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Fallon negotiated an unprecedented SNL exit clause into his WB pilot contract
“And so they put an extra page in the contract. Never been done before, never been done since, I don't think. But saying, if I get Saturday Night Live, I get out of the show, out of my contract.”
Will Ferrell intentionally wore a smaller shirt for the More Cowbell sketch
“Will Ferrell wore a smaller shirt on air, so when he lifted up his hands to hit the cowbell, his gut, like, fell out of the bottom of his, of under this thing”
Lorne Michaels watched Fallon's failed first SNL troll doll audition
“I'm doing this troll doll thing, and Lorne was there. I saw him walk in, he had a baseball hat on, and, you know, really pulled down, and he kind of sat in the darkness, and I think, you know, I just remember it did not go well.”
SNL's Wayne's World stage area was where doomed sketches went to die
“It was in the Wayne's World section of ADH on the stage, which is It's famous for Wayne's World now, but at the time, it was also famous for where sketches go to die. So if you do, if you have a sketch in that section of the stage, it usually means you're goin…”