Silent Eddie

The SNL Writer Who No Longer Fears For His Job | New York Magazine

I co-wrote a sketch called “What Up With That?” We’ve done it a couple times on the show. And the third time we did it, we wanted to have Mike Tyson on it. They flew him in on Friday, and the show was on Saturday. I shook hands with him, and it was like shaking hands with a warm rock. He said, “I wanna dance.” And I said, “Okay, well, I guess maybe you can dance at the end, if you want.” During dress rehearsal, somewhere around three quarters of the way into the sketch, he just got up and danced a little crazy, and everyone applauded and enjoyed it. Afterward, I told him, “That was great! When we do it on the regular show, wait for Kenan to cue you and then get up and dance.” He said, “There’s another show? I did all that for nothing? Man! I can’t believe I smoked all that pot and got up and did that and no one even saw it!”

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