No One at “SNL” Knew Taran Killam Starred in Disney's “Stuck in the Suburbs” — Until Miley Cyrus Hosted

Killam played pop star Jordan Cahill in the beloved Disney Channel Original Movie

Though Disney fans might remember Taran Killam’s starring role in Stuck in the Suburbs, his Saturday Night Live costars had no idea. On the Dec. 1 episode of the Magical Rewind podcast, hosted by Will Friedle and Sabrina Bryan, Killam, 42, reflected on filming the 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie when he was 21 years old — seven years before he joined SNL in 2010.

During the podcast episode, Friedle, 48, asked Killam if he or any other SNL writers and cast members ever pitched a Stuck in the Suburbs sketch. Killam admitted they didn’t, and that “enough time had passed” that no one involved with the show even knew about it.

But then fellow Disney star Miley Cyrus hosted. “The first and maybe only time I got called out for it was the first time Miley hosted,” he remembered. That was in March 2011.

He explained that on Mondays during a show week, all the cast members and writers go into Lorne Michaels' office to pitch the host ideas for that week’s show. “And when it came to me, Lorne’s like ‘Taran,’ and Miley’s like ‘Oh, I know who you are, I know who you are. Anything that ever happened on Disney, I know everything about it.’ Which was really funny.”

“And all of these very funny but cynical, too cool for school comedy people are like, ‘What the hell?’ ” he remembered. But Michaels’ daughter, he remembered, was “very excited” he was on the show because she was a Stuck in the Suburbs fan. “That’s the power of Disney," he added.

Cyrus' hit sitcom Hannah Montana aired on the Disney Channel from 2006 to 2011.

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In Stuck in the Suburbs, Killam played pop singer Jordan Cahill, whose life intersects with two teenage girls (played by Danielle Panabaker and Brenda Song) when they accidentally switch phones. Though Killam studied musical theater in college (and would later appear on Broadway in Spamalot and Hamilton), he did not do any of the singing or guitar playing for his character.

Killam also shared that there was one SNL cast member who ultimately became a Stuck in the Suburbs fan after Cyrus hosted — Vanessa Bayer. He explained that the last time he watched the movie was “five or six years” ago when he bought her a DVD of the movie for her birthday, and they watched it together.

“In a way, you know, it hasn’t died,” he told the hosts of the movie, which he said Disney replayed “the heck out of.” “This isn't a thing from the past. And because of that, anytime I would leave SNL, at the stage door Stuck in the Suburbs was probably the thing I was asked about the most.”

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Killam’s other early career credits in children’s entertainment include episodes of The Amanda Show, All That and Drake & Josh. Before landing his SNL role, he also appeared on How I Met Your Mother (which starred his now-wife Cobie Smulders), Wild 'n Out and Scrubs. He left SNL in 2016.

This winter, Killam will appear in the musical Urinetown Off-Broadway. He also appeared in the new ABC series High Potential.