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Dana Carvey Apologizes To Sharon Stone For Making Her Undress In ‘SNL’ Sketch
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Sharon Stone appeared on Dana Carvey and David Spades “Fly On The Wall” podcast talk about her 1992 gig hosting Saturday Night Live, and recalled protesters storming the stage before the show — and a certain controversial sketch.
Stone, 66, hosted SNL shortly after her iconic turn in the hit Basic Instinct, and the comedy show leaned in to her sex appeal for a controversial Airport Security Sketch.
“The comedy we did with Sharon Stone, wed literally be arrested now. That was 1992, Carvey, 68, said, noting the actress was such a good sport.
The sketch involved Stone going through airport security, with Carvey appearing as a security guard asking her to remove one item of clothing at a time. In the sketch, Stone wasn’t carrying anything, the guards just wanted to see her naked.
“I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and were convincing Sharon — her character, or whatever — to take her clothes off to go through the security thing,” Carvey said. Spade, 59, agreed the sketch was so offensive.
But Stone said that wasn’t the part of the episode that bothered her.
That was funny to me, I didnt care. I was fine being the butt of the joke, she said. Now were in such a weird and precious time. Instead, she said she was terrified when protesters stormed the stage moments before her monologue was set to open the live show.
“I came out to do the monologue live, which is super scary, and a bunch of people started storming the stage saying they were going to kill me during the opening monologue,” Stone said.
“The security that was in there froze because they never had seen anything like that happen, she said, adding that series creator Lorne Michaels personally saved my life.
Lorne started screaming at [security], What are you doing? Watching the fing show? And Lorne started beating them up and pulling them back from the stage, she said. The stage manager looked at me and said, Hold for five. So all these people were getting beat up and handcuffed in front of me as we went live.”
Six men were arrested in connection with the incident.
“If you think the monologue is scary to begin with, try doing it as people are getting handcuffed in front of you,” Stone said.
The protesters targeted Stone for her work as an AIDS activist.
No one understood at the time what was happening and they didnt know if amfAR [the Foundation for AIDS Research] could be trusted or if we were against gay people. Instead of waiting for an intelligent, informative conversation they thought, Oh lets just kill her’, Stone said.
She also said she was so not prepared for another aspect of the show, which back then seated the audience at ground level.
“As you remember, the audience wasnt up like it is now. Every time we were making a change youre really physically changing your clothes while youre running through the audience, Stone said. I honestly blacked out for half of the show.”
TMX contributed to this article.
