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Bowen Yang has learned a lot about Saturday Night Live over the course of his five seasons in the cast. But one of his more recent revelations is that the show’s creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels knows SNL works best as a “reality show.”
As Yang explained on the latest episode of former SNL cast members Dana Carvey and David Spade’s podcast Fly on the Wall, a “meta-narrative” surrounds the show that Yang keeps finding himself caught up in. It happened when he casually mentioned an unnamed host that made multiple cast members cry on Watch What Happens Live last month. And he’s likely done it again now by sharing behind-the-scenes details about Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney’s hosting debut this past March.
“I get caught up in the meta-narrative sometimes,” Yang said. “I’ll get roped into like a headline or some pickup every now and then I’m like, oh god, this is so unfair, this is so stressful, this is not what I meant. Or this is not what I was doing while, like, [Dave] Chappelle was standing on stage with me.”
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