It's like 11.10 or 11.15 at night and you're hearing the band warming up in the studio,

maybe Keenan's on stage doing the warm-up song, and you're in the hallway outside Lauren's office and the writers who are working on the

monologue which is going to go on television in about 10 or 15 minutes are looking

for jokes you know and that's like both a thrilling fun

moment and a really scary moment because you know you're about to go down and

have three jokes that you're gonna say hey Adam driver do you want to do these

any of these jokes for the first time in 10 minutes you know so those are moments

where you might just happen to be passing through the hallway and as a head writer you feel a responsibility to stop and to spend the next five minutes even though you've got weekend update stuff to prepare, spend five minutes trying to brainstorm a monologue joke because

the writers need help.

And as anyone does, like anytime it's your piece, you're always looking for help.

You know, that's what when I was here Seth was great at doing was pitching in in that way

Paula Powell was great at doing and Kent sublet like those three people gave me some of the

best lines sometimes in sketches I wrote.

So as much as you can be, it's always wonderful if you pitch a joke

and the writers really like it and put it in, that's thrilling.

You know, that's still thrilling for me after all these years.

The craziest thing for me was when I first did Bailey on Weekend Update.

Will Farrell was the other person doing Weekend Update that week, so I was on Chay's side and he was on

Colin's side and so the weekend updates going on live and we're on opposite ends,

me and well Farrell and I'm looking across and he's like giving me

thumbs up and before I'm going to go on and being like you can do it you know like

across the way and so that was just surreal to have that support going into it.

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