Sunday, July 11, 2021

Jeremy Irons & Bob Odenkirk: A "Saturday Night Live" Memory

On March 23, 1991, two days before he won the Best Actor Oscar for the movie Reversal of Fortune, Jeremy Irons hosted Saturday Night Live and performed this wild monologue: 


Irons has said in interviews that hosting SNL was one of the most terrifying things he ever did -- which he why he's probably never hosted it since then. 

Almost exactly thirty-years later, the man behind the sketch, the man who wrote it, then-anonymous comedy-scribe and now current Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk told the story behind this monologue, and how Irons originally didn't want to do it and yelled at him:


Great story! The story behind the scenes is always more interesting than the scene itself. 

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