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This week we're back with the popular Roundtable episode of the program. In this version we invited Ashley Bower and Deremy Dove to share their ballots with host Thomas Sena. Enjoy and don't forget to vote!
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[0:42] Yes, hello, welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.

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[0:45] I'm your master of ceremonies, your co-host for today's proceedings, Thomas Senna. Everybody, welcome. I think I would be remiss, and I think I need to do, Jamie, do a solid here, because it's very important to Jamie for me to tell you to wipe your feet before you enter the SNL Hall of Fame. I think Jamie would fire me from this post if I didn't tell you guys that. So welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame. Today is our customary end of season extravaganza. It's the SNL Hall of Fame Roundtable. This is the show in which we invite SNL Hall of Fame voters to share their ballots and their thought processes behind their choices. So this is always an interesting exercise to get into the psyche of some of the voters.

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[1:40] Previous roundtables, I think minds have been changed. I think people have stood on islands and been steadfast on who they're voting for. It was interesting to see. I think we all just gained a great insight as to what voters may be thinking. Friendships were formed. I think rivalries were formed. So we've had some interesting roundtables in the past. It's always nice to get a peek into the mindset of SNL Hall of Fame voters. So with me today is two of my guests for this past season on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.

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[2:16] One first-time roundtable panelist, which is going to be fun. I'm excited to hear her thoughts today.

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[2:24] So we have two panelists, and for full disclosure, for transparency here on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast, I will be sharing my ballot as well. So it's going to be the three of us sharing ballots today. So I'm not just like the co-host here on the SNL Hall of Fame. I am a panelist today, and I will give some transparency and let you all know my ballot and how I'm feeling about the voting cycle, about the votes this year. So without further ado, let me introduce our panel for today. And I have an icebreaker question, too. So I'm going to introduce them. My icebreaker question, I asked this last panel, last roundtable, and got some interesting responses. I haven't asked these to this question. I don't think. So...

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[3:15] I want to ask which current cast member, not including Kenan Thompson, because that's the obvious one. Kenan's an SNL Hall of Famer. So not including Kenan Thompson, who on the current cast could you see in the SNL Hall of Fame someday? So that's going to be the little icebreaker question. Get a little peek into the mindset of our panel today. So my first guest, Ashley Bauer, SNL super fan. My guest for Kate McKinnon this year. Ashley did such a great job. And Ashley, thank you so much for joining us today here on the roundtable. How are you? Good. Good to see and talk to you again. Excited to be back. Yeah, this is great. So which current cast member, not including Kenan, that's the obvious one, could you see in the SNL Hall of Fame someday?

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[4:03] So I thought about this and I went back and forth between two, but I think my vote's going to ultimately go to Bowen Yang. I'm going to have to give it to Bowen. And I think he kind of came out of the gate, you know, really with a bang. And he's really been in some pretty epic and memorable sketches already. And I kind of think he's a jack of all trades. And it's rare that he's in something I'm not dying of laughter in. So, yeah, I'm going to go with Bowen. Bowen's like Mr. Charisma. He really is. I love the iceberg weekend update sketch that he did. That was a really great performance. It's like one of the most memorable things that I can think of that Bowen's done. He's just a very likable person, a lot of charisma. Bowen Yang, Ashley could see in

This week on the podcast we reveal the Don Pardo Award winner for Season 5. This high prestigious honor is bestowed onto a person or group of people who contribute to the show's success despite not being eligible for traditional election into the Hall.
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[0:42] Thank you so much, Doug Donatz. It is great to be here in the SNL Hall of Fame.
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 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.
Except for this week. Because this is our very special Don Pardo Award show where the three of us, Thomas, Matt, and myself put our heads together and award the Don Pardo Award to a deserving individual, or in the case of this year's award, deserving individuals.
I won't bury the lead any longer, but before I go anywhere, please. please wipe your feet.

