Aubrey Plaza's Saturday Night Live audition was too strange to get her cast

She continues, “The other one was, I was like a pill-popping housewife that had my own talk 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.’ Or, like, ‘Oprah Winfrey would have a dragon’s…’ it’s just stuff like that. Anyway, I didn’t get on the show, so.”

Without having been at that fateful showcase in which Plaza didn’t get through to the next round, we can’t possibly know if the issue lay with her performance or with the characters themselves. Certainly, a strange audition isn’t an issue anymore: in a new profile for Vulture, current cast member Sarah Sherman reveals she was scouted from a showcase in which she joked about her “pastrami-like pussy lips” and later had a “grotesque” final audition in which she “talked about tying my nipples together with my long nipple hair.”

The “horrific, but make it sexy” news anchor seems almost tame in comparison. Nevertheless, Plaza will host SNL for the first time on Saturday, January 21, so all’s well that ends well!