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> “I never really paid much attention to the audience,” Curtin recalled. “I thought, well, anybody that’s watching this must be really stupid. It gave me a lot of angst. So the way I dealt with it was, I was in this bubble, and we had a job to do within the bubble.”
> Even in the weeks leading up to the big debut episode, the 3rd Rock from the Sun actress faced a lot of anxiety, questioning why she was even on the show.
> “I was quiet and nobody paid any attention to me. I didn’t know how to pitch. I had never had to do that in my life,” she recounted of that time, but eventually trusted she would have roles on opening night. “I figured, well, they hired me. They’re paying me. So it would be foolish of them not to use me.”
Well, she does have a point.
We weren’t stupid, we were just —
a: children left unsupervised on Saturday nights, or
b: stoned.
As a viewer, I have to say she’s not wrong.
I was 9 when I thought her eating like a pig with a conical head was funny. By the time the movie came out I thought it was stupid. She was still all in. But yeah, the audience must be the stupid ones.
I mean… I was given the “no bedtime on the weekends” rule as a kid and I was vitamin taker in my teens…. Soooo yeah. She’s not wrong. It stopped being funny to me right around the age of 22-23.
Best years were like 97-2005.
Edit: To be fair, those early years of SNL were fueled by literally kilos of coke, booze, and self loathing.
Jane Curtin: Insult Comic
Mary would say that …