Taccone was a member of the Lonely Island trio<\/a> alongside Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer. The group produced digital shorts on SNL from 2005 to 2011 as the late night series began to incorporate the internet into their comedy, meaning the short writers interacted with the variety show\u2019s cast members \u2014 including the weekly guest hosts and musical acts.<\/p>\n \u201cIn general, I liked almost every host that came to SNL,\u201d Taccone, 49, said on Friday\u2019s episode of The Daily Beast\u2019s podcast show Obsessed<\/a>. However, he added that there was one celebrity that he \u201cwasn\u2019t super geeked on.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never said this before,\u201d Taccone confessed before revealing that he was talking about Spacey, 66, who hosted SNL for the second time in May 2006 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.<\/p>\n The \u201cI\u2019m On A Boat\u201d co-writer recalled: \u201cI did not enjoy that, and felt very uncomfortable around him.\u201d Taccone did not elaborate further.<\/p>\n Spacey, a once celebrated two-time Oscar winner, was exiled from mainstream Hollywood in 2017 <\/a>after multiple men accused him of sexual misconduct. He has consistently denied all allegations against him and maintained his innocence.<\/p>\n In 2022, the Usual Suspects actor was cleared by a jury in a $40 million civil lawsuit brought by actor Anthony Rapp,<\/a> who accused Spacey of molesting him when he was 14. Spacey was then tried in London in 2023 on nine alleged sex offense allegations from four men<\/a>, and acquitted on all counts.<\/p>\n Last month, Spacey reached civil settlements with three men out of court<\/a> over more sexual assault allegations from between 2000 and 2013.<\/p>\n Representatives for Spacey did not immediately return The Independent\u2019s request for response to Taccone\u2019s statement. <\/p>\n Taccone is not the only SNL cast member who recalled an uncomfortable experience during the House of Cards actor\u2019s hosting stint. In 2022, Tina Fey revealed at the Netflix is a Joke comedy festival in Los Angeles that Spacey had flirted with her <\/a>years before he came out as gay in response to the sexual assault allegations against him in 2017.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the kind of weird thing that used to happen to me,\u201d Fey said at the time. \u201cOne time when he was hosting SNL, at the after-party, it was late and Kevin Spacey tried to hit on me.\u201d<\/p>\n She joked that she doubted his attraction to her at the time, saying: \u201cI was like, \u2018Who is this for? Who is this little performance for?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Rape Crisis offers support for those affected by rape and sexual abuse. You can call them on 0808 802 9999 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in Scotland, and 0800 0246 991 in Northern Ireland, or visit their website at www.rapecrisis.org.uk<\/a>. If you are in the US, you can call Rainn on 800-656-HOPE (4673)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-401146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Lonely](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-464175202.jpg\")
Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone said Kevin Spacey hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ made him uncomfortable (Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Kevin](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2233043087.jpg\")
Kevin Spacey has been accused of sexual assault several times but has denied all allegations against him (Getty Images)<\/p>\n