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The SNL cast members -- Fred Armisen, Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson and Kristen Wiig
-- recounted their first, nerve-wracking auditions for the show, and pondered the eternal question of how the show has survived since 1975. Consensus: There's always new material out there. As for Carell, he recounted how he was such an unknown when he did the film "Bruce Almighty" that an agent contacted him to find out who was representing him. Turned out, her own agency did. "I was such a low priority at the agency that even the agents who worked there didn't know I was a client," he said. Carell also discussed the imminent end to his tenure on NBC's "The Office"
-- he leaves after the current season, his seventh -- and some of his future goals. One of them, he said, is to play an even more unappealing guy than Michael Scott of "The Office." "I want to play a jerk -- a really, really mean guy," Carell told his fans. "Someone who is just reprehensible, but doesn't think he is." And he shot down at least one rumor: That he'd angled hard to play the Joker in "The Dark Knight" before Heath Ledger got the job. "I've learned to not be sarcastic in print interviews," he said.
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