This is a HeadGum podcast. Hello and welcome to Good One, the podcast in which the makers of comedy talk about

making comedy. I'm your host, Volchre Senior, Jesse David Fox.

Our guest this week are Saturday Night Lives,

longest running cast member Keenan Thompson,

and his longtime collaborator on the show

and one-time head writer Brian Tucker.

Usually when we do this, the guest picks a bit to focus on that has

ran its course. But things don't really run their course at SNL, a sort of living organism

of a show that's always hungry for things that work.

If something works, you can and want to do it again.

Keenan's impression of LaVar Ball, the big talking father of three basketball playing sons,

worked.

This is to say, when Keenan and Brian came walking into the 30 Rock Conference Room where

it recorded this episode, they were discussing jokes for a new LaVar ball piece.

See, it was Tuesday, Reading Night at

and after our conversation they'd be getting to work on an

episode that's only four days away. But S&L's

S&L, even if it's your first season or your 16.

Ball ended up not making the cut this week,

but he'll be back,

if Keenan and Brian have anything to do with it.

He truly never lost.

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