- Pedro Pascal said the viral Lisa from Temecula "SNL" sketch was almost cut from the show.
- He told Seth Meyers it "bombed" during dress rehearsal and they had to beg to keep it in.
- In the sketch, Ego Nwodim's character has difficulty cutting her steak at dinner.
Anyone who watched Pedro Pascal host "Saturday Night Live" on February 4 was likely laughing so hard by the end of the show that they had tears dripping down their face, and one sketch, in particular, stood out among viewers and promptly went viral online following the show: Lisa from Temecula.
In the sketch — which leans into "SNL's" sillier side of humor — Ego Nwodim plays the sister of Shayna, played by Punkie Johnson, at a birthday dinner with Shayna's friends, including Pascal, Bowen Yang, and Molly Kearny. At the dinner, Nwodim's character orders a steak "extra, extra well done" because she didn't want to get sick before going to court in the morning.
When Nwodim's Lisa tries to cut her steak, she shakes the entire dinner table violently, causing a mess of food and wine and also causing all five cast members at the table to break character and erupt into giggles.
Despite the warm reception to the skit from viewers, Pascal revealed that it was almost cut from the live show.
Speaking about his stint as host on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" on Wednesday night, Meyers asked Pascal why they were all laughing so hard during the sketch as if they didn't expect it to go the way it did.
"There was a dress rehearsal," Meyers insisted. "Was it markedly different on air?"
As it turns out, it was.
"It bombed during dress," Pascal revealed. "There was a big bone in the middle of the steak that she couldn't saw through for one, and they were just being a little tame about the table moving and it really didn't work."
Pascal said he and the other cast members begged for the sketch not to be cut from the live show.
"We said, 'Oh, no. Please don't cut it. If you really really shake the table, and you give her a steak she can saw through — which ended up in her lap — it just kinda started to happen," Pascal recalled.
He continued: "We felt the note suddenly occur. And it just — we all fell apart."
Pascal blamed Yang for leading the charge of giggles, even though, according to Pascal and Meyers, Yang "never breaks."
During the sketch, Yang notably throws his fork on his plate and bursts into laughter, seemingly not trying to hide his break in character.
Pascal said he saw Yang breaking so much and couldn't help but laugh, too.
"We were done for," Pascal said.
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