Saved By the Bell and, Yeah, We Kinda See It

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Imagine, if you will, how different our cultural landscape would have been if Stephen Colbert had gotten cast as Screech, Saved by the Bell's resident nerd?

That's the kind of alternate reality the Late Night host put in our brains when he, in the middle of Wednesday night's virtual interview with Ryan Reynolds, dropped the tidbit that his first audition was for the role that eventually went to Dustin Diamond.

The interview, which was already a loose, relaxing break from the world around us, veered down the path of Reynolds discussing his own first audition for a garbage bag commercial. "I know that I did show up wearing a thin leather tie that had piano keys on it," he said, comparing himself to "anyone in the crew of Saved by the Bell." T