SNL creator Lorne Michaels is a man of details, and nothing gets past him, even a facial expression by one of the stars. In a recent podcast appearance, Sarah Sherman revealed how Michaels called her out for a face she didn’t realize she was making on the sketch comedy series.

Sarah Sherman recalls Lorne Michaels calling her out for making a face

Sarah Sherman recently appeared on Stavvy’s World podcast, where she discussed Lorne Michaels calling her out for a facial expression she was making without realizing. This facial expression involved Sherman staring with her mouth agape.

“Lorne always says — cuz I’m always going like [makes the face], because someone’s doing something weird, and I’m [makes the face] — and he’s like, ‘You’re going to catch flies in that mouth,” she said on her podcast appearance.

Sherman went on to explain that she has been playing a lot of “normal” roles lately, and in her defense, she was only reacting to some of the shocking plot points she was witnessing. “I’m like I’m legitimately disturbed,” she said, “Nikki Glaser and Tommy Brennan are doing a sketch where they’re siblings, and they have a lot of sexual chemistry. And so I’m [reacting that way].”

She further elaborated, “I try to really get in there and go like, ‘Huh?’ I’m really present in the sketches. Sometimes I’m fully like 10 seconds late on a line because I’m watching too much.”

While discussing this, Sherman also spoke about a gross scene with Mikey Day that didn’t make the cut because it did not get the laughs. “We were like animatronics that were puking,” she explained, “And then they built us a vomit rig that hooks in your ear like a Bluetooth, so it was really like in place. So yeah, we’re doing like huge technological developments in the vomit rig field, and nobody’s buying.”

Sherman joined SNL starting in the show’s 47th season in October 2021 and has remained a key part of the show since.