. >> fred armisen, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> thanks for being here. 11 seasons on snl puts you among the longest tenured people. >> yeah. >> i think daryl hammond and seth myers may be in the history of the show the only people to be in the cast longer than you. >> well, i haven't looked at how long people have been there. but that sounds about right. >> did you ever think when you started that this was something that you would do for this long? >> actually, yeah. i remember when -- when i first got the job, i thought i want to last for a while here. because i love saturday night live, i've always been a fan of the show and i really wanted to just be there a while and really just get into it. >> because burnout, of course, is always a risk. then there are times over the history of the show where people have been plucked away to go do movies or tv shows, they thought well this was the spring board for me. this really seems like the place you want to be. >> i feel very lucky, i feel very fortunate. it's a big deal to me. i'm excited still when i go there and -- and it's just

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