At eight in the morning, some point in October, I got a call. I was driving a newspaper truck for the Washington Post at the time, so eight in the morning was brutal. I got your number from Penelope Spheeris, who did Decline of Western Civilization and she said that you guys, Washington DC punk rock kids, know how to dance. I want to get you guys to come up to the show.
During the dress rehearsal, a camera got knocked over. We were dancing and they were very angry with us and said that they were going to not let us do it then Belushi really put his foot down and insisted on it. So, during the actual set itself, they let us come out again. If you watch the show — have you seen it? IM: If you watch it — during the show — before they go to commercial, they always go to this jack-o-lantern.
This carved pumpkin. They kicked us out and locked us out for two hours. We were locked in a room because they were so angry with us about the behavior. IM: Yeah, we were locked in a room. They said they were going to sue us and have us arrested for damages. There was so much hype about that.
The New York Post reported half a million dollars worth of damages. It was nothing. It was a plastic clip that got broken. It was a very interesting experience and I realized how completely unnatural it is for a band to be on a TV show, particularly a punk band, that kind of has a momentum to suddenly be expected to immediately jump into a song in that type of setting.
It was very weird. Largely unpleasant. Winner : Whoever uploaded that fittingly grainy video, to let future generations witness such an amazing moment in TV history. According to the book, Live From New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live , Steven Seagal was named the worst host ever to appear on the show a fact that Lorne Michaels mentioned when Nicolas Cage hosted in season 18 due to his bad sketch ideas and inability to work with the cast and crew.
Winner : Well, Seagal hosted in with Michael Bolton as the musical guest! Chris Kattan vs. This feud seems to have resolved, at least — Morgan was a guest on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" 11 times and has appeared on Fallon's "The Tonight Show" on six occasions. A few weeks after the end of the TV season, her fourth with the show , Julia Sweeney announced that she would not return to "Saturday Night Live," according to the Chicago Tribune , where she was best known for playing the ambiguously gendered recurring character Pat Riley.
When Winfrey asked about gender politics in the workplace via Vulture , Curtin, one of the original "SNL" "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" in , and one of the first "Weekend Update" co-hosts described an atmosphere of sexism and hostility to women. According to Curtin, co-star John Belushi believed that "women are just fundamentally not funny," adding that the late "SNL" star "felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces that were written by women.
Curtin re-iterated her experiences with Belushi on " Watch What Happens Live " in , explaining that the actor was among a group of men on the show who thought that "women should not" be a part of "SNL. She was Gilda. When Mike Myers joined the show in , he brought along a character he'd originated on Canadian television and recruited Carvey to play his sidekick.
The sketches performed so well that they spawned two movies. Evil, who spoke with a pronounced and exaggerated Canadian accent. He also allegedly took Dr. Evil's habit of raising a pinky to his lips from Carvey's Michaels impression. The pinky thing I did.
Evil voice is a little bit Lorne Michaels, there are no two ways about it. A former actual news reporter, his signature bit on "SNL" became "The Rocket Report," a spoof of man-on-the-street interviews. Perhaps resentful of the success and popularity that came so easily to his co-star, who had joined the show at age 19, Rocket was openly scornful and dismissive of Murphy around the "SNL" offices. Nora Dunn and Victoria Jackson were among the small group of women to be a part of the "Saturday Night Live" cast in the mid-to-late s.
They didn't do much for each other, and the rest of their co-stars seemingly didn't like either actor as well. She fought with me the first year.
And then the second year she started again, and I said, 'I'm not going through this with you for another year,'" Jon Lovitz said in the "SNL" oral history "Live from New York" before recalling a time when a sketch with Dunn and Dana Carvey ended with those two actors "just screaming at each other. Jackson thought Dunn was the single biggest flaw on "SNL" — well, her and another co-star. Ten years after getting into a fist fight with Bill Murray, Chevy Chase returned to Saturday Night Live just in time to insult everybody.
Notably, he made fun of Robert Downey Jr. Whatever happened to him? Boy, he sure died, you know, he sure went to hell. Terry Sweeney the performer in question says that Chase was so out of line that he was forced to apologize.
When Chevy Chase returned to host the show in the mid '90s, he definitely didn't make any new friends. Tim Meadows, who seems like one of the most level-headed guys in comedy, likened Chase's return to "watching a car accident over and over again just watching him deal with people.
According to Jane Curtin, one of the original Saturday Night Live performers, the onslaught of celebrity quickly changed her co-stars who went from anonymous comedians to household names overnight. The new status quickly went to their heads. She told TV critic Tom Shales, "I think some poor elevator operator was punched because he dared to ask somebody in the cast for an ID.
Kanye West appeared on a February episode of Saturday Night Live and he did not have a good time. After a stagehand moved a piece of his set, the highly volatile rapper went off on everyone in the vicinity. An audio clip of the rant surfaced and West is mostly mad because he didn't get to break the Internet. I am bummed. When Lorne told Louis that he could do 7, the comedian flipped out. He described his reaction to Judd Apatow, saying, "My face turned red.
I was angry. I thought it was pretty good. What if I go over and end up doing ten or more? When Milton Berle hosted the show in , he was allegedly a terror to be around backstage Alan Zweibel says that the Catskills comedian pulled out his "pepperoni" of a member and made him look at it. He mostly succeeded in taking away the show from Lorne Michaels for at least one evening. Not only did he get a stagehand to drop a pipe during his monologue so he could make a joke at NBC's expense, but he also arranged his own standing ovation.
After its initial airing, the episode was never seen again. Writing is hard work and when you're supposed to produce 90 minutes worth of material a week, the stress can take its toll. It was a brawl. I mean, screaming and everything. He heard the whole thing! I felt so ashamed. For those of us not privy to the backstage minutiae of SNL , it seemed like Mike Myers and Dana Carvey were besties while they were on the show.
They appeared in all of the Wayne's World sketches and two hit movies inspired by the wildly popular act.
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