HowYaLikeDemApplesWill — 9 years ago(May 19, 2016 06:29 AM)

A badge of honor, and maybe the best thing that happened to career since she's been working steadily in moves and TV since.
Generally when SNL hires you as a 'featured' player you are unknown to the nation as a whole, so they pay you peanuts. Then if they think you show some promise, they lock you up to a 6 or 7 year deal, still for peanuts but guaranteed paychecks and work.
And if they don't think you're going to hit it big, they cut you after a season or two as a featured player, as they did with Casey, Abby Elliot, Michaela Watkins, and countless others.
So Casey should be thankful she didn't sign her name in blood, like so many before her have.
It is for this reason that the cast members who really hit it big, bail as soon as that first contract is over: Will Ferrell, Jason Sudekis, Will Forte, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, etcand true way back to the Chevy Chase and Bill Murray days, where they didn't have lengthy contracts, and which probably taught Lorne Michaels to do so.
And you better hope you don't have a specific character that hits it big on SNL, because if you want to make a movie with that character, Lorne Michaels owns you. Better to do what Adam Sandler did, just make
different
stupid characters (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Waterboy) than the ones he played on SNL (Canteen Boy, Opera Man)even though it's pretty much the same idiotic character each time.
And if you don't have other options, you re-sign and stay forever for mildly more peanuts: Kenan Thompson, Darrell Hammond, etc..
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?