“Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang said the comedy sketch show’s “terrible” host “made multiple cast members cry.”
During a game of “Truth or Perversion” “Watch live to see what happens.” On Monday, host Andy Cohen asked Yang to talk about the worst behavior he’d ever witnessed, without naming any hosts.
“This guy, this person, this host, had multiple cast members crying during the script read on Wednesday because they didn’t like the idea,” he revealed.
“Gross,” the comedian added.
Yang, 33, was first hired to “SNL”‘s writing staff in 2018 ahead of the show’s 44th season.
A year later, he was promoted to the on-air cast of the NBC show’s 45th season.
Elsewhere in the “Watch What Happens Live” interview, the four-time Emmy nominee recalled that the biggest blunder he made in an “SNL” sketch was one she orchestrated when “The Bear” star Ayo Edebiri appeared on the show in February.
“We wrote a live sketch that takes place in an elevator, and the elevator stops working, and she and I are telling everyone we’re going to kiss or something,” Yang explained.
“Then, somehow, it ended up pre-taped right in front of us and we had to adapt to that. … It didn’t work out as well as we hoped it would.”
Yang said his sketch didn’t go the way he wanted it to, but that’s common in the comedy business.
“You just deal with it. Comedy is subjective, so you never know how it’s going to play in front of a particular audience,” he explained.
“But it’s okay. Don’t worry about it.”
