Overview

• Hader confirmed on Late Night With Seth Meyers that anxiety, not a scheduling conflict, was the reason he skipped SNL’s 50th anniversary.
• He revealed he declined Andy Samberg’s invitation to appear in a digital short about cast anxiety, quipping “Because I’m anxious.”
• Bowen Yang stepped in to play the role Samberg created for Hader in the anxiety sketch during the SNL50 broadcast.
• He said anxiety triggered stress-induced shingles during the event, joking that appearing would have given him “double shingles.”
• He also recalled suffering a migraine aura backstage on an SNL Christmas episode, describing a sudden vision loss that forced Jason Sudeikis to guide him through a sketch.