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“Saturday Night Live” alum Kevin Nealon has revealed how Paul McCartney ditched him during the show’s star-studded 50th anniversary celebration back in February.
Nealon, who was a main cast member on “SNL” from 1986 to 1995, began by sharing a cordial interaction he had with the former Beatle during the Lorne Michaels-created sketch comedy’s 40th anniversary special in 2015.
“Paul McCartney remembered me, and I remember he was about to go on, I’m with my wife, sitting in the front row, and I feel a tap on my head,” the comedian, 72, said during the “What’s Our Podcast?” this month.
“I look up, it’s Paul McCartney,” Nealon added. “He goes, ‘Hey, how you doing? Good to see you! Kevin, what’s up?’”
The music legend, however, wasn’t nearly as enthusiastic when the pair ran into one another again a decade later.
“Ten years later, at the 50th one, I see him talking to Conan [O’Brien], and I did exactly what I hate that people do: I came in, kind of cock-blocked Conan, said, ‘Hey, Paul, how you doing, man?’” Nealon recalled.
“I’m telling you, it was like pulling teeth,” the “Happy Gilmore” star added. “I knew he didn’t wanna talk. I get it, man. The small talk from Paul McCartney was killing me.”
Although Nealon could tell that the 19-time Grammy winner wasn’t interested in chatting, he tried anyway and praised McCartney’s live performances of the “Abbey Road” tracks “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End.”
“I’m sweating, I say, ‘Paul, how are you, man? I love that song “Golden Slumbers,” I’m so glad you did it,’” Nealon remembered. “[He said,] ‘Well, you know, it was Lorne’s choice.’ And I go, ‘Oh yeah, but you had other songs you could’ve fallen back on, right?’”
It was then that McCartney skillfully “got rid” of the former “SNL” star.
“This is how much he’s been doing this,” Nealon explained. “He knows how to get rid of people with the small talk.”
The comedian continued, “All of a sudden, he goes, ‘Oh, I want you to meet my nephew!’ Because he looked over there [across the room].”
However, the “Yesterday” singer’s nephew was nowhere to be found.
“I go over with him, it’s these four tall guys that don’t look anything like him,” Nealon recalled. “And he just puts me into that circle, and he slowly inches away and leaves.”
“No, he didn’t know who they were,” the “Weeds” star laughed. “They might’ve been valet guys, I dunno. It’s a great move.”
But McCartney’s trick to shake loose of Nealon was tame in comparison to what the “Jet” songwriter was said to have done to a music critic who gave his band a negative concert review in the early ’70s.
Former Wings drummer Denny Seiwell, in the book “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” claimed that McCartney and his then-wife, Linda McCartney, mailed the critic their baby daughter’s turd following the poor review.
“Stella was a baby at the time,” Seiwell, 82, said. “So Paul and Linda took one of those little plastic soap dishes from the hotel we were in, and they got one of Stella’s turds, put it in the soap dish, wrapped it up, and sent it to him.”
“You heard that from me. I don’t care if they want it to be known or not,” Seiwall added. “I thought it was the perfect response to a crude British pressman.”