Celebrities Who Were Rejected From 'Saturday Night Live' After Auditioning

Donald Glover

Donald Glover was turned down to be on SNL in both 2007 and 2009.

“I dodged so many bullets. Me being on SNL would’ve killed me. I got friends who made it on SNL and, at the time, I was like, damn. But if I got on SNL, my career wouldn’t have happened,” he told GQ.

“And thank God. Thank God I didn’t get some of those pilots. I wanted so desperately to be on Parks and Rec because it was the cool, hipster show. I am the bullet dodger. I feel like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction. That wasn’t a mistake, you know? God did that.”

Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza said she didn’t make it to the Lorne Michaels final audition, but did the preliminary first round.

She explained she did characters, like a “Puerto Rican news reporter that was always trying to make the news stories sexy, even if they were horrific,” as well as a “pill-popping housewife.” Aubrey would later host the show herself.

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