Posted 4 minutes ago24 Former "Saturday Night Live" Cast Members Who Revealed Their Worst Experiences On The ShowChris Elliott and his daughter Abby quit the show for the exact same reason!by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink For anyone trying to cut their teeth in the comedy scene, working on Saturday Night Live seems like a dream job. However, for many who actually make it onto the show, the luster fades as they work long hours, face intense pressure, and compete with some of the other hottest rising stars in comedy. Here are 24 former SNL cast members who revealed their negative experiences on the show: 1. Seasons 45 to 51 cast member Bowen Yang "loved working at SNL," but he felt pigeonholed into playing certain types of characters. On his podcast Las Culturistas, he said, "I feel like I was really bogged down the entire time I was there about the idea that there was no range in anything I did. I knew I was never gonna play the dad. I was never gonna play the generic thing in sketches. It's a sketch show; each thing is, like, four minutes long. It is short and collapsed by necessity, so therefore it plays on archetypes." NBC / Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images He continued, "These archetypes are also in a relationship with generic things, and there is a genericism in whiteness and in being a canvas to build upon. I came in pre-stretched, pre-dyed. People had their over-determinations on what I was, which was: 'Oh, that's just the gay Asian guy on SNL.' So anytime I would try to work outside of that, it got completely ignored, or it still got collapsed to, 'Oh, he's being gay and Asian as always.'" NBC / Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images He later added, "I think range is a myth - and it's all about palatability, whether you're getting taxed on it, or you are subsidized." 2. Seasons 37 to 42 cast member Jay Pharoah was also boxed into one-note roles. He told Hot 97, "You go where you're appreciated. If you have multiple people on the cast saying things like, 'You're so talented, and you're able, and they don't use you. It's unfair, and it's making us feel bad because they don't use you, and you're a talent...' They put people into boxes, and whatever they want you to do, they expect you to do." NBC / NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images He said that he was put into an "impression box," where he was expected to mainly do impressions of Black celebrities. Jay also said he wasn't the kind of person to say "yes" to everything, and he wasn't afraid to put his foot down and decline some of the writers' ideas. Additionally, he discussed the backlash he faced behind the scenes from speaking up about the lack of Black women in the cast. He alleged producers "were ready to get rid of [him] in September 2013 when [he] spoke up." NBC / NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images 3. Seasons 16 to 18 cast member Chris Rock "got fired because [he] was leaving to go to In Living Color," where he wouldn't be pigeonholed the way he was on SNL. He told WTF with Marc Maron, "The decision was, like, the culture's changing, and I'm not a part of it. This shit is getting hip, this shit is getting Blacker, this shit is getting fucking rap-ier... Like, SNL is still a pretty white show, but back then it was... When I got hired, I was the first Black guy in, like, eight years, and Living Color was just hip... I wanted to be in an environment where I didn't have to really translate the comedy that I wanted to do. I had these instances where they wanted me to do certain things at SNL. I was like, 'No, I'm not doing it.'" NBC / NBCUniversal via Getty Images When Marc asked for examples, Chris said, "Whatever slave sketch or Ubangi tribesman or whatever, where, not that I thought that they were racist, I just thought that, if you're the only Black face that's going to be seen for an hour and a half, it just doesn't...there's gotta be more, or another Black person. It feels racist. It's not racist, it just feels when that's all you see." NBC / NBCUniversal via Getty Images 4. Season 20 cast member Janeane Garofalo reportedly said that SNL was "the most miserable experience of [her] life." She felt that the way she was treated on the show was "almost like hazing." She told New York magazine, "Fraternity hazing. It's hard. It takes its toll on you. But I think you come out much better in the end. If nothing else, this experience has just toughened me up." NBC / NBCUniversal via Getty Images She said she got through it with "Cigarettes and Stoli [vodka]."In the same interview, one of her close friends said, "You know how depressed she is? She's in her bed right now, just lying there [after the show]. She's absolutely destroyed as a person. The show has beaten the shit out of her." 5. In a vulnerable Instagram video, Seasons 43 to 47 cast member Chris Redd said, "While I was at the show, I had some pill issues, you know, I had some pill problems. Nothing too crazy, but crazy for my Black ass. And I was even selling some