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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jordan Peele
bxrosie04 — 14 years ago(March 05, 2012 01:57 AM)
Jordan Peele auditioned to play Obama on SNL and lost the role to Fred Armisen. How does that happen?
Oh right, Lorne Michael's management of SNL has pretty much sucked for the past
3-4 years.
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walking_bread — 14 years ago(March 26, 2012 01:40 PM)
Peele smokes Obama, and his narrative impression is so uncomfortably accurate that it truly makes Lorne's choice suspect. Please note that I'm a long-term fan of Fred Armisen and consider him to be one of the better SNL cast members over the years.
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Poke504 — 11 years ago(March 11, 2015 07:10 PM)
Lorne's got his vendetta against MadTV. Literally. For a while he specifically avoided anybody who was on that show, it's the whole reason he "rejected" Artie Lange.
Finally he got over it for Richards and Killam though
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stagebandman — 10 years ago(July 05, 2015 08:10 PM)
Dont' know if you've found this, but he was under contract to MadTV, which was being cancelled when he auditioned for SNL, but the writer's strike necessitated Fox bring back MadTV because they didn't have enough scripted shows ready, and so he had to turn down Lorne Michaels, who probably regrets firing Finesse Mitchell every day of Obama's presidency.
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