#sketch-comedy

#sketch-comedy

Heidi Gardner came to comedy later than some of her Saturday Night Live colleagues. Rather than jumping straight from college to an improv-class version of grad school to SNL auditions, she worked for nearly a decade as a hairstylist before auditioning for the Groundlings and eventually landing on the NBC sketch-comedy show in 2017. Maybe it was her extra time spent in the non-performing world that allowed her to hone her observational skills; regardless, Gardner quickly established herself as the kind

"It just sounds like a bad - we have had sketch comedy before, and it just feels like 'Saturday Night Live' is such a unique group. It's a cult."

Saturday Night Live has always represented a sort of pie-in-the-sky dream for up-and-coming comedians, a mainstream seal of approval that everyone covets on some level.