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David Spade Jokes About Current ‘SNL’ Cast Members’ Casual Approach To Boss Lorne Michaels: “How About Yes Sir?”
Former 'SNL' member David Spade joked he's so old he recalls a time when he and his colleagues treated Lorne Michaels more as a boss than a friend.
While listing their New Year’s resolutions, Spade (who left the late-night show in 1996) told co-host Dana Carvey on a new episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast that times indeed have changed, so much so that it shocks him. Carvey, who left SNL in 1993 and has since returned on the sketch series’ storied 50th season as POTUS Joe Biden, incredulously asked: “As a cast member? In November, SNL MVP Bowen Yang recounted feeling intimidated by the TV legend, especially after a “disaster” of a screen test: “Aidy Bryant was the one who told me, ‘You can be, like, friends with him now.’ I think Lorne at one point was hanging out with Aidy and was kind of chuckling about it like, ‘I think Bowen sees me as a mountain to climb, and I don’t want him to think that anymore.’ And that kind of gave me the encouragement to just go up to him and be like, ‘Oh, we can relate to each other on a human-to-human level,’ which I never thought would happen with him.”
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