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    • 5.0 • 12 Ratings

The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a place where we invite passionate fans and students of the show to make a case for the casts, hosts, musical guests, writers that made the magic happen in Studio 8H.

Each month join us for a fun, informative deep dive on the many personalities that make Saturday Night Live one of the most enduring comedy institutions of all time.

www.snlhof.com
Twitter @SNLHOF
Instagram @SNLHOF
Facebook /groups/snlhalloffame

    Emma Stone

    Emma Stone

    This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we welcome back to the show, the statistical guru of the Saturday Night Network, Mike Murray! He's here on the pod to discuss our third host in a row, this time it's Emma Stone. Get it wherever you get your podcasts.
    Transcript:
    Track 2:
    [0:42] Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be back inside the SNL Hall of Fame with you all.
    Track 2:
    [0:51] Big kudos for you showing up this week. It's been a stormy week here in Toronto where the Hall of Fame is and our guest count has went down.
    But I'll tell you what, the floors are a mess. I don't know what kind of message I need to send to you, but wipe those feet, people.
    The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration.
    Once the nominees have been chosen, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall.
    That's how we play the game. It's just that simple.
    All you need to do is listen in for the argument that is being made by our special guest for the week and determine whether or not they make a strong enough case.
    From there, you'll get a ballot and you'll get to place your vote.
    If a candidate reaches 66.7% of the ballot, they are welcome to join us here in the SNL Hall of Fame.
    Did you know that if you're in the Hall of Fame, you get a pass that you can come in for free anytime you want, and we'll even provide you a bottle of water. So there's that.

    Track 2:
    [2:19] Let's track down my friend Matt for some trivia in Matt's minutiae minute.
    Let's see if I can find him here. I'll give him a holler.

    Track 3:
    [2:29] Matt how in the world are you doing this week i am good thank you i am good, busy busy but can't complain well you just did.

    Track 3:
    [2:42] Well stating a fact isn't necessarily complaining but yeah i was complaining.

    Track 3:
    [2:50] Well no one will be complaining about our nominee this week uh emma stone is who you're going to be be talking about learning me up real good here.
    What have you got for us this week, Matt?
    Emma Stone, height 5'6", born November 6th, 1988, making me feel very old again.
    She's accomplished much more in her shorter life than I have in my longer life.
    So I found out that her low voice stems from actually having colic as a baby that lasted six months.
    So I'm shocked that her parents didn't pull out all of their hair um it developed she developed nodules and calluses on her vocal cords which is how why she has such a distinctive voice she actually has a phobia of being lifted up or being high because uh when she was seven she was doing gymnastics on on the parallel bars and fell and broke both of her arms. Oh my gosh.
    Horrible. Yeah. Oh yeah. We need to have a warning at the top of this one, a trigger warning.
    Yeah. Trigger warning for anybody who's afraid of gymnastics.
    Yeah. She grew up blonde. Judd Aptow suggested for she go red for super bad.
    And she real, after doing that, she found that she was called back much more for auditions. So she just stayed a redhead.

    Track 3:
    [4:16] Originally named emily stone she changed to emma as there was already an actor named emily stone registered with sag and it happens amazingly a lot um a lot of actors uh go by three names or or a slightly different name um she actually prefers emily over emma so that's how she would would prefer to be called um but she took the name emma from a member of her favorite band the spice girls oh baby yeah she is she is a baby spice fan me too that was my favorite yeah there's actually pictures of her on the internet meeting them losing her mind like tears fanning out it's uh it's very endearing now she knew at an early age she wanted to be a film star and convinced her parents to move to Hollywood by putting together a PowerPoint presentation named Project Hollywood.
    She lists h

    • 1 hr 22 min
    Jon Hamm

    Jon Hamm

    This week on the pod we welcome back, Jamie Burwood! To kick off the show we get Matt's Minutia Minute before we get into a fantastic conversation between Thomas and Jamie. Thanks as always for listening. Rate and review the show!
    Transcript:
    Track 2:
    [0:42] Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be here back in the SNL Hall of Fame.

    [0:50] Please, mind your feet, give them a wipe, use the map for what it's supposed to be for before you come into our hallowed halls.
    The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballotfor your consideration.
    Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity inside the hall.
    That's how we play the game. It's really quite simple.
    You follow along, you vote, you celebrate or complain about who got in or who didn't get in.
    It's really quite a bit of fun for us.
    I am walking down the hallway now to talk to our good friend Matt Ardill, and we're going to get some information on who we're covering today and who will be nominating them.
    Wait and see. Well, you don't have to wait and see because you can read the title. And I guess the title sort of gives it away.
    That's right. We're talking about Jon Hamm today, and we're joined by Jamie Burwood. But before we do that, let's go to our friend Matt Ardill and get the skinny on Jon Hamm.

