Steven Seagal Was The WORST SNL Host Of All Time - YMH Highlight

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The Notorious Steven Seagal has managed to earn the title of worst host of SNL of all time. And boy does Al Franken have stories about Seagal. Turns out not only does he suck, he's also not too bright either.

As part of the promotion for Out for Justice, Seagal hosted Saturday Night Live. To this day, he is considered by many to be the worst host the show has ever had.

Seagal hated the sketches that had been written for them. Instead, he pitched a sketch where he would play a psychologist and cast member Victoria Jackson would portray his patient, a rape victim. The joke in Seagal’s mind was that he would try to rape his patient. When the SNL staff tried to convince Seagal that it wasn’t funny and could never get past the censors, Seagal became belligerent. Or more belligerent as the case may be.

Years later, when Nicolas Cage hosted the show, he joked that he was worried that the cast would think he was the biggest jerk ever to host the show. Lorne Michaels deadpanned, “No, that was Steven Seagal.”

Castmember Julia Sweeney recounts Seagal locking himself in his dressing room because there was a Hans and Franz sketch he didn’t like. According to Bob Odenkirk, Seagal insisted that he had to beat up the body builders. “He kept saying ‘I have never seen this show. I don’t know what you do here, but if I do your sketch I have to beat them up.'”