‘I Think I’m The Only Person In History To Turn Down Saturday Night Live.’ Frankie Muniz On The (Adorable) Amanda Bynes-Related Reason He Said No

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These days, Frankie Muniz is balancing his racecar driving career with the Malcolm in the Middle revival on the 2026 TV schedule. Back within the early 2000s, he additionally had quite a bit to steadiness, and he could not say sure to every thing. Case in level, he was requested to host Saturday Night Live in 2000; nevertheless, he ended up saying no for an (lovely) Amanda Bynes-related cause.

Frankie Muniz instructed People about getting the thrilling alternative to co-host Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards in 2000. As a toddler actor, who would not need the prospect to get slimed and share the rostrum along with his co-host, Amanda Bynes? However, the Agent Cody Banks star recalled one other thrilling alternative he was provided that I’d assume most would not flip down:

I bear in mind my mother getting a name perhaps a month earlier than and he or she’s freaking out on the telephone. She’s all excited. And she got here down and he or she was like, ‘You simply bought requested to host Saturday Night Live!’ And I’m like, ‘What’s that?’ I did not actually know, proper? I used to be a child. And she was like, ‘It’s a giant deal! It’s this cool factor!’

What an honor! Leading the cast of Malcolm in the Middle gave the leisure world an opportunity to see Frankie Muniz’s comedy chops, and getting requested to host SNL clearly means NBC has religion that the kid star may carry an episode of the beloved stay present. And to be among the many biggest stars of the sketch series and performing stay from New York is iconic.

However, as a lot of a profession milestone SNL would have been for the Racing Stripes actor, there was one roadblock that bought in the best way of that:

I am going, ‘What’s the date?’ And it was the identical date as I used to be imagined to host the Kids’ Choice Awards. And I used to be like, ‘Nope, not doing it.’ I used to be like, ‘I’m a person of precept. I dedicated to Nickelodeon. I’m going to co-host it. They’ve been promoting it. I can not allow them to down.’

Aww, that is an actual suckerpunch. While I can recognize Frankie Muniz being “a man of principle,” it is arduous for me to know somebody turning down SNL. However, he had a couple of cause for saying no. Other than committing to Nickelodeon, the skilled racecar driver defined his true intentions for placing the sketch comedy present on the again burner:

But actually deep down, I simply wished to fulfill Amanda Bynes. Yeah, that is the reality. I’m, I feel, the one individual in historical past to show down internet hosting Saturday Night Live and I’m nonetheless questioning that call now 30 years later.

That’s the cutest factor! While Frankie Muniz has beforehand spoken about having the “biggest crush” on Amanda Bynes again then, I’m loving the entire new particulars I’m listening to about being caught between two internet hosting gigs. Meeting the All That star ended up being a great factor, as the 2 later starred within the funny family movie Big Fat Liar and have become good AOL chat buddies. While Muniz stated they misplaced contact after the film’s premiere, it is good that he nonetheless has fond recollections of his former co-host.

However, discuss being between a rock and a tough place (or on this case, two internet hosting gigs). Although Frankie Muniz’s reasoning could be very comprehensible. I get that he wished to co-host a enjoyable children’ present and the prospect to share the rostrum along with his crush. While I’ll at all times surprise what Muniz would have been like as an SNL host, NBC could not get him due to inexperienced slime and Amanda Bynes.

Who is aware of, although, perhaps sometime he’ll get the prospect to carry out in Studio 8H. However, for now, you may catch the Emmy nominee in Malcolm within the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair with a Hulu subscription or to Disney+ subscription.