Saturday Night Live has been the dream of so many comics who work their entire lives for a shot to appear on the show. Famously, the grind doesn’t stop when someone gets cast. It’s been rumored to be a grueling work environment, full of late nights, long hours, and competition fueled by a desire to get material on air. This seems to be a lot of people's shared view of SNL, but apparently stand-out featured player Ashley Padilla didn’t feel that way, based her own take on competition at the show.
If you ask most former cast members, SNL is far from a cakewalk. Bill Hader has been open about the intense amount of stress the show caused him. Also, Conan O’Brien talked about the levels of anxiety the work environment caused for the cast and crew. Aside from the stakes apparently feeling high, it's been rumored that cast members even use using tactics to get more screen time. Padilla, on the other hand, says this has not been her experience at all that that she's actually found the show to very collaborative. She said during the Hollywood Reporter's Comedy Actresses roundtable discussion:
