Today’s edition of “Celebrities, They’re Just Like Us” features Kate McKinnon. Kate appeared on Thursday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. During her interview, Drew had Kate’s former SNL and Ghostbusters co-star Leslie Jones Zoom in for the “Final Five” segment to do a bit where she asked Kate a bunch of questions. One of the questions, which I can’t believe no one has ever asked Kate before, was, “What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done on set?”
After asking, Leslie sits back and gives Kate an all-knowing look that basically went, “Oh I know an embarrassing thing you did.” After sighing, Kate responds with a story about how she was doing a scene in Ghostbusters with Melissa McCarthy and Kristin Wiig when she let a loud fart slip out. It caught everyone so off-guard that they had to stop filming! Hahaha, oh man.
On this morning’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, host Drew Barrymore invited Saturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones to virtually ask her former co-star a series of questions in the “Final Five” segment. However, McKinnon — who starred on SNL from 2012 to 2022 — seemed to clam up when Jones asked her to name the most embarrassing thing she had ever done on set.
“Should I say it?” McKinnon contemplated, before finally adding, “It was on the set of Ghostbusters. I was sitting between Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig. They were rolling and I farted.”
“It was audible,” she continued. “And everyone had to stop filming because everyone was so surprised — so surprised — that I had let it happen.”
McKinnon isn’t the only actor to come out with an embarrassing farting story this week. Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld revealed on the latest episode of Kelly Ripa‘s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast that the entire set had to be evacuated “for about three hours” after Will Smith farted.
The director explained that Smith and co-star Tommy Lee Jones had to be “hermetically sealed” in a pod that was being used for the car in one action sequence. However, Smith allegedly let one loose while they were filming.
“Will Smith is a farter,” Sonnenfeld said, per Variety. “It’s just some people are. And you really don’t want to be inside a very small hermetically sealed space with a Will Smith fart. You don’t even want to be sitting next to him at the Disney ranch.”
He added, “We evacuated the stage for about three hours. And that’s incredible. No, he’s, you know, a lovely guy. Just, he farts. Some do, some don’t.”
This is so relatable! At least she was among friends, haha. We have all been there, done that, right? I think we all try to hold it in or do that thing where you let whoever you’re with go ahead of you or you move a few feet away in hopes of mitigating any damage, but sometimes, you just can’t help it! The worst is when you’re in a gym class and are not as in control. That happened to me once when I was taking a mat pilates class and it just came on out. I was like, “Okay, Rosie, don’t look around, you don’t want to know if anyone heard that, it’s allll good. Just pray it doesn’t smell.”
On the flip side, my family and I were on a cross-country flight to San Diego recently, and there was someone seated around us that basically passed gas almost non-stop from our layover in Nashville until we landed at SAN. So which is the worse thing to happen in public – a harmless, loud fart that you can’t really deny was you or a Silent But Deadly one that makes everyone in your vicinity start side-eyeing each other to see who dealt it?
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A has the window seat, B has the middle seat and C is on the aisle. A dude farted so frequently and with such toxic results that gas masks would have been appropriately for those in the surrounding area. A is not a person to take anything from anyone at anytime, and she was true to form on this day. B and C partially blocked the view of her antics, holding her nose, waving her hand and audibly gagging, but some passengers surely saw it.
B’s great when she is on your side, but a vicious enemy, even in protection of the olfactory comfort of those in her vicinity.
The older I get……..
I really don’t know how to break this to the youths, but there comes a point where your body doesn’t ask permission before it farts.
My Mom is the most prim and proper person I know IRL, and she would rather stay home now than risk it in certain situations. It’s sad.
I could have done without these stories. Yes it happens, but why talk about it?
Not every thought needs to spoken for clicks or entertainment.
Then don’t read them. Poking fun at oneself is a great attribute.
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I got on an empty elevator recently and it smelled like farts. It was bad! Of course, on the next floor a complete stranger gets on and I told them it wasn’t me, just so you know 😂. So awkward. We rode a few floors in silence until I got of in my floor.
Ooh…crop dusting the elevator is beyond rude.
I had a young woman working for me for a while who had Will Smith’s problem. They were silent and she’d never let on that she passed gas – she would just continue conversation with you like normal, but it only ever happened when she was around so it was obviously her. What an embarrassing problem to have.
My friends nicknamed me “JenniFart” for good reason.
🙂 I’m an archaeologist who frequently worked in the field alone, so got used to being able to pass gas (burps & f*rts) with abandon (big Diet Pepsi drinker here). Embarrassed myself a time or two on those occasions when I had somebody else in the field with me.
“Some do, some don’t?” Is this true? Is it like the asparagus pee or cilantro-tastes-like-soap thing where only a portion of the population has the gene? I’ve always assumed it was more like “Everybody Poops!”
I would imagine it’s all part of the digestion process, so everyone has the capacity at some point. (OK, just googled, and the answer is, yes!, but some more than others).