Alec Baldwin

So I went to prom and all that stuff.

Was it weird, I mean, showing up and everyone kind of knew who you were?

No, I mean, I don't know if the shows were as popular yet, you know what I mean?

Like, when we were doing them, you either, like, really had to have cable and really be on top of Nickelodeon to know who we even were.

And I went to public school, so it wasn't like everybody was just knocking my door down like that.

I had been sending my tape once I left Nickelodeon for a couple of years, and they kept telling me I was too young in the face, too young in the face, or whatever.

And then Tracy left.

And so there was like room for blackness.

And I got to audition.

And I straight up auditioned.

I had to do stand-up.

I'd never done stand-up before.

So I had to make up like a terrible five-minute run of stuff.

Yeah, I did it on the stage for the callback, which was more comfortable because I was like, you know, camera work.

I was used to that.

And then one more final like stand up audition in L.A.

And then they picked like four of us.

When I entered, it was Jimmy and Tina and Horatio and Dratch and Amy Poehler and Seth and Fred and Forte.

I mean, I felt like I was always pretty much embraced from the beginning because Maya Rudolph gave me my first even moment on the show.

I didn't even know we were supposed to, like, write our own sketches and...