When extra laughs are required on “Weekend Update” these days, Bailey Gismert sometimes answers the call. The ersatz teenager character, one of several popular figures played by “Saturday Night Liv…
“Parents will come up to me and say, ‘How do you know my daughter?’” recounts Gardner, who is in third season with thelate-night mainstay – her first in the main cast. Sometimes, she says in a recent interview, parents even tell her they can’t watch her in the role, because the mercurial Gismert just seems too close to a teenage daughter or friend they know.
If Gardner seems to know her way around an “SNL” favorite, she was less confident about her ability to do comedy when she was younger. “I was always so into ‘SNL’ growing up, so into comedy and movies,” she recalls. “Growing up in Missouri, I just didn’t ever see a path to any of that.” That didn’t keep her from trying to do funny things. “I would do characters for my parents. I would definitely improvise with my friends. I mean, God love them for just going along with it.
She is part of a rising generation at “SNL” that is gradually getting more screen time – and not just on “Weekend Update.” As Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant and Beck Bennett move into veteran status, newer cast members like Gardner, Melissa Villasenor, Chris Redd and Ego Nwodim are getting more to do each week. Gardner has moved beyond the “Update” segments to making appearances across the show.
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