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Bill Hader recalls everyone stopping work at SNL when Adele sang during rehearsal: 'Who was that?'

Bill Hader said that Adele's voice stopped the 'Saturday Night Live' staff in their tracks when she sang during rehearsal: 'We opened the curtain and everybody looked down, and went, 'Who is that?''

"I remember us sitting at the rewrite table on [floor] 9, and Adele — not a lot of us had heard of her," Hader explained in the new documentary Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music. The doc also shows behind-the-scenes footage of Adele asking how she should carry herself while filming promos with Kristen Wiig and host Josh Brolin. SNL boss Lorne Michaels also appeared in the doc, offering a wild recollection of how Adele exploded in stateside popularity after her performance on the show.

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