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[1:43] This week, we are going to be talking about a major component of Saturday Night Live, and that is the SNL band.
So the way we're going to tackle this is we're going to go in chronological order to the best of our ability.
We might miss a couple of years, but we can fill Fill in the blanks as necessary for you to get your little history lesson.
But this has been enough of me talking right now.
How are you doing, Thomas? Hey, JD.
Doing really well. It's nice to be on a little like an actual episode with you and Matt, like the three of us kind of uniting here. Yeah. One united front.
This is really fun. We were talking as we're recording this, we're coming off a really fantastic Kristen Wiig episode. So I think all of us are kind of energized by SNL right now.
So we're taking that energy from the recent Kristen Wiig episode and putting it forth here for this. Oh, that's fantastic.
Matt, you're not in your usual corner this week. No, no. Yeah, I've moved things, moved my desk around.
I need to make room to watch that, you know, 1970s French disco funk and dance around.

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[3:00] I wonder if they were even i know when they counted the numbers they were speaking french but i wonder how much of the rest of it was was actual french my wife was asleep on the couch i would have asked her she's a french teacher i wanted to wake her up and say you got to watch this sketch but she was gone i'll ask i'll show it to her today and ask it sounded right from my grade nine general French.
So it may be like Google Translate. Who knows?
But it had the right shapes. Yeah. And I think Bowen's a French speaker.
So I think at least Bowen was probably speaking good real. Oh, OK. I think he is. Yeah. Didn't realize that.
Well, Matt and I have failed our Canadian tests here.
For those listening from other places in the world, Canadians are not truly bilingual, even though our country is.

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[3:52] But I digress. Let's start at the start.

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[3:57] And speaking of Canadians, we're going to talk about the original SNL band.
And it's not band leader, but it's musical director. And that is Howard Shore, who is immensely talented.
He played the alto sax in the band, and he, like I said, was the band leader.
But he was, before he came to SNL, he worked with Lorne Michaels and Hart Pomerantz on the Lorne and Hart Terrific Hour. hour.
And when Lauren got SNL, it seemed like a slam dunk for him to come South and work with Saturday Night Live.
To me, his most defining moment in the role is that he wrote the closing.
He wrote Waltz in D, is it D minor?
Waltz in A, written by a founding member, Howard Shore.
And And that is something, maybe the only thing other than update that is like lasted the duration of the show.
I'm not as versed in the 80s. I don't know if they ended in Waltz and A, but definitely all the Lorne Michaels era, it ends with that.

Join Thomas, Matt, and jD as they welcome Ashley Bower to the show to discuss the shoo-in candidacy of Kate McKinnon. Do you agree she'll end up in the Hall. Time will tell.
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[0:42] Hey, it's J.D. here, and thank you so much, Doug DeNance, for that warm welcome.
We are thrilled to be back here in the SNL Hall of Fame.
Before we go anywhere, take a look at that mat outside that says, Wipe your feet, sucka.
And wipe your feet, sucka. So there's that.
Listen, I'm going to get right to it. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive 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.
And that's how we play the game. It's just that simple.

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[1:30] So, you're chomping at the bit to get voting. You've only got one more week to wait.
If you are listening to this in real time, May the 6th is the date that we will be starting the voting and it will run through to May 17th, at which point we will tabulate the ballots and we'll check in with you on May 20th for our finale extravaganza and let you know who made the Season 5 SNL Hall of Fame. name.
It's going to be interesting. And today's nominee is about to throw a monkey wrench in all your plans because, well, let's go to Matt Ardill because I've got a question to ask Mr. Ardill.
Matt, my friend, I hope you're doing well. I have a question for you.

