United Kingdom, Oct. 16 -- Jimmy Fallon's friends used to get "mad" because he refused to go to parties until Saturday Night Live had finished.

The 51-year-old talk show host - who was a cast member on the show from 1998 to 2004 - was obsessed with SNL in his younger years and insisted on studying every episode on his own, despite the disruption it caused to his social lives.

He admitted to Deadline: "Friends would get mad at me. They'd be like, 'I'll put a TV set in the corner of the room.' I'd go, 'No, I gotta watch it myself, really study it. and then I'll be at the party at one o'clock.'"

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