One Girl's Journey to Saturday Night Live

My name is Lauren Bancroft and I'm from from Nashua, NH.

I started this Tumblr in December of 2010 to document my path to go from who and where I am now, to being a cast member of Saturday Night Live. I have a realistic plan with attainable goals that I work very hard at every week.

I do stand up. I study improv. I write sketches. I work hard.

Ten phases. Eight years. One goal.

www.laurenbancroft.com
contact@laurenbancroft.com
Twitter - @Bancroffed

Well guys, I didn’t win the contest.

BUT! I was definitely a contender. Friend and comic Matt Barry won this round but we knew it would be between us before the show started. He’s a great writer and I’m personally a fan so I can’t really be upset that the evening was his. To be honest I am just pleased he considered me his competition.

I had a rather solid set tonight. I took video and will be posting it tomorrow but Penuches in Concord has a reputation of being a wicked tough room. You have to really make the audience at the bar (with their backs to you) listen. So I have a chat-track on my video but I’ll still post it. You can hear me fine so I guess that’s a reason to.

Afterward, I met a girl in the audience who said she thinks I would have done better if there were more vaginas in the audience. Man, does that bug me. I hate the idea of only appealing to women. So, I have a new thing to be paranoid about. Yihoo!

Good experience overall. I’m happy I did it. More shows this week!

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