--- title: Emma Stone Blew Her Audition for Nickelodeon's 'All That' description: During an appearance on 'The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,' Emma Stone revealed that she botched an audition for the show, "All That." canonical: https://time.com/4588811/emma-stone-all-that-audition/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-02T16:34:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:08.591Z og:title: Apparently Emma Stone’s ‘All That’ Audition Was a Spectacular Fail og:description: Looks like she recovered. og:url: https://time.com/4588811/emma-stone-all-that-audition/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba1033e2abc8b9e7/6988b06b8e060147e0468747/emma-stone-all-that-audition.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 4 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Apparently Emma Stone’s ‘All That’ Audition Was a Spectacular Fail twitter:description: Looks like she recovered. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba1033e2abc8b9e7/6988b06b8e060147e0468747/emma-stone-all-that-audition.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Apparently Emma Stone’s _All That_ Audition Was a Spectacular Fail > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 2, 2016 4:34 PM UTC  Emma Stone during an interview with 'The Tonight Show' host Jimmy Fallon on December 01, 2016 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Emma Stone during an interview with 'The Tonight Show' host Jimmy Fallon on December 01, 2016 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 2, 2016 4:34 PM UTC While [Emma Stone](http://time.com/4578555/jennifer-lawrence-on-emma-stone/) will be returning to the [_Saturday Night Live_ stage](http://time.com/4531582/emma-stone-vogue-prince/) for the third time this weekend, she hasn’t always been a hit on sketch comedy shows. During an appearance on _The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon_, the [_La La Land_ star](http://time.com/4474968/la-la-land-venice-film-festival/) revealed that she botched an audition for [Nickelodeon’s beloved kid’s comedy sketch show, _All That_](http://time.com/4048867/nickelodeon-the-splat-rugrats/) — a show that launched the careers of Nick Cannon, Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes and others. When Stone was 12, she attended an open call for _All That_ but was unaware that she had to prepare her own original characters for her audition. “I thought they were going to give us sketches,” Stone said. “And then five minutes before I went in the room they said, ‘You need to have three characters when you come in the room.’ So I was like, ‘Okay,’ and then I made up a couple of characters.” Despite not getting the gig, Stone’s characters were pretty hilarious especially given that she created them mere minutes before her audition. “I remember that one was a cheerleader that couldn’t spell what she was cheering,” she said. “And then there was another one that was actually pretty nuts that was a babysitter who is possessed. So as she’s reading books to the kids, she’s like, ‘and then Goldilocks and the (demon voice) three bears,’ and she catches her head, and is like, ‘Sorry about that. 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