Julia Louis-Dreyfus Claims ‘SNL’ Was ‘Very Sexist’ And There Were Drugs Everywhere When She Was A Cast Member

It would appear that Saturday Night Live isn’t as politically squeaky clean and what they’re begging the public to believe.

Former cast member Julia Louis-Dreyfus isn’t shy about voicing her despise of her former employer and those associated with it, opening up about her ‘miserable’ experience and the ‘sexist’ work environment she suffered through.

Speaking to Stephen Colbert at a charity benefit on Saturday, the 58-year-old actress, who spanned three seasons from 1982-1985, admitted that she was ‘unbelievably naive’ about the inner-working of SNL and ‘didn’t really understand how the dynamics of the place worked.’

‘It was very sexist — very sexist,’ Louis-Dreyfus said. ‘People were doing crazy drugs at the time. I was oblivious. I just thought, ‘Oh, wow! He’s got a lot of energy!”

A Jim Belushi-led cast? Couldn’t be.

Here is fellow cast member Billy Crystal bugged out on mescaline.

(Martin Short was the other big name from Louis-Dreyfus’ era).

Louis-Dreyfus claims she left Northwestern for SNL without the faintest idea of how her co-workers could perform while inebriated.

‘It was a pretty brutal time, but it was a very informative time for me,’ she told Colbert, adding she won’t do, ‘any more of this crap’ unless ‘it was fun.’

‘It is important and so basic, but I just felt like, “I don’t have to; I don’t have to do this, I don’t have to walk and crawl through this kind of nasty glass if it’s not ultimately going to be fulfilling,”‘ she said.

‘And so that’s how I sort of moved forward from that moment and I sort of applied that kind of “fun meter” to every job I’ve had since and it definitely has been very helpful,’ she added.

The VEEP star has previously shot arrows at her former employer, revealing in 2017:

“It was a pretty dog-eat-dog world. A lot of drugs and stuff too. It wasn’t very female friendly. I was so dumb and green. I didn’t realize it was so druggy, necessarily.”

She also claims to have bonded with Larry David, who was a writer on the show at the time, over their shared hatred for SNL and its environment.

‘Larry David and I had been on SNL together my last year there because he was a writer, and we bonded because he was as miserable as I was.’

I’m miserable watching the show now too. Nearly everyone is.

[h/t Daily Mail]