Bill Hader was one of a handful of iconic Saturday Night Live stars that missed the 50th anniversary.
Hader, who was on the NBC show between 2005 and 2013, revealed on Late Night with Seth Meyers it was as a result of his anxiety.
Meyers said, “You were very open and honest after you left SNL, about the anxiety you had when you were working there. Then, for the SNL 50th, I think people were obviously at first disappointed you weren’t coming, but that was the reason. I sort of celebrated your choice.”
Hader revealed that Andy Samberg called him to talk him into doing a sketch about how everybody had anxiety. “When he told me about it, I [said], ‘I don’t know if I want to do that.’ He [said], ‘Why?’ and I’m like, ‘Because I’m anxious’.”
“I was really shaky,” he added before revealing that Bowen Yang took his place in the sketch. Watch the clip below.
Hader, who was taking his three daughters around NBC’s 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 “ice in your veins”.
To top it off, the Barry star revealed that he just suffered from shingles, caused as a result of anxiety.
