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And Lindy West, who wrote the bookShrill, found this weird self-published cookbook.
Just everything about it made us sad.
And also the idea that its a proud recipe for someone.
And there was so much mayonnaise in the recipe, which just felt so gnarly.
Thats going to be a big hot sketch for us in the darkest hours.
I always sing little songs.
Its how Ive written lots of songs forSNL, basically; its just little germs of ideas.
Same with theJoan Song that I wrote for Harry Styles.
Youre almost in her dream world.
Or that her daughters would be so proud of her.
So it was just taking it to the turn, keeping it simple.
So when you get to be in that space, its like, why not try something?
I dont think the first joke comes for like 30 seconds, but I always like that build.
I think it leads to big payoffs, where youre along for the ride.
That energy just exists in the world.
Its something Ive been thinking about in quarantine too, because Im such a bad cook.
Im trying to get better.
They were disgusting, and you throw them away.
I think theres something kind of true about that; that feels kind of real.
Its maybe the cruelest thing that a person could do in that dynamic.
Theres something sort of emotionally human about it.
And not on the producibility level.
I was just like, How are we going to do this?
We had multiple crew members lose family members from COVID.
It was just like, How are we going to do this?
Were just too devastatingly sad.
And then we started doing it, and I gotta say, I was totally dead wrong.
I was so grateful to be doing it and just get on Zooms with everybody.
Initially, I was like,Man, this is going to suck.
Its going to feel like this really neutered version ofSNL.
Same with working on the sketches where it was groups of us: It was so complicated.
We had Zooms that were going, but we were also running actual filming on our phones.
For every sketch, we would do multiple takes.
Then our post-production team would coordinate.
It was so complicated.
I kind of cant believe it happened.
That was so early too, in the pandemic, as far as where we are now.
Im so proud, especially of our post-production team.
Matt Yonks, our post-production supervisor, he did that all.
It was pretty amazing.
But that audience hated it.
And fuck that audience, they didnt get it because they were fans of Justin Bieberor whatever.
I dont want to and I cant stay atSNLforever.
I want to make room for those new people to become the fifth-year people and the eighth-year people.
Theyre ready; its happening.
So its kind of a bittersweet, weird moment.
And Im like,Wow, I feel 400 years old.
How dare you call me Lil Baby Aidy.But I also am really grateful for that time.
And they always just say, Youll know.
Its funny because I actually think, on some level, I was getting to that feeling.
And I dont have that feeling right now, so I dont know.
Im waiting to know that feeling.
Because I think it is kind of a generational thing.
Its kind of like your class that you come up with.
And Cecily and I were such Chicago hicks.
And just what a massive change it is.
I can feel that part of it.
And that feels like part of the feeling.
But I dont know.
