Sarah Sherman wanted Timothée Chalamet to play her like a human instrument in SNL sketch that 'bo...

&34;One in every 1000 sketches work,&34; the comedian admitted. Sarah Sherman wanted Timothée Chalamet to play her like a human instrument in SNL sketch that 'b

"One in every 1000 sketches work," the comedian admitted.

Sarah Sherman wanted Timothée Chalamet to play her like a human instrument in SNL sketch that 'bombed so hard'

"One in every 1000 sketches work," the comedian admitted.

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The human instrument created by 'SNL' illustrator Leigh McG ; Timothée Chalamet and Sarah Sherman. Credit:

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Sarah Sherman is gearing up for the return of *Saturday Night Live* by looking back on some sketches that didn't make the final cut.

Joining *SNL* alum Seth Meyers on* Late Night*, Sherman detailed a few ideas that she kicked around in the sketch comedy writers' room, including one that could have put her in a unique position with her good pal, three-time *SNL* host Timothée Chalamet.

"[He] was hosting and I was like, 'Oh my God he's hosted before, he's basically like my best friend at this point obviously he should play me like a human instrument," Sherman told Meyers. When that description earned a shocked silence from the crowd, she gave a dramatic eyeroll and added, "Relax. Get your mind out of the gutter."

Meyers interjected, "When you see this photo you will know how it could not be *less* sexual."

The late-night host then revealed a sketch of the "human instrument" that Sherman was planning to become for Chalamet, fit with a keyboard, levelers, and hairy legs.

Sarah Sherman on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers'.

"Timothée Chalamet was gonna come out with this long gray wig and play this instrument," Sherman explained. "I actually can't tell you the name of the instrument because it bombed so hard at [the] table [read] that I'm not gonna speak it out loud because I learned my lesson."

She said the sketch would then see Chalamet play "me like an instrument" while "noises came out of my mouth."

Sherman continued, "I was like, 'honk, honk.' And Bowen [Yang] would come in and change my batteries by putting batteries in my mouth. It bombed so hard you could hear butterflies flapping their wings in like, China."

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While Sherman lamented the lost opportunity to be Chalamet's personal instrument, she wasn't too torn up about the sketch never coming to fruition. "One in every 1000 sketches works," she said of the *SNL* writing process.

Sherman, a surrealist comedian known for her offbeat characters, joined *SNL* in season 47. She joked that part of her struggle with penning sketches for the show is that she is often out of the loop when it comes to what's actually going viral — and what's a little too niche for the sketch show's audience.

"I will think something is like the most famous thing in the world and everyone is gonna know what I'm talking about," Sherman said. But then, when she gets to work and pitches a parody of something she believes to be popular, she's told, "Nobody's ever seen that, nobody knows what you're talking about, you have to go to a mental hospital."

Sarah Sherman attends the PAM CUT's Cinema Unbound Awards at Portland Art Museum on May 30, 2025.

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But that's not to say that Sherman doesn't know how to riff on already-popular properties — it's just that those sketches don't always pan out either. Recounting a few other sketches that never got past a table read, Sherman said she recently tried out a pitch that built on the popularity of *Severance*.

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"It's basically someone eating a triple bean and cheese burrito before getting in the *Severance* elevator," she said of the sketch. "And then the innie is always like, 'Why do I have five-alarm fire diarrhea every day?' They don't remember!"

Sherman then shared another idea that never saw the light of day — one that called upon the skills of a certain pint-sized Marvel superhero.

"Obviously we wrote a sketch where I played like a 100-year-old grandfather and I was like, 'Ant-Man, what if you shrunk down really small to Ant-Man size and went into my penis hole and blasted all my kidney stones with a laser ray,'" she recalled. "Needless to say, it didn't go to air."

Watch Sherman share her wild *SNL* pitches in the video above.

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