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In 'The Other Two,' former 'SNL' writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider send-up social media stardom

NEW YORK - At lunchtime on a recent afternoon, the chain steakhouse Del Frisco's at Rockefeller Center, bustles with midtown office workers shouting at one another over the blare of Fleetwood Mac.

For Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly, the generic environment triggers specific memories.

"You know when you have a stress dream, where you're, like, one credit short of graduating? And you have to wake yourself up and remind yourself that it's a dream? That's what I feel now," says Kelly, sitting across from his writing partner, Schneider, in a U-shaped booth.

During their six seasons at "Saturday Night Live," the pair often came here Monday afternoons to brainstorm for the week's episode. But more often than not, Schneider says, they'd "have three margaritas and go home," meaning they'd have to write all Tuesday night to be ready for Wednesday's traditional table read.

Their method may not have been efficient, but it seems to have worked. The writers, now 35 years old, revitalized

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