Dane Cook continues to lament the missed alternative of becoming a member of the star-studded Saturday Night Live forged.
In a current look on the Fly on the Wall podcast, the comic opened up about his regrets over backing out of his SNL audition early in his profession, revealing he bought chilly toes simply outdoors the constructing.
“On my solution to my audition at SNL, I had a full-on panic assault,” he revealed, including, “I sat on a bench outdoors of Rockefeller Plaza. And I didn’t go in.”
“I truly known as my supervisor. I mentioned … ‘I can’t do it.’ And he’s like, ‘Why? They’re all ready for you. They wanna see you. They’re in search of one thing to fill that void,” Cook, 52, revealed.
The Good Luck Chuck actor was tapped by the present to fill within the house shortly after Adam Sandler exited the NBC comedy sketch in 1995.
Looking again on the missed likelihood, Cook admitted, “I blew it that day.”
He additionally shared that he felt unprepared for the confrontational atmosphere of the present.
“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 defined. “And I used to be like, I’m not gonna be capable of struggle for skits. I can barely, you understand, get my meals order out … for a waiter at lunch. I’m not gonna be capable of survive at SNL.”
Although Cook by no means made it onto the SNL forged, he did host the long-lasting present twice, in 2005 and 2006.