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Some hosts stumble onto the SNL stage in the most unforgettable ways, delivering moments so awkward they turn into comedic gold. From athletes to pop stars and directors, these appearances may not have been polished, but they were undeniably entertaining. Dive into some of the most cringe-worthy, yet strangely captivating, guest spots the beloved comedy show has ever seen!
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00:00Just around whatever, maybe if my fiancé saw my gorgeous makeup, he wouldn't have left.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the worst hosts that still
00:10ended up being entertaining. It's important to me to let you know
00:13that there's a lot more to Steven Seagal than the martial arts.
00:19Number 10, Justin Bieber. People like Bill Hader have mentioned this singer among a list of their
00:25least favorite hosts. Well, I gotta look, but let's just say there weren't any puppies.
00:29Oh, so you're saying there weren't sweat of puppies, there's sweat of great things?
00:34No, I'm just saying there weren't any puppies.
00:36Justin Bieber was likely too young for SNL, but his pop stardom proved undeniable in the 2000s.
00:43The comedy show invited him to an episode that's largely a cautionary tale.
00:48Thanks to cast members such as Taron Killam, Bieber's appearance goes down a bit easier.
00:53Well, I was gonna say glad, then I kinda said nice.
00:58But you said glides, which is neither!
01:02There were even absurd musical sketches that didn't air. This included one failed skit where
01:07the set almost collapsed, making this even more dangerous.
01:11And everything that could possibly go wrong in a sketch went wrong during that sketch.
01:16Immediately, I think the set almost fell on Justin Bieber.
01:20Maybe Kate McKinnon's impression was a little more accurate than we first imagined.
01:24Number 9. Paris Hilton
01:27In the 2000s, this hotel heiress became one of the defining celebrities of her time.
01:33Thank you very much. Thank you.
01:37That's hot.
01:39Welcome to SNL's Super Bowl party!
01:42This led to an SNL episode that probably doesn't rank too highly for longtime fans.
01:48Paris Hilton was best known for a personality that was either a great put-on or a shocking
01:53indictment of her own character.
01:54I'm fashion fever, Barbie.
01:57Fashion fever! How fun! How young!
02:00I am young. I love to laugh and dance and sing karaoke.
02:04Either way, you should track down as many of these awkward scenes as you can.
02:09There's even a Barbie-themed skit to make it all worse.
02:12Maya Rudolph and other cast members mentioned Hilton's diva behavior after the fact.
02:17Without much-needed comedic skills, this socialite sleepwalks through a must-see time capsule from 2005.
02:23What the hell are you doing in Switzerland?
02:26Oh, I've been coming here forever.
02:28I made it hot.
02:29Hold on a minute, hot stuff.
02:31I've been coming here forever.
02:33I'm the one who made it hot.
02:348. Charles Barkley
02:36It's not that he's so bad, but he's certainly an unusual pick for Saturday Night Live.
02:42Charles Barkley has a special ability to find the funny when it's not even there.
02:47I don't care if you're the greatest player in the world, you're riding the finest Belgian donkey in the world,
02:52unless you're your donkey or in the game mentally, the rest doesn't mean a thing.
02:58The former athlete does butt heads with the scripts, but he can also be the bright spot in sketches.
03:04His attempt at a Shaq impression is great for all the wrong reasons, falling short in entertaining fashion.
03:10I predict that Charles Barkley will gain all that weight back, and he'll be fat, and he'll star in Free
03:16Willy 2.
03:17Barkley even makes for a playful co-star to Paul Britton's quirky lord.
03:21The show throws a lot at this NBA Hall of Famer, but shockingly, the misfires end up being even funnier.
03:28I want a Holden.
03:29Okay, yeah, there you go.
03:32There he is.
03:32There we go.
03:33Ah!
03:34Ah!
03:36Ah!
03:36Ah!
03:36Ah!
03:37Number 7, Steve Forbes.
03:39Maybe SNL was just being opportunistic, but there's no real reason Steve Forbes should have ever hosted the show.
03:47I may have run for president.
03:49I may be a publishing tycoon.
03:52But just like any average Joe out there, I get frustrated when I lock my cars inside my helicopter.
03:59His brief political aspirations fell flat, and so did this appearance.
04:03Forbes is a wealthy businessman associated with the magazine of the same name,
04:08but not a comedian by any stretch.
04:11Look at him.
04:11He's got his own duplex, above-ground pool, and a sweet-tricked-up firebird in the driveway.
04:18Hey, what I wouldn't give.
04:20He didn't even have the charisma to be a politician in the 1990s.
04:24The monologue immediately makes us laugh for how out of touch it is.
04:28If that isn't enough, the guy shared an episode with the outspoken band Rage Against the Machine.
04:33This might be one of the strangest pairings in the program's history.
04:37That was weird.
04:39Tell me about it.
04:40Three weeks ago I was running for president.
04:42Now I'm on TV with a guy in a bug suit.
04:46Number 6, Tom Green.
04:48If you hire a trickster, you should expect to get tricked.
04:52Tom Green's chaotic TV persona could only be contained on his own show.
05:05When he hosted Saturday Night Live, he was riding a cultural high that included his relationship
05:10with Drew Barrymore.
05:11This episode feels like a bizarro vision of the early 2000s, where you start to question
05:16everything.
05:17Do you have anything else to say?
05:18I don't get this.
05:19I was a little late for dinner.
05:20You just don't get it, do you?
05:21I was late for dinner, okay?
05:22I was in a shaft.
05:23You just love to talk, don't you, buddy?
05:24It's an incredible glimpse into a world that doesn't exist anymore, with one wacky guide
05:30to guide us through it all.
