“The way that he talks is based on Dana’s impression of his son,” Armisen shared.
“It was a bit also we would do at the table.
You know that moment before you’re actually reading the sketches?”
Fred Armisen as Stewart in the ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch ‘The Californians’.Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
“When we came back, we would just start talking like, ‘Where were you?’
‘Oh, I was in L.A.’ ‘Did you go up Barham?
Did you make a left on…’ and then that sort of built up.”
What can we do with these directions?'"
“And he was simply like, ‘Why don’t we just make it a soap opera?'”
“It’s the magic of working with writers,” he continued.
“I never would’ve thought of that.”
