![]() So, he has a press conference going, ‘I am not a gay fish.’ And then his guys come to him and say, ‘Hey, we found the guy who came up with the joke. We go, ‘Okay, so Cartman comes up with a joke, ‘Are you a gay fish?’ And everyone gets the joke except Kanye West. And then we had Vernon Chatman…this is why Vernon Chatman is so funny. “It was like ,’Who does not have a sense of humor about themselves?’ And it was like,’Who would not get the joke?’ And it was Kanye West. Hader explained not only why Kanye West became the target of the “Fishsticks – Gay Fish” joke, but also how comedian Carlos Mencia was pulled into it as well. That’s how it happens.’ It’s kind of like you’re just fucking around and then you come up with a great episode.”īennington pointed out to Hader how that episode is when Kanye West’s nightmare began. And that turned into an episode about Kanye West being a gay fish. He’s a fish-dick.’ And then someone went, ‘Fishsticks?’ I go, ‘No, no, fish dick.’ ‘Oh, you mean fishsticks, like you put in your mouth, like you eat, fishsticks.’ I go, ‘No, no, fish dick.’ And then Trey went, ‘No one has ever made that joke before.’ And he’s like googling it, ‘Someone’s had to have made…like that’s the dumbest joke.’ Fish dick, fishsticks. And then somebody was like, ‘Yeah and he’s got a big dick.’ I said, ‘Oh yeah. And then Matt was like, ‘What if one of the salmon was like Evel Knievel just like on a big motorcycle and just like -“aaaaaahhhhh!!’ And we all started laughing. And I’m like, ‘Well, this is interesting’. ![]() He’s reading the brochure and he’s like, ‘This is really interesting.’ And we’re watching the salmon ladder kind of like – ‘Oh this is funny’. It’s called a salmon ladder -where you watch the salmon like go up. He also talked about how the inspiration for the “Fishsticks” episode came from an unlikely place, during the retreat. Hader said that he had a great time at the South Park writers retreat. So, we all went and I went and hung out with these guys.” It’s me and Trey and this very funny woman named Erica Rivinoja and Vernon Chatman, is one of the funniest human being on the planet. So he said – You should go on the writers retreat. ![]() You go on a little dumb tour thing and then you come back and you work on South Park and then have dinner and then go home. And then you go and you visit whatever’s in that city. “They do these things where they get together and they go to a different city where they get away from their wives and their kids and stuff. He was shooting a movie in Vancouver– Night at the Museum 2– and Stone invited him to a South Park writers’ retreat. Hader told Bennington that it all started with an invitation from his friend, Matt Stone. The episode is “Fishsticks” from Season 13 of South Park where a joke about being “a gay fish” took the country by storm. He took the Unmasked audience behind the scenes of one of South Park’s most famous episodes. He also discussed going to work with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the popular Comedy Central cartoon series in 2008. When Bill Hader sat down with Ron Bennington, he talked about his new movie, “The Skeleton Twins” co-starring former SNL cast mate Kristen Wiig, dealing with his performance anxiety and his time at Saturday Night Live. He’s also appeared in hit comedies like “Superbad”, “Adventureland”, “Men in Black 3”, “Tropic Thunder”, “Paul”, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and he starred in the animated feature “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. How did “quite possibly the funniest joke ever conceived” come about? Bill Hader explained it all when he appeared this week with host Ron Bennington for an episode of SiriusXM’s Unmasked.īill Hader spent eight seasons as a regular on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. ![]() Jimmy: Well, what are you Eric? A gay fish? Jimmy: Do you like putting fishsticks in your mouth? ![]()
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