Pete Davidson and John Mulaney used to lie to the celebrity Saturday Night Live (SNL) hosts about how good they were.
The two comics admitted that they often tried to boost the egos of their star guests by telling them that they had “crushed” their opening monologues, even though more often than not they had “tanked.”
Speaking during the Netflix is a joke Festival, John, who was a writer and appeared on the show occasionally from 2008 to 2013, admitted: “When I was 25, I used to tell Oscar-winning presenters – I wrote their monologue and said, ‘You’re going to say all that, it’s going great,’ and they tanked eight times out of 10.”
Pete laughed and admitted that he also told the host that no matter how well they performed, they “crushed it.”
John continued, “They’ll have an actor’s face. They don’t actually get it, because they’re just an actor. And they’ll be like, ‘Hey, was that good?’ And you say, ‘No! Do you have ears?’”
Pete, who was a member of the cast from 2014 to 2022, offered advice to the clueless hosts, saying: “You’re really performing for the people at home.”
John added: “Play to the camera. The audience is just there to help you, but they won’t laugh much.”
And The King of Staten Island actor Pete also lied about the composition of the live audience to make things easier for the guest hosts.
He said: ‘I always said, ‘They’re tourists. They wait outside and try to win a lottery. Half of them probably don’t even speak English.’ They do. They are big fans of the show; they camp outside.”
And John, who has returned as host SNL six times a year, he recalled a time when a “very big comedy star bombarded his own guilt,” adding, because he was very difficult in writing the monologue.
And even though the guest had been difficult, John still lied when he asked if he was naughty.
“I said, ‘It’s bad acoustics.’ It is known as one of the best microphone sound studios in the world. It used to be the home of NBC [Symphony] Orchestra
