After leaving “ Saturday Night Live ” before Season 51, Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim got candid about the work culture at the iconic late-night sketch show.

While hosting Gardner on her “Thanks Dad” podcast , Nwodim said the “SNL” cast has to spend a lot of “intimate” time together writing and rehearsing, which can either bring everyone together or breed contempt within the group.

“To have to share such an intimate space together for hours on end on Saturdays and Thursdays and Fridays, whenever we were rehearsing, yeah, it made us close quick,” Nwodim explained. “But it doesn’t have to work that way. It could also not make you close. It can make you not like each other. It can make you feel whatever mutually, ‘I’m sharing a space with this person.’ But I’m so grateful we got so c

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