Bill Hader Reveals Anxiety Kept Him from Participating in ‘Snl50’ Sketch

Bill Hader Was Among the Handful of Saturday Night Live ALUMNI WHO NOT ATTEEND OF THE SHOW’S 50th Anniversary Special Earlier this Year.

And Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers Tuesday Night, Hader and Fellow Snl Alum Meyers Indicated His Anxiety, Which Hader Has Been Open About Having, Was Responsible for His Absense.

“You Were Very Open and HONEST AFTER YOU LEFT SnlAbout the anxiety you have any you were were work. Late Night. “And then, for the Snl 50th [anniversary]I Think People Were Obviously at First Disappointed You We Weren’s Coming, But That Was The Reason. And I Sort of Celebrated Your Choice. ”

The Snl50 SPECIAL EVEN FEATUED A DIGITAL SHORT ABOUT The PREVALENCE OF CASTMEMBERS HAVING ANXIEY, WHICH HADER SAID HE WASSED TO Participate in.

“Andy [Samberg] Called Me and Was Like, ‘Hey, SO We’re Doing This Short About How, You Know, Anxiety, EveryBody Had Anxiety, and so is me calling you, an Dah Dah Dah,’ ‘Hader WAS LIKE, ‘I DON’T KNOW IF I WANT to DO THAT.’ He’s Like, ‘Who?’ and i’m like, ‘because i’m anxious!’ ‘

“I was like, ‘I don’t want to do it,’ ‘Hader Added, Laughing, Before Launcing Into An Impression of Samberg Trying to Get Him on Board.

Bowen Yang Ended Up Playing The ROLE MEANT FOR HADER IN THE ANXIETY SETCH.

Looking Back at His Time On SnlHader Also Marveled at How Meyers and Fellow ALUM Amy Poehler Didn’t Seem Too Anxious.

“You and [Amy] Poehler Were Just, Like, Ice in Your Veins, “He Said.“ You Guys Went Out There, And I Was, Like, Trembling, Anxious, and You Guys Wnt, I Wron, And Rement, And Reme. Something Went Wrong. OH, someting Went Wrong! ” Hader SAID, SHRUGGING.

“I was like, ‘you can just do that?!’“ He added, laughing. “I Could Just in the Middle of A Thing GO, LIKE, ‘THIS SUCKS! I’M GONNA GOOME!’ I’m like, ‘oh, man, i WISH I COLD DO ALL The TIME.

HADER TALKED OPENLY About Having Anxiety that Led to Panic Attacks Durying His Time On Snland he SPOKE OUT ABOUT IT FURTHER IN A 2022 Hollywood Reporter Cover Story.

“Anxiety is Always Fighting Those Voices in your Head Saying, ‘Here’s All The Bad Things That Are Going To Happen,’ ‘The Barry Alum Said. “Weirdly, I have a harder time with day-to-day Stuff, as Opped to Running A TV Show.”

On Late Night Tuesday, Hader Revealed that his Battle with Anxiety May have also Contributed to HIM RECENTLY HAVING SHINGLES.

HADER BROKE OUT INTO LAUGHTER WHEN MEYERS REVELED HADER RECENTLY HAD The Disease.

“Yeah from Stress,” Hader Said. “I WAS LIKE, ‘WHAT CAUSES THIS?’ And the Guy Was Like ‘Anxiety! “

Hew on to share that having shingles involved More Painful Symptoms than he anticipated including a backache and a “crazy rash.”

Hader and Meyers Agreed the Name Was Likely Part of the Issue With Why Wy they underatestimate the Disease, with Hader Suggesting It Be Called “Fire Blisters.”

“You don’t want Blisters that Feel Like they have ants Inside of them crawling out of your skin,“ Hader Said.

The pair Continued to Discussy Wathya Referred to As Hader’s “Releentless Maladies,” WHICH INCLUDED SOMAMETING HAPPENING TO HIS EYE THAT KEPT HIM FROM.

“My eye exploded,” Hader Reveeded, Laughing, Seemingly at the Absurdity. “I have vasculitis in the retina in my eyes and i lost vision in my eyes and I have to get a shot in my eyes.”

Meyers SAID HE SAW HADER’S GIRLFRIEND Ali Wong at the Awards Ceremony and She Mimed An Explosion by Her Eye to Indicate Wy Hader Wasn’t With Her.

“HE SNEEZED AND HIS EYE Exploded,” Hader Joked of Wong’s Message. “I have to get a shot in my eyes, and then and couldn’t go.”

Hader Also Talked About Being Included in Wong’s Emmy-Nominated Single Lady SPECIAL AND HER CURRENT STAND-UP SET, JOKING About How How Was Learning About Her Past Relationships in a Public Setting.