-We're here with Will Forte,
who is hosting "Saturday Night Live" this weekend.
Are you excited to be hosting "Saturday Night Live"?
-Oh, I'm so excited. Yeah, I'm so excited.
It's so fun to be back.
There are so many friends who are still there.
You know, most of the -- There are so many people in the crew
who were there when I was there.
-Yeah, I love everybody. -It's so fun.
A lot of new people that I am just getting to work with
for the first time in the cast and the writers, so it's just --
I'm super excited.
-It's kind of fun how "MacGruber"
brought you back to host. -Yeah.
-Because it started at "SNL." -Yeah. Whatever time.
-"MacGruber" is, like, the best.
Dude, "MacGruber" was the funniest thing,
and I go, "That was great," and then you did it again.
I go, "Oh, my gosh. It's amazing."
And then you made it into another sketch,
and then you made it into a movie, and it was unbelievable.
And, dude, Kristen Wiig is just -- you guys together.
-She's -- Kristen is the best. I mean, she is the best.
And who would have ever thought?
I mean, the -- You know, the movie did...not well.
It did -- I mean, not --
I'm being very kind to the movie by saying it did not well.
I mean, we loved it. We were proud of it.
But not a lot of people went to see it,
so it was very exciting to -- You know, there was --
It felt like a little level of redemption to be able
to come back all those years later and get to make it again.
-Why did you decide to do it again?
-I mean, from the moment that the movie did not do well
at the box office, we were like, "You know what?
Let's not let this be the last word on this.
We love it, and even if we have to come back
and make a movie with our iPhones,
we're going to do something --
we're going to do something again."
And so it took 12 years, but we got a -- you know.
That crack is crazy.
-You've got great new faces on the cast.
Laurence Fishburne. -Laurence Fishburne.
-Sam Elliott is in your show. -Yeah.
How did you convince Sam Elliott to do "MacGruber"?
-Oh, my God. I think he was on the fence and --
I think he had been -- He was considering it,
and then he was -- I think his agents pushed him
over the fence, and then I got a call from my agent saying,
"Sam wants you to call him."
And I think it was to --
You know, he just wanted to see if I was a dickhead.
Like, so I called him and somehow strung together
a ten-minute period of time where I wasn't a dickhead.
-Yeah. -And I don't know how I did it.
You know, he --
It was just amazing getting to work with him.
And Laurence Fishburne -- Man! I mean --
-Dude. Laurence Fishburne. Legend.
-Yeah.
So, Sam Elliott was there for like a week because --
You know, we kind of were able to schedule it
to get him in and out.
Laurence Fishburne was in a bunch more,
so we got to see him for a much longer period of time,
and I had my birthday while I was there,
and he got me this awesome knife.
This beautiful knife.
It's a switchblade, and the card is the --
It's this, like, very sweet card,
and then at the very end, he says, you know, something about,
"I got you this knife
because sometimes you gotta cut a [bleep]."
[ Laughter ]
And it was like -- -Oh, my God.
-It's the perfect -- It's my favorite card ever.
-It might be better than the present.
The card is unbelievable.
You have to frame that. That goes in the book.
I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Will Forte and Laurence Fishburne in "MacGruber."
Take a look.
-Thank you.
The attack on POTUS was a highly coordinated strike
using advanced TTP and E&E capabilities.
So it's likely that our enemy is ex-military.
Now, the exchange is set for 0800.
-That's 8:00 a.m. o'clock. 8 o'clock a.m.
-That's correct.
-Ante meridiem.
That's what "a.m." stands for.
-Right. -I'd always wondered
what it stood for, and so that's it.
You know, I looked it up. Yeah.
Continue.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, my gosh. Will Forte, everybody.
"MacGruber" is streaming now on Peacock.
Check him out this weekend hosting "Saturday Night Live."