    Track 3:
    [2:13] Hello, Matt. Hello, JD.
    What's shaking, my brother? Not much, not much. I am really looking forward to today's trivia.
    Okay, who you got for us? John the Hamaconda Ham.
    He is six foot one, born March 10th, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri.
    He is the son of a trucker and a secretary. He had a rough childhood growing up, which actually helped inform his backstory when he auditioned for his breakout role of Don Draper.
    But his first acting role was as Winnie the Pooh in a first grade production.

    [2:58] Oh, OK. OK, yeah, very early start.
    But he didn't follow that up until playing Judas on Godspell at the age of 16 at John Burroughs School, where he was the member of the football team, the baseball team and the swimteam, because, of course, he was.
    He actually dated actor Sarah Clark in high school.
    He went on to attend the University of Texas before transferring to the University of Missouri, where he answered a newspaper ad for someone to play in a production of MidsummerNight's Dream.

    [3:32] He's gone on to complete 118 acting credits, 10 producer credits, and he has one director credit.
    He almost didn't get the role of Don Draper, which I can't imagine anybody else in that role right now.
    But he was told by the showrunner that he was too handsome, which is not something I'm sure many people frequently hear in a like, I'm sorry, you're just too goddamn handsome for thisrole.
    Yeah, they reevaluated and decided that he was he was the right fit.

    [4:07] He rewarded he received an award nomination for Emmys for the show.
    Golden Globe SAG Awards, Annie Hall Awards, Critics Choice, MTV Movie and TV Awards, National Board of Review Awards, Satellite Awards, Teen Choice Awards and TelevisionCritics Association.
    Association um i'm guessing his teen choice was for something not mad men related there should be an acronym for all those awards like an egot you know yeah he should

    • 1 hr 22 min
    Anne Hathaway

    Anne Hathaway

    This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're joined by first time guest Kaleena Steakle to discuss the merits of Anne Hathaway in the Hosts Category. Please rate and review the show wherever you get your podcasts.
    Transcript:
    [0:42] Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is a thrill for me to be here with you all this week inside the SNL Hall of Fame.
    Before you walk inside, though, if you could just do me the simple favor and wipe your feet, honey child.
    That's what I'm looking for. So, clean shoes, clean souls, Clean eating Clean living Clean SNL Hall of Fame.

    [1:16] The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host musical guest, or writer and add them to theballot for your consideration, Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuityin the hall.
    That's how we play this game. It's just that simple.
    So I'm pleased that you're here with us this week. I'm here that you're pleased with us every week.
    But we have one heck of a show this week for you.
    I hope you have battened down the hatches, as it were, because business is about to pick up.
    Now, I am a little out of breath here as I walk down the corridor past the weekend update exhibit and oh there's the uh unfrozen caveman lawyer exhibit uh a real a real great one if you getthe chance to see it here, but where i'm actually headed is the intersection of two walls meeting and forming a corner and we We call that Matt's Minutia Minute Corner.
    And, you know, let me go get them.

    Track 3:
    [2:36] Matthew, my young boy, how are you doing today? I am good, thanks.
    And I'm good. And you, my good man?
    Uh, you know, I got a little case of the gout, but it doesn't stop me from wiping my feet.
    So I'm, you know, I'm relatively happy with that. That's good.
    Hopefully I'll be able to cheer you up a little bit with some trivia.
    I would love to hear about Anne Hathaway.
    Terrific. Well, she is five foot eight, born November 12th, 1982. 82.
    She was named after William Shakespeare's wife.
    Her family are theater fans.
    She is a native New Yorker and was a theater nerd growing up.
    She attended Brooklyn Heights Montessori School and Wyoming Elementary School, taking part in high school plays before going on to attend NYU.
    She is the granddaughter of radio personality Joe McCauley, and her mother, Kate McCauley, was an actor and singer who performed in the first touring company of Les Miserables,which Anne followed her all along the entire tour at the age of eight, which is when she fell in love with the stage.
    I guess so. Yeah. So as a teen, she was cast as Get Real for her first appearance.

    [3:55] Followed by her big breakout in The Princess Diaries.
    She grew up actually wanting to become a nun. And as the husband of a Catholic, I can say about 80% of Catholic girls, I think, for the first 10 years of their life want to be nuns until theyfigure out what it involves.

