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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Bill Hader

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

Politics, News, Celebrity, Music, Broadway, Society & Culture, Interview, Movies, Pop Culture, Tv & Film, Technology, Tv

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Bill Hader’s rise to stardom began behind the scenes on movies and TV sets, before he took an improv class and quickly made the leap to “Saturday Night Live.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the actor and comedian about what he calls his journey from "preschool to Harvard,” his Emmy-winning HBO series “Barry,” and his lifelong dream to meet the subject of his most famous impression: “Dateline” correspondent Keith Morrison.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:05.9

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:08.8

I guess this week, SNL alum and current any winning star HBO's hit show Barry Bill Hader.

0:16.8

Bill spent eight seasons, you'll remember fondly on SNL and we did the interview at 30

0:21.5

Rockefeller Center in New York City where I'm talking to you right now and that is where

0:25.8

he worked on SNL up on the eighth floor.

0:27.8

I work on the second floor.

0:29.7

So we shared that thing.

0:30.7

We sat down and talked a little bit about what it's like to be back in this building

0:34.6

after all those years, hopping in the famous elevators, going upstairs and creating characters

0:39.5

like Stefan, the legendary icon Stefan with his buddy John Malaney, who's now perhaps

0:44.9

the best stand up working, but was a writer at SNL when they came up with that together.

0:49.5

We go through his years on SNL, the anxiety he had, which I didn't really know about as

0:53.8

an SNL performer.

0:56.1

His leap is crazy.

0:57.8

He was working behind the scenes in Hollywood as a producer, a PA on sets out in LA and then

1:06.2

started doing a little improv work on the side for fun was discovered, got an audition and

1:10.8

before he knew it, he went from behind the scenes to being on SNL.

1:14.8

It's a crazy story that he gets into.

1:17.2

You'll remember one of his best impersonations is of Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison,

1:24.3

our beloved colleague at NBC Keith Morrison.

1:28.3

It's for me, I think maybe Stefan is in a class of its own, but I will say I think Keith

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