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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When any cast member

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Speaker 1: of SNL chooses to leave the show, it can be

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Speaker 1: a pretty frightening moment in their career. Several alums do

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Speaker 1: go on to become superstars, but far more daunt Will

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Speaker 1: Ferrell certainly one of the more successful actors in the

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Speaker 1: show's history, but he just admitted to The Wall Street

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Speaker 1: Journal when he departed SNL in two thousand two, it

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Speaker 1: felt like anything but a guarantee, saying I was creeping

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Speaker 1: up my seventh season for better or for worse, it

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Speaker 1: was a good time to go. It was a mix

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Speaker 1: of scary and feeling like the right time. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why, because it really weren't a pilot movie scripts

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Speaker 1: waiting for me. It was more like, I'm pretty well known,

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Speaker 1: let's choose this momentum to try. I had signed on

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Speaker 1: to Old School and then he had this script that

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Speaker 1: was a great concept and need to work about a

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Speaker 1: grown man at the North Pole, but we thought was

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Speaker 1: an ELF med script that needed to work, ended up

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Speaker 1: being Elf and the rest is history. SNL is on

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Speaker 1: Saturday's NBC that's direct from Hollywood,