Aubrey Plaza Failed Her SNL Audition by Playing a Sexy Reporter and a ‘Pill-Popping Housewife’: ‘I Was Trying to Sex Up the News’
” hosting debut this weekend with musical guest Sam Smith, but it’s not the first time Plaza has been in the orbit of the long-running NBC sketch comedy series. While on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Plaza revealed that she auditioned for “SNL” back in the day with two very bizarre original characters, but she failed to land the job.
Plaza’s second character was “a pill-popping housewife that had a show called ‘Celebri-Tails,’ where I would just name celebrities and name what kind of tail they would have if they had a tail. Like I would say, ‘Lindsay Lohan would have a bushy squirrel’s tail.’ Or, like, ‘Bill Clinton would have a polar bear’s nub.'”
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