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[2:22] Where do you start with a girl named Kate?
I don't know. There's so much, there's so much Such an incredible talent.
I'm just going to have to start at the beginning. I guess that's all I can do.
Go for it. All right. Kate McKinnon, height 5'3", born January 6, 1984.
78 acting credits, 4 writing credits, 5 soundtrack credits, and 1 producer credit.
She was born in Seacliff, New York, and attended Columbia University.
University uh growing up she had a pet iguana and she attended ucb in ucb manhattan school and uh yeah she grew up in a funny house full of funny people she and her sister were encouraged to watch mel brooks the producers on a weekly basis always watched snl growing up uh she thought Madeline Kahn was the tops and that that's a fact.
You can't argue with that.
That is, that is a.

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[3:24] Great choice. Yeah, yeah. Now, her parents, they encouraged her to approach the world through the lens of comedy.
Now, Funny runs in the family. Her younger sister, Emily Lynn, is also a comedian and does stand-up and is part of a comedy double act with Jackie Abbott. Check her out on YouTube.
Super funny. Unfortunately, their father passed away when Kate was quite young, at the age of 18.

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[3:51] But that didn't slow her down. She's a multi-instrumentalist, able to play piano, cello, and guitar.
She can also speak three languages, English, French, and German. She makes me sick.
Yeah. Well, that explains why her prime minister is such a good impression, because she can actually speak German.
Right, yeah. It's not just making the noises.
She knows the language. Her first job was as a little league umpire, but she left because she didn't actually know the rules for little league baseball, which is, you know, that's fair. No, it's foul.
Yeah, it's foul. It's foul. She was PETA's sexiest vegan in 2017, but she actually gave that up that title because she just like a true New Yorker missed cheese pizza.
Pizza um now she is an extreme introvert which she deals with by adopting funny voices uh which honestly sounds like 72.4 of the comedians i know her comedy heroes were molly shannon anna gasteyer.

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[5:03] She says Kellyanne Conway, but that's obviously a joke because you can't ever give a straight answer like that.
Her dream role, and this is another one I would pay good money to see, is Willy

Join us this week in the SNL Hall of Fame as we welcome Jon Schneider onto the podcast to discuss the one of kind, Will Forte. Will he be enshrined in the hall? Only you can decide.
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[0:42] Hey, it's J.D. here, and I want to thank Doug DeNance for another lovely introduction.
Welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. As I mentioned off the top, I am your host, J.D.
I am joined by Matthew Ardill in the trivia corner, and of course, our chief librarian, Thomas Senna, will handle the conversation with John Schneider today. So that's really exciting.
But who are we going to cover? Well, before that, 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 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.
And that's how we play the game. It's just that simple.
May the 6th is the date you're going to want to circle on your calendar.
That is when voting opens in the SNL Hall of Fame, and we have one hell of a ballot.
There are some stakes here, as there are people that are on their fifth ballot that if they don't make it in, they will be removed from the ballot.
And that is as high stakes as it really gets here on the SNL Hall of Fame, except for that time that we had lava on the floor.
You bet your ass people wiped their feet then.

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[2:10] Let's go to our friend, Matt Ardill. Matthew, my friend.

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[2:13] How are you doing, JD? I'm great. I'm great. Thanks for asking. How about you?
I'm good. I'm great as well. Yeah. Yeah. I've got, I'm really excited.
I love Will Forte on so many levels.
I can't wait to share. Well, learn me up.
Okay. Well, Will Forte, 5'9", born June 17th, 1970. He has 132 acting credits, 26 writing credits, 20 soundtrack credits, and five producer credits.
He was born in Alameda County, California, and attended the University of California.
He was a member, and this shocked me.
He was a member of the varsity football team, varsity swim team. So he was a jock.

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[2:57] That's not what I would have expected. Me neither. I want a picture of Theater Nerd. Yeah.
Exactly i would have imagined that as well but i mean it's that's just you know that's i guess us not seeing past the stereotype but uh yeah he went on to earn a history degree valuable lesson you just taught us matthew yeah let's do just because somebody plays sports doesn't mean they don't have the the love of theater in them that's right but yeah so thank you for that yeah not from but yeah got a degree in history from ucla and um then he realized his true love was comedy so he joined the groundlings he also tutored faye dunaway's 12 year old son in mathematics while he was in high school which is like that's just a weird i mean this is the weird connections you get living in california yeah i suppose so yeah yeah you know so it's just it i i don't know No, I feel like living in Canada, we don't get those wacky connections, but, um.

