Apparently, as Kenan Thompson tells Rolling Stone, during the table read for Donald Trump’s episode of Saturday Night Live in 2015, the soon-to-be American President decided it was a good idea to take a phone call.
On a show like SNL, this is especially important to see if jokes land the way they were intended.
In case you aren’t aware, a table read is where the entire cast of a production gets together to read over the entire script to work out basic kinks, and see how everything plays.
Thompson doesn’t specify whether or not Trump was in the sketch he interrupted or if he even apologized for getting rehearsals off track, but it’s not hard to understand why this would be a sticking point, either way.