Bryan Cranston reveals his disgusting 'SNL' sketch idea as host that was 'immediately shut down'
Six-time Emmy-winning actor Bryan Cranston, currently seen making elaborate basketball shots in The Phoenician Scheme, stopped by the Fly on the Wall podcast studio to gab with David Spade and Dana Carvey this week. Naturally, the conversation turned to when Cranston hosted Saturday Night Live back in 2010.
While SNL maintains a robust writing staff, the official policy is to allow, even encourage, the guest stars to pitch ideas for their appearances. (It's tough coming up with new sketches week to week, so any help is welcome, we suppose.) This does not mean, however, that these suggestions automatically get greenlit, as Cranston soon learned.
"I just wanted to do anything. I had a couple pitches for them," Cranston told the two SNL alumni. "I pitched ideas which were almost immediately shut down. I had a great pitch."
Cranston continued with this "great pitch." You be the judge:
"So: myself and a date and another couple. We can't believe we got reservations for this restaurant. It's supposed to be amazing. It's called In the Sauce, and it's like, wow. And this very snooty waiter comes in and says, 'Are you ready?' Can we see a menu? 'No. We don't give menus. We serve you food. You eat the food. You leave.' You know? It's like, oh, okay. Yes. Yes. Yes."
So far, so good. We are primed for some comedy. What's coming next?
"And they say," Cranston went on, "'It's all about the sauce.' So he puts down a crudite, and we dip it in the sauce, and it's, like, oh my god. Just amazing. Crudite is taken away. Here comes the entree. You're eating the entree. We're eating. Oh my god, this sauce is absolutely insane. We're overeating. We eat too much. We throw up."
It gets better!
"We dip the barf in the sauce. Oh my god. It's all about the sauce. It's like no matter what you're eating, as long as the sauce is good. It's like, you have a severed finger and you dip it in the sauce and it's still good."
Cranston concluded, "It didn't get past the Monday meeting," before adding, "I truncated that pitch. It goes much longer."
Heaven only knows where Cranston came up with such a repulsive idea, but it is possible he was inspired in some way by the legendary character Mr. Creosote from the 1983 film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. One could argue that this sketch is a pointed commentary about class inequality, or you could also say it was Python's attempt to make everyone in the audience as sick to their stomach as possible.
You can take a look at it below, but don't watch this at work. Honestly, don't watch this at all.
Well, with that fresh in your mind, you can now move ahead and listen to more of Bryan Cranston with the Fly on the Wall fellas by clicking the link below.
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