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Nate Bargatze Fought Hard for the ‘Washington’s Dream’ Sketch
And it involved mentioning Studio 60 to Lorne Michaels.
In the minutes before the dress rehearsal for his first time hosting Saturday Night Live in October 2023, Nate Bargatze was thinking about Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Aaron Sorkin’s show about an SNL-like workplace that aired for one season on NBC from 2006 to 2007. Looking back at that moment on this week’s episode of Good One: A Podcast About Jokes, Bargatze says he didn’t realize that “you do have a lot more say than you think you do at SNL.” That’s why, when he returned to host in October 2024, he made it a point to champion sketches that other writers and cast members had been struggling to get on the air. One was “Golf Tournament,” which was written by “Washington’s Dream” writers Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell, whom Bargatze also collaborated with on CBS’s Nashville Christmas specialthis month.
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