Dane Cook dinner got here very near starring on Saturday Night time Stay. Nevertheless, the comic bumped into one downside: He by no means attended his audition.
The 52-year-old star defined that he’d been tapped to check out for the favored late-night present after Adam Sandler left in 1995.
Throughout an look on the Fly on the Wall podcast, Dane revealed what went flawed with the plans.
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“On my strategy to my audition at SNL, I had a full-on panic assault,” he recalled, by way of EW. “I sat on a bench outdoors of Rockefeller Plaza. And I didn’t go in. I really known as my supervisor. I stated … ‘I can’t do it.’ And he’s like, why? They’re all ready for you. They wanna see you. They’re searching for one thing to fill that, you recognize, that void.”
Dane stated that he “blew it on the day.” Nevertheless, he wasn’t certain if it was the precise match for him in any case.
“I additionally knew from a couple of mates that had been on the present that it was that it was extra confrontational, and I used to be very beta at the moment,” he stated. “And I used to be like, I’m not gonna be capable of battle for skits. I can barely, you recognize, get my meals order out … for a waiter at lunch. I’m not gonna be capable of survive at SNL.”
He did have some regrets, although, saying, “I positively felt like I let myself down.”
Quite a lot of different massive stars have been rejected from SNL.
