Glen Powell used his Saturday Night time Reside debut to settle a four-year-old rating with a UPS driver.
The Chad Powers actor, 37, revealed throughout his monologue on Saturday, November 15, that he was initially presupposed to make his SNL internet hosting debut in December 2021 to advertise High Gun: Maverick. Sadly, the reserving was cancelled when the High Gun sequel was delayed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic — and Paul Rudd was introduced in to host that yr’s SNL Christmas episode as an alternative.
On the time, Powell was particularly disillusioned to have misplaced the Saturday Night time Reside internet hosting gig as a result of he’d already informed a UPS driver about it.
“Once I obtained the decision [to host SNL], I used to be on a porch with my household and we simply all misplaced our minds,” Powell remembered. “We had been leaping up and down, celebrating. A UPS driver occurred to be delivering a package deal at that very same second.”
Powell inspired the supply driver to “tune in” for the Christmas episode and even took a selfie with him to have fun.
“My dream obtained taken away,” the actor defined. “High Gun obtained delayed due to COVID so SNL needed to take their provide again. [Producer] Lorne Michaels known as me and mentioned — these are his phrases — ‘With out High Gun, nobody will know who the F you might be!’”
He admitted that it bothered him for the previous 4 years that “this UPS driver was simply going round saying Glen Powell is a liar.” When SNL lastly rebooked Powell to host the present, the actor enlisted his sisters to assist him discover the UPS driver.
“My sisters tracked him down as a result of the ladies in my household are terrifying,” he confirmed. “They discovered the cell variety of this UPS man. His title is Mitch. So, to show to Mitch that I’m not a liar, I flew him all the way in which to New York — [in] coach as a result of I don’t understand how Working Man goes to do but. … He thought it was a rip-off however he nonetheless got here!”
Glenn Powell takes a selfie with Mitch on ‘Saturday Night time Reside’ Courtesy YouTube/NBC
The digital camera then reduce to Mitch within the entrance row of Studio 8H, as Powell requested the viewers to “give it up for Mitch the UPS man.” He then introduced Mitch on stage to recreate their unique selfie to convey their story “full circle.”
“If I’ve discovered something, it’s that the most effective issues in life don’t occur in a single day,” Powell informed viewers. “And nobody is aware of that higher than UPS.”
Prior to creating his debut on the sketch comedy sequence, Powell revealed to Folks that it was a lifelong dream to seem on Saturday Night time Reside.
“I’m so excited,” Powell. “Internet hosting SNL has been a factor I’ve wished to do my complete life.”
He continued, “It’s a extremely great second when your childhood goals get to return true. I’ve been ready to be on that stage for so long as I can keep in mind.”
Saturday’s episode additionally noticed Powell group up with former SNL forged member Will Forte for a brand new sequence of MacGruber sketches, plus musical visitor Olivia Dean carried out her hits “Man I Want” and “Let Alone the One You Love.”
Saturday Night time Reside’s subsequent new episode airs Saturday, December 6, on NBC at 11:30p.m. ET with visitor host Melissa McCarthy and musical visitor Dijon. Basic episodes can be found to look at anytime on Peacock.
