{"id":258140,"date":"2026-08-18T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/david-spade-used-to-actively-admit-he-was-jealous-of-saturday-night-live-co-stars\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:15:14","slug":"david-spade-used-to-actively-admit-he-was-jealous-of-saturday-night-live-co-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/david-spade-used-to-actively-admit-he-was-jealous-of-saturday-night-live-co-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"David Spade used to &#8216;actively admit&#8217; he was &#8216;jealous&#8217; of Saturday Night Live co-stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-08-18\" datetime=\"1787040914\" pubdate=\"\">18 August 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/david-spade\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,david-spade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Spade<\/a> used to regularly admit he was &#8220;jealous&#8221; of his Saturday Night Live co-stars.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">David Spade used to &#8216;actively admit&#8217; he was &#8216;jealous&#8217; of Saturday Night Live co-stars<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old stand-up comedian was open about his desire to receive more airtime on the NBC sketch comedy series, on which he featured as a writer and cast member from 1990 to 1996. <\/p>\n<p>He said on his Fly On the Wall podcast: &#8220;When you go to SNL, and then you\u2019re hearing all these whispers of like, someone\u2019s getting on [the air] more there, I would actively admit I was jealous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David has also recalled how he would praise now-Hollywood actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/adam-sandler\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,adam-sandler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Sandler<\/a> for some of his sketches. <\/p>\n<p>                      \t\t\t<!-- Dailymotion player (contact: Kutay.vardar@dailymotion.com) --><\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I\u2019d tell Adam [Sandler], &#8216;That was funny, I\u2019m so jealous,&#8217; because that\u2019s sort of like at least acknowledging something was good or makes you better to go, okay&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;SNL was more about upping my own game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, not all of David&#8217;s quips went down well.<\/p>\n<p>\nLast year, the comedian told how he spent 25 years trying to &#8220;win back&#8221; Eddie Murphy, and admitted it was &#8220;weird&#8221; having to deal with the fact the Nutty Professor star &#8220;hated&#8221; him following a joke he made on SNL which wasn&#8217;t appreciated by the actor.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking on his Fly on the Wall podcast, David reflected: &#8220;I do love Eddie Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We had some bumps in the road along the way, early on. It was weird going from being a super fan to having him hate me overnight, and to try to win him back for the last 25 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe comic noted he was doing &#8220;Weekend Update on SNL&#8221; and was &#8220;new to the show, making fun of all the celebrities&#8221; and when Eddie &#8211; who branded the comment &#8220;racist&#8221; &#8211; called him, he felt too &#8220;guilty&#8221; to defend his corner properly.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;I made fun of him and it didn&#8217;t go well, and he called me and we had it out.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Actually, he had it out. I didn&#8217;t fight back really, because I did feel a little guilty about it, and he did make some sense. I just didn&#8217;t like that because he was a hero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThings are now &#8220;all good&#8221; between the pair, and they had a chat during the SNL 50th anniversary special earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\nDavid said: &#8220;We talked a little bit and everything&#8217;s fine, and then he admitted on the show &#8211; not admitted, they just asked him about it &#8211; and he said, \u2018Yeah, we&#8217;re all good.\u2019 So we&#8217;re all good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/david-spade-used-actively-admit-jealous-saturday-night-live-stars-1449216.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 August 2026 David Spade used to regularly admit he was &#8220;jealous&#8221; of his Saturday Night Live co-stars. David Spade used to &#8216;actively admit&#8217; he was &#8216;jealous&#8217; of Saturday Night Live co-stars The 62-year-old stand-up comedian was open about his desire to receive more airtime on the NBC sketch comedy series, on which he featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1225,7107,980],"class_list":{"0":"post-258140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-adam-sandler","9":"tag-david-spade","10":"tag-eddie-murphy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}