A look back at Saturday Night Live's 11th season, widely considered one of its worst, featuring interviews with former cast members like Jon Lovitz and Aidy Bryant, who reflect on the challenges and chaos of that tumultuous year.
The actors were just 17 and 20 years old when they spent a single season on the "Saturday Night Live" cast.Jillian Sederholm is Entertainment Weekly's news director and co-host of EW's 'BINGE' podcast covering every season of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.
"Still waiting for that bastard to repay a favor, 40 years later," Hall joked. "Come on Iron Man, you got it in ya." Season 11, which ran from November 1985 to May 1986, marked a time of great transition at the legendary sketch show."I wanted to go younger. I perhaps went too young, but I wanted to go younger," Michaels said inexplaining that "the Baby Boomer generation had dominated the show for 10 years, so I decided to clean house.
"When I look back I have some memories of it being difficult, I think, for a lot of the writers to figure out how to write for this kid," Hall said. "I think it was a big challenge."Ultimately, the season was a disaster. So much so the finale ended with the cast being trapped in a fake fire and left to burn while Michaels rescued Lovitz, whose "That's the ticket" catchphrase had been a rare season highlight.
"I learned so much in that year about what I wasn't," Downey reflected of his short stint. "But there's not a more exciting 90 minutes you could have, whether you are any good or not."alums recall 'surreal and bizarre' 'More Cowbell' sketch in exclusive documentary clip: 'The room kinda got hot'
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