    [4:14] She re-evaluated her relationship, actually, with the church on finding out her brother was gay at the age of 15.
    And her family left the church at that point.
    Oh, she is the first and only teenager ever admitted into the acting program at the Borough Group in New York three days before getting cast in the TV show Get Real.

    [4:38] She's performed in two Carnegie Hall concerts

    • 1 hr 13 min
    Taran Killam

    Taran Killam

    Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast! This week on the program we've invited back our dear friend of the show Kirsten Rajala to join Thomas in conversation about the former Cast member Taran Killam! jD and Matt are on hand to handle the rest of the lifting! Thanks for listening to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast!
    Transcript:
    [0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is cold outside here at the SNL Hall of Fame.
    So why don't you take a look down below and you'll see a mat.
    No, it's not Matt Ardill, but it's a mat for you to wipe your feet off.
    Get that snow out of here. Somebody might slip and fall.
    That could be a real lawsuit on our hands.
    So there's that. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair.
    Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration.
    Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall.
    That's how we play the game. It's It's just that easy.
    This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast, we are talking about former cast member Taryn Killam.
    And we are joined by our good friend Kirsten Rajala, who is a regular on the SNN and a regular here in the SNL Hall of Fame.
    Do you know who else is a regular? Our friend Matt Ardill. Let's go down the hall and talk to him.

    Track 3:
    [1:59] Okay, I am walking down the hallway and I see him leaning on the wall ever so casually.
    Look at this cool cat. It's Matt. How are you doing, Matt?
    I am doing great, JD, and yourself? You're looking pretty fine today.
    Well, thank you very much. It's these new pants.
    They're very snazzy, very snazzy. Yeah, yeah.

    Track 2:
    [2:17] So, Taron Killam.

    Track 3:
    [2:19] Six foot one, born April 1st, 1982, which makes me feel very old.
    Born in Culver City. His mother toured with the Charlie Daniels Band and his father. Oh, my gosh.
    Yeah. Singer, songwriter, performer. That went down to Georgia.
    Yeah. And his father was a member of the City Garage Theater Troupe.
    So he has showbiz background.

    [2:46] In his veins. And he was born April 1st, so it's got to be comedy.
    Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
    This is the great grandnephew of the actors Rosemary Bow and Robert Stack. Get out.
    Yeah, yeah. Like showbiz legacy kind of thing. Wow. If he was joining today, they'd like be shouting Nepo baby.
    So, but yeah, he attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and the UCLA Theater, Film and Television Program studying musical theater, which we will get back to.
    He graduated from the Groundlings in 2010 and is one of two cast members to be both on MADtv and SNL.
    Did not know that. Yeah, yeah. When he joined MADtv, he was actually the youngest cast member at 19 in 2001.
    He has 90 acting credits, four writer credits, and two producer credits, along with six soundtrack credits that we will touch on in a second.
    His first film appearance was in naked gun 33 and a third the final insult as the character named boy.

    [3:54] Very you know big long a big credit there uh it was 1994 and he was at the age of 12 when he yeah so as a child actor he he was also on unsolved mysteries uh the jersey and big fatliar He had a recurring role in Stuck in the Suburbs.
    He went on to play Mr.
    Rad in Community in their regional holiday music episode.
    He wrote the comic book miniseries for IDW called The

    • 1 hr 9 min
    Laraine Newman

    Laraine Newman

    This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're hosting two guests, Gary Seith and Brad Robinson to discuss the career of an original Not Ready for Prime Time Player, Laraine Newman. Please subscribe, share, rate, and review the show where ever you get your podcasts!
    Transcript:
    [0:42] Thank you so much, Doug Donance. It is great to be back here on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast with y'all.
    Hope you're doing well. I'm doing spectacular, but I'd be that much better if you would just wipe your feet before you come on inside. Come on.
    You've listened to this enough times to know what I'm talking about. out the SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of aformer cast member host musical guest or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration once the nominees have been announced we turn to you the listener to vote for the mostdeserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall That's how we play the game.
    It's just that simple.
    So there's that. I hope that you're ready for a great episode today.
    We've got two special guests.
    We've got Gary Seeth and Brad Robinson from the Not Ready for Primetime podcast joining Thomas down in the bunker.
    And they're going to talk about Lorraine Newman, one of the original Not Ready for Primetime time players, and they're going to make a case for why she should be in the SNL Hall ofFame.
    But ultimately, it's up to you to cast the votes.
    Let's walk on down the hall and talk to our friend Matt Ardill in his minutiae corner. Let's do this. Matt!

