Sharon Stone has responded after Dana Carvey made an apology for the SNL skit that made Stone take off her clothes.
In a recent episode of the podcast Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade, veteran comedian Carvey took a moment to express regret over a 1992 sketch from Saturday Night Live that featured Stone.
The sketch, which occurred during Stone's hosting stint on the show following her success in Basic Instinct, has long been a topic of discussion due to its controversial nature.
Watch the sketch below:
Carvey, reflecting on the sketch titled the "Airport Security Sketch," acknowledged its inappropriateness by today's standards.
In the sketch, male airport security officers, including Carvey playing an Indian security guard, subjected Stone's character to a humiliating security check, during which she was asked to remove items of clothing.
"I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and we’re convincing Sharon, her character, or whatever, to take her clothes off to go through the security thing," Carvey expressed to Stone during the podcast, with co-host David Spade adding that the sketch was "so offensive."
Carvey emphasized that the intentions behind the sketch were not malicious but rather aimed at eliciting laughs.
"When I was doing the Indian character ... It was really me rhythmically trying to get laughs. So I just want to say that watching it - comedy needs a straight person and you were perfect in it," Carvey explained to Stone.
Stone, for her part, revealed that the sketch didn't particularly bother her at the time, saying it was common for comedy to be like that in the 1990s.
"I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony. And I think that we were all committing misdemeanors [back then] because we didn’t think there was something wrong then," she said.
"I had much bigger problems than that, you know what I mean? That was funny to me, I didn’t care," she went on. "I was fine being the butt of the joke."
In the same episode, Stone found herself being caught up in a protest during her opening monologue, as a group stormed the stage to protest her work as an AIDS activist, per NBC.
"I came out to do the monologue live, which is always super scary, and a bunch of people started storming the stage saying they were going to kill me during the opening monologue," she said.
"Lorne [Michaels] started screaming [at security], 'What are you doing? Watching the f**kin' show?' And Lorne started beating them up and pulling these people back from the stage.
"And the stage manager looked at me and went, 'Hold for five,' and I thought he meant five minutes and he meant five seconds. So all these people were getting beat up and handcuffed right in front of me as we went live…
"If you think the monologue is scary to start with, try doing it while people are saying they’re going to kill you and they’re handcuffing them while you’re doing the monologue."