{"id":124354,"date":"2024-09-11T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/darrell-hammond-left-snl-set-thinking-hed-disgraced-himself\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:12:21","slug":"darrell-hammond-left-snl-set-thinking-hed-disgraced-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/darrell-hammond-left-snl-set-thinking-hed-disgraced-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Hammond Left SNL Set Thinking He\u2019d \u2018Disgraced\u2019 Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a> alum Darrell Hammond<\/strong><\/a> is getting candid about his tenure on the show.<\/p>\n

The comedian, who was a cast member on the NBC sketch show from 1995 to 2009 and famously impersonated Bill Clinton<\/strong>, revealed that he didn\u2019t always share in the audience\u2019s laughter after going home from work.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack when I was in SNL<\/em>, it was a real up and down thing for me, because most of the time I left that show thinking that I \u2026 I\u2019m going to say 50 percent of the time when I left that show, I thought I had disgraced myself,\u201d Hammond said on the Monday, September 9, episode of the \u201cAmy & T.J.\u201d podcast<\/a>, per Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hammond, 68, told podcast hosts Amy Robach<\/strong><\/a> and T.J. Holmes<\/strong><\/a> he recently saw a picture of him and former costar Tracy Morgan<\/strong> from their time on SNL<\/em>, which brought back old memories. He recalled struggling with SNL<\/em>\u2019s first turnaround to produce a new live episode every week.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tRelated: <\/span>Former ‘Saturday Night Live’ Stars: Where Are They Now?<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tSaturday Night Live has catapulted the careers of many of today\u2019s most popular comedians, including Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey and Adam Sandler. Murphy, for his part, appeared as a cast member from 1980 to 1984. He went on to become a lucrative movie star, but tension between him and the show arose after [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe memories sort of came flooding back how, how dissatisfied I was with what it was I was doing,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd I think because of the degree of difficulty. I mean, you go to see a Vegas tribute act, someone doing an impression. It\u2019s brilliant, and we love them, but they\u2019ve worked years on it. Now try doing it on Wednesday before a Saturday. Never done this before. Never done this one before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think you\u2019re gonna have 48 hours before Saturday, you\u2019re not,\u201d Hammond continued. \u201cYou might have five or six because there\u2019s a whole bunch of other things you gotta do. So taking that out there, there are times where my nerves would get so brittle. I\u2019d say, \u2018Why am I doing this? Damn.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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