January 15, 2025
David Schwimmer is shocked to have received an invitation to the 50th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live.
David hosted the show in 1995 when his star rose due to hit sitcom Friends.
However, he’s now shared that he didn’t feel welcome on the set of the show and still remains “traumatized” by the memory of it.
During an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, the Goosebumps: The Vanishing star said: “It was a huge honor … I couldn’t be more excited. Friends at that time was shooting on Tuesday nights and we were shooting until sometimes one in the morning, and so I’d fly from L.A. to New York on Wednesday to get there. I really didn’t get to arrive at SNL until Thursday, two days before the Saturday show.”
He continued: “When I walked into the writers’ room, the entire writing staff looked at me as if I had just slept with their mom or something. They were not happy to see me and I had no idea [why].”
Years later, the Friends star “was talking to somebody else who had hosted the show and they said, no, no, no, you’re supposed to show up on a Monday.”
“No one told me and for years, I had no idea why,” he added.
David Schwimmer now wonders how he got invited. He said: “It’s been 30 years and I’m thinking, well, maybe they forgot that they don’t like me? Or, it’s just some intern that’s tasked with emailing everyone that’s ever hosted, but I don’t know what to do.”