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Saturday Night Livehas to be the most Look, Ma, I made it!

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place to work in comedy.

Three cast members all pegged their Holy shitmoment to working on thesame exact sketch in 2009.

Here are 29 of those moments.

It sounds fake, but you never lose this feeling.

Akiva Schaffer

After my audition, the cast and crew went to the Paramount Hotel.

Chris Rock said, I think its going to be you.

And he yelled, Dynamite!

Hey, guys, my daughters gonna be onSaturday Night Live!

Then he said, Love you, honey.

I gotta go finish my golf game!

Siobhan Fallon

When Al Franken chased me down a staircase and yelled, Come back!

Mike ODonoghue was waiting for the elevator.

We said hi and told him we were a comedy team from Minnesota.

Mike immediately asked, How much are they paying you?

We were a little taken aback, but for some reason we told him.

Were splitting $300 a week.

Mike scoffed and said, I spend that much to shine my cats shoes.

It was terrifying and electrifying.

And then every other day on the job.

I somehow felt connected to the mayhem of the original cast in that moment.

The couch was so old it easily could have been one that Belushi slept on.

Also: sleeping on all the shitty couches on 17 and showering in Lornes office.

Jorma Taccone

Getting my photo taken for the opening credits.

Mind-blowing moment beyond the dream come true.

Nasim Pedrad

When Don Pardo said my name.

I had nothing in my mind except terror.

Tim Herlihy

When I realized they were seriously trying me out as Biden on my first episode.

About three weeks prior, I was sleeping on a couch-bed in a Chicago living room.

Robert Smigel

Watching the stagehands drag three donkeys down the hallway towards 8H.

Lew Morton

During my first show, I was going to play Drakes aunt inthe monologue.

A costume and wig was made for it, and we ran it during dress rehearsal.

Sasheer Zamata

I met Kristen Wiig years before I got the job, and told her thatSNLwas my dream.

She tapped my forehead and said, Im giving you good vibes.

My first Saturday at the show, I told her that story, and she was very touched.

I looked up, and it was Kristen, who was already walking off.

Jon Rudnitsky

The first week I was there, I contributed one single joke toone single sketch.

Tracy Morgan and Samuel L. Jackson were on theTitanicand wondering when they would be allowed to board the lifeboats.

Will Ferrell was running around calling out evacuees: All first-class passengers to the lifeboats!

All second- and third-class passengers to the lifeboats.

My joke was All empty lifeboats should now be placed into other lifeboats.

I went to the floor to watch it on-air, and Will said the line and people laughed.

Then after the show, in the credits, my name was spelled wrong.

So the completeSNLego roller coaster in my very first week.

Everyone told me I killed immediately after.

I thought,Holy shit, Im onSNL.

Finesse Mitchell

During my first episode, I was put in a sketch as an extra.

I was a jogger dressed in a tracksuit who ran past Will Forte and stole his sandwich.

And no, I did not get to eat the sandwich.

John Lutz

My second episode was the Tim RobbinsSinead OConnor episode.

It was a whirlwind.

I thought I was in a fever dream.

Michaela Watkins

I had three Bruce Springsteen posters on the wall of my apartment in Hollywood.

I flew to New York to be a two-week guest writer onSNL.

Afterwards, Springsteen walked up to me and said, Tom Hanks told me you wrote that Belvedere sketch.

And I was thinking,Best job I ever had.

Jeff Richards

Benedict Cumberbund hosted the show the week the Cubs won the World Series.

And Im from Chicago, so the week was already huge.

I think it was early November, 2016, so it was maybe my fourth show.

Four of the Cubs did a bit with Bill Murray on Update, and Dana Carvey did Church Lady.

It was all very surreal.

I was in the middle of a dream.

I tried to stifle it, but it was pretty obvious.

She rubbed my shoulders and went, Awwww, this pretty big for you, ay, bud?

It wouldnt be a lot by todays standards, but it was a lot to me back then.

Melanie Hutsell

On show days, youd eat dinner upstairs in the NBC cafeteria.

Just the mundanity of things made me starstruck.

I would look at a pencil and be like,This pencil works atSaturday Night Live.

I went to the Monday meeting, and bam!

Michael Jordan was sitting in the host chair.

You have entered theSNLvortex.

Ellen Cleghorne

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