While Saturday Night Live is thought for minting stars, the comedians whose careers have been launched by the present all began on the backside of Studio 8H.
In celebration of SNL’s fiftieth anniversary, forged members previous and current spoke to New York Magazine about how they splurged after getting their huge break and touchdown a spot on the long-running program.
Purchases ranged from sneakers to furnishings, however lots of the forged shared an analogous sentiment: first-year writers do not make as a lot cash as you most likely suppose they do.
Here’s what the SNL stars and alumni informed the journal:
Pete Davidson: “Do you guys know what they pay us? It’s like three grand an episode. I believe I acquired dinner.”
James Austin Johnson: “We purchased probably the most uncomfortable West Elm sofa of all time. I swear to god. It’s, like, made from bricks.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “I purchased a pair of sneakers that have been out of my price range. They have been $75.”
Rachel Dratch: “Probably getting an residence. I imply, that is so boring, however that is the actual factor.”
Sarah Silverman: “I purchased a cashmere sweater. It was like $300.”
Jason Sudeikis: “I imply, you do not make sufficient cash to make huge purchases, so I believe New York hire was most likely the largest buy I made after writing my first 12 months on SNL.”
Sarah Sherman: “A pleasant mattress.”
Cheri Oteri: “A sofa. I’ve gotten it reupholstered three or 4 occasions.”
Seth Meyers: “I went to, like, a Crate & Barrel and I acquired a extremely huge sofa after which I went to a Best Buy and I acquired a extremely huge TV.”
Bowen Yang: “I bear in mind going to Saks throughout the road and shopping for a pair of Gucci sneakers. The variety that everybody acquired and the type I would not really feel tremendous cool carrying out now.”
It’s not the primary time that SNL stars have talked about how they’ve spent their cash. Davidson and Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost — each Staten Island natives — famously spent $280,000 to purchase a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry in 2022 with plans to transform it into an leisure venue.
Jost would go on to name it “completely the dumbest and least thought-through buy I’ve ever made in my life.”
“The method I justified it’s for the amount of cash we have been placing into shopping for it, on only a primary square-footage stage, is in case you discovered the proper place for it to be, you have been primarily shopping for a constructing on its aspect that is 65,000 sq. toes,” he informed People earlier this 12 months. “So round New York, that may be a superb value per sq. foot.”
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