Former “Saturday Night Live” castmates Ego Nwodim and Heidi Gardner have recounted their time working on the NBC comedy sketch series, saying that it was “not the easiest place to work.”
The two reunited on Nwodim’s “Thanks Dad” podcast on Tuesday, where they reflected on their time at SNL, their friendship, and the competitive atmosphere that comes with trying to make it on the high-pressure show.
“The sketches, they come, they go, they’re really fun. They can be hard, they can be things you’re not into, whatever,” Nwodim, who left the show in September after seven seasons, said. “But I’m like, if you can leave — in a place where it can get so competitive and you can become so self-involved, if you can leave and be still remarkably lovely and such a light and still pouring into other people like you, I think you succeeded.”
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