Dana Carvey apologizes to Sharon Stone for offensive ‘SNL’ sketch

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By Michael Starr

It’s never too late to ask for forgiveness.

Dana Carvey, 68, apologized to Sharon Stone for a 1992 “Saturday Night Live” skit in which she took off her clothes.

Stone, 66, was a guest on the podcast. “Fly on the wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade” when Carvey mentioned the sketch, which occurred when Stone hosted “SNL” following his hit movie “Basic Instinct.”

Carvey said Stone “was a good sport” because “in the comedy we did in 1992 with Sharon Stone, we would literally get arrested now.”

The skit in question was called “Airport Security Sketch,” in which male airport security officers, including Carvey playing an Indian security guard, had Stone remove one article of clothing at a time, to see if he was wearing something dangerous with it. .

“I want to publicly apologize for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and we’re convincing Sharon, her character or whatever, to take off her clothes to go through security,” he told her. Carvey to Stone, as Spade added. that he was “very offensive.”

Carvey cited the year of the sketch, 1992, as “from another era,” while the “Sliver” actress chimed in saying that it didn’t really bother her at the time.

“I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony,” he said. “And I think we were all committing misdemeanors (back then) because we didn’t think there was anything wrong at the time. We didn’t have this sense,” he said.

“I had a lot bigger problems than that, you know what I mean? That was funny to me, I didn’t care,” she continued. “He was fine with being the butt of the joke.”

Carvey told Stone that there was “no malice intention” in the sketch.

“When I was doing the Indian character… It was actually me rhythmically trying to make people laugh. So I just want to say that to watch it, comedy needs a straight person and you were perfect in it,” Carvey noted.

“You were completely sincere and made us funny.”

Stone added that he harbored no hard feelings, citing the social norms of ’90s comedy compared to today’s climate.

“We are in such a strange and precious time now because people have spent so much time alone,” she said. “People don’t know how to be fun and intimate or any of that stuff with each other.

“And everyone is so afraid of putting such barriers around everything that people can’t be normal with each other anymore. “He has lost all sense of reason.”

Stone also talked about his opening monologue on that 1992 “SNL” episode, saying it was “very scary” when some protesters came on stage right before the show aired live. (Six people were arrested; they were protesting Stone’s work as an AIDS activist.)

He added that “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels “personally saved my life.”

“I came out to do the monologue live, which is always very scary, and a group of people started storming the stage saying they were going to kill me during the opening monologue,” Stone recalled.

“The security that is always there froze because they had never seen anything like this happen.

“Lorne started yelling (at security), ‘What are you doing? Watching the damn show? And Lorne started hitting them and kicking those people off the stage. And the stage manager looked at me and said, “Wait five,” and I thought he meant five minutes and five seconds. So all these people were being beaten and handcuffed right in front of me while we were live…

“First of all, if you think the monologue is scary, try doing it while people are saying they’re going to kill you and they’re being handcuffed while you’re doing the monologue.”