“Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang said Monday that one male host of the late night comedy show made multiple cast members cry.
Bowen made the shocking allegation while appearing on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live” with his “Las Culturistas” podcast co-host Matt Rogers. “This man, this person, this host made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday before the table read because he hated the ideas,” Bowen claimed during a segment called “Truth or Kink.”
Apparently the situation was “terrible,” but that’s all Bowen would give up on the topic. You can pretty much see him and Rogers visibly cringe, as if recalling the situation but also how much trouble they’d be in if they outed whomever this terrible host was. “He’s got new PR and everything,” Rogers claimed of the unnamed host.
Bowen has appeared in the last five seasons of “SNL” since starting 2018. Male hosts have included everyone from Jason Bateman, Woody Harrelson, Harry Styles, Chance the Rapper to Pedro Pascal, Shane Gillis, Austin Butler, Jake Gyllenhaal and more, according to BuzzFeed. Seriously, it feels like an endless list. (RELATED: Trailer For ‘SNL’ Movie Comes Out And It’s Not What We Expected)
And any one of these guys could be the one made everyone cry. Allegedly.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 22: Pedro Pascal attends SNL afterparty on October 22, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 12: Lorne Michaels (C), winner of Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for “Saturday Night Live,” poses in the press room with Bowen Yang (L) and Kate McKinnon (R) during the 74th Primetime Emmys at Microsoft Theater on September 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 22: Jason Bateman attends the Governors Ball during the 71st Emmy Awards at L.A. Live Event Deck on September 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/WireImage)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 14: Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift attend CATCH Steak on October 14, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Apparently one of the worst sketches Bowen has ever done on the show was one for host Ayo Edebiri. “When Ayo Edebiri hosted this past season, 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,” he explained. (RELATED: Shane Gillis Is Objectively Funny On ‘SNL,’ So Obviously Corporate Media Is Throwing A Tantrum)
Someone turned the sketch into a pre-tape “under their noses” and so the actors just had to deal with it. What a difficult life they lead.
(not).
