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Jason Reitman is on a barnstorming tour for Saturday Night , telling everyone about his amazing week in 2008 as an SNL guest writer. Guest writer? How does that work exactly? Do you book a session like an Airbnb? Does Lorne Michaels bring you in like a lecturer in Copenhagen? Turns out Reitman isn’t alone — the show has had several visiting scribes over the years, including some pretty famous names. Here are five people you likely never knew spent a couple of weeks writing sketches on SNL … 1 Jason Reitman Don’t Miss 19 Safety Items That Do Nothing To Make You Safer Authors Cracked Plasticians Published 09/20/2018 35 Tweets That Left Us in Stitches Last Week Authors Ian Garner Published 06/25/2023 20 Unanswered Movie And Show Questions (That Ruin Them) Authors Cracked Writers, Ryan Menezes Published 10/15/2020 Reitman’s stint at 30 Rock was “one of the greatest weeks of my life,” he told Entertainment Weekly at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. “I was lucky enough to guest write at Saturday Night Live . … Right after Juno , I got the chance to go in and spend one week. I got a sketch on the air.” Reitman’s three-part sketch was a play on the phrase “Death by chocolate,” featuring host Ashton Kutcher as an anthropomorphic candy bar who murders the innocents. Your mileage may vary on the sketch’s hilarity, but at least it anticipated Kutcher’s 2020s heel turn. 2 Mindy Kaling Kaling called working on Saturday Night Live “a childhood dream.” She never reached her goal of becoming a cast member, but she did get a chance to work as a guest writer between the second and third seasons of The Office . Unlike Reitman’s “greatest week of my life” experience, Kaling’s guest-writing gig was “humiliating,” according to her memoir Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Almost all of her pitches — like Antonio Banderas meeting up with his identical twin at the Berlin Wall — were greeted with silence at the table reads, says Vulture . 3 Paul Thomas Anderson Maya Rudolph met life partner […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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