Bowen Yang on ‘SNL’ Host Who Made Cast Members Cry at a Table Read

Bowen Yang this week recalled a past Saturday Night Live host that left multiple cast members in tears during the show’s table read.

“This man who…this person, this host made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday during the, before the table-read, because he hated the ideas,” Yang said during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live when he was asked about the worst SNL host behavior he’s ever experienced.

Host Andy Cohen was left shocked, and Yang went on to call the ordeal “terrible.”

Elsewhere in the Bravo late-night interview, Yang also answered a question about sketches that don’t go as planned, and recalled one that he wrote with season 49 host Ayo Edebiri.

“We wrote a live sketch where it took place in an elevator, and she and I were, like, telling everyone that we should all make out or something because the elevator got stuck,” Yang said. “Then, for some reason, it got turned into a pre-tape under our noses, and we had to adapt to that… It just didn’t go as well as I had hoped.”

The sketch he was seemingly referring to is “Stuck in an Elevator,” which featured Edebiri, Yang, Kenan Thompson, Andrew Dismukes, and Sarah Sherman and aired in February.

Despite the surprising outcome, Yang said he’s learned not to let the disappointment get to him. “You just deal with it. Comedy’s subjective, you never know how it’s going to play in front of a specific audience. But it’s fine, you let it roll off your back.”

Yang joined SNL in 2018 as a writer before becoming a cast member in 2019. Next year’s season 50 will be his seventh season. At next month’s Emmys, he is up for best supporting actor in a comedy series, his third nomination in the category.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter, People