The three of us threw around a bunch of ideas (the drones go undercover, they’re like Power Rangers) and in the end Rob came up with the brilliant idea of them being a boy band and he wrote up the initial script. I think Paul had the initial idea to do something about drones, and we all agreed it seemed promising. Every month or so we’ll each come up with 10-20 ideas for shorts, and then we’ll meet up and whittle them down to what we might want to make. How did the idea for the short come to you? Rob (another writer at SNL), Paul Noth (a fellow New Yorker cartoonist) and I have been working on some animated short ideas off-and-on for a few years now, and “Cool Drones” was one that we started working on this August. Let’s talk about the animated short you wrote for the show with Rob Klein, “Cool Drones.” Has this been something you’ve wanted to get on the show for a while? I recently had the chance to talk to Zach Kanin about animated shorts, his favorite sketches he’s written at SNL, and drawing for The New Yorker: This season, he teamed up with fellow SNL writer Rob Klein and New Yorker cartoonist Paul Noth create an animated short for SNL called “Cool Drones,” which looks like the start of a new line of animated segments for the show. Now, with only a season and a half at SNL under his belt, Kanin already has a bevy of funny and popular sketches to his name, in addition to an Emmy nomination and two WGA Award nominations. Before being snatched up by SNL, Kanin was editor of The Harvard Lampoon, a contributing cartoonist for The New Yorker (his cartoons are archived here), and author of The Short Book, which offers a humorous look at what it’s like being 5’3”. Since joining Saturday Night Live’s writing staff in the fall of 2011, Zach Kanin has quickly found his footing on the show and created some memorable sketches, not that it comes as any surprise to those who’d been following his career before that.
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