Feb 24, 2026 · 48:39

Stories for ‘Saturday Night Live’ on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

with SF Stories for ‘Saturday Night Live’

The Hang, in Short

Good Hang hits 52 episodes with a clip show celebrating SNL stories, and it opens with Mary Ellen Matthews, the show's legendary photographer who shoots those iconic portraits. Amy remembers one photo shoot where Mary Ellen suggested balancing an apple on her head while wearing a white cult-like dress. Someone stood behind Amy holding the apple, which Mary Ellen planned to paint out. But then she had a better idea: "It looks kind of cool with the creepy hand holding the apple." That's Mary Ellen. She also turned Paul Rudd into a mop-top Paul McCartney during meal break, with the whole crew scrambling to find a left-handed bass and the right wig. There's a Simon and Garfunkel portrait with Tina and Amy. Mary Ellen's new book The Art of the SNL Portrait just came out, and Amy gushes that everyone who works with her walks away with their favorite photos of themselves.

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  1. 0:05

    Hello everyone and welcome to a very

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    special episode of good hang. You know

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    we have done 52 episodes deck of cards

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    baby and it is time to celebrate and we

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    are going to celebrate with a few clip

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    shows that puts together some of our

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    finest and most fun moments. And our

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    first one this week is all of our SNL

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    stories. So we have had cast members on

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    here. We've had people who hosted and

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    we've had a lot of people talk about

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    their time on SNL, the good and the bad.

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    And so we've grabbed some of them and

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    put them together. And you're going to

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    hear from some amazing people. You're

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    going to hear from people like Maya

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    Rudolph, uh Seth Meyers, Martin Short,

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    Andy Samberg, Tina Fay, Jack Black,

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    Rachel Dra, Kristen Wig, Anna Gastire.

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    It's going to be incredible. And we are

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    going to start this episode with someone

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    who worked behind the scenes, someone

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    who was and is still the most incredible

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    photographer who took all the pictures

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    of your favorite people and and they are

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