‘The entire writer’s room looked at me as if I had just slept with their mom...’ Schwimmer said. On Monday (January 13), the actor appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he discussed the SNL episode he hosted 30 years ago. “I was the first in the cast of Friends to be invited to host Saturday Night Live, and it was a huge honor. It was 1995, just a year after the show aired,” he prefaced.
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However, because of the sitcom’s filming schedule, Schwimmer was not able to make it to the SNL set until only two days before the live taping. “Friends, at that time, was shooting on Tuesday nights and we were shooting until sometimes 1 in the morning, and so I had to fly from LA to New York on Wednesday to get [to SNL],” he told the talk show host.
“I really didn’t get to arrive at SNL until Thursday, two days before the Saturday show.”. He added: “And when I walked into the writer’s room, the entire writer’s room looked at me as if I had just slept with their mom... They were not happy to see me and I had no idea.”.
Schwimmer said he “got through the next two days but I was kinda traumatized.”. A few years later, Schwimmer discovered that the hosts of SNL were supposed to arrive for rehearsals on Monday and not on Thursday as he did. “It wasn’t until years later that I was talking to someone else who had hosted the show and they said, ‘No no you’re supposed to show up on a Monday,’” he said. “No one told me and for years I had no idea why.”.
