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Stephen Colbert reveals he auditioned to play Screech on Saved by the Bell
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“Oh! I auditioned for Saved by the Bell,” Colbert revealed in A Late Show interview with Ryan Reynolds. “That was my first professional audition. 1986? They came to Chicago, I was a student at Northwestern University. And I don’t know, somebody had seen me do something, somebody had scouted me at the school.” Colbert is 13 years older than Dustin Diamond, who famously played Screech.
TOPICS: Stephen Colbert, CBS, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Saved by the Bell, Dustin Diamond, Late Night
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