It’s never too late to say you’re sorry. Dana Carvey , 68, has apologized to Sharon Stone for a 1992 “Saturday Night Live” skit in which she took her clothes off. Stone, 66, was a guest on the podcast “Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade” when Carvey brought up the sketch, which occurred when Stone hosted “SNL” in the wake of her hit movie “Basic Instinct.” Carvey said Stone “was such a good sport” because “the
comedy we did in 1992 with Sharon Stone, we would literally be arrested now.” The skit in question was called the “Airport Security Sketch,” in which male airport security officers, including Carvey playing an Indian security guard, had Stone remove one item of clothing at a time — to see if she was carrying anything dangerous on her person. “I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and we’re convincing Sharon, her character, or whatever, to take her clothes off to go through the security thing,” Carvey told Stone — as Spade added that it was “so offensive.” Carvey cited the year of the sketch, 1992, as being “from another era,” while the “Sliver”
Actress chimed in that it didn’t really bother her at the time. “I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony,” she said. “And I think that we were all committing misdemeanors [back then] because we didn’t think there was something wrong then. We didn’t have this sense,” she said. “I had much bigger problems than that, you know what I mean? That was funny to me, I didn’t care,” she went on. “I was fine being the butt of the joke.” Carvey told Stone there was “no malice” intended in the sketch. “When I was doing the Indian character … It was really me rhythmically trying to get laughs. So I just want to say that watching it — comedy needs a straight person and you were perfect in it,” Carvey noted. “You were completely sincere and you made us funny.” Stone added that she harbored no ill feelings, citing the societal norms of 1990s comedy as compared to today’s climate. “Now we’re in such a weird and precious time because people have spent too much time alone,” she said. “People don’t know how to be funny and intimate and any of these things with each other. “And everyone is so afraid that they’re putting up such barriers around everything that people can’t be normal with each other anymore. It’s lost all sense of reason.” Stone also talked about her opening monologue in that 1992 “SNL” episode, saying it was “super scary” when some
protesters rushed the stage right before the show was set to air live. (Six people were arrested; they were protesting Stone’s work as an AIDS activist.) She added that “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels “personally saved my life.” “I came out to do the monologue live, which is always super scary, and a bunch of people started storming the stage saying they were going to kill me during the opening monologue,” Stone recalled. “The security that’s always in there froze ’cause they’d never seen anything like that happen. “Lorne started screaming [at security], ‘What are you doing? Watching the f–kin’ show?’ And Lorne started beating them up and pulling these people back from the stage. And the stage manager looked at me and went, ‘Hold for five,’ and I thought he meant five minutes and he meant five seconds. So all these people were getting beat up and handcuffed right in front of me as we went live … “If you think the monologue is scary to start with, try doing it while people are saying they’re going to kill you and they’re handcuffing them while you’re doing the monologue.”