Former Saturday Night Live star Jason Sudeikis has a few favorite show sketches — and one even has a Taylor Swift connection to the delight of her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
“I loved [Kristen] Wiig and I, in our first few years together, did these characters called ‘The Two A-Holes,’ which is really fun,” Sudeikis, 49, said on the Friday, March 14, episode of Travis and brother Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast. “[It was] a guy chewing gum and his girlfriend playing with her hair and they were a blast to do and write — and it was definitely an archetype people saw in the real world.”
Another “personal favorite” skit for Sudeikis was called “Potato Chip,” which costarred fellow SNL vet Will Forte.
“The very first time we did it was with Taylor when she hosted,” Sudeikis quipped to Travis, 35, who replied, “Nice!”
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Travis noted that Swift, now 35, was a lot younger at the time. (Swift and Travis have been together since summer 2023.)
“A young Taylor, too,” Sudeikis added.
Swift made her SNL hosting debut in 2009 — Travis, meanwhile, emceed the variety series exactly 10 years later after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 2023 — but the “Potato Chip” sketch got cut before the live show.
“It didn’t make it to air,” Sudeikis recalled. “We ended up doing it with [Taylor’s friend] Blake Lively. She ended up getting it over the hump for us. They played it so differently, which is one of those neat things. It’s the silliest sketch in the world.”
The Ted Lasso star — who revealed on Friday’s episode that a fourth season is in development — further noted that many cast members often get superstitious about their sketches actually making it to the broadcast.
“It’s almost, like, you don’t want to spook the muses either,” he said. “That was always a fun thing. There were always those little bits of superstitions where you don’t call home and say your sketch is making it, don’t text your friends [and] say you’re going to show up in that sketch because it will end up getting cut. That happened more often than not, so, at some point, you’re never like, ‘This is going to kill.’”
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Sudeikis continued, “I don’t know if I’d ever even say it out loud or wouldn’t get it from my brain to my mouth. Something would stop inside. My soul would go, ‘Don’t you say that s—. Don’t you dare.’”
Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET.
