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SNL Was Too Cheap to Approve This Bob Dylan Sketch


What, talking about sandwiches while recording “We Are the World” costs a lot?

You’ve had two chances to watch James Austin Johnson’s impeccable Bob Dylan impression on SNL, which is evolving at the rate of a Modern Times– era Pokémon. Johnson earned his grand debut in a promo last month that teased Dylan as a new staffer who’s incapable of writing good material for host John Mulaney, which was followed by an actual sketch on December 7 of the musician spewing profundities on the red carpet for A Complete Unknown. Speaking with Uproxx, he revealed yet another music idea of his that had to be cut after a table read due to being “too expensive” for the show to justify.

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