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So many ideas don't get made there. My favorite sketch I wrote got cut at the dress rehearsal. Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNc1HkkntIo

I think it got cut because there was a "rape" element to it.... But would have loved for it to air with changes. Happy to defend this sketch till the day I die.

Would love to do more Theatre of Life. Obviously we all got pretty busy and living on two different coasts makes shooting that hard. But I don't think TOL is over just yet... Those days on the beach were too much fun and Eric sucks.

As for writing at SNL for one year, not much of a story behind it. I got hired and then my contract wasn't picked up. I wish there was a "I stormed into Lornes office and pissed on his desk" story but that's just how things go. Thanks, and goodbye.

Yes.

SO, after "Unbelievable Dinner" we got an email from Steven Spielberg. It said something to the effect of "Hi! My daughter Sasha showed me your videos and I've been howling with laughter. Keep up the good work."

And we obviously freaked out, I think Kyle still has a copy of it in his wallet.

We obsessed over how we would reply. We settled on something like: "Thanks Steven. We've been watching your stuff too. Seems like you are on the right track. Keep making videos."

We sent it to him, and never heard back.

YEARS later I ran into some dude at a bar who was best friends with Spielberg's daughter. He said "Did you ever get an email from Steven Spielberg?" And I said "Yes! We wrote him back and he never replied!" And he said, "Huh. He never got your reply. He was very bummed. He assumed you thought it was a joke."

So his assistant never forwarded our freaking email to him!!!!

If his assistant had, we would all be super successful and in all "The Hangover" movies.

It stunk. I don't blame anyone and I don't think that it could have happened any differently. That show is such an institution that when you get called up to it, you just go. It was a bummer that we never got to do our show with CC, but ultimately I think that show has propelled all of us. Of course B,K and D had an influence.

I don't know how directly, and I really don't know why Lorne and co would break us up to begin with, but when they started doing well on the show, that definitely opened up an opportunity for me to get out there too.

By writing comedy.