    Track 3:
    [2:12] JD! We're here in your corner, and you know what that means.
    Time for trivia. That's right. What have you got for us on Lorraine Newman?
    Well, she's five foot five, born March 2nd, 1952.
    She was born in L.A. with a twin brother, Paul, attended Beverly Hills High School and the California Institute of the Arts. Uh, she is the self-proclaimed daughter and granddaughter ofJewish cowboys.
    Uh, the, the family comes from, uh, cattleman stock and her grandfather was the sheriff.
    Her father and grandfather both ran a cattle drive through Calabasas, which is very posh now, but back in the 1930s, um, it was a farming town.
    Wow. She began Improvit 15.

    [3:03] Edition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and the Bristol Old Vic, but she didn't make it past the second edition on any ofthose.
    So instead, she moved to Paris to study mime with Marcel Marceau. Wow.
    Yeah, yeah. She became a member of the Richmond Shepherd Mime Troupe, and at 19, then returned to LA uh as one of the founding members of the groundlings uh with her sister tracynewman who's a film uh writer and producer you know she has a very storied past before getting into comedy she worked as a rock band booking agent uh handling contracts and gigs andthe song never let her slip away by andrew gold is actually written about her because they were were dating and i'm guessing he regrets uh having blown that opportunity i bet you're rightyeah yeah i had a crush on her big time oh yeah definitely yeah now she landed her first role on the tv series manhattan transfer and followed that up by filming tunnel vision which wasfilmed before the first episode of snl but was released after that and it was alongside many of her her future castmates.
    She was actually hired by Lorne Michaels for a Lily Tomlin special in 1974.

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Julio Torres

    Julio Torres

    This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we welcome back one of the SNN's Super-Fans, Sammy Kay! He's visiting the Hall to discuss writer Julio Torres with our very own Thomas Sena.
    Transcript:
    [0:42] All right. Thank you, Doug DeNance. It is great to be here in the SNL Hall of Fame.

    [0:50] Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast, A Weekly Affair.
    Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration.
    Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote Vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall.
    That's right. That's how we play the game. It's really quite simple.
    And we're thrilled to have you here with us.
    This has been a great season so far, and it's about to get that much better as we invite S&N correspondent, super fan, Sammy K, into the conversation room with Thomas Senna to todiscuss the career of writer Julio Torres.
    This should be a good one. I'm looking very forward to this.
    Will Julio be rewarded or will he be punished for being a writer?
    We shall see when voting commences.
    I'm getting way ahead of myself, though. Before you get into this building, you gotta wipe those feet. That's all there is to it. it.
    Let's walk down the hallway to my friend Matt Ardill in his Matt's Minutia Minute corner and get to know a little bit more about Julio.
    What do you say? Matt!

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    [2:13] Matt! Julio Torres! Yeah, JB! I can't wait.
    This is another one of my picks from the draft and I am looking forward to this one.
    I'm looking forward to all of them, but this one in particular.
    No, this is your pick. Yeah, I understand that. That's great. Yeah.
    So talk to me, because I know precious little about Julio Torres.
    Yeah, he's pretty private, to be honest. Julio Torres, I don't know his height.
    One of the few people I've not been able to track that down.
    So when I do the chart, he's going to be a big question mark. Oh, man.
    He makes me feel very old. He is born February 11th, 1987. Jeez, Louise.

    [2:57] He co-created Los Espookys with Fred Armisen and Anna Fabergia, as well as working on The Chris Gethard Show as a writer.

    [3:11] Oh, did not know that. Yeah, yeah. So he got his start on Gethard and then went on to SNL and then all sorts of stuff followed.
    Um he is born he was born in el salvador to a civil engineer uh who is his father and an architect slash fashion designer mother uh his mother has collaborated uh with him and his sisteruh on comedy projects um they he picked up some skills from his mom um and his mom and his sister actually make a lot of his clothes or have them made his quote i have of him is mymother and sister noah taylor in el salvador who can make anything i sketch with their assistance so when you see him doing shows it's often outfits that he his mom and his sister havemade together oh that's cool yeah so he took literary studies at the new york school or excuse me he took literary studies at the new school in new york okay um even as a student his goalout of the gate was to become a comedy writer which a lot of times you don't start that way you kind of fall into comedy writing yeah but uh yeah it was his goal um he has an hbo specialfrom 2019 called my favorite shapes and is credited with nine writing credits and 25 acting credits as well for

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