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Lena's Teenage SNL Obsession and the Forged School ID
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In a charming tangent, Lena describes how as a teenager she would sit inches from her landlord's old TV with airline headphones, taking notes on Saturday Night Live reruns that aired at midnight on Comedy Central. When she was 15 and not yet old enough for standby tickets, she devised a scheme to have her school ID reprinted with an older birth year — and it worked. But the guilt overwhelmed her before she could use it. She confessed, imagining herself on a slippery slope toward conning men in Florida. Amy gently reframes it: that's not sad, that's an athlete shooting hoops in their driveway. Comedy obsession as discipline.
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