and then it turned out that snl was looking for people and marci klein flew in and my manager said marcilein's coming in from saturday night live. can you set up a show? and i had not done a show for a year and i was like alright. so i got the musicians, packed the house and she came and she, the show was great. >> smith: yeah. >> shannon: we packed the house, did all the characters, and she was like, you're coming to audition for saturday night live. and i was like yes! >> smith: great. >> shannon: and so they flew me to new york and i got to audition for snl at this little comedy club called, it was like a stand up club and basically i had five minutes to do characters, and there were all these girls that they'd flown in and i also flew in my comedy partner rob mueller to perform with me. and it was very nerve wracking like we're all waiting backstage and the girls and i brought costumes and wigs and the other girls were like you brought wigs? i didn't brought wigs. she brought wigs. it was a very like kind of nervous atmosphere, and i just thought, i felt so lucky that i was just even