinal rule of the show,
Damon Wayans Reflects On Getting Fired From ‘SNL’: “I Just Did Not Care”
The comedian looks back on "purposely" jeopardizing his position due to frustrations with creative direction in a docuseries on the sketch comedy.
When Damon Wayans Went ‘Rogue’ and Got Fired From ‘SNL’
Before he was a star of “In Living Color,” Wayans “purposefully” went off script during his short-lived “Saturday Night Live” stint.
SNL Stars Laugh and Cry While Watching Their Auditions in a New Docuseries
Many bits that comedians used in their auditions have ended up as iconic Saturday Night Live sketches, from Kristen Wiig’s ...
Christopher Walken confronted Will Ferrell over SNL’s ‘More Cowbell’ sketch — that ‘ruined’ his life
Will Ferrell recalled, “I went to see [Walken] backstage, and he’s like, ‘You know, you’ve ruined my life…every show, people ...
‘Saturday Night Live’ is more than a show, it’s a world. And there’s nothing like it
The sketch comedy show is celebrating 50 seasons with two documentaries and an upcoming prime-time special that reflect on ...
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'SNL's 'More Cowbell' Skit Didn't Originally Feature Any Cowbell
The famously hilarious sketch is the subject of an entire episode of the new 'SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night' documentary, and ...
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Why Pete Davidson Asked to Be Fired After His First Year at SNL
Davidson, who ultimately starred on the show from 2014 to 2022, shared what made him want to quit, and the advice he got from ...
11 Old SNL Characters They Wouldn’t Do Today
Live has five decades of incredible SNL characters and sketches. But the ones on this list probably won’t turn up in The post ...
Trump refused to do a SNL skit because he ‘thought he looked fat’
Republican presidential hopeful was asked to play a tree in a sketch where he called the Giving Tree a ‘sucker’ ...
‘SNL50′ proves there’s still more to learn about ‘Saturday Night Live’
There are books — the best of which is still “ Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live ” — and ...
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Saturday Night Live alum says 'funniest' sketch was 'surreal and bizarre' in new docuseries
Live's history was retold through a new Peacock docuseries, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night. SNL fans were treated with some ...