We're compiling quite a nice little collection of Media Moles. Bosses are such a bitch! Now, won't you join them? We'll be soliciting entries through the end of this week, then re-run the favorites next week for your voting pleasure. The winner, as has been explained here and elsewhere, gets a dishy off-the-record drinks session with Gawker editors and Page Six's Paula Froelich. We're giddy, ourselves, at the thought. Send your tales of woe to mole@gawker.com, and we'll reprint the best ones for your perusal and enjoyment.

This afternoon's installment throws back the curtain on what it takes to get in the door at Saturday Night Live. The tipster seems to think there's some sort of nefarious racial motive at work, but we're more inclined to highlight the fact that Marci Klein selected a buxom blonde as her assistant. Do with that information what you will:

I used to be an NBC Page...you know, the only people in the industry who are actually jealous of personal assistants and think that they have sweet gigs. The whole program is a scam for NBC to get cheap, non-retarded labor to man their tourist-wrangling studio tours while leading them on with promises of jobs. Basically the program is full of kids who think they can score a job at SNL or Conan, despite the fact that no one from either show ever moves on, making upward mobility impossible. Once in a great while some bitchwork PA job will open up and there will be a lot of whispering and sweating from those poor bastards in the NBC commissary.

About a year ago SNL talent exec Marci Klein was looking to hire a new assistant. The Pages do have the upper hand in situations like this, as its a convenient pool of young people making no money who would clearly love to get shit on even more for a raise to $28,000 a year from the $20,000 or so the Page Program pays.

Anyhow, generally when a position like this opens up the coordinator of the program will gather resumes from eligible pages and send them over. If certain pages have had "assignments" at the show in question,
they'll generally get a leg up, which is why SNL and Conan assignments are so bitterly fought over (the assignments, by the way, generally get you the glamorous jobs of seating the general public or getting
coffee for real staffers). However, when Marci wanted a new assistant they called in about half a dozen attractive white girls, despite the fact that there were a large number of black girls in the program at
the time, including a few who had done an assignment at SNL. Not to mention all the wannabe comedian guys in the program who thought being a page could somehow lead to being a writer at either show.

Marci ended up hiring a knockout, big-titted blond girl to be her assistant. There was a lot of bitter gossip among the ranks when this happened, and I've heard that this has since happened again since I
thankfully left the program, with another class of attractive white girls getting preferential treatment at SNL. I'm not sure if this is general racism/hot girl lovin' at SNL or if it's due to Marci Klein's bitter personal hatred of black people.

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