Arnold Schwarzenegger was pumped up to learn he’d inspired “Saturday Night Live” stars Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon what would change into certainly one of the late night comedy show’s most notable sketches.
“Master of Disguise” star Carvey, 68, and “Weeds” alum Nealon, 69, had a recurring skit on the late night series back within the late Nineteen Eighties, focused on two enthusiastic Austrian bodybuilders named Hans and Franz — alluding to Schwarzenegger’s nationality and iconic muscular physique.
The previous governor of California, 76, revealed recently his appreciation for the sketches — and the way they helped American viewers change into accustomed to his thick accent.
Schwarzenegger spoke with Carvey and co-host David Spade on a recent installment of the duo’s Fly on the Wall podcast, where he called the classic “SNL” bits “heaven.”
“You could have to grasp that once I first desired to get into acting, certainly one of the primary things they said was, ‘This won’t work,’” the “Terminator” star recalled.
“Nobody in America has ever made it that had an accent. Nobody could possibly be a number one man or anything like this. It’s really tough,” he sighed.
He went on: “People wish to hear someone talk like John Wayne, like Clint Eastwood or Al Pacino, those were the blokes.”
The daddy of 5 added: “Then I spotted that I needed to make the accent something, not to cover it, but to really make something of it.”
He continued to notice that the Hans and Franz skit got here along and “legitimized” his dialect, because “now there was someone that took the topic of [an] accent and had time with it.”
“To not make fun of it, but to really entertain individuals with it. I at all times said from that time on, it became far more accepted, the entire thing and really became much easier for me,” Schwarzenegger said.
Nealon and Carvey were on their first comedy tour in 1987, where they got here up with the concept for the skit.
The sketch first popped up on the thirteenth season premiere of “SNL.”
When the “Wayne’s World” star left the show in 1993, the characters were officially retired. Nonetheless, the next yr when Carvey was a guest host, Hans and Franz appeared on the segment “Weekend Update.”
A Hans and Franz film was even optioned within the early ’90s, with Schwarzenegger was set to provide. However the flick stayed in development hell and never got here to fruition.
Earlier this month, Schwarzenegger had also spoke in regards to the Hans and Franz parodies on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast.
He asked the talk show host, 60, in regards to the trashed movie and encouraged O’Brien to make it.
Schwarzenegger also spoke a few previous episode of O’Brien’s show that he found hilarious, with O’Brien, Carvey and Nealon acting out scenes from the unmade movie script.
“It was so funny,” Schwarzenegger said. “There’s no comedy movie, to be honest with you, that I actually have laughed that much [at] than simply listening to you. It was unbelievable. It was so well written and I hope they do it. I actually hope they do it. You continue to can do it.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger was pumped up to learn he’d inspired “Saturday Night Live” stars Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon what would change into certainly one of the late night comedy show’s most notable sketches.
“Master of Disguise” star Carvey, 68, and “Weeds” alum Nealon, 69, had a recurring skit on the late night series back within the late Nineteen Eighties, focused on two enthusiastic Austrian bodybuilders named Hans and Franz — alluding to Schwarzenegger’s nationality and iconic muscular physique.
The previous governor of California, 76, revealed recently his appreciation for the sketches — and the way they helped American viewers change into accustomed to his thick accent.
Schwarzenegger spoke with Carvey and co-host David Spade on a recent installment of the duo’s Fly on the Wall podcast, where he called the classic “SNL” bits “heaven.”
“You could have to grasp that once I first desired to get into acting, certainly one of the primary things they said was, ‘This won’t work,’” the “Terminator” star recalled.
“Nobody in America has ever made it that had an accent. Nobody could possibly be a number one man or anything like this. It’s really tough,” he sighed.
He went on: “People wish to hear someone talk like John Wayne, like Clint Eastwood or Al Pacino, those were the blokes.”
The daddy of 5 added: “Then I spotted that I needed to make the accent something, not to cover it, but to really make something of it.”
He continued to notice that the Hans and Franz skit got here along and “legitimized” his dialect, because “now there was someone that took the topic of [an] accent and had time with it.”
“To not make fun of it, but to really entertain individuals with it. I at all times said from that time on, it became far more accepted, the entire thing and really became much easier for me,” Schwarzenegger said.
Nealon and Carvey were on their first comedy tour in 1987, where they got here up with the concept for the skit.
The sketch first popped up on the thirteenth season premiere of “SNL.”
When the “Wayne’s World” star left the show in 1993, the characters were officially retired. Nonetheless, the next yr when Carvey was a guest host, Hans and Franz appeared on the segment “Weekend Update.”
A Hans and Franz film was even optioned within the early ’90s, with Schwarzenegger was set to provide. However the flick stayed in development hell and never got here to fruition.
Earlier this month, Schwarzenegger had also spoke in regards to the Hans and Franz parodies on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast.
He asked the talk show host, 60, in regards to the trashed movie and encouraged O’Brien to make it.
Schwarzenegger also spoke a few previous episode of O’Brien’s show that he found hilarious, with O’Brien, Carvey and Nealon acting out scenes from the unmade movie script.
“It was so funny,” Schwarzenegger said. “There’s no comedy movie, to be honest with you, that I actually have laughed that much [at] than simply listening to you. It was unbelievable. It was so well written and I hope they do it. I actually hope they do it. You continue to can do it.”
