Comedian Dana Carvey apologized to Sharon Stone during a recent podcast interview, for an "offensive" 1992 "Saturday Night Live" sketch that he appeared in with the actress.
The pair discussed the 32-year-old sketch during an episode of the "Fly on the Wall With Dana Carvey and David Spade"podcast. Stone hosted the show that Carvey and Spade starred in back then, shortly after her breakout role in the film "Basic Instinct."
"The comedy we did with Sharon Stone, we'd literally be arrested now. That was 1992," said Carvey.
During the sketch in question, Carvey portrayed an Indian airport security official while Stone was a would-be passenger. At the behest of the airport employees, Stone removes several articles of clothing so they can see her naked.
"I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and we're convincing Sharon — her character, or whatever — to take her clothes off to go through the security thing," Carvey said, while his co-host described the sketch as "so offensive."
For her part, Stone said that she was "fine being the butt of the joke."
"I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony," she said. "And I think that we were all committing misdemeanors because we didn't think there was something wrong then."
Stone also shared that she had a different distressing memory from her hosting stint - protestors stormed the stage, claiming they were going to kill her during the monologue.
"The security that was in there froze because they never had seen anything like that happen," she said. "And Lorne [Michaels] started beating them up and pulling them back from the stage."
In response to Spade and Carvey questioning the protestors' motives, Stone explained that it was a reaction to her AIDS activism.
"No one understood at the time what was happening and they didn't know if amfAR [the Foundation for AIDS Research] could be trusted or if we were against gay people. Instead of waiting for an intelligent, informative conversation they thought, 'Oh let's just kill her'," Stone said.
Six men were arrested following the protest, while Stone continued to perform her monologue live.
