Ready to explore early 80s Saturday Night Live? Recruited from the Practical Theater alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus Gary Kroeger's life changed when tapped to join the cast of Saturday Night Live.
Celebrate my 150th episode with Saturday Night Live's Gary Kroeger!
My guest, Gary Kroeger and I discuss:
- Saturday Night Live in the 80s
- Archie: To Riverdale and Back - Gary was the first live-action Reggie!
- Witnessing the career explosion of Eddie Murphy
- Practical Theater Company - being discovered with Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- The hiring process at Saturday Night Live / trying to fit in
- The brilliance of Joe Piscopo
- Harry Anderson
- Andy Kauffman being banned from SNL
- Developing impressions
- Working with Jim Belushi
- His favorite guest (Ringo Starr)
- An amazing Robert Blake story
- Working with Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Martin Short
You're going to love my conversation with Gary Kroeger!
Our Guest, Gary Kroeger
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- Gary Has Issues Blog
- The Gary & Kenny Show (podcast)
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Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #SNLbands from @Musicalhashtags. Tweets featured on the show are retweeted at @JeffDwoskinShow
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