Molly Shannon Thinks Lorne Michaels Is 'Irreplaceable' at Saturday Night Live: 'It's His Show'

PLUS: The 60-year-old actress shares her favorite part of aging

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00:00now it's to sit down with molly shannon hi molly so you partnered with talenol to advocate for

00:05staying healthy as we age what is something you've enjoyed about aging that might have surprised you

00:10i just think you're you get so much more comfortable with yourself like i i've heard

00:14people say that oh the 20s and 30s are kind of hard and i know that that makes sense you kind

00:19of you're more settled into your life you know yourself better um i feel less self-conscious i

00:25think when i was younger i was like oh my face is round i would be hard on myself and now i'm like

00:31i'm alive i'm healthy i you know i feel good i love being a mother and my husband is so great so i just

00:39feel more settled just happy because i did do years of physical comedy now and i banged up my knees

00:48all those years on snl so now i have to take a very proactive approach to my daily routine and

00:55i do that by taking um proactive support uh by the makers of tylenol brand that i trust and my

01:02family has trusted for years i just feel like it's it's just a great part of my daily routine we love

01:08seeing you on saturday night live's 50th anniversary celebration you will always be one of the greats

01:13any shocking run-ins maybe celebs you helped in the bathroom well i met eddie vedder that was the coolest

01:19i i couldn't believe it and he was so sweet he's a friend of my friend laura dern

01:25so of course laura was there and drew barrymore my friends and and um bill murray who i've known

01:30and worked with for so long and it was just like a star set of meryl streep of course was just i

01:36was like because i know her from only murders in the building jack nicholson who i've never met was

01:41there but yeah i would say i was so excited to meet eddie vedder and i saw him again at the after

01:46party and he got up and sang and then he came over to me after and like toasted me and so that just blew my mind

01:51we know lauren is obviously going to outlive us all but if he ever does step away from snl do you

02:00think it would end i think lauren is irreplaceable there's no one it's his show his vision he's just

02:07there's no one who could replace him it would not be the same show it's just he's just a one-of-a-kind

02:14genius brilliant smart i mean i i just i i think he's irreplaceable my personal bid would be for

02:22keenan thompson to take over what do you think i love this idea he's the greatest i adore keenan

02:29he's so talented that's an excellent idea lastly we're gonna put 10 seconds on the clock promote

02:36any one of your upcoming acting projects that you want ready go peter uh directed a movie i did last

02:42summer in australia coming out called balls up and just did a movie with bobby farrelly keep it in

02:48the fairly family called driver's ed and i'm also in the movie people we meet on vacation so i want

02:54to plug those three three excellent projects that i have coming out