SNL Hall of Fame Dewvre podcasts and such.

This week on the podcast we reveal the Don Pardo Award winner for Season 5. This high prestigious honor is bestowed onto a person or group of people who contribute to the show's success despite not being eligible for traditional election into the Hall.
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[0:42] Thank you so much, Doug Donatz. It is great to be here in the SNL Hall of Fame.
The SNL Hall of Fame podcast 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 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 in the hall.
Except for this week. Because this is our very special Don Pardo Award show where the three of us, Thomas, Matt, and myself put our heads together and award the Don Pardo Award to a deserving individual, or in the case of this year's award, deserving individuals.
I won't bury the lead any longer, but before I go anywhere, please. please wipe your feet.

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[1:43] This week, we are going to be talking about a major component of Saturday Night Live, and that is the SNL band.
So the way we're going to tackle this is we're going to go in chronological order to the best of our ability.
We might miss a couple of years, but we can fill Fill in the blanks as necessary for you to get your little history lesson.
But this has been enough of me talking right now.
How are you doing, Thomas? Hey, JD.
Doing really well. It's nice to be on a little like an actual episode with you and Matt, like the three of us kind of uniting here. Yeah. One united front.
This is really fun. We were talking as we're recording this, we're coming off a really fantastic Kristen Wiig episode. So I think all of us are kind of energized by SNL right now.
So we're taking that energy from the recent Kristen Wiig episode and putting it forth here for this. Oh, that's fantastic.
Matt, you're not in your usual corner this week. No, no. Yeah, I've moved things, moved my desk around.
I need to make room to watch that, you know, 1970s French disco funk and dance around.

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[3:00] I wonder if they were even i know when they counted the numbers they were speaking french but i wonder how much of the rest of it was was actual french my wife was asleep on the couch i would have asked her she's a french teacher i wanted to wake her up and say you got to watch this sketch but she was gone i'll ask i'll show it to her today and ask it sounded right from my grade nine general French.
So it may be like Google Translate. Who knows?
But it had the right shapes. Yeah. And I think Bowen's a French speaker.
So I think at least Bowen was probably speaking good real. Oh, OK. I think he is. Yeah. Didn't realize that.
Well, Matt and I have failed our Canadian tests here.
For those listening from other places in the world, Canadians are not truly bilingual, even though our country is.

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[3:52] But I digress. Let's start at the start.

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[3:57] And speaking of Canadians, we're going to talk about the original SNL band.
And it's not band leader, but it's musical director. And that is Howard Shore, who is immensely talented.
He played the alto sax in the band, and he, like I said, was the band leader.
But he was, before he came to SNL, he worked with Lorne Michaels and Hart Pomerantz on the Lorne and Hart Terrific Hour. hour.
And when Lauren got SNL, it seemed like a slam dunk for him to come South and work with Saturday Night Live.
To me, his most defining moment in the role is that he wrote the closing.
He wrote Waltz in D, is it D minor?
Waltz in A, written by a founding member, Howard Shore.
And And that is something, maybe the only thing other than update that is like lasted the duration of the show.
I'm not as versed in the 80s. I don't know if they ended in Waltz and A, but definitely all the Lorne Michaels era, it ends with that.

Join Thomas, Matt, and jD as they welcome Ashley Bower to the show to discuss the shoo-in candidacy of Kate McKinnon. Do you agree she'll end up in the Hall. Time will tell.
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[0:42] Hey, it's J.D. here, and thank you so much, Doug DeNance, for that warm welcome.
We are thrilled to be back here in the SNL Hall of Fame.
Before we go anywhere, take a look at that mat outside that says, Wipe your feet, sucka.
And wipe your feet, sucka. So there's that.
Listen, I'm going to get right to it. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive 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 in the hall.
And that's how we play the game. It's just that simple.

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[1:30] So, you're chomping at the bit to get voting. You've only got one more week to wait.
If you are listening to this in real time, May the 6th is the date that we will be starting the voting and it will run through to May 17th, at which point we will tabulate the ballots and we'll check in with you on May 20th for our finale extravaganza and let you know who made the Season 5 SNL Hall of Fame. name.
It's going to be interesting. And today's nominee is about to throw a monkey wrench in all your plans because, well, let's go to Matt Ardill because I've got a question to ask Mr. Ardill.
Matt, my friend, I hope you're doing well. I have a question for you.

