Robert Downey Jr Reveals What He Learned From his Short Time On 'Saturday Night Live'

Did you know Robert Downey Jr was once a cast member on Saturday Night Live?

The 59-year-old actor was a repertory player, aka a full-time cast member, on the weekend sketch show for one season, in 1985-1986. He then returned to host a decade later in 1996.

Robert appears in the docu-series SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, and opened up about his time as a cast member, revealing what he learned from that year.

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“I learned so much in that year about what I wasn’t. But there’s not a more exciting 90 minutes you could have, whether you are any good or not,” he said, via People.

RDJ was on the show in season 11 alongside other now-famous stars like Joan Cusack, Randy Quaid, Damon Wayans, Jon Lovitz and Anthony Michael Hall.

“I wanted to go younger,” SNL creator Lorne Michaels said in SNL50 of the younger cast that season. “I perhaps went too young, but I wanted to go younger. The Baby Boomer generation had dominated the show for 10 years, so I decided to clean house.”

If you missed it, another former Saturday Night Live cast member revealed they asked to be fired after their first season, but was denied.