{"id":63331,"date":"2025-08-06T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63331\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:40:08","slug":"bill-hader-reveals-why-he-skipped-snl50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63331\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hader Reveals Why He Skipped \u2018SNL50\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bill-hader\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bill-hader\" data-tag=\"bill-hader\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Hader<\/a> was one of a handful of iconic Saturday Night Live stars that missed the 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHader, who was on the NBC show between 2005 and 2013, revealed on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/late-night-with-seth-meyers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-night-with-seth-meyers\" data-tag=\"late-night-with-seth-meyers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a> it was as a result of his anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMeyers said, \u201cYou were very open and honest after you left\u00a0SNL, about the anxiety you had when you were working there. Then, for the\u00a0SNL\u00a050th, I think people were obviously at first disappointed you weren\u2019t coming, but that was the reason. I sort of celebrated your choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHader revealed that Andy Samberg called him to talk him into doing a sketch about how everybody had anxiety. \u201cWhen he told me about it, I [said], \u2018I don\u2019t know if I want to do that.\u2019 He [said], \u2018Why?\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018Because I\u2019m anxious\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI was really shaky,\u201d he added before revealing that Bowen Yang took his place in the sketch. Watch the clip below. <\/p>\n<p>Hader, who was taking his three daughters around NBC\u2019s 30 Rock, and Studio 8H, where they film SNL, contrasted his approach with the approach taken by Meyers and Amy Poehler, who he said had \u201cice in your veins\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTo top it off, the Barry star revealed that he just suffered from shingles, caused as a result of anxiety.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Hader was one of a handful of iconic Saturday Night Live stars that missed the 50th anniversary.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[46943,236,88,11576],"class_list":["post-63331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bill-hader","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-late-night-with-seth-meyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}