Alec Baldwin

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...

Lucky enough for me, in that first episode, it was, like, right after the Emmys, and Wanda Sykes and Bill Cosby had, like, a weird run-in.

And she was like, I think we should, like, recreate this moment or whatever.

And I was like, cool, I got a, you know, a Cosby, because I've been doing Cosby since I was on Nickelodeon.

And I was just like, let's do it.