Julia Louis-Dreyfus Recalls ‘Excruciating’ First SNL Moment

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is recalling a humiliating second she had throughout her early Saturday Night time Reside days.

The Veep actress and comic regarded again at her early Hollywood profession on a latest episode of Lemonada Media’s Wiser Than Me podcast, together with certainly one of her first recollections with the sketch comedy present that didn’t essentially go as deliberate.

“Once I was simply getting began, I used to be a part of the Sensible Theater firm in Chicago,” she defined. “The producers of SNL got here to see the present and so they liked it, and so they employed all of us to come back to New York and be part of SNL.”

On the time, Louis-Dreyfus stated she and three different “full and complete unknowns” have been requested to carry out the primary act of the present within the SNL workplace “beneath fluorescent lights in the midst of the day in entrance of 20 very cynical, unfriendly SNL forged members and writers who already hated us as a result of a bunch of their finest mates had simply been fired to make room for us.”

“We by no means had an opportunity. Sketches that had killed in Chicago died a horrible, horrible demise that day. It was excruciating,” the Seinfeld alum continued. “I believe that humiliation influenced our complete SNL expertise for the subsequent couple of years, to inform you the reality. … I’ve realized lots since that cringy day in a carpeted workplace on the seventeenth ground of 30 Rock.”

Louis-Dreyfus joined SNL as a castmember from 1982 to 1985, alongside Eddie Murphy, Billy Crystal, Martin Quick, Jim Belushi and Brad Corridor, who she later married. She has additionally hosted the sketch comedy collection thrice over time.