Almost Interesting by David Spade

Author:David Spade [Spade, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Personal Memoirs, Humor, General
ISBN: 9780062376985
Google: fQJ4BgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00T3DGGMG
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-10-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SNL 1991–1992

The summer after my first full season, I was back driving around Los Angeles in my used Acura Legend waiting to find out if I was going back. I had gotten rid of my dinky New York apartment on the corner of Eighty-Fifth Street and West End Avenue, because I couldn’t get anyone on the show to tell me if I was going to be hired back three months later. In hindsight, this seems very stupid. It was such a hassle to move all of my shit out of my apartment, get it back to L.A., then find a place back in New York that I could rent month-to-month, wait for the cable guy, find a new bed, rehang the autographed picture of myself, blah blah blah. It was never worth it. If I thought for one second I’d be somewhat famous or have money one day, I would never have lifted a finger and just rolled the dice and hoped for the best. Those just add to the intangible (but somewhat tangible) things that make Saturday Night Live a stressful place that drives people crazy.

I finally got the call to come back, which was a huge sigh of relief personally and professionally. I was very driven at that time and wanted to do well in my field that everyone told me not to pursue. I had such a massive chip on my shoulder about being an underdog from Arizona with no show business connections. I had to see how far I could get. Add to that the fact that I hated disappointing the people who were trying to hang in there with me back home. I’d get a lot of calls from friends and other comedian buddies saying, “Dude, I waited up.” Which meant, they stayed up all the way to the end of the show hoping to catch me once . . . and got nothing. Sometimes I’d go onstage at the end when the host and the band wave good-bye, just so people would see that I hadn’t been fired. I used to joke with Farley that some weeks, I counted that as a sketch.

We launched our first show that season with none other than the G.O.A.T., Michael Jordan. He was an upbeat, fun guy . . . but also very intimidating. It was business as usual the first show back, with me appearing in one sketch with one line. Actually it wasn’t even a line, it was a reaction shot, which I counted as a line. The sketch took place in the 1960s and we were a shitty all-white basketball team that was very resistant to adding Michael Jordan to our roster because he was black. No one would pass the ball to Jordan, even though he was clearly the best guy on the team. It was very funny. At halftime, Michael gave an impassioned speech about teamwork, until Mike Myers told him, “We don’t want you on the team.” Taken aback Jordan said,

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