helenaoftroy:

ballroompink:

-saturdaynightlive:

Amy Poehler - We did a show with Queen Latifah as guest host. In one sketch, she and Maya and I were playing this kind of doo-wop group, these sixties girls, and we rehearsed the songs for a couple days beforehand. It was kind of a “Behind The Music” thing. So during the live show with ten seconds to go before the sketch, we could hear Jena Rositano, the stage manager, talking into her headset saying, ” Wait. What? What?? Do you want me to tell them that? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?”

Maya Rudolph - We kept hearing her say into her headset, “Do you want me to tell them that?” Then she said, “Okay.” And it was like eight seconds to go, and she looks up and says to us, “You’re going to be singing with no music. Five, four, three - ” And we had four songs to sing! And you just go, “Ugh.” The show goes so smoothly most of the time, we don’t realise when it fucks up how bad things can be. We had dance moves and costume changes and songs and harmonies. We had rehearsed it to death and then it just blew up in our faces because there was no music track. That was scary. It was horrible. It was really, really horrible. 

Amy Poehler - I loved it. We just sang it without the music. And it was one of those things like, “Oh my God, the fuckin’ show is live. It really is. Of course, there’s some poor person who screwed up the music who’s getting screamed at, but I loved it. I thought it was super exciting. I used to love that about watching the show. I loved being reminded that anything could happen. I loved the screwups. I loved being reminded that it was live.