• No one, even SNL's lighting director, goes to inform Billy Bob Thornton the place he can or can't put on a baseball cap.
• Seth Meyers recollects a face-off between longtime lighting director Phil Hymes and Thornton when Thornton hosted in 2001.
• Finally, Meyers mentioned the 2 had a civil dialog after their preliminary dust-up.

Dwell from New York, it's a Billy Bob Thornton combat!

On this week's episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, Seth Meyers recalled a tense second between the actor and longtime Saturday Evening Dwell lighting director Phil Hymes.

"Billy Bob Thornton was internet hosting and he was working his monologue carrying his baseball hat," Meyers recalled. "And Phil Hymes got here up out on the ground and mentioned to another person, 'Anyone inform him to take his hat off.'"

Apparently, Thornton overheard the comment and retorted, "Hey previous man, in case you’ve acquired one thing to say, say it to my face," in line with Meyers.

Andy Samberg, who cohosts the podcast, was well-known for his Thornton impression on the sketch present. So, he helped Meyers along with his telling of the story by imitating the Oscar winner.

Hymes served as lighting director on the present from Saturday Evening Dwell's from the present's second season in 1976 till early 2018, spending practically 42 years with the comedy hit. Meyers famous that Hymes, well-known as an irascible backstage determine, typically appreciated to remind the forged that he'd as soon as lit President John F. Kennedy within the White Home.

Meyers, who served because the present's head author from 2006 to 2014, additionally took care to emphasize that the confrontation wasn't as public as it’d sound. "Now I additionally wish to make clear Billy Bob Thornton didn’t do that in entrance of everyone," Meyers added. "He walked off stage and he went and talked to Phil Hymes, actual man to man.

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"I by no means noticed Phil do that," Meyers continued. "Phil had an actual 'I apologize' second. There was an actual like two first rate males of honor [exchange]."

Akiva Schaffer, one other member of The Lonely Island, quipped, "Simply two guys assembly at excessive midday, deciding to not combat," referencing the long-lasting Gary Cooper movie Excessive Midday.

No matter truce that Thornton and Hymes reached, it seems that Thornton acquired his method. Footage of Thornton's monologue from his time internet hosting the present on Nov. 17, 2001, makes it clear that Thornton did certainly put on a baseball cap throughout his monologue, through which he entertained questions from viewers members imitating his Sling Blade character.

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Thornton's look on season 27 of SNL stays his solely outing on the present (not counting Samberg's impressions of him).

Hymes was well-known for commenting on issues he didn't like. He earned Girl Gaga's respect after commenting on her wardrobe and, in her phrases, "telling the reality," and he reportedly practically brought on Kanye West to stroll off the present after a dispute about set items.

Hymes gained his first Emmy on the age of 95 in 2018. He died on the age of 96 in 2019.

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