Saturday Night Live: 13 Wild Behind The Scenes Stories

Will Ferrell snl outfit

Over the years, several celebrities have been banned from ever returning to the show. As of right now, that list includes Adrien Brody for a racially insensitive improvised Jamaican impression, Rage Against The Machine, Martin Lawrence, Sinead O’Connor, Cypress Hill, Stevan Seagal, Robert Blake, The Replacements, Andy Kaufman, Fear, Milton Berle,  Charles Grodin, Frank Zappa, and System Of A Down.

Jenny Slate Dropped An F-Bomb In Her First Sketch

You may not remember that Jenny Slate of Marcel The Shell was a member of the Saturday Night Live cast, but that’s probably because she was only there for a single season. In her first ever sketch on air with Kristen Wiig, Slate accidentally dropped the F-bomb on live T.V.. Slate says it wasn’t the reason she was let go from the series, but it certainly didn’t help.

Will Ferrell Wore The Same Outfit Backstage For A Year

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Will Ferrell once appeared in a sketch that parodied Smokey And The Bandit, where he wore wrangler jeans, a trucker hat, a plaid shirt, and a vest, which he ended up wearing for the entire day so as to not change in and out of costume. Fellow writer Tom Gianis saw Ferrell wear the costume a second day in a row and begged Ferrell to wear the outfit for the rest of the year, which Ferrell ended up doing.

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