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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > is there any tv worst than modern snl
 
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shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


 Speaking of books, Jay Mohr's memoir about his 2 years on SNL was an interesting read. A lot of behind the scenes stuff but also he got into the mental health struggles he endured while on the show. For instance, he once had a panic attack during a live recording and literally sprinted out of the building and to his apartment.

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shyduck
Oct 3, 2003

redshirt posted:

Did he talk about how much work is involved in putting a show together? I've always assumed it's a lot of work for all involved, but I don't know.
It does a bit, and it gets into his struggles to get his material on the show as a writer and to get airtime as a featured player, where you're essentially coming off the bench. It seemed like a very cutthroat environment where everyone was on the same team but also weren't. Working long wacky hours, trying to write sketches in a few days that might not be culturally relevant beyond Saturday, and working the internal politics just to give your sketch a shot or to get cast, only to get shot down week after week pretty much wrecked him mentally. It was a hard place to be as a newcomer.

That said, he didn't really have bad things to say about the people he worked with and I think was on good terms with most of them, but the whole environment was a pressure cooker.

shyduck fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Oct 18, 2023

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