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The Treatment

Bill Hader: Saturday Night Live

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Elvis Mitchell talks to actor Bill Hader about beginning his eighth season on 'Saturday Night Live' and his Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

0:15.5

Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com. You might know my guest, Bill Hader, from his work as Flint Lockwood and

0:23.8

cloudy on the chance of meatballs, or as Andy Warholman and Black 3,

0:28.4

and I hope he got to keep that very cool leather jacket he wore in the movie.

0:33.9

But you probably mostly know him from Saturday Night Live,

0:38.2

his seventh season.

0:42.9

He got the first Emmy nomination for an actor in the series in over 20 years, right?

0:44.2

Yeah, that's what, yeah.

0:45.5

Since Eddie Murphy, basically. Eddie Murphy and 83 is what they said.

0:47.4

Yeah, it's good.

0:47.9

People have gotten nominations for specific episodes, but not for a whole season.

0:51.8

Yeah, I thought it was Will Ferrell, because I know

0:55.1

Will Ferrell had been nominated, but there's, I guess, it's another category that's for

0:59.0

performance in a variety, you know, it's what our hosts get nominated. Like, Maya and Jimmy

1:05.5

Fallon were nominated this year for, and Melissa McCarthy for hosting. And I think like John Lovitz and Dana Carvey and Will

1:13.2

Farrell and Mike Myers and people have been in that one, nominating that one. I've known you a little bit

1:18.5

for a while. And then I guess one of the things I really like about what you do is you take sort of

1:23.0

the, the epicness of performance, but really specific acting notes.

1:28.6

I mean, think about some of my favorite stuff you're doing.

1:30.4

You play these guys who always, you often play guys who are very calm but incredibly confident.

1:35.0

And my favorite example of that is your Buffalo Bill and the bad guys good conversation sketch,

1:40.0

which is just, I mean, just that insane confidence and that he never raises his voice?

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