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[2:22] Where do you start with a girl named Kate?
I don't know. There's so much, there's so much Such an incredible talent.
I'm just going to have to start at the beginning. I guess that's all I can do.
Go for it. All right. Kate McKinnon, height 5'3", born January 6, 1984.
78 acting credits, 4 writing credits, 5 soundtrack credits, and 1 producer credit.
She was born in Seacliff, New York, and attended Columbia University.
University uh growing up she had a pet iguana and she attended ucb in ucb manhattan school and uh yeah she grew up in a funny house full of funny people she and her sister were encouraged to watch mel brooks the producers on a weekly basis always watched snl growing up uh she thought Madeline Kahn was the tops and that that's a fact.
You can't argue with that.
That is, that is a.

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[3:24] Great choice. Yeah, yeah. Now, her parents, they encouraged her to approach the world through the lens of comedy.
Now, Funny runs in the family. Her younger sister, Emily Lynn, is also a comedian and does stand-up and is part of a comedy double act with Jackie Abbott. Check her out on YouTube.
Super funny. Unfortunately, their father passed away when Kate was quite young, at the age of 18.

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[3:51] But that didn't slow her down. She's a multi-instrumentalist, able to play piano, cello, and guitar.
She can also speak three languages, English, French, and German. She makes me sick.
Yeah. Well, that explains why her prime minister is such a good impression, because she can actually speak German.
Right, yeah. It's not just making the noises.
She knows the language. Her first job was as a little league umpire, but she left because she didn't actually know the rules for little league baseball, which is, you know, that's fair. No, it's foul.
Yeah, it's foul. It's foul. She was PETA's sexiest vegan in 2017, but she actually gave that up that title because she just like a true New Yorker missed cheese pizza.
Pizza um now she is an extreme introvert which she deals with by adopting funny voices uh which honestly sounds like 72.4 of the comedians i know her comedy heroes were molly shannon anna gasteyer.

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[5:03] She says Kellyanne Conway, but that's obviously a joke because you can't ever give a straight answer like that.
Her dream role, and this is another one I would pay good money to see, is Willy

Join us this week in the SNL Hall of Fame as we welcome Jon Schneider onto the podcast to discuss the one of kind, Will Forte. Will he be enshrined in the hall? Only you can decide.
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[0:42] Hey, it's J.D. here, and I want to thank Doug DeNance for another lovely introduction.
Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. As I mentioned off the top, I am your host, J.D.
I am joined by Matthew Ardill in the trivia corner, and of course, our chief librarian, Thomas Senna, will handle the conversation with John Schneider today. So that's really exciting.
But who are we going to cover? Well, before that, the SNL Hall of Fame podcast 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 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 in the hall.
And that's how we play the game. It's just that simple.
May the 6th is the date you're going to want to circle on your calendar.
That is when voting opens in the SNL Hall of Fame, and we have one hell of a ballot.
There are some stakes here, as there are people that are on their fifth ballot that if they don't make it in, they will be removed from the ballot.
And that is as high stakes as it really gets here on the SNL Hall of Fame, except for that time that we had lava on the floor.
You bet your ass people wiped their feet then.

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[2:10] Let's go to our friend, Matt Ardill. Matthew, my friend.

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[2:13] How are you doing, JD? I'm great. I'm great. Thanks for asking. How about you?
I'm good. I'm great as well. Yeah. Yeah. I've got, I'm really excited.
I love Will Forte on so many levels.
I can't wait to share. Well, learn me up.
Okay. Well, Will Forte, 5'9", born June 17th, 1970. He has 132 acting credits, 26 writing credits, 20 soundtrack credits, and five producer credits.
He was born in Alameda County, California, and attended the University of California.
He was a member, and this shocked me.
He was a member of the varsity football team, varsity swim team. So he was a jock.

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[2:57] That's not what I would have expected. Me neither. I want a picture of Theater Nerd. Yeah.
Exactly i would have imagined that as well but i mean it's that's just you know that's i guess us not seeing past the stereotype but uh yeah he went on to earn a history degree valuable lesson you just taught us matthew yeah let's do just because somebody plays sports doesn't mean they don't have the the love of theater in them that's right but yeah so thank you for that yeah not from but yeah got a degree in history from ucla and um then he realized his true love was comedy so he joined the groundlings he also tutored faye dunaway's 12 year old son in mathematics while he was in high school which is like that's just a weird i mean this is the weird connections you get living in california yeah i suppose so yeah yeah you know so it's just it i i don't know No, I feel like living in Canada, we don't get those wacky connections, but, um.

