“Fuck you, you fucking dumb cabbie. It’ll be so famous and good at sketch comedy.”
Sadly, the above exchange is not actually from Jason Reitman’s new film, Saturday Night, which dramatizes the circumstances around Saturday Night Live’s fraught and triumphant premiere episode. Rather, it’s from John Mulaney’s recent talk-show appearance alongside fellow former SNL writer Seth Meyers, in which an ostensibly good-natured discussion of Reitman’s film—which is being released to coincide with both awards season and the series’s fiftieth anniversary—mutated into something a little less innocuous. “I worked for five years at Saturday Night Live,” said Mulaney, in the cast-iron deadpan that’s become his trademark. “But I had no idea the kind of pressure cooker that it was. Apparently, it’s high stakes.”
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