Do he and Lorne hate each other?
I donât think so! Especially because he did interviews for some of the SNL50 docuseries that came out leading up to this (and they are fabulous, you should watch if you havenât!)
Heâs been pretty forthcoming about the horrible panic attacks he suffered while on SNL. My guess would be he didnât want to put himself in that situation.
I agree that knowing everything he's said about how debilitating his anxiety was on that show that he was never likely to show up and perform.
but i still find a few things confusing:
he could have come and just been part of the audience to support his friends who were there. but if that happened they never put the camera on him or anywhere close to him cause i was scanning the crowds.
he could have done some short recorded bits like Will Forte did, but that apparently didn't happen either.
The ONLY time he appeared in a sketch was the compilation of fake commercials and they showed the "Almost Pizza" one. And here's where it get very strange for me. his one line in that which they showed, i'm pretty positive was not his voice. Now there's no reason i can think of that SNL would purposely cut him out of everything, especially as like you said, he's been part of other anniversary content too so it doesn't look like a bad blood situation. So all signs for me are pointing to it was a choice from Bill. a choice not to be there, or take part in anyway, or to allow his content to be used beyond two 1 second shots of Stefon where he didn't talk. And that's a strange choice that i dont get, but there could be a million reasons and Bill's got his own life that i know nothing about so i expect i'll likely never know.
