‘It was unbelievable,’ the actor and comedian said. Mike Myers has revealed he had an anxiety attack when he first joined Saturday Night Live because he felt intimidated by the level of talent within the cast. The actor and comedian, who was a cast member on the sketch show between 1989 and 1995, recalled feeling a sense of imposter syndrome when he met his castmates Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon.
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“Phil Hartman. I mean, Dana Carvey. [Kevin] Nealon, Jan Hooks, who I also worship. You know, it was unbelievable,” said Myers. It was Myers’ performances in character as Wayne Campbell – a fictional rock music fan who hosts a public-access TV show, Wayne’s World, from his parent’s basement – that caught the attention of former SNL writer Lorne Michaels when he debuted the character at a Second City show.
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Speaking about that performance, Myers recalled: “I did my sketch…and I came from the audience and it f***ng killed, which was unbelievable because I had only been in the show for like two seconds.”. “I mean, it was cheers, stomps and whistles. It was a jet taking off. I don’t know what happened, but the audience just went for it and loved it.”.
The comedian added that he got a call two weeks later from Michaels, who said: “I understand you do a Wayne character.”. Myers, who is Canadian, admitted that it was only years before he joined SNL that he became aware of what it was. He described seeing it on TV but “never watched it” due to it clashing with The Toronto Maple Leaf game each week.
