Adrien Brody's 2003 Jamaican impression on SNL has become the stuff of legend, with many claiming it was so bad he was banned from the show. We explore the truth behind the story, separating fact from fiction.
One of the rumored bans on Saturday Night Live is Adrien Brody , who made a real faux pas in 2003 by doing an uncomfortable Jamaican impression (complete with a dreadlocks wig) to introduce musical guest Sean Paul. In legend and rumor, the story has become that Brody went off-script for this moment, surprising Lorne Michaels and the crew with his terrible Patois. But as is so often the case, the legend doesn’t quite match up to reality.
The costume department provided him with the wig to do his ill-advised thing. “I think Lorne wasn’t happy with me embellishing a bit, but they allowed me to,” he says. In complete fairness to Brody, it’s understandable that he thought a bit of improvisation (a bad bit of improv, but improv nonetheless) would be welcome on a comedy show. But Michaels is notoriously anti-improv, because SNL is a pretty precise show. “Every line, every bit of dialogue has a camera cut attached to it,” he explained. Despite the slight miscalculation about “embellishing,” the bit seems to have gone more or less how it was planned. And as for the story he was banned from the show for it, reports that the rumor “to my knowledge is not true.” However, “I also have never been invited back on,” he says with a laugh, “So I don’t know what to tell you.”Brody recalls that “They were all literally agape from me pitching,” but was their shock that he was pitching things, or from the quality of those pitches? Based on his pitch that, Brody said he’d like to host again: “I had a great time.” He might’ve been the only one
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