SNL star says 2006 Tom Hanks track left him ‘feeling terrible’ after seeing star once more

Former Saturday Night Live star and Lonely Island band member Jorma Taccone has admitted that a song written for Tom Hanks in a 2006 skit for the show left him “feeling terrible” after running into the actor again.

Tom Hanks has hosted SNL 10 times during his career and has been a part of some of the show’s most popular sketches. However, not every skit involving the Cast Away star has turned to gold.

Although The Lonely Island have written beloved comedy songs such as “I Just Had Sex” and “I’m on a Boat”, as well as the cult film Popstar: Never Stop, Never Stopping, a 2006 digital short for SNL called “My Testicles” didn’t quite have the same success.

In a spoof of Right Said Fred’s 1991 hit, “I’m Too Sexy” Hanks and Lonely Island member Andy Samberg play a Europop duo who sing a song reminding people not to cut off their private parts. That’s about the extent of the joke and remains the only time that Hanks has worked directly with The Lonely Island.

Reflecting on the song on The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Taccone admitted: “Sometimes I feel like we let people down.” He continued: “I just saw Tommy Hanks recently and I was just immediately feeling terrible that we let him down so hard with the short.”

Before he could explain his disappointment with the song further, Samberg teased Taccone by quipping: “Hey, Jorm, did you break your foot dropping that name so hard?”