When Vanessa Bayer needed a date, where were you? Not on Comcast’s Dating on Demand

Vanessa Bayer is a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live this season. Three years ago, she was just another single face on Comcast's Dating on Demand.

If you were in Chicago in 2007, you could have looked her up on your cable TV as sassy2 and asked her out on a date. But you didn't. You lose. I remember when I lived in Boston — then a Comcast market — and saw these Dating on Demand clips, and even saw them hold "auditions" looking for comedic types to go out on dates. I'm sure Vanessa wasn't the only young comedian to use the service, if only for an early credit and screen time. Remember when Andy Kaufman went on The Dating Game in the 1970s in character? Steve Martin also played The Dating Game. Fun facts! In the meantime…

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