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Hader was 20 when he first got to Los Angeles and took a job driving castmembers to production sets.
One day his passenger was none other than The Karate Kid star Kove, who Hader claimed intentionally got him lost on the way to work — in a ploy to buy some time to catch up on the project’s still-unread script, Hader claimed.
“I’m driving him around in my shitty car, and he got me lost on purpose,” Hader told Maron. “It was a terrible day.”
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 27, 2025 1:01 PM |
Once he arrived with the actor late to the set, Hader said, he was read the riot act by his boss, who Hader said screamed at him over his tardiness. The