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MERYL GOTTLIEB
CULTURE EDITOR
Daisy Bentley couldn’t
stop crying.
At a free comedy show at
the Convo, Saturday Night
Live star Aidy Bryant had two
freshmen join her on stage to
perform a role-playing bit.
“I’m not going to sleep to-
night,” said Bentley, mascara
still running under her eyes.
“I feel so lucky. … SNL is my
dream.”
Before the show started,
dozens of attendees filled the
spaces around the stage to do
line dances, including the Ma-
carena and the Cupid Shuffle.
“I’ve never done a show
where people just casually did
the Macarena before,” Bryant
said during the show.
Opening for Bryant, SNL
writer Streeter Seidell com-
mented on having food on a
plane and being overweight.
Throughout his performance,
Seidell joked with a group of
men in the front row, calling
them the “boat shoe crew.”
For her set, Bryant told “im-
portant facts” about herself —
she loves candy corn — shared
some rejected SNL pitches,
discussed an outrageous chain
text and went through her
childhood journal.
“The show was absolutely
fantastic,” said Mitch Lay-
man, the other freshman Bry-
ant called on stage. “I hope
this happens for me for the
next four years I’m here.”
After the show, The Post
sat down with Bryant and
Seidell to discuss SNL, their
inspirations and being intimi-
dated by The Convo.
The Post: What did you
think of Athens?
Aidy Bryant: I had a blast.
Also, I wasn’t expecting it
to be such a huge crowd,
so it was so exciting, and
they were so fun and en-
gaging and great. It was
the best.
Streeter Seidell: When
we drove up, on the GPS,
we looked at basically the
Astrodome; we were like
“Uh-oh.”
AB:We were like “Oh
no, we can’t fill this.”
SS:“I hope 35,000
people are gonna
come out tonight.” But it
was great.
AB:It was so fun.
P:Streeter, what is your
favorite sketch you’ve
ever written at SNL?
SS:Even though I don’t
think it was the
most popular, I wrote one
with … Mikey Day called
“Career Day” with J.K. Sim-
mons. He was at his son’s
school’s “What My Parent
Does for Work” day and he
was a thing called a Japa-
nese messy boy, and it was
a very strange, vaguely sex-
ual job where he ate food
while dressed as a child
while powerful Japanese
women watched and didn’t
say anything. It was very
weird, but we were like cry-
ing laughing when we were
writing this. (Laughs) And
then (Simmons) won an Os-
car the next week. … That’s
just perfect.
P:Aidy, do you have a
favorite character?
AB:I really enjoy do-
ing Morgan. It
feels very easy to me. … It’s
definitely who I am in some
ways, … and it’s really fun to
do it with Cecily (Strong). I
mean, to me, nothing beats
Dyke and Fats. That was
like the best day of my life.
P:You both made it to
SNL fairly early in your
careers. What are your
thoughts on being on the
show already? Any plans
for the future yet?
AB:I ended up get-
ting to SNL so
much faster than I ever
thought I would. … I as-
sumed that maybe if I
ever got to audition it
would be 15 years down
the line, and so all of a
sudden when I was 25,
I was like “I’m in New
York now!” and it was
really overwhelming. So
in that way I don’t know
that I’ve really started
to plan for my huge, hot
movie career. I’ve more
of just been really enjoy-
ing what’s been happen-
ing and taking things as
it comes. I think maybe
now, I’ll start to think
more of stuff like that
because, you know, I’m
heading into my fourth
season. I’ve got my legs
underneath me now. … I
feel like I’m only just now
settling into, “Oh, I’m on
SNL. It’s really cool, and I
love it.”
SS:It’s still very fresh
for me. I’m about
to start my second season.
… It was definitely the last
job that I ever had a desire
to have. … For me, it was
the absolute summit of the
mountain … so I have no
idea what’s going to hap-
pen after.
AB:Me neither! What
are we going to
do? … We’ll come back to
Athens and be like “Guys?!”
SS:We’ll open a comic
club on Mill Street.
The Chuckle Dumpster. It’s
in the basement of a pizza
place. That’ll be good.
P:Aidy, you said you’ve
actually been to Ath-
ens before.
AB:It was actually with
something called
Baby Wants Candy (a group
that improvises a full musi-
cal). I was so cocky when we
were coming here. I was like,
“I’ve been here, Streeter. I’ve
been here before, and the
theater is gorgeous. You’re
going to love it.” And then
we got here and we’re like
“This is a dome! We can’t
handle the dome!” … I really
did love performing there
like five years ago or when-
ever I did.
P:Who inspires you
most for your careers?
SS:I was such a John
Candy fan as a kid
and still am. I think he re-
minded me of my dad, a
funnier version of my dad.
