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Paula Pell Thinks She Wasn't an 'SNL' Performer Because of Her Weight

Paula Pell worked as a writer on Saturday Night Live for nearly two decades but was never one of the show’s official on-screen players. “I don’t want to assume, but I’ve heard, here and there, little things and who knows because we’ve all been there when they’re picking people and it’s so random,” the actress, 63, said during the Tuesday, May 19, episode of Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast. “I mean, not random, but there’s reasons that you don’t think are the reasons and all this, but I do suspect that … I was a big lady. I was a big plus-size person.” Pell explained that when she joined SNL...