How ‘SNL’ Alum’s Freak Accident Changed Him Forever

Obsessed: The Podcast

The Daily Beast

Tv & Film

4.5 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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SNL alum Jorma Taccone joins Matt Wilstein for a sharp, funny conversation about the new action-comedy he directed called ‘Over Your Dead Body’. They also dig into how Jorma’s Lonely Island’s digital shorts helped develop his filmmaking skills and what it was like diving into bigger, bloodier set pieces while still threading comedy through chaos. He shares behind-the-scenes stories from SNL, MacGruber, and SXSW, before turning to a near-fatal ladder accident that shattered his pelvis and sent him through weeks of surgery and rehab—an experience that forced him to rethink pace, perspective, and creative obsession, while still somehow finding room to laugh at it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's weird to say that the timing couldn't have been better to have me have a near-death experience.
0:06.0	I'm going to show you these are the two, okay, so this is a photo.
0:10.0	I took this photo. This is what, where I was.
0:13.0	That's me at the bottom holding the ladder for my friend and the very next photo in my, this is the very next photo in the hospital.
0:22.0	Yeah.
0:22.9	So it was a real, it was a real bummer.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to Obsessed the podcast.
0:31.7	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast and today on the show I am joined by a super talented
0:36.5	writer, director, and actor, who, as
0:39.3	co-founder of The Lonely Island, produced such iconic S&L digital shorts as Lazy Sunday,
0:45.1	Dick in a Box, and my personal favorite, Ross Trent.
0:49.0	His new action comedy film, Over Your Dead Body, stars Jason Siegel and Samara Weaving and premieres in theaters
0:55.7	this Friday, April 24th.
0:58.0	Your Machikoni, welcome to Obsess the Podcast.
1:01.6	Hi, Matt.
1:02.6	How are you?
1:03.3	It's good to see you.
1:04.6	Yeah, good to see you too.
1:06.1	Thank you so much for doing this.
1:08.1	I think you can tell by my introduction that I am a proud member of
1:12.4	Quaid Army. Oh, yeah, righteous kill. Well, thank you, thank you for that intro. That was very sweet.
1:19.0	And yeah, yeah, I'm glad to be. Yeah, well, there's so much that I want to talk to you about,
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