… I’ll always watch Planes,
Trains and Automobiles.
That’s, I think, his finest
work.
AB:Especially now
having known her
a little bit, Amy Poehler
stands out to me as some-
one who not only is like one
of the funniest of all time,
she’s also really nice, really
cool, and she's just a posi-
tive person to be around,
and I think sometimes you
can get so caught up in like,
“showbiz baby,” it’s a really
nice quality to have.
SS:Coming across a
non-cynic comic
who’s not a personal disas-
ter is always kind of like “Oh
wow, like how?”
AB:And I think she
inspires me on so
many different levels: as
a human being, as a co-
median, as a woman — so
many different levels that
she’s kind of my pinnacle
peak.
P:Aidy, with all of the
women who have
come through SNL, what is
it like being a part of that
club?
AB:It feels very cool
to be any part of
trailing after them. Espe-
cially at this particular mo-
ment in the show, I’m really
honored to be a part of this
class of women because
each one has something re-
ally special, and I get really
emotional or inspired to be
around them every day.
P:What song gets you
pumped?
AB:Especially on SNL
weeks, it’s so fran-
tic and so chaotic and so
stressful up until the very
minute that on Saturdays
when I get into the studio,
I try to put on some quiet
music and stretch and relax
because I’ve been going
so crazily and not sleeping
that just taking 20 minutes
to be quiet and have chill
music, drink some water
and stretch out, it feels re-
ally good, and I always feel
like it helps me focus for
the rest of the day.
SS:That’s so healthy.
AB:It really, really
works for me. Fri-
days are a really hectic day
for us, and so to come in on
Saturday, sometimes you
feel like “I haven’t had a
breather,” and you want to
focus on what you’re doing
and I don’t know, it works.
SS:This is kind of a
bullshit answer but
a true one. One of my fa-
vorite songs is the SNL end
song. … I adore it. … I always
sneak in to where the seats
are and watch the end of
the show just because I
love that song so much. So
it doesn’t pump me up so
much as it feels like a job
well done.
AB:I totally agree. It
feels like a reward.
… I kind of have that too
with the opening credits.
SS:That is the best
pump up song I
guess because you hear it,
and you’re like “Show time.”
AB:And there’s that
little drums in the
beginning.
(Both break out into drum
sounds)
P:Is there anything else
you want to say to the
Ohio University students?
AB:Truly thanks for
being such won-
derful, gracious, welcom-
ing hosts. We had such a
fun, fun, fun, fun show and
everyone was so sweet that
we met. It was really a treat.
SS:I couldn’t have said
it any better.
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MG986611@OHIO.EDU
ELIZABETH BACKO
STAFF WRITER`
Eight months after the fire
on Union Street, plans for a
new design at The Union Bar
& Grill are in place.
Although the roof was fin-
ished during the summer and
advances are being made,
there is no set date for a grand
reopening, said Eric Gunn,
the owner of The Union on
West Union Street.
“When dealing with an old
building, you can’t say defi-
nitely because when you open
up one thing you often find
other work that needs to be
done to get it to where it needs
to be,” Gunn said.
The Union’s current res-
toration process has been
advancing a little slower than
Gunn anticipated. He said he
expected the progress to be
further along by the time stu-
dents returned to Athens, but
that isn’t the case.
Lead contractor of the
project Mike Myers of Mike
Myers Construction, ran into
some unexpected problems
related to water damage dur-
ing the initial stages of re-
building.
“We had to remove virtu-
ally all wall coverings, floor
covers,” Myers said. “In the
process of doing that, we
found that a good portion of
the floor joists were rotten,
so we had to replace almost
half of the joists on the first
floor.”
After the roof was fin-
ished, he said, architectural
drawings were completed and
preliminary demolition inside
the building began. After a
mold problem is resolved in
the next two weeks, a new
construction stage can begin
where schedules can be estab-
lished, Myers said.
Changes will be made to
the original design on the
building to meet modern
building codes, Myers said.
“The whole back building
is completely remodeled and
rearranged to accommodate a
concrete patio for The Union
for the second floor,” Myers
said.
The large concrete patio
will be partially covered and
helps the building meet mod-
ern codes, Myers said, by
providing a secondary exit
into the alley way. He said
the patio will be almost as
large as the patio at Jackie
O’s Pub and Brewery down
the street.
Other changes include new
bathrooms in different loca-
tions and the second floor bar
being relocated, Myers added.
While there are changes to
the layout and everything will
be brand new inside, Gunn
said. The Union will maintain
the same atmosphere.
“I like to tell everybody,
when we open up and you
walk in, you’ll know exactly
where you are,” Gunn said.
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