So we weren't wrong in matching the vibe of the country. "I mean, we were right at the time, because the vibe during those debates was that he was such a train wreck and was sinking himself, and that Hillary was gonna win. Of the countless sketch ideas he's pitched that he's seen come to fruition, does Kelly have any regrets? "I wish our skewering of Trump earlier on had helped him not win," Kelly says. "But there is still that Monday or Tuesday feeling, even five or six years in, of, Will I have an idea this week? What if I just can't think of something? You always think that's gonna be the week that everyone realizes you're a fraud." He says his panic attacks have gotten infinitely better. Kelly started writing regularly for the performers, hatching the police-drama parody Dyke & Fats and the viral music video "Twin Bed." The sketches led to Kelly being offered the co-head writer gig in the summer of 2016, along with his writing partner Sarah Schneider. Including Kate McKinnon, whose arrival coincided with Kelly's and Aidy Bryant's. "There are plenty of other gay people on the show." "I wasn't the only gay writer when I was hired," he says. I don't know how I survived it." His sexual orientation, however, was a non-issue. "It is a lot about just surviving, being normal and not having a meltdown in front of people and not sobbing. "Your first year you have such high highs, and such low lows," Kelly says of joining the team in 2011. This time he was promptly hired (Seth Meyers liked one of his videos), so he moved back. He worked for the Onion News Network and applied to the show twice, but was rejected, so he relocated to Los Angeles to work at Funny or Die. "But that's all the personality you need when you're 15, right?"Īfter he finished studying drama at UC Irvine ("I really wanted to go to NYU because of Felicity, but we couldn't afford it"), Kelly moved to New York and joined the SNL incubator Upright Citizens Brigade. "Other people had interests, and I was just 'watches SNL and Seinfeld,' " he says. Kelly goes so far as to declare the show his defining characteristic at the time. "If a dance ended at midnight, I was like, 'Why is this going till midnight? Don't we all want to get back for 11:30?' Also, I was gay, so the dances were not for me, so I was like, 'Yeah, SNL is why I want to leave, girlfriend-I-brought-to-this-fucking-dance.' " "I would leave high school dances early for it," he says. Saturday Night Live quickly became an obsession.
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