David Spade Declined David Bowie’s Proposal For Role Swap In ‘Saturday Night Live Sketch’
etcanada.comDavid Spade refused Ziggy Stardust’s personal request! David Bowie reportedly asked Spade if they could switch parts in a “Saturday Night Live” comedy, but the Joe Dirt actor refused to give up the funnier character, according to Spade on the most recent episode of Fly on the Wall, his podcast with Dana Carvey (recorded before to the SAG-AFTRA strike). READ MORE: David Spade’s Netflix Standup Trailer Is ‘Nothing Personal’ The former SNL cast member recounted that he had written a comedy for a Bowie-and-Tin Machine episode that was scheduled to air on November 23, 1991 and was hosted by an 11-year-old Macaulay Culkin.
In Spade’s story, Bowie would appear as a receptionist who “stops you because he thinks they’re better than you” and play a cameo role.
Although the iconic singer was not present at the meeting when the design was proposed, Spade received a note the next morning telling him to phone Bowie at his hotel “as soon as possible.” “And so I called him and he answers and it’s f—ing Bowie,” Spade said. “And he’s like, ‘This [sketch] is so f—ing funny.
This is exactly my life and these people I see.’ And he goes, ‘One tweak: Can I play the receptionist? That’s the funnier part.'” Bowie, according to Spade, said that portraying oneself was tedious since “everyone’s seen that.” Instead, he proposed that Spade should play Bowie and he should play the receptionist.
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