Bowen Yang elaborates on mystery ‘Saturday Night Live’ host who made multiple ‘exhausted’ cast members cry

Bowen Yang is clarifying his comments about the “worst” host he’s worked with on “Saturday Night Live.”

One month after teasing “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” viewers about a mystery male celebrity who made multiple cast members cry, the comedian elaborated on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s podcast.

Yang, 33, claimed on Wednesday’s “Fly on the Wall” episode that his colleagues got emotional from the “environment of the place” more so than the A-lister.

Bowen Yang spoke again about the “Saturday Night Live” member who made his colleagues cry. Lauren Clements/NBC The comedian first brought up the mystery celeb on “WWHL” in August. Charles Sykes/Bravo He addressed his “benign” comment on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s podcast. Getty Images

“Imagine you stay up until  4:00 a.m. writing a sketch, and then the host is like: ‘I f–king hate this,’ you’re gonna have some [reaction],” he explained. “Your nerves are frayed.

“You’re gonna have some weird, bizarre, emotional response,” Yang continued, adding that he wasn’t “the one who cried.”

Last month, the Emmy nominee similarly said the unidentified star “hated the ideas” presented to him.

The unidentified A-lister “f–king hate[d]” the ideas cast members presented. Will Heath/NBC Yang said some cast members had a “weird, bizarre, emotional response” to this. Will Heath/NBC

Yang called the host “terrible” in the August “WWHL” appearance.

Spade, 60, commiserated with Yang, recalling how he made headlines for calling out Steven Seagal on the Bravo talk show in 2015.

The “Benchwarmers” star called Seagal, 72, “tough to work with” at the time since he allegedly “didn’t want to play along.”

He clarified that he did not cry over the host’s behavior. Will Heath/NBC Yang has worked for the NBC show since 2018. Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images

On Wednesday, Spade noted, “Everyone gets in trouble for saying something, but that’s what everyone asks, and you can only dodge it for so long! You just try to explain why they weren’t great.”

The “Rules of Engagement” alum had also “heard Paris Hilton was not great” — along with “so many other people.”

Carvey, 69, chimed in, “Some people deal with stress by lashing out and being kind of overly angry. It’s all just anxiety and fear.”

The actor started appearing on-air the following year. Charles Sykes/Bravo Spade commiserated with Yang over calling out previous “SNL” hosts. Getty Images for Vanity Fair

Yang has been apart of the NBC show since 2018, starting as a Season 44 writer before appearing on-air the following year.

In 2021, he was promoted to repertory member.

Yang also co-hosts the “Las Culturistas” podcast with Matt Rogers, which he briefly took a break from in 2023 due to suffering from “bad bouts of depersonalization.”