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Getty Bowen Yang is getting a bit nostalgic about his time on “Saturday Night Live.” Yang, who first joined the show as a writer in 2018 (joining the cast the following year), left in December — and he says it took him a beat to realize just what he had. But when he recently shot this year’s “Las Culturistas Culture Awards” with podcast partner Matt Rogers, it all came flooding back.
“When we did the culture awards, it reminded me very much of the dream factory that was ‘SNL,’ just on a much smaller scale,” he says. “Of course, it really broke open all these thoughts that I’ve had about ‘SNL.’ I kind of spun out and started to think about how comedy overall is just like in this interesting spot where I feel like it might be a little undervalued. Because I feel people have a psychological need to have it to cope with the reality of things. Which I think ‘SNL’ still does. I watch it as a comfort now, and it’s really surreal watching it from the other side, but it’s amazing. It’s how I grew to love it.”
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