Bowen Yang gives more clues about the ‘horrible’ SNL host who made cast members cry

Saturday evening live Star Bowen Yang shared more details about the anonymous host who he says made cast members cry.

During an appearance on Watch what’s happening live With Andy Cohen last month, Yang was asked to reveal the worst SNL behavior of the host that he had already witnessed. “This man – this person, this host – made several cast members cry on Wednesday before the table read because he hated the ideas,” he responded.

Yang was asked to elaborate on the incident during Wednesday’s episode of David Spade and Dana Carvey. Fly on the wall podcast.

Yang said it was “more about the environment of the venue” than just the celebrity host’s behavior.

“Imagine you stay up until 4 a.m. writing a sketch, and then the host says, ‘I fucking hate this,’ you’re going to get it [reaction]“, he explained. “Your nerves are strained.

“You’re going to have a weird, weird emotional reaction,” Yang continued, adding that he wasn’t “the one who cried.”

Carvey and Spade, who both starred on the long-running NBC sketch series in the ’90s, sympathized with their fellow comedian.

Spade recalls getting in trouble for saying Steven Seagal had been the worst host to work with on SNL during a 2015 interview on Watch what’s happening live.

“Everyone gets in trouble for saying something, but that’s what everyone’s asking for, and you can only dodge it for so long,” Spade said. “Just try to explain why they weren’t great.”

Spade said of Seagal at the time: “He was a little tough. I mean, he was actually tough, and he was difficult to work with. It was hard. He didn’t want to play the game.”

SNL returns September 28 with a replenished roster of familiar faces, as well as three new cast members.

The new series will see Maya Rudolph reprise her Emmy-winning portrayal of Vice President Kamala Harris in the midst of her presidential bid.

Yang joined for the first time SNL as a writer in 2018 before being promoted to casting a year later.

Since joining the cast full-time, some of Yang’s most memorable sketches include portraying a talking balloon in reference to the suspected Chinese spy balloon that was shot down by the US military in February 2023. In October 2022, he also skewered Elon Musk, Kanye West, Joe Biden and Chris Pratt during the show’s cold open.

In 2021, Yang achieved SNL history as the first Chinese-American actor to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, which he won after appearing in only two seasons of the sketch comedy show NBC.

Elsewhere on the Fly on the wall podcast, Yang said Season 49 host Sydney Sweeney “practically begged” the SNL chosen for “making jokes about my breasts”.