'SNL' Star Confesses She Lied to Get This Memorable Sketch on the Show

Sarah Sherman wouldn't let anything stop her from following through with one of her more memorable Saturday Night Livesketches.

The comedian revealed on SNL's The Rundown series that she once lied to get a "weird" end-of-episode sketch past Lorne Michaels and the rest of the NBC show's team, despite their concerns about the prop required.

In Season 48's "Eyes," which aired in October 2022, Sherman played Janine, a woman who had her eyes replaced with giant googly eyes and found herself frustrated that her coworkers were ignoring the change.

"The googly eyes, I couldn't really see out of," Sherman admitted on The Rundown. "I told everyone I could, but they weren't gonna let me do the sketch if I couldn't see."

She explained, "There was a hole in the white part of the googly eye and a hole in the black part of the googly eye, so I could only see it when they lined up perfectly. But the whole joke of the sketch is that they're moving around crazy," adding, "So don't tell Lorne I memorized so that I could pull the sketch off."

Sherman also revealed that props have a very special place on SNL, sometimes even breaking the news that a sketch has been cut. "Many times I've been in [the last sketch] slot, I have the wig on, I have the costume on, I'm waiting to see if it's still in the show. All of a sudden, I just feel my hairdresser's hands come onto my head to peel the wig right off," she shared. "That's how I know it's been cut."

Sherman, who joined SNL as a featured player in Season 47 before being promoted to repertory status two years later, admitted that she still hasn't "totally figured out how to do the show," which she described as "a live beast."

"It's changing with culture. It's changing with news," she continued. "I've been here five years, and I still haven't totally figured it out. So I feel like every week is like a weird opportunity to figure it out."

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This story was originally published June 4, 2026 at 7:29 AM.