05:31Green appears wide-eyed and goofy throughout his scenes, drawing laughs for his amazingly
05:36weird performances.
05:38Any fans of the movie Freddy Got Fingered will be right at home.
05:52Number 5, Sydney Sweeney.
05:55Starring in successful TV shows like Euphoria, Sydney Sweeney is much more suited to playing
06:00Cassie.
06:01You might have seen me in Anyone But You or Euphoria.
06:06You definitely did not see me in Madam Web.
06:09Her stint as an SNL host seemed focused on her looks.
06:13With a sketch set at Hooters, the material has some tired tropes and thin ideas.
06:18She does talk to a dog in one zany skit, paying tribute to Air Bud.
06:22Oh, that's a cool tongue.
06:25God, you're so hairy.
06:30I love that.
06:31Are you Italian?
06:32The ideas could have used a bit more polish, but then again, some of them are weird enough
06:37to warrant multiple viewings.
06:39Sweeney's more subdued demeanor competes with the stranger concept.
06:44Like oil and vinegar, the guest star and comedic scripts find themselves at odds.
06:48It was easy.
06:49I logged into my troll account at the Snatcherette and I saw we had a mutual, so I peeped her
06:54IG and he's literally on grid.
06:56The receipts are all there.
06:57Number 4, Michael Phelps.
06:59You can be a record-breaking Olympian, but that doesn't always translate to the SNL
07:04stage.
07:04See, that's a good example of a product I should not endorse.
07:08I'm looking for endorsements that make sense for someone like me.
07:12Michael Phelps mostly delivers his lines like he's doing advertisements.
07:16This works during a few select sketches, but makes other ones fall flat.
07:21Phelps does have the potential for more deadpan moments, but most of the comedy feels like
07:26a false start.
07:26Introducing the Michael Phelps diet.
07:29It's the only diet that lets you eat whatever Michael Phelps eats.
07:33And as you can tell, it works wonders for me.
07:36He shows up in another version of Will Forte's amazing locker room skits, making for one high
07:42point.
07:42We never thought we'd get a chance to see this gold medalist dance around like that.
07:47For a glimpse into the late 2000s, you might enjoy this odd throwback.
07:51Get up here, Michael!
07:53How's it feeling, Coach?
07:55Woo!
08:01Number 3.
08:03Quentin Tarantino
08:04It seems especially rare to have a director host Saturday Night Live.
08:08You got me thinking.
08:09I mean, maybe I should choreograph.
08:11I mean, look.
08:12I got the moves.
08:17Quentin Tarantino appeared in the show after the success of Pulp Fiction.
08:21But his episode revealed his weakness as a performer.
08:24You need to see his monologue to believe it.
08:26After making a reference to Bewitched, the filmmaker decides to sing a song.
08:31We have to hand it to him for going all out.
08:34I can be like an almost hug.
08:39Oh my goodness, I miss you and I want you so much.
08:43In other sketches where he references movies and celebrity, Tarantino seems to overdo it
08:49with his delivery.
08:50You realize throughout the appearance that he's much more skilled behind the camera.
08:55At a certain point, we just appreciate his upbeat energy in the face of lackluster skits.
09:00Hell!
09:01That bear was like Elvis!
09:02It's old sugar!
09:04Number 2.
09:06Wayne Gretzky
09:07The Great One is perhaps the best hockey player of all time.
09:11But his appearance on SNL doesn't work.
09:14Well, hockey is different from marketing.
09:16It's more of a sport.
09:18I mean, I practiced a lot.
09:21And my father coached me.
09:22And that helped.
09:23The show has a history of inviting athletes to try comedy for the first time.
09:28Along with having Gretzky in a musical number, the host feels completely out of his depth.
09:33It's as if he's given a different sport to play and he's been thrown into the middle of the championship
09:38game.
09:38There's also a fishing skit that puts his skills to the test.
09:41Because we don't want our coach rubbing up against our cooler, now do we?
09:47That wouldn't be very good.
09:49Now, I didn't bring along the masking tape dispenser because we're roughing it today.
09:54Whether he's doing the monologue or working opposite Phil Hartman, the star player couldn't quite figure his way out of
10:00this one.
10:01To paraphrase the legend, you miss 100% of the jokes you don't tell.
10:05I remember I was back in the hotel room and my daughter at the time was three months old and
10:09I was trying to learn the song.
10:10It was like Waikiki Hockey and I'm completely tone deaf.
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10:441. Steven Seagal
10:46If you asked various cast members from the early 1990s, you might learn that their least favorite host was Steven
10:54Seagal.
10:54Look, fellas, let's not confuse the issue here.
10:57I don't want to compare myself to these other stars.
10:59They're great and everything like that, but what I do is unique.
11:01Yop, yop, yop, yop, yop, yop, yop, yop, yop.
11:04The uber-serious man sounds like he was a bad sport.
11:08Seemingly unable to poke fun at himself, the actor helmed an unforgettable episode for all the wrong reasons.
11:14This included a sketch that even Chris Farley couldn't save.
11:18This is called Silent Killers.
11:23Is it any good?
11:26It's very informative.
11:27The performer plays a father talking to his girlfriend's date, but he has no real timing or charisma in this
11:34disaster.
11:35There was even a skit about environmentalism featuring the Above the Law star attacking Exxon executives and addressing the camera.
11:43It's no wonder that writers, cast members, and even Lorne Michaels single out Seagal as a low point.
11:49This is what happens when you pollute the planets.
11:53Did we forget another awful but hilarious SNL host?
11:57Let us know in the comments below.
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