An SNL star has admitted to being a bit jealous of his co-stars. David Spade says that he didn't like when other actors got more airtime than him.
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Speaking on his Fly On the Wall podcast, Spade discussed the show with Dana Carvey.
Spade said, "When you go to SNL, and then you're hearing all these whispers of like, someone's getting on [the air] more there, I would actively admit I was jealous. I'd tell Adam [Sandler], 'That was funny, I'm so jealous,' because that's sort of like at least acknowledging something was good or makes you better to go, okay... SNL was more about upping my own game."
Both Carvey and Spade appeared on SNL in the 1990s together. Beyond jealousy, Spade also learned the price of comedy when he offended Eddie Murphy during a sketch. He poked fun at Murphy's recent string of box office disappointments.
'SNL' Star Confesses that He Was Jealous
"I started off, safely, on the wrong foot," Spade said. "[He] didn't know me, didn't know about me, hated in one day. Chris Rock actually got on the phone with me when I had to call him, and it did not go well. It was worse than imagined."
However, Spade said that Lorne Michaels, the creator of SNL loved his sketches.
He explained, "I was getting attention like, 'You're almost getting fired.' And then Lorne going, 'Do that again.' Oh, fuck yeah, you like this? And I'm on the show? I do it again next week. The formula was make it clever. Try to make a clever joke that's not just a mean one. If it was too mean, take it out. ... It would help me then, and it kept my job."
However, Spade says he ended up being on the other end of the joke when he left SNL.
He explained, "Once I left SNL, they did a sketch about me, and I did not like it. I was like, The body's not even cold, and they're already feasting. That's where it gets tricky, where I realized that careers [are] so fleeting and so fragile."
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