Amy Poehler and Jason Bateman shared harrowing stories about working with a chimpanzee named Mikey on Saturday Night Live. Both recounted unsettling incidents, with Bateman describing a near-attack and Poehler detailing a stressful situation during a sketch. The article also includes news about a pizza shop closing due to mall structural issues, a woman hospitalized after being pinned between cars, and a pickup truck crashing into a home.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 01: Amy Poehler attends the 85th Annual Peabody Awards at Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel on June 01, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 14: Amy Poehler attends SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert at Radio City Music Hall on February 14, 2025 in New York City.
The “Parks and Recreation” star recounted a terrifying incident from her time on “SNL” when she had to work with a chimpanzee, named Mikey, on set. "One time I was doing a sketch where I think Jason Bateman was the host and there was a monkey in the sketch...” she recalled. "I don't like them. It's too stressful for me. And it was a young chimpanzee.” She continued, "I walked past the chimpanzee and it reached out and grabbed me by the wrist and wouldn't let go in the middle of a quick change. I think it was the blonde hair or my vibe. And I started screaming. And chimpanzees are very strong. I couldn't get it to let go of me."BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 01: Amy Poehler attends the 85th Annual Peabody Awards at Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel on June 01, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Amy made a brief appearance as Sharon Stone in 2005 sketch “Monkeys Throwing Poop at Celebrities,” which featured Jason Bateman as an eccentric TV host who tricked Sean Connery into sitting for an interview which ended with a chimp throwing excrement at him. And when he returned to host SNL in 2020, the “Ozark” star recalled how Mikey "tried to kill" him and bit his face. He said, "Things were so loose that at the end of the show, at goodnights, the monkey was allowed to take a bow with us up here.” "We're all hugging, we're saying goodnight, the credits are rolling, and then the monkey tried to kill me,” he said. “Truly, I bent down to say, 'Good job' to the monkey. You know, bein' nice. I'm a nice fella. But not the chimp. The chimp unhinges his jaw, he flashes the teeth, and he tries to bite my entire nose off.” Bateman continued, "Apparently this is a thing with chimps, I guess. They hate that humans have faces, and they wanna remove them. I don't know. Maybe he got a good look at this nose and thought I wasn't gonna miss half of it." But Jason was stunned to learn the chimp "wanted to apologize" afterwards and seemed to show genuine remorse. "I survived, and after the show, I was told by the animal handlers that Mikey, the monkey, wanted to apologize, truly. My first thought was that this is a trap, he wants more, he's still snacky. But I decided that everyone deserves a second chance." LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 05: Jason Bateman attends the premiere of Netflix's "Carry On" at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on December 05, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Of visiting Mikey in his dressing room after the show, he added, "He's looking very ashamed of himself, and honest to God, he shuffles over to me, puts his hand up on my shoulder, as if to say, 'I'm sorry.' It was a very, very beautiful moment. It was a connection between man and nature that I will never, ever, ever forget."He then jokingly added, "The monkey was destroyed later that night. It was my choice. Lessons have to be learned. But I would like to think that if he was here with us tonight to see me host 15 years later, he would probably rip my nuts off.”A family-owned pizza shop in the North Hanover Mall will have to pack up 50 years of memories after the mall was condemned due to a collapsing wall.Italian Village Pizza Restaurant said thankfully nobody was inside the business when the car came crashing into the building around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.Woman hospitalized after being pinned between cars at Manheim Auto Auction A woman was hospitalized Tuesday morning after being pinned between two cars at the Manheim Auto Auction in Penn Township.Officers are on scene investigating a crash that led to a pickup truck slamming into a Cleona home Wednesday afternoon.Emergency dispatchers said the crash happ
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