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Tim Bagley claims he couldn't audition for SNL because 'they wouldn't hire openly gay people'

Tim Bagley claims he couldn't audition for 'Saturday Night Live' early in his career because of his sexuality: 'They wouldn't hire openly gay people.'

As it happens, Bagley is not the first person to accuse SNL and Michaels of having issues with hiring openly queer people during the peak of the show's popularity. Comedian James Adomian told the Daily Beast in 2018 that he thinks being openly gay kept him from getting a spot on the cast, though he did get to audition several times in the early 2000s. He's made a name for himself at the legendary sketch showwith impressions of JD Vance and Fran Lebowitz, and out-of-the-box "Weekend Update" characters like the Iceberg That Sank the Titanic and viral baby pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng.

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