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[3:59] At a young age, he went to see Tony Orlando, and Tony brought him and his friend up on the stage, and he encouraged them to follow their passions.
So much so, he wrote him and Tony a nice letter many years later.
What a class act. Yeah, yeah. And he, in fact, is a class act in multiple ways.
He is also a class act video game player. He is the 36th highest scorer in the world in Donkey Kong.
Long whoa yeah he watched the that fistful of quarters documentary and he's like i can do that and is now registered on twin galaxies as number 36 in the world that's brilliant that movie also very very good yes and it's not to go on a tangent you watch that fistful of quarters that the villain in that show is a total nut bar you can go down a rabbit hole all on its own as As well as an amazing video gamer, he is

We're back in the Hall after a hectic week with the whole foot-wiping thing. At any rate we're thrilled to welcome Rebecca North to the show to relitigate the case for Maya Rudolph who is appearing on her last ballot. Check it out and get ready to start voting May, 6th.
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[0:41] Thank you so much, Doug Donets. It is great to be here inside the SNL Hall of Fame with you all.
Now, careful listeners of the show pointed out to me that I didn't remind you
to wipe your feet last week. It's not lost to me.
I truly thought I had solidified my stance on this matter to the extent that
it would become the norm.
But alas, if you are paying for the pay-per-view feed right right now,
you can see that I'm holding a mop.
Jeepers, creepers, peoples, wipe your damn feet.
The SNL Hall of Fame podcast 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 add them to the ballot for your consideration.
Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener,
to vote vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined
for perpetuity in the hall.
And that's how we play the game.
Let's go to our friend Matthew Ardill right now, because the game that we like
to play is learning a little bit about our nominee.
And that's exactly what we're going to do.
Let me just put this mop down and okay.
Oh gosh, I'm parched. There's something going on with my voice.
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[1:59] Matthew, old man. How are you doing this week? I am good, thanks. And you?
I'm a little shaky in the voice, it seems.
Well, maybe you need some water. Let me take a sip of this water.
That's better. It is delicious. We talked about water last week.
We'll put a pin in it until next week.
We don't want to give away the farm, as it were.
Maya Rudolph, huh? Yeah. I mean, I'm really looking forward to sharing about
Maya's life. She is an incredible character.
This is interesting because this is her last kick at the can.
If she doesn't get in this time, and I believe she was hovering around 58% or
59%, so she needs almost 10% to get in, 10% more to get in.
And if she doesn't get in, she's off the ballot.
That would be a shame because she is an incredible performer and a hilarious person.
So take this as a war egg, not telling people how to vote, but just be mindful
of that folks. This is your last chance. Yeah.
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[3:16] Well, let's hear some, uh, trivia to maybe sway some people.
Yeah. Yeah, Maya Rudolph is 5'7", birthday July 27th, 1972.
She has 118 acting credits, 12 producer credits, 2 writing credits,
and 30 soundtrack credits.
She was born in Gainesville, Florida, but was raised in L.A.,
the daughter of singer Minnie Ripperton and composer Richard Rudolph.
Off her mother is the singer of the song loving you
uh which i've now three times brought up
to my wife and every every time we hear it and she goes if you're gonna tell
me maya rudolph's mom saying this one more time i'm gonna throw a saw throw
a pillow at you but yeah she did and uh in fact if you listen to the single
you can hear her singing maya maya maya maya because this is a lullaby Bye.
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[4:13] That she wrote for Maya and was used to sing her to sleep. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah. Now, and her grandfather on her father's side, Sidney J.
Rudolph, owned all of the Wendy's and Rudy's restaurants in Dade County, Florida.
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[4:29] So he was a- I know Rudy's

