I just went in. I was wearing a T-shirt. I took my T-shirt off and trew it on my head and started doing this character, my imitation of this guy that I'd seen at Voila, a terrible club in the Beverly Center. Voila - I mean, I'm really embarrassed to say that I've been there. So I went in and started doing this Iranian for the audition and they started laughing, and they started hiring me.
Live TV is the ultimate medium.
Two hundred of your best friends in the audience, five cameras in you face, not enough to get it together and 30 million people watching. It's really heavy. After I left, after that first season, it got better. I don't mean by the fact that I left. Boys will be boys The great thing about SNL, was being at 30 Rockefeller Center and having Belushi and Ackroyd's old office.