I’m not trying to be Jim Belushi.”Īn ideal day for Heidi starts with reading in bed. “I don’t think I’m a genius when I’m dead-tired, and I’m just better when I’m on my natural rhythm. On show weeks you do what’s been proven successful each week since 1975. I’m in my first season so I should stay until 7am.” Have your own creative practice pre- SNL? Doesn’t matter. It was like, ‘Oh, they’re in their fourth season and they stay until 4am. “I definitely am a good girl rule-follower,” she says. Heidi knew the well-established SNL lore when she joined as a cast member in 2017 and followed suit. Tuesdays at SNL traditionally bleed into dawn on Wednesdays, with writers and cast members leaving around 4am or just staying at 30 Rock until the table read. Tuesdays have an especially grueling tradition, one antithetical to Heidi’s sun-soaked, latte-sipping mornings: the all-nighter. A selfie of all of them is tacked to her fridge. Heidi works a lot with co-cast members Ego Nwodim, Bowen Yang, and Mikey Day. Heidi moved into her DUMBO apartment mid-pandemic-a location choice she made for the relative quiet away from ‘SNL.’ Photo by Noah Kalina It’s a minor miracle that SNL actually happens every week. Mondays are the host meeting Tuesday is writing day Wednesday is table read Thursday is sketch development Friday is pre-tapes and rehearsal Saturday is rehearsal and, finally, show night. Now in its 46th season, production weeks on SNL follow an iron-clad schedule that’s been etched into the annals of American comedy. Heidi is a cast member on Saturday Night Live, an institution not particularly well-known for relaxing, well-rested writing sessions at reasonable hours of the day. “Eleven to 1 o’clock is going to be my best material.” “If I ground myself first, and then wait until like, 10 or 11 to get writing, I feel like that’s my power hour,” Heidi says. Maybe make some oatmeal around mid-morning, play with the cats, work at her own pace. Light floods the 14th-floor DUMBO apartment she calls home, where she lives with her husband, writer Zeb Wells, and their three cats, Marshall, Cubby Bear, and Tweaky.Īn ideal morning includes a bit of reading, making an almond milk latte (Heidi makes her own almond milk), and tinkering away at a feature script she’s been writing. Heidi Garner needs a bit of warm-up to tap into her creative flow.
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