Lorne Michaels returned to serve as executive producer in 1985 after a five-year hiatus. He brought with him some new young faces, but despite Robert Downey Jr.s talent it was not destined to be.
According the RDJ:
I learned so much in that year about what I wasn’t. I was not somebody who was going to come up with a catchphrase. I was not somebody who was going to do impressions. I was somebody who was very ill-suited for rapid-fire sketch comedy. I was not of that ilk of The Groundlings. I’d never been part of any improv group, so I was kinda like, ‘Wow, this seems really hard and like a lot of work.’ But I would still say that, to this day, there’s not a more exciting 90 minute you can have, whether you are any good or not.
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