Some celebrities, like High Gun: Maverick’s Miles Teller, dreamed of showing on Saturday Night time Dwell since they had been children. “I’m so honored to be right here. Rising up, me and my household would watch SNL each week,” he confessed when it was his flip to host. “My sisters and I’d reenact among the sketches, and my mother would videotape them.”
However not everyone seems to be so enamored with the present. Listed below are 5 celebrities who had been introduced with the chance to host SNL, solely to show down Lorne Michaels like a child left holding the prom-posal register entrance of your complete senior car parking zone…
Michael Cera
2007 was a giant yr for Cera — roles in Superbad and Juno launched his profession into supernova stage. Depend SNL amongst these desirous to bask within the Cera magic, however the Arrested Improvement star wasn’t . “There was a degree the place I needed to cease taking jobs that may make me extra well-known,” Cera instructed The Guardian. Turning down jobs included nixing an opportunity to host Saturday Night time Dwell, a transfer that pissed off Cera’s brokers. “I used to be sort of having a little bit of a disaster. I used to be actually not having fun with the extent of warmth.”
Chris Evans
“I’ve prevented internet hosting SNL just like the plague for years now simply because I’m so scared,” the Captain America star instructed ET Canada. “It’s terrifying to me.”
What’s so horrifying about SNL? “I’m not a humorous particular person,” Evans admitted. “Possibly I solely really feel that as a result of I’ve very, very humorous pals who as soon as instructed me I’m not a humorous particular person.”
Guess we’ll need to take their phrase for it.
James Caan
Caan was scheduled to host the season premiere of Season Seven, the primary present of the Dick Ebersol period, however needed to again out on the final minute. Not less than he had a very good purpose — his sister was present process a bone marrow transplant. As an alternative, the brand new solid — together with Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy — did their first collective present with no host. “It was hardly an auspicious option to begin my first full season,” remembered Ebersol in his memoir From Saturday Night time to Sunday Night time, however “the remainder of the present went tremendous with no host or monologue.”
Nick Nolte
Eddie Murphy’s 48 Hrs. co-star stated sure to internet hosting, then no (the week of the present) after he partied himself into oblivion. “He supposedly went into rehab,” says author Elliot Wald, “however he was seen making ready for rehab at Studio 54.”
In a transfer not seen earlier than or since, solid member Murphy stepped in to host the present. “I do know you people tuned in to see one of many stars of 48 Hrs. host the present — and, dammit, you’re gonna see it,” he instructed the gang. Murphy then rankled his castmates together with his celebratory “Dwell, from New York, it’s the Eddie Murphy Present!”
Gary Oldman
Malcolm McDowell had a awful time when he hosted SNL throughout Season Six.
His expertise was so depressing {that a} decade later, he supposedly talked his protege, Gary Oldman, right into a last-minute cancellation of his internet hosting duties. To make issues worse, Oldman was changed that week by Tom Arnold. In his monologue, Arnold joked that Oldman pulled out as a result of “he personally hates this present.” Little did Arnold comprehend it was McDowell who hated it.
