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According to his memoir, Allen told him, “You were great. How come you’re such a lousy auditioner?”

In one of his most memorable “Saturday Night Live” creations, Martin Short played Ed Grimley, a socially awkward “Wheel of Fortune” auditioner with a fantasy of impressing and befriending Sajak.

Already this week, one rejected R+F aspirant, an Atlanta auditioner dubbed the Lyrical Gift, has released a diss track in response to guest judge Quavo’s cutting quip, “You’ve got a gift but maybe it may not be, like … rap.”

The greatest auditioner who had ever lived!

Screens were erected between the committee and the auditioner, and if the person auditioning cleared his or her throat or made any kind of identifiable sound—if they were wearing heels, for example, and stepped on a part of the floor that wasn’t carpeted—they were ushered out and given a new number.