Chris Evans’ friends told him he wasn’t funny and now he refuses to do Saturday Night Live
Chris Evans admits his anxiety has also prevented him from appearing on Saturday Night Live

Zero-time SNL host Chris Evans Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer
Is this an act of uncalled-for bullying or the kind of benevolent guidance only close friends can bestow? Chris Evans has been megafamous for more than a decade, and many of his Avengers cohort have appeared as hosts of Saturday Night Live. (Scarlett Johansson even married a cast member.) Yet Evans has never hosted himself, apparently having been gifted with self-awareness by some buddies of his. “I’m not a funny person,” he admits to ET Canada. “Maybe I only feel that because I have very, very funny friends who once told me I’m not a funny person.” Imagine how different the history of SNL would be if more hosts considered whether or not they were funny first!