Sharon Stone appeared on Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast this week, where she reflected on her appearance in 1992 Saturday night live. The actress hosted the late night sketch show for promotion Basic Instinct and some of the skits were themed around the actress taking her clothes off.
In the podcast, Carvey acknowledged that Stone “was such a good sport,” adding that “the comedy we did in 1992 with Sharon Stone, we would literally be arrested now.”
One sketch in particular was the “Airport Security Plan”, in which male airport security officers made the actress strip her clothes each time to check if she was carrying anything dangerous. Carvey played an Indian security guard, who eventually began filming her after removing her shirt.
“I want to publicly apologize for the security sketch where I was playing an Indian and we get Sharon, her character or whatever, to take off her clothes to go through security,” Carvey said. Spade added that it was “so offensive.” Carvey continued, “It's so 1992, you know. It's from another era.”
“I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony, and I think we've all committed misdemeanors [back then] because then we didn't think anything was wrong,” Stone replied. “We didn't have that feeling. That was funny to me, I didn't care. I was fine being the joke.”
He added, “Now we are in such a strange and precious time. People have spent a lot of time alone. People don't know how to be funny and intimate and none of that with each other. Everyone is so afraid and putting such barriers around everything that people can't be normal with each other anymore. He has lost all reason.”
Carvey also considered playing an Indian character, saying, “there was no malice in it.” “I was really just rhythmically trying to laugh,” he explained. “So I just want to say that watching it — comedy needs a straight person and you were perfect in it. You were completely honest and made us laugh.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Stone talked about her SNL monologue, which he described as “super scary.” She reflected on how protesters stormed the stage at Studio 8H right before the show aired, leading to the arrests of six people apparently upset about her work as an AIDS activist.
“I came out to do the monologue live, which is always very scary, and a lot of people started storming the stage saying they were going to kill me during the opening monologue,” Stone recalls. “The security that is always there froze because they had never seen anything like this happen. Lorne started screaming [security], 'What are you doing? Are you watching the fucking show?' And Lorne started hitting them and pulling them backstage. The stage manager looked at me and said, “Hold on for five.” All these people were being beaten and handcuffed in front of me as we were going live.”
“If you think the monologue is scary at first, try doing it as people are handcuffed in front of you,” Stone said, adding, “I honestly was able to halfway through the show.”
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