Donald Glover has already deemed the opportunity to be a “Saturday Night Live” cast member a bullet he “dodged,” but now the multi-hyphenate creator is detailing just how much “SNL” impacted “30 Rock.”

The NBC sitcom was created by “SNL” alum Tina Fey and satirized working on a sketch series at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where “SNL” is filmed. But according to Glover, there were more parallels behind-the-scenes than just the meta mocking.

“Even though I had such a great time at ’30 Rock,’ one thing at ’30 Rock’ that I didn’t want as much of, because I feel like it was kind of a thing from ‘SNL,’ was fear,” Glover said during a recent appearance on “Hot Ones” from First We Feast. “Writers’ rooms are a scary place. I was like, ‘Yeah, I just didn’t want any fear in my room.'”

Glover opted to instead focus on creating his series...