He was entitled to some “changes.”
Actor David Spade revealed to podcast listeners on Wednesday that he once refused to change roles with the late David Bowie in the course of the legendary entertainer’s appearance on a 1991 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”
The 59-year-old comedian recalled the interaction during his “Fly on the Wall” podcast alongside co-host Dana Carvey.
In line with “The Benchwarmers” actor the skit was purported to feature himself playing a receptionist who “stops you because he thinks they’re higher than you” while the “Labyrinth” star would play himself.
Spade claimed that he had walked into work the following morning after pitching the segment only to search out a note telling him to call the singer “as soon as possible.”
“And so I called him and he answers and it’s f- -king Bowie,” said Spade. “And he’s like, ‘This [sketch] is so f- – -ing funny. This is precisely my life and these people I see.’ And he goes, ‘One tweak: Can I play the receptionist? That’s the funnier part.’”
In line with the “Joe Dirt” actor, the pair bickered forwards and backwards with Spade refusing to present up his role.
Bowie attempted to indicate that playing himself was boring and that “everyone’s seen that.”
Spade, who claimed he desired to make the receptionist role a reoccurring character, adamantly said no despite the incontrovertible fact that Bowie identified that the sketch may not even make it on the show.
“I’m like, ‘God, how do you recognize this show this well?’” recalled Spade. “It’s so true. What if it doesn’t get on? I’m f- – -ing blowing it. He’s like, ‘It’ll get on if I do it.’”
Despite the bickering, Spade at all times maintained that Bowie was “not rude.”
Because it so happened, the skit never saw the intense lights of studio 8H.
“The remaining of the week I wasn’t within the show and I used to be like, ‘f- -k,’” he recalled.
Spade said that he managed to shelve his pride and apologized to the late rock star in the course of the episode’s final minutes.
“Hey, sorry, man, I get what was occurring and I shouldn’t have been slightly chilly about it,” the “Grown Ups” star recalls telling Bowie.
In a wierd coincidence, Spade’s sassy receptionist managed to debut in the next episode and was a reoccurring character for 2 more episodes.
