For many comedians, a spot on Saturday Night Live — on the Studio 8H stage or even in the writers room — is the dream. But it isn’t the dream for everyone. More than a few big-names celebrities actually turned down steady employment on the NBC sketch-comedy show, including a young Jennifer Aniston.
And in a new interview, decades later, Aniston recalled the “self-righteous” attitude with which she turned down an offer from Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels. Read anecdotes from her and other SNL woulda-coulda-shouldas below.