![]() As SNL tried to rebuild from its disastrous 1993–’94 season, hiring the smart, sarcastic 30-year-old comic actress seemed perfect. Standing in the darkness just beyond the set lights is a glum Janeane Garofalo. When Sandler continues into the third verse of the Carpenters song, and then the fourth, people start inspecting their shoelaces. A couple of SNL writers, waiting for “Uncle Joe” to finish so they can rehearse their own bit, snicker that the sketch should be renamed “Uncle Slow.” Adam Sandler tries to cut the boredom, warbling “sing, sing a song…” in his trademark idiot-boy voice. ![]() Potbellied technicians jam chocolate-chip cookies into their mouths. Five actors, fifteen extras, and four musicians sit silently, waiting for the disembodied voice of Dave Wilson, the show’s director for most of its two-decade run, to give them instructions. There’s a metallic clatter as a stagehand knocks lighting poles to the floor. Then Nealon, in his record ninth season at SNL, accidentally steps in front of Foreman, blocking the camera and stalling yet another take. Yet after an hour of rehearsal, Nealon is still stumbling over his lines. The five-minute sketch isn’t particularly complicated-or particularly funny. ![]() Nealon suggests that the annoyed Foreman toss the bouquet. Nealon wheedles the recalcitrant Foreman into singing a song. Nealon goads the reluctant Foreman into making a toast. Wedged into one corner of the legendary Studio 8H, where Toscanini made gorgeous music and Dan Aykroyd made cheeseburgers, is the jolly bulk of guest host George Foreman.įoreman is rehearsing his role as Uncle Joe, a shy wedding guest who is being tormented by Kevin Nealon, playing the wedding reception’s smarmy emcee. It’s Friday night at Saturday Night Live, and rehearsal looks like it will drag into Monday.
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