Aidy Bryant recounts the worst date of her life at Panera, 'the most romantic place in the world'

Aidy Bryant took a trip down memory lane during her virtual Jimmy Kimmel Live appearance last night (June 7), prompted by her being in her hometown Phoenix visiting family.

"It's nice to be home," the Saturday Night Live cast member said. "Memories all around me."

Luckily for us, Bryant dug into the treasure trove that is her memory bank and shared some stories in hilarious detail: her first car accident at 16 years old caused by a rogue lacrosse player that her parents were still unaware of and her mom's best friend owning a strip club named Teasers, for example.

But the 34-year-old's worst date of all time actually happened while she was away at college in Chicago:

"I got set up kind of with this man, and he invited me to go to the most romantic place in the world: Panera. Well, when you're worth it, you have to go. And so, I went and got some soup with this man. You know, it's not a restaurant where there's 'a waiter' or whatever, so they call your number, and you get your sandwich and your soup. When we did that, we went to sit at our table, and this man tripped, and his sandwich exploded and went all over the floor. And then, he was so rattled that he was basically in tears, and that was the date!"

Bryant recently completed her ninth season on SNL on May 22, two weeks after the third and final season of her Hulu series Shrill premiered. She did not comment on the speculation over whether she (and other cast members) will return to SNL, but she did give insight into the abrupt ending to Shrill.

The Primetime Emmy nominee explained that she didn't learn that this was Shrill's farewell season until she and her team were in the editing process. 

"In a weird way, as much as it [angered] us, it also kind of gave us this cool thing," Bryant added. This show is about a person who's fat, who wants to change their life and find their own confidence but not change their body, and I think that kind of thing, especially with 'body positivity,' there's a lot of pressure to have it be this perfect, A-plus win."

She continued: "I think because we didn't know, we didn't have that pressure from the network or the studio to give it this kind of corny, like, this-is-her-fight-song ending, we got to end it in this more bittersweet, realistic way."

Bryant co-created Shrill alongside Alexandra Rushfield and Lindy West. Brownstone Productions, Elizabeth Banks' production company with her husband Max Handelman, was also behind the project.

Watch Bryant's full Kimmel interview below.