David Spade got so sick during SNL that NBC prepared rerun to air instead: ‘I’m laying on the floor sweating’

https://ew.com/david-spade-got-so-sick-during-snl-that-nbc-prepared-rerun-to-air-instead-11727808

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  1. > “They walked me to the dressing room, put me in the bathroom, I lay on the floor, and the audience is still there,” he said. “So it was the last sketch, they just wrapped, and then let everyone out, and then they’re pounding on the door going — I hear them going, ‘If he doesn’t come out, we’re gonna have to put a rerun on. We gotta tell NBC.'”

    > The comedian’s condition became so concerning that SNL boss Lorne Michaels came and stood outside Spade’s dressing room. “I’m laying on the floor sweating — I don’t know if it was food poisoning — then I started barfing, and then I just sat there in my little UPS uniform,” he recalled. “There couldn’t be more stress. Already you’re sick, and everyone including Lorne is behind the door going, ‘Are we doing this? It’s fine if we’re not, we just have to —'”

    > Spade eventually staggered to his feet. “I finally get the door and I go, ‘I mean, I can try,’ and then they go, ‘Alright, let’s pull the rerun, let’s just try it,'” he remembered. “And I started feeling a little better, and I got some food in me, and I was like, ‘I don’t know what happened.'”

  2. I think a bigger story involving Spudly is when his assistant attempted to kidnap and murder him, but getting sick on SNL is a bummer too.

  3. WHO GIVES A FUCK? Would love to go one day without a self important puff piece about SNL

  4. You would think they’d have a backup plan for if one cast member can’t make it at the last minute. I know they don’t do *that* many episodes and cast members prioritize it, but emergencies happen and they put a lot of resources into each episode for them to be scrapped because one actor is sick. 

  5. Are ratings exceptionally low or are they trying to drum up additional interest before Lorne passes the torch to someone? Just seems like there have been an excessive amount of SNL stories.

  6. Yikes. I have come down with sickness like that and you can’t control what time or where you are or when it will end. It happens.

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