Aubrey Plaza shares the hilarious characters from her ill-fated 'Saturday Night Live' audition

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TV Aubrey Plaza shares the characters she completed successful the people of her ill-fated Saturday Night Live audition

Aubrey Plaza shares the characters she completed during her unwell-fated Saturday Night Live audition One turned into a "pill-popping housewife" with a pass amusement called Celebri-Tails, "in which I could conscionable sanction celebrities and telephone what benignant of process they mightiness have." By Emlyn Travis January 17, 2023 astatine 05:forty 9 PM EST Advertisement FB Tweet More Pinterest Email Send Text Message Print Comment Saturday Night Live - Season 42

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Aubrey Plaza is checking retired of The White Lotus and into 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

The actress, who's gearing arsenic overmuch arsenic marque her Saturday Night Live web hosting debut this weekend, discovered that she really auditioned to enroll successful the formed of the mythical cartoon drama amusement arsenic soon arsenic earlier than, but alas did not marque the last reduce.

"I didn't marque it to the Lorne [Michaels] audition, the celebrated precise past audition, nevertheless I did a archetypal first-round amusement off," Plaza explained portion visiting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon connected Monday. During her audition, Plaza said that she performed 2 antithetic characters that we are capable to champion privation would perchance marque an quality aboriginal this week.

"I don't hide 1 antheral oregon pistillate I did go similar a Puerto Rican accusation newsman that changed into continually looking to marque each the accusation testimonies horny, adjacent if they person been horrific quality tales," she recalled. "I became conscionable trying to like, enactment up the accusation oregon immoderate thing."

The 2d, but, turned into a chunk more... Wild. "I go a pill-popping housewife that had my ain talk show referred to arsenic Celebri-Tails, wherever I mightiness simply sanction celebrities and telephone what benignant of process they could person if they had a tail," Plaza defined. "Like I mightiness say, 'Lindsay Lohan mightiness person a furry squirrel's tail.' Or, like, 'Bill Clinton could person a polar bear's nub.'"

While her audition wasn't meant to be, Plaza did extremity up moving astatine Saturday Night Live from 2004 to 2005 — simply successful a somewhat unsocial branch.

Aubrey Plaza erstwhile Credit: Todd Owyoung/NBC thru Getty Images

"I was an intern successful the des section for the 4 acceptable desers," she instructed big and chap SNL alum Jimmy Fallon. "They cherished maine owed to the information I did not attraction astir acceptable layout successful immoderate respect and they desired an intern that had nary hobby successful learning what they did."

According to Plaza, she spent the bulk of her clip arsenic an intern "stalking" and "lurking successful the shadows" alternatively of speakme to the relaxation of the forged. "I was simply, like, creepy. Like, I was a creepy stalker," she joked. "Now I'm gonna big it, truthful my maestro program labored!"

Watch Plaza talk her audition wrong the clip above.

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