Bill Hader recalls Will Forte's 'neo-Nazi' speech at Seth Meyers' wedding: 'Can't believe he f---ing said that'
"The bride's side of the family was not amused," Ted Danson recalled.
Bill Hader has fond memories of Will Forte nearly ruining Seth Meyers' wedding.
The Barry comedian recalled his Saturday Night Live castmate giving a comedically tasteless speech as a bigoted character at the Late Night host's nuptials during a conversation with Ted Danson on his podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name. Forte busted out his bigoted character Hamilton Whiteman during a toast at Meyers' wedding to Alexi Ashe.
"He looks like Paul Williams, the singer, and he's very, very right wing," Hader explained. "Like a neo-Nazi basically. He holds the microphone like this. In the sketches, he was always giving a speech, and so he stood up at Seth's wedding and gave a wedding speech."
Danson, who seemed to have heard a version of this story before, noted, "The bride's side of the family was not amused."
Hader concurred. "Not at all, because he described her as, he goes, 'I met Alexi, beautiful face, cultish legs, perfect tits,'" he recalled, laughing. "Everybody was like, 'Jesus!'"
A good chunk of the audience was understandably entertained by the stunt, however. "We all were like, well, you can hear on the audio, I'm dying laughing because I'm like, 'This dude does not care,' but you can feel everybody going, like, 'Oh my God.'" Hader said. "But the thing I remember, he ended his speech by saying, 'I will be there when Alexi gives birth to what will most undoubtedly be a homosexual baby.' And he goes, 'And I will be in the corner brimming with I told you so.'"
Hader was flabbergasted by Forte's audacity. "It was a very nice wedding in Martha's Vineyard, and he stood up and did it," he said. "It was kind of the laugh where I was terrified. I was, 'Yeah, just ballsy.'”
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The comedian admitted that the speech might not have aged flawlessly. "It is a thing, I'm sure if you watched it now, you go, 'Oh my God. I can't believe he f---ing said that,'" Hader said. "But yeah, I mean, he was very bold.”
Meyers played a clip of the speech when Forte guested on Late Night in 2015. "How does a woman of such divine, symmetrical features marry a hook-nose? But it works," Forte-as-Hamilton says in the clip.
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Meyers said that another SNL player was completely enamored with the toast-turned-roast. "The best part about that was you walked off having done that, [Andy] Samberg was getting married three weeks later," the host recalled. "He immediately ran over and said he needed you to do that at his wedding. And if you thought I got it bad…"
Listen to the full conversation between Hader and Danson above.
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