{"id":44756,"date":"2016-06-03T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=44756"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T22:11:27","slug":"snl-star-wars-auditions-bonus-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/snl-star-wars-auditions-bonus-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live Releases Bonus Star Wars Audition Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it\u2019s June, most television shows have wrapped up their storylines for the year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Saturday+Night+Live&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is no exception, and the sketch comedy program just ended its 41st season a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people like to complain, claiming that the show hasn\u2019t been good in a long time. I beg to differ! The past few years we\u2019ve seen some amazing talent come and go (Fred Armisen, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Andy Samberg). The current cast also delivers laughs week after week and features prominent up-and-comers such as Kate McKinnon, Jay Pharoah, Aidy Bryant, and Leslie Jones.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite pre-recorded sketches from last season was the \u201caudition footage\u201d that <em>SNL<\/em> released before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/starwars.asp?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Force Awakens<\/em><\/a> premiered. This new video highlights some of the bonus scenes that didn\u2019t make the final cut. The talented cast is joined by a few celebrity guests and hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FdSWEyl2mC4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My favorite moments have to include John Boyega and his take on an \u201curbanized Stormtrooper,\u201d The Black Eyed Peas filling in as the Cantina Band, and Jon Hamm in full Han Solo regalia.<\/p>\n<p>Which parts made you laugh out loud? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FdSWEyl2mC4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it\u2019s June, most television shows have wrapped up their storylines for the year. Saturday Night Live is no exception, and the sketch comedy program just ended its 41st season a few weeks ago. A lot of people like to complain, claiming that the show hasn\u2019t been good in a long time. I beg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,390,389,109,3793],"tags":[3145,112,397,1329,91],"yst_prominent_words":[6388,6376,8613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63849,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756\/revisions\/63849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44756"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}