Jesse Eisenberg on ‘dumb factor’ from ‘Saturday Night Live’
Jesse Eisenberg doesn’t appear to have a lot good to recollect from his time of internet hosting Saturday Evening Dwell.
The actor just lately opened up about his 2011 SNL internet hosting expertise, revealing {that a} main misstep nonetheless haunts him.
Throughout a Feb. 10 look on At this time with Jenna & Mates, the 41-year-old actor shared that whereas internet hosting the enduring sketch comedy present was a profession milestone, his method to the chance left him with regrets.
“I think they said it was the best episode they ever did,” Eisenberg joked. “I only have bad memories because I did such a dumb thing.”
The Social Community star defined that his longtime dream was to put in writing for SNL, and he mistakenly believed he would have the chance to contribute sketches as a bunch.
“My dream when I was 17 was to write for SNL. I made a packet and everything and I got an agent. And then, when I got asked to host, which was 10 years later, I assumed I could write all the sketches. I didn’t know how it works. It turns out, they have writers.”
Eisenberg admitted that he spent the week slipping scripts to completely different forged members, unaware that this was not the usual course of.
“I didn’t realize — I’m an idiot — and I was also just wanting to write. I’ve wanted to write my whole life. So I spent the week slipping scripts to different actors. I didn’t realize that was not the way you do that.”
When requested by host Jenna Bush Hager if any of his sketches made it to air, Eisenberg confessed the try backfired.
“It was so unbelievably inappropriate and offensive of me that, no,” he mentioned.
Visitor host and former SNL forged member Amy Poehler weighed in, suggesting he merely “worked too hard.”
Eisenberg humorously disagreed, responding, “Not according to the people who wrote the show! They wished I went the other way.”
Reflecting on the expertise, Eisenberg joked that he could have been misled.
“I was assured, ‘Yes, of course. That sounds great,’ they said. It turns out I was sabotaged,” he quipped.