Lorne Michaels Gave Bill Hader the All-Time Worst Advice on How to Deal with His Panic Attacks
If you sign into BetterHelp and see that your licensed therapist is Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels, best to close the app and try again. The guy might know how to keep a sketch comedy show on its feet for 50 seasons, but he’s definitely not qualified to help anyone through a mental health crisis.
Take the case of Bill Hader. The veteran cast member has been pretty open about his debilitating stage fright on SNL, once having a panic attack while playing Julian Assange during the live show. When an anxious Hader returned to host SNL, according to a New Yorker excerpt from the new biography Lorne, a snappy Michaels stopped by the comedian’s dressing room with some dubious advice: “Calm the fuck down. Just have fun. Jesus Christ.”
Er, that’s probably not the right approach, according to a MyTherapistOnline article titled, “Never in the History...
Take the case of Bill Hader. The veteran cast member has been pretty open about his debilitating stage fright on SNL, once having a panic attack while playing Julian Assange during the live show. When an anxious Hader returned to host SNL, according to a New Yorker excerpt from the new biography Lorne, a snappy Michaels stopped by the comedian’s dressing room with some dubious advice: “Calm the fuck down. Just have fun. Jesus Christ.”
Er, that’s probably not the right approach, according to a MyTherapistOnline article titled, “Never in the History...
- 1/15/2025
- Cracked
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