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're joined by the delightful Victoria Franco to discuss the bona fidas of writer John Mulaney.
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[0:41] Oh my goodness gracious me, oh my, it is my privilege to be joining you once
again this week in the SNL Hall of Fame.
The SNL Hall of Fame podcast 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 add them to the ballot for your consideration.
Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener,
to vote for the the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined
for perpetuity in the hall.
And that's how we play the game.
It's just that easy. But before we get to voting, we need to discuss our nominee.
And before we discuss our nominee, we need to speak with our friend Matt Ardill
in his minutiae minute corner.
What do you say we wander over there and see what old Matty is up to?
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[1:39] Hey, JD, how are you doing? I am parched, and I just had an enjoyable sip of
water, which has cleaned up the old pipes.
Yeah, nature soda, I've heard it called. Nature soda, I like it.
Yeah. I heard somebody say they won't drink water because fish have sex in it.
I i think that's a fair you know i i can
understand that but um you know run it through enough
purifiers it should be fine i mean i'm a
i'm a water fiend i drink like four liters a day oh it's yeah it's good for
the body that's right that's why i'm so uh uh easy on the eyes yeah you are
you are ripped are ripped right speaking of ripped this week we've got john,
Yeah, back again.
Um, so I did make the effort of finding new trivia, so it should be a long time
listener listeners. It should be interesting.
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[2:45] Um, uh, height six foot, uh, one of the taller, uh, uh, contestants for, or nominees actually.
Yeah. Yeah. Born August 26th, 1982. Yeah.
He has 28 writing credits, 42 actor credits, 13 producer credits.
I have to say, when I saw him in The Bear, it blew me away. It was really intense.
Did not expect that. So he's got a lot of good acting chops.
He's released five stand-up specials and his Sack Lunch Bunch Kids special.
Grew up in Chicago, child of a law professor, mother Ellen, and attorney father
Charles Charles Chip W. Mulaney.
Never mess with a chip. Anybody who's got Chip as a nickname, that's trouble.
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[3:35] But he's descended from a lot of political go-getters.
He's descended from the mayor of Salem and has congressmen on both sides of his family.
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[3:49] So, yeah, he's got a good pedigree.
His maternal grandmother, Carolyn Stanton, and Seth Meyers' mother,
Hillary Meyers, performed together at a hospital benefit show called Pills a
Poppin'. That's some foreshadowing.
And it was directed by Tommy Toon when they were 19 years old.
So there is some deep family connections going on there.
Yeah. So he attended Georgetown University, and as most people know,
with Nick. role where he studied English literature.
He decided he wanted to go to show into show business at the age of five after
watching a lifestyle program, uh, about Ricky Ricardo, uh, which is the most
John Mulaney thing I have ever read.
Um, like if anybody's going to set their life goals by watching Ricky Ricardo,
that would be John Mulaney.
Yeah. From that point, he started doing sketches for friends and family whenever given a chance and,
And he was pushed, actually, by h

This week on the program we welcome our friend Deremy Dove into the hallowed halls to discuss the career of funny man Tracy Morgan. Join us won't you?
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[0:41] Thank you so much, Doug and Nance. It is fantastic to be here with you all.
And there are quite a few of you. I can see you queued up outside the SNL Hall of Fame.
My name is J.D., and it is just a thrill to be with you here on this lovely Monday.
We have got a fantastic show for you.
But before we go any further, I feel it necessary to tell you to wipe your feet
before coming into the hall. all.
Now, back when I was a wee lad, my mother scolded me once for making a mess
of the floor, and ever since then I feel compelled to tell people to wipe their feet.
There. I've said it. It's finally out in the public, and I feel great.
Thanks for being my therapist by proxy. The check is in the mail.
The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair fair where 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 in the hall.
And that's how we play the game. It's just that That simple. You listen.
You vote. We tabulate. We announce.
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[2:06] Repeat after me. You listen. You vote.
We tabulate. And we announce. Speaking of announcements, our good friend Matt
Ardill is standing around loafing.
It looks like, hey, if you've got time enough to lean, you've got time enough to clean, young man.
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[2:25] Hey, JD, I saw the new exhibits on the way in. I really like the Norm Macdonald
hat collection that we've got going on.
Turd Ferguson, that Turd Ferguson hat and that big hat. It's funny.
Yeah, you can't go wrong with a funny hat. That's right.
How are you doing? I'm excellent right now. Yeah, I'm pretty good.
What have you got for us this week? I have got an awesome player of Tracy Morgan.
So I'm really looking forward to sharing some facts about him. Well, let's do it.
Great. Well, Tracy's 5'9", born November 10th, 1968.
He has 67 acting credits, five producer credits, and eight writing credits.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Marlborough Houses and Tompkins Houses in Bedford.
He was actually named after a platoon mate of his father who shipped off with
his dad to Vietnam, but was killed in an action within days of deployment.
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[3:31] So his dad was very close to this guy, and so that's why he got that name.
Um yeah he went on to
marry his high school sweetheart and began his
comedy career at the age of 17 by performing stand-up
on street corners in new york he had his date
first debut as hustle man
on the television show martin so
he's been working hard since he was a
kid um and it shows i mean
he lists his influences as carol burnett lucille ball
jackie gleason which i actually see the most
in a lot of what he does uh martin lawrence
eddie murphy and richard prior uh but
he learned about that is a great pedigree huh yeah that's a
that's a really good good lineup but yeah the thing
is he he says he learned his comedy first from
his dad who taught him about jonesing which
is basically roasting people he put put him
on his lap and they would roast people on the the street
and he also drew from his uncles who he said were also very funny so you