{"id":2089234,"date":"2025-10-14T02:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2089234"},"modified":"2025-10-14T02:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:23:58","slug":"jennifer-aniston-remembers-the-self-righteous-reason-she-turned-down-snl-before-friends-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-aniston-remembers-the-self-righteous-reason-she-turned-down-snl-before-friends-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston Remembers the \u2018Self-Righteous\u2019 Reason She Turned Down \u2018SNL\u2019 Before \u2018Friends\u2019 Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000098\/\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a> revealed that the reason she turned down a casting offer from \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d before she found fame with \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108778\/\">Friends<\/a>\u201d boiled down to one thing: \u201cI always thought I was such hot s\u2013t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sitting with Dax Shepherd\u2019s \u201cArmchair Expert\u201d podcast, the \u201cMorning Show\u201d star and Emmy winner shared that believe it or not, she turned down Lorne Michaels\u2019 offer to cast her in the 1990s on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\">SNL<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress shared that she yearned for the days of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0705717\/\">Gilda Radner<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004852\/\">Jane Curtin<\/a> and believed that the show was too much of a boys\u2019 club at the time, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0885889\/\">People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Aniston revealed that the reason she turned down a casting offer from \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d before she found fame with \u201cFriends\u201d boiled down to one thing: \u201cI always thought I was such hot s\u2013t.\u201d Sitting with Dax Shepherd\u2019s \u201cArmchair Expert\u201d podcast, the \u201cMorning Show\u201d star and Emmy winner shared that believe it or not, 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