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[3:59] At a young age, he went to see Tony Orlando, and Tony brought him and his friend up on the stage, and he encouraged them to follow their passions.
So much so, he wrote him and Tony a nice letter many years later.
What a class act. Yeah, yeah. And he, in fact, is a class act in multiple ways.
He is also a class act video game player. He is the 36th highest scorer in the world in Donkey Kong.
Long whoa yeah he watched the that fistful of quarters documentary and he's like i can do that and is now registered on twin galaxies as number 36 in the world that's brilliant that movie also very very good yes and it's not to go on a tangent you watch that fistful of quarters that the villain in that show is a total nut bar you can go down a rabbit hole all on its own as As well as an amazing video gamer, he is

We're back in the Hall after a hectic week with the whole foot-wiping thing. At any rate we're thrilled to welcome Rebecca North to the show to relitigate the case for Maya Rudolph who is appearing on her last ballot. Check it out and get ready to start voting May, 6th.
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[0:41] Thank you so much, Doug Donets. It is great to be here inside the SNL Hall of Fame with you all.
Now, careful listeners of the show pointed out to me that I didn't remind you
to wipe your feet last week. It's not lost to me.
I truly thought I had solidified my stance on this matter to the extent that
it would become the norm.
But alas, if you are paying for the pay-per-view feed right right now,
you can see that I'm holding a mop.
Jeepers, creepers, peoples, wipe your damn feet.
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 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.
And that's how we play the game.
Let's go to our friend Matthew Ardill right now, because the game that we like
to play is learning a little bit about our nominee.
And that's exactly what we're going to do.
Let me just put this mop down and okay.
Oh gosh, I'm parched. There's something going on with my voice.
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[1:59] Matthew, old man. How are you doing this week? I am good, thanks. And you?
I'm a little shaky in the voice, it seems.
Well, maybe you need some water. Let me take a sip of this water.
That's better. It is delicious. We talked about water last week.
We'll put a pin in it until next week.
We don't want to give away the farm, as it were.
Maya Rudolph, huh? Yeah. I mean, I'm really looking forward to sharing about
Maya's life. She is an incredible character.
This is interesting because this is her last kick at the can.
If she doesn't get in this time, and I believe she was hovering around 58% or
59%, so she needs almost 10% to get in, 10% more to get in.
And if she doesn't get in, she's off the ballot.
That would be a shame because she is an incredible performer and a hilarious person.
So take this as a war egg, not telling people how to vote, but just be mindful
of that folks. This is your last chance. Yeah.
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[3:16] Well, let's hear some, uh, trivia to maybe sway some people.
Yeah. Yeah, Maya Rudolph is 5'7", birthday July 27th, 1972.
She has 118 acting credits, 12 producer credits, 2 writing credits,
and 30 soundtrack credits.
She was born in Gainesville, Florida, but was raised in L.A.,
the daughter of singer Minnie Ripperton and composer Richard Rudolph.
Off her mother is the singer of the song loving you
uh which i've now three times brought up
to my wife and every every time we hear it and she goes if you're gonna tell
me maya rudolph's mom saying this one more time i'm gonna throw a saw throw
a pillow at you but yeah she did and uh in fact if you listen to the single
you can hear her singing maya maya maya maya because this is a lullaby Bye.
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[4:13] That she wrote for Maya and was used to sing her to sleep. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah. Now, and her grandfather on her father's side, Sidney J.
Rudolph, owned all of the Wendy's and Rudy's restaurants in Dade County, Florida.
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[4:29] So he was a- I know Rudy's