Aubrey Plaza, 38, is already delivering memorable moments astatine Studio 8H earlier she hosts Saturday Night Live. The NBC sketch drama bid released a promo connected Jan. 18 wherever Aubrey and formed member Chloe Fineman, 34, are unsocial successful the assemblage astatine the workplace and bonding implicit their shared emotion of impressions. “I’m excited,” Aubrey says astir hosting SNL for the archetypal clip connected Jan. 21. “And ohio my God, I emotion your impressions. Drew Barrymore is my favorite,” The White Lotus star besides says.
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Chloe acknowledgment Aubrey for the “sweet” compliment, but Aubrey reminds the comedian that she’s “not the lone 1 that tin bash impressions.” Aubrey gives a flawless content of Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock, which wholly startles Chloe. Chloe, dissatisfied with Aubrey’s archetypal impression, asks the Golden Globe nominee if she tin bash 1 that’s “a small much fun.”
Suddenly, Aubrey starts crying and smacking herself successful the look to impersonate Annette Bening successful American Beauty, which again startles Chloe. “Why are you similar this?” Chloe asks Aubrey, who dilatory leans successful to buss Chloe and dramatically responds, “Because I’m insane, and I’ve been waiting to bash this amusement since I was 12 years old.” The brace afloat marque retired and are caught by a janitor who is vacuuming the floor. He simply stares astatine Aubrey and Chloe, shakes his head, and continues cleaning.
Aubrey is hosting the Jan. 21 occurrence of SNL that volition diagnostic Sam Smith arsenic the philharmonic guest. The histrion appeared on Jimmy Fallon‘s late-night speech amusement this week and revealed that she really auditioned for SNL back successful the day, but she didn’t get a occupation arsenic a formed subordinate connected the show.
“I didn’t marque it to the Lorne [Michaels] audition, the celebrated last addition, but I did a preliminary first-round showcase,” Aubrey explained. The Parks & Recreation alum revealed that she played 2 characters successful her audition: 1 was a “sexy” Puerto Rican quality reporter, and the different was a “pill-popping housewife” that would sanction celebrities and the benignant of tails they had.
Aubrey recalled however she yet got a occupation connection arsenic a acceptable plan intern on SNL, which she settled for. “They [the acceptable designers] loved maine due to the fact that I did not attraction astir acceptable plan astatine all,” she said. “They wanted an intern who had nary involvement successful learning what they did, due to the fact that they were moody bastards. And you cognize that’s true.”
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