Aidy Bryant details her SNL goodbye: “It was a lot of hugging and people being like, ‘No, but seriously. I love you so much.’ Very end-of-summer-camp vibe. Sign-my-yearbook energy.”
.” But on a recent afternoon, as she’s being photographed in Bryant Park , she manages to stump a stranger. This curious woman cranes her neck at Bryant, who is minding her own business, posing near the New York Public Library in a flowy black dress and silver pumps.Bryant, 35, is too polite to brush her away. She stops mid-pose to drop the name of her most famous job. “I love saying my credits,” Bryant says when the woman is out of earshot.
“It hasn’t hit me yet,” says Bryant, who is a lot more mild-mannered than her more outrageous caricatures. “I’ll probably always be writing to work through my own shame about my body or parameters of gender and womanhood,” she says. “Those are the things that interest me in ways I find funny and insane.”If it weren’t for COVID, I probably would have left a few years earlier. But it was such a huge change. When COVID hit, it was so jarring that we were all like, “I’m definitely going to come back next year.” And then I had to shoot “Shrill” for half of last season, and so I missed a lot.
The “SNL” schedule is a whopper. I pitched, developed and made three seasons of a show [“Shrill”] that I’m super proud of, but there’s a part of me that wonders what it would have been if I didn’t have to split my time like that. Those years, it wasn’t uncommon for me to work a 12-hour day on “Shrill” and then continue to work all day at “SNL” — and all night! So it would be a 22-hour day. I can’t do that anymore. Maybe I could in my 20s.
I don’t think of myself as a mentor. When I started at the show, I was 25. I had been doing Second City, but I hadn’t written for television or been on TV. There was such a massive learning curve. I remember seeing Fred [Armisen], Kenan [Thompson], Jason Sudeikis and Bill [Hader] and being like, “Not only are they writing funny things, but there’s a whole level of technical knowledge to live television you have to learn.” There isn’t a lot of guidance.
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