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Bobcats, assemble. You had two chances to see James Austin Johnson’s impeccable Bob Dylan impression SNL, which evolves at the rate of a Modern times –Era Pokemon. Johnson made his big debut last month in a promo teasing Dylan as a new collaborator unable to write good material for host John Mulaney, which was followed by an actual skit on December 7 in which the musician uttered profound words on the red carpet A complete unknown. However, if Johnson had gotten his way, we would have seen his impression long beforehand if pesky song rights hadn’t gotten in the way. Speaking to Uproxx, he revealed another music idea of ​​his that had to be scrapped after a table reading because it was “too expensive” for the show to justify. Take yourself back to pop’s greatest night and get a load of these:

One of my most famous “almost on the show” pieces was Andrew Dismukes and I performed Bob and Bruce Springsteen side by side in the chorus on the chorus of “We Are the World.” And we chat about our sandwich orders. I’m really proud of it. It’s one of the hardest laughs we’ve ever had while writing, and then it killed the table. Bob says: “I used the herbed chicken breast. That sounds good, right? Have you ever had that herbed chicken breast?” Then Bruce says, “I have a meatball sub. I’m still waiting for it.”

Don’t worry, we would have gotten some other soloists’ sandwich orders:

Then he says, “Bob, don’t look now. Looks like Cyndi Lauper just got her muffaletta.” And then we cut to Sarah Sherman as Cyndi Lauper getting ready to eat a muffaletta. Then we have to sing the chorus. Then Bob and Bruce notice that Hall & Oates got their sandwich. “Shit!” Then we have to sing the chorus again.

The obvious thing to do was to get Stevie Wonder to take care of it, but in the meantime, Johnson makes a cameo appearance A complete unknown. Try to find him!