Bowen Yang recalls SNL host who 'made multiple cast members cry,' because he hated their ideas

Bowen Yang has worked with dozens of Saturday Night Live hosts, after joining the show as a writer in 2018, becoming a featured played the next season and a cast member in 2019. So he's worked with dozens of hosts, but one stands out as particularly awful.

On Sunday's edition of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Yang was asked to, without naming names, reveal the worst behavior that he's seen from an SNL host. And he was quick to respond.

"This man who... this person, this host made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday during the, before the table-read, because he hated the ideas," Yang answered referring to the mid-week pitch meeting.

Even Yang specifying the host's gender doesn't do much to narrow down the possibilities, which include the likes of Woody Harrelson, Dave Chappelle, Steve Martin, Adam Driver, Jake Gyllenhaal, Austin Butler, and many others.

In June, Yang spoke out about having appeared to distance himself from Chappelle at the end scene of a January episode that both appeared on, saying that he was standing "where I always stand." Dakota Johnson was the actual host of the ep.

SNL has a long history of bawdy, egotistical backstage behavior from stars and guests.

In just one example, original cast members alleged for years that their costar, Chevy Chase, was difficult to work with. In 2018 — four decades after he'd left the show — then cast member Pete Davidson said he was a "genuinely bad, racist person."

Chase's response, in 2022, was "I don't give a crap!"

The early days of the show infamously featured drugs, too, with the cast often partying with the hosts.

Another example is Seth Green's story that, when he was 9, he was hired to appear in a sketch on the episode that Bill Murray hosted. It didn't go so well for Green, according to him.

He said on the YouTube show Good Mythical Morning in October 2022 that he upset Murray in the greenroom. He "saw me sitting on the arm of this chair and made a big fuss about me being in 'his' seat," Green said. "And I was like, 'That is absurd. I am sitting on the arm of this couch. There are several lengths of this sofa. Kindly F off.' And he was like, 'That's my chair.'"

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Green said their altercation ended with him being dangled over a trash can.

"He dropped me in the trash can, the trash can falls over," he said. "I was horrified. I ran away, hid under the table in my dressing room, and just cried."

The new season of Saturday Night Live — its 50th — begins Sept. 28 on NBC. Director Jason Reitman's movie about the behind the scenes drama, titled simply Saturday Night, comes out Oct. 11.