Dana Carvey has publicly apologised to Sharon Stone for an "offensive" Saturday Night Live sketch that aired in 1992.
In the sketch, titled Airport Security Sketch, Carvey plays an Indian airport security officer who orders Stone to undress after buzzes going through the metal detector.
Stone is eventually left wearing just a bra and a skirt.
It is unthinkable that such a sketch would be aired today, and Carvey knows it was problematic.
“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,” he said on the Fly on the Wall podcast, adding: “It’s so 1992, you know, it’s from another era.
“When I was doing the Indian character… there was no malice in it. 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. You were completely sincere and you made us funny.”
Sharon Stone responds to SNL apology
For her part, Stone doesn't have any ill-will to Carvey and SNL and realises it was a different time.
“I know the difference between a misdemeanour and a felony,” she said on the podcast episode.
“And I think that we were all committing misdemeanours (back then) because we didn’t think there was something wrong then. We didn’t have this sense. I had much bigger problems than that, you know what I mean? That was funny to me, I didn’t care.
"I was fine being the butt of the joke.”
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