
The Missed Cue That Probably Cost This ‘SNL’ Cast Member His Job

Jon Rudnitsky never got much of a chance to make a splash on Saturday Night Live when he was a one-and-done featured player in Season 41. One reason for his abbreviated tenure? It could be this unforced error in a Peter Dinklage sketch, Rudnitsky said on the SNL Stories podcast, as reported by LateNighter.
The “Mafia Meeting” sketch, more popularly known as “Space Pants,” gets off to a weird start with mobster Bobby Moynihan waiting at an empty table in a cocktail lounge. Beck Bennett ushers in a solo Pete Davidson, which makes Moynihan’s next line nonsensical: “You two boys are hard to track down, almost as if you were avoiding me.” You two boys? Where’s the other one?
Moynihan and Davidson carry on as best they can for a few lines, at which point Rudnitsky mysteriously appears in the seat next to Davidson. “Where were you?” Moynihan ad-libs...
The “Mafia Meeting” sketch, more popularly known as “Space Pants,” gets off to a weird start with mobster Bobby Moynihan waiting at an empty table in a cocktail lounge. Beck Bennett ushers in a solo Pete Davidson, which makes Moynihan’s next line nonsensical: “You two boys are hard to track down, almost as if you were avoiding me.” You two boys? Where’s the other one?
Moynihan and Davidson carry on as best they can for a few lines, at which point Rudnitsky mysteriously appears in the seat next to Davidson. “Where were you?” Moynihan ad-libs...
- 4/24/2025
- Cracked
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