"Being sick is the reason I went into comedy," Vanessa Bayer tells PEOPLE Emily Strohm is a Senior Editor at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE for 11 years and has written nearly 40 cover stories for ...

Freakier Friday first look: Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis scream over body-swapping, guitars, Chad Michael Murray's 'sexy' return Vanessa Bayer lied to family about joining SNL due to 'horror ...

For Vanessa Bayer, that includes keeping the news that she was cast on Saturday Night Live a secret. The former SNL star revealed she actually lied to her family about her life-changing career ...

and Peter Grosz Vanessa Bayer talks 50 years of SNL and how she got out of gym class After being a part of improv groups at Second City and iO, and interning for Late Night with Conan O'Brien ...