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Michaels fired everyone from Season 10 (stunningly, the likes of Billy Crystal, Martin Short and Christopher Guest) and brought in an entirely new cast including Anthony Michael Hall, Randy Quaid ...

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Ultimately, Crystal was not able to get his sketch down to the runtime Lorne Michaels (played by Gabriel LaBelle) is hoping for, and the young comic was cut from the broadcast.

"[He was] the last person we expected to want to hold onto a memory of that night," director Jason Reitman tells EW.