Wealth & Money Quote by Darrell Hammond

There is a whole career arc packed into that throwaway line, and Hammond knows it. "I'll get to make a lot of money" lands like the carrot that dangles in front of every working comedian: after years of grind, you finally get the paycheck that proves the struggle wasn’t imaginary. Then he pivots, almost gleefully, to the part nobody puts on the vision board: "do some bad sitcoms". The joke is the honesty, but the subtext is survival.

Hammond is talking from inside the entertainment machine, where success is rarely a clean victory. If you’re recognizable enough to be cast, you’re also disposable enough to be cast in something rushed, formulaic, and instantly forgotten. Sitcoms become shorthand for the industry's compromise: stable money, broad exposure, and the quiet humiliation of reading lines you didn’t write for laughs you can’t control. Calling them "bad" preemptively is a kind of inoculation; he gets to own the sellout narrative before anyone else can weaponize it.

Context matters: as a comedian shaped by the SNL ecosystem, Hammond would have watched peers exit the sketch grind into network TV deals that promised stardom and delivered mediocrity. The line plays like a backstage confession delivered as a punchline, a way of telling the truth while keeping it light enough to be survivable. It’s ambition without the self-mythology, aspiration tempered by the knowledge that show business rewards you and cheapens you in the same transaction.