‘SNL’ Star Breaks His Silence

This seems like a too flimsy experience to build a book around.

Ah, some creative non-fiction in the pipeline...

It happens.

"Breaks" his silence. Get it?

So he broke his neck, and no one remembers it happening? Can someone really break their neck and it not be a big deal? You know, pain, yelling, and a trip to the hospital.

Apparently, some injuries don't develop right away. From a blog:

HOW I Didn't know I had a Broken Neck for 6 Months.

He looks a bit like Mike Myers

There is more that is fishy than him saying he didn't know he'd broken his neck.

His story about telling producers doesn't seem to add up. And where are the receipts for NBC paying for surgeries?

He should have said he injured his complexion on the show.

I could see it happening in the course of doing physical comedy. Chevy Chase damaged his back from all the fake falls he did.

He gives me sad clown vibes.

A comment from OP's article:

it’s really sad that not even Chris’s agent or manager mentioned workers’ comp; there is still that stigma if an injured worker applies for workers comp they will be placed on the Do Not Hire List. It’s bullshit and exactly what the production and payroll companies bank on. I know of what I speak since I personally have two claims for future medical. I have been hired since both accidents and no one (producers/studios) is the wiser.

R11 Perhaps. Darrell Hammond is probably the saddest though. He's got a lot of problems and was raised by a very abusive mother. Hammond is a very good comedic actor though, his Trump was spot-on .

He didn't do it right

Chris Kattan alleges Lorne Michael urged him to sleep with Amy Heckerling in order to get Night at the Roxbury made.  Can't wait to hear what Heckerling and Michaels has to say about this.

R15 Someone colors his own hair over a kitchen sink.

That a toupee Rose, look at his damn eyebrows

As weird as it sounds I kind of believe him.

Remember Lorne's reaction to Harvey Weinstein? "Its a New York thing."

[quote]Chevy Chase damaged his back from all the fake falls he did.

They weren’t fake. That’s why I’m such an insufferable asshole to this very day.

Like Chase, Kattan was probably stoned on painkillers during the fall. Which is why he didn’t know it was broken. I believe him. Most with painkiller problems got into the opioids through real pain. Chase was an opioid addict and fell as well and also hurt his neck.

The has-been life has gotten to him, he's spazing out. He'll probably be institutionalized by the end of the year.

[quote]Chase was an opioid addict

Just not enough of one.

[quote]The has-been life has gotten to him, he's spazing out.

He’s NOT a has-been. Why he was just recently on Dancing With The Stars! So he’s a star! It’s right there in the title.

He managed to get a Best Of which is pretty impressive.

How did Jan Hooks never get a best of compilation?

I enjoyed him on SNL though maybe, like Dana Carvey, success outside of sketch comedy wasn't really possible.

Kattan was recently promoting this book on his "good friend" Jimmy Fallon's show and his behavior was a little..... off. There's probably a lot of serious shit going on in his life. The closet can do that to a person.

Generally speaking, if someone breaks his neck, he doesn't just have a hunch that it happened. N'est-ce pas?

Not if they are already on painkillers. I slipped once getting out of the shower and really damaged my hip. I didn’t know it for years until I stopped the painkillers.

Amy Heckerling just HAD to get a piece of this. Who can blame her.

Will Ferrell couldn't throw him a bone?

Pocket gay?

But if you broke your neck, pain killers or not, wouldn't your head fall off?

[quote] Can someone really break their neck and it not be a big deal? You

Buster Keaton broke his neck during filming of "Sherlock Jr." A gag-stunt in which rushing water from a tower by a railroad pushed his head onto the rails. He had a headache for days afterward, but no notion his neck had been fractured until decades later.

Wasn't he a notorious cokehead when he was on the show? How does he remember anything from those days?

When I was in College some guys were walking home from the bars one night and stopped in a yard to jump on a trampoline - one of the guys fell and as it turned out he broke his neck. He had no idea at the time being drunk - but in the very early morning woke in excruciating pain and asked his room mates to take him to the Hospital. I remember thinking it was so weird - and he was fortunate it did not kill him when it happened - and he did not end up paralyzed. Being drunk probably actually helped him. But can you imagine? So I believe this story.

Druggie!!

He could have had evidence of a hairline fracture and called it a broken neck.

I broke my neck in 1971 when I fell out of a window. I was drunk, but there was no question that the neck was broken because I couldn't raise my head from a prone position. X-rays showed that the bones of several cervical vertebrae were shattered and it was repaired by a neurosurgeon who took some bone from my hip and then fused it to my cervical vertebrae with wire. When my neck is x-rayed, it looks like I swallowed a necklace that is stuck in my throat. The back of my neck has a six-inch long scar that looks like a zipper.

He’s been outed as having a serious drug addiction...this is a cash grab.

was it from doing this?

I heard it happened when he went down on Jennifer Coolidge.

He stood behind me in line at Rite Aid once. He kept looking like he was about to talk to me. He's very short and perhaps the most barrel chested person I've ever seen. Strange skin, too. I liked him while he was on SNL, but his presence in real life is as unnerving as most of his characters.

Isn’t he allegedly poz?

Buster Keaton broke his neck during filming of a scene where he gets doused by water coming out of a large train watering tank, and he didn't realize it for weeks, if I recall. I can definitely see this happening, just in general, and if they really paid for some surgeries then they must have known they had some liability.