Mike Myers reminisces on ‘SNL’ sketch with Quincy Jones that never made it to air
And now, the 61-year-old is reflecting on a sketch he did with the late Quincy Jones on the variety show before he left the series in 1995.Actor Mike Myers attends the 2024 Vulture Festival Los Angeles at Nya Studios on November 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
“It was a sketch called ‘Afro Scott,’ and it was the African Scottish community putting on a late-night TV show,” said the comedian. “I was the Scottish who was born in Africa, and he was African who was born in Scotland.”Mike Myers speaks onstage at Mike Myers: Honorary Degree during New York Magazine’s Vulture Festival at NYA EAST on November 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
Myers hasn’t always been so mum when peeling back the layers of playing everyone’s favorite green ogre. In 2022, the “Wayne’s World” alum talked about how making the films became such an incredible part of his life. at the time, “and having it be that all the traditional bad guys are good guys, and all the traditional good guys are bad guys.”
“And I realized it’s a dramatic role. I mean halfway through I went, ‘There’s an emotional center here,'” continued Myers.Shrek is nervously introduced to his in-laws, the king and queen of Far Far Away, in DreamWorks Pictures’ “Shrek 2.” “You know the old joke, ‘I wouldn’t want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member.’ I have always felt that way,” he said. “The concept of going from a self-loathing ogre to a self-accepting ogre was meaningful to me.
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