SNL adjacent?
As many SNL fans know, each and every year SNL holds their annual email lottery in August for the upcoming season. They ask their fans to write in and prove their worth and loyalty. With each passing year, I try to compose the best sob story to get those free lottery tickets. Below is the email I submitted for the 48th SNL 2022-23 season. While I doubt anyone at NBC (besides my sister) has read this email, maybe you will and then you can be my connect? 😉😘
From: alisonvanglad@gmail.com
To: SNLTICKETS@nbcuni.com
Date: Aug 2, 2022, 6:08 PM
Subject: SNL adjacent?
Hi y’all,
Please consider me for the SNL lottery. I have slept on the cold hard streets in New York twice now trying to get my hands on some John Mulaney SNL seats. I have froze my toes off and honestly, I’d do it again, but this time bringing a tent or maybe try my luck in the warmer months.
The most recent time, I coaxed my friend Hannah into waiting on the SNL line. In the middle of the night, we were delirious with cold and couldn’t stop a fit of giggles because of how cold we were and got nasty side eyes from our fellow line neighbors.
The next day we came back for dress rehearsal and increasingly nearing the front of the line. Hannah even sacrificed her seat for me if one of us made it, my eyes prickled with tears and honestly, it strengthened our friendship. I couldn’t believe I had tricked Hannah into sleeping in camping chairs in single-digit weather and then coming back to wait in another line just to see if we might get seats and she was ready to give up her earned seat for me. I’ve never been in combat but I now understand the bond that trauma ensues. I should honestly cc Hannah on this email. Sadly, neither of us made the final dress rehearsal cut off and we drank our sorrows at that Irish bar across the way. In the end, I won two tickets to Frozen the musical on Broadway, and asked Hannah in a peace offering and in apologie for making her sleep on the streets of Manhattan on trash night. Frozen was honestly lovely, but I would still take SNL over Broadway.
I have tried to weasel my way into SNL for so many years it has become a running joke among all that know me. I was good friends with a guy in college whose older brother was childhood friends with Pete Davidson — no luck. I work with a girl who was a former sports reporter at NBC — no dice. My younger sister just started as a Production Assistant at Peacock — she’s already told me it’s above her pay grade. I recently met a guy my boss is friends with that wrote a membership recommendation letter for Jimmy Fallon to get into some fancy Golf Club — too distant. I even started following Chloe Fineman before she was famous — better luck next time I suppose?
Even if you don’t pick me…will you please ask Tina Fey if she would play me as an adult in a movie of my life?
As a last-ditch effort…I can do a really loud echoey clap which I think would be good for a live audience…
Best wishes for this upcoming season.
All my laughs,
Alison
