SNL ‘Reveals’ Hysterical 50 Shades of Grey Casting Process

One of Saturday Night Live‘s all-time great gags is the “lost” audition tape, and this week’s episode featured a richly comic example of the premise with some screen tests for the film version of the sexually adventurous novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The sketch featured spot-on impersonations of such absurd pairings as Seth Rogen and Emma Stone, Scarlett Johansson and Christoph Waltz, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Kristin Stewart, Steve Harvey and Rebel Wilson, the truly odd pairing of Mary Louise Parker and Aziz Ansari, and others. Pure gold.

Here’s the clip, from SNL:

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