Kevin Nealon attends 'SNL On Stern Roundtable' on February 3, 2025 in Los Angeles. Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SiriusXM

Going on stage live in front of millions of people was apparently the least of Kevin Nealon’s worries during his time on “ Saturday Night Live .”

Nealon , who was a cast member on “SNL” from 1986 to 1995, spoke to Ted Danson on the “ Where Everybody Knows Your Name ” podcast on SiriusXM on Wednesday, where he recounted the preparation it took to get a fake chin applied for his imitation of Jay Leno, and how the process contributed to him having “claustrophobia for several years.”

In order to get a mold of Nealon’s face, the makeup artists had to cover him in thick plaster that left him unable to breathe through anything other than two straws that were stuck

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