{"id":94960,"date":"2025-10-22T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/94960\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:10:08","slug":"jennifer-aniston-reveals-why-she-turned-down-snl-offer-in-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/94960\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston Reveals Why She Turned Down SNL Offer In The &#8217;90s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000098\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a> almost joined the cast of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>, and the <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108778\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends<\/a> star just revealed why she turned down the iconic show&#8217;s offer. Aniston starred on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108778\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends<\/a> for 10 years from 1994 to 2004. By the time the sitcom debuted on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0847663\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a> was just about to premiere its milestone 20th season.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1009277\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dax Shepard<\/a>&#8216;s podcast Armchair Expert, Aniston admitted that she once rejected an offer from <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a>. She recounted the story by saying she had a meeting with showrunner <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0584427\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorne Michaels<\/a> and ran into <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001191\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Sandler<\/a> (whom she already knew) and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005450\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Spade<\/a> while she was there.<\/p>\n<p>Aniston would have loved to have been on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a> back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston almost joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, and the Friends star just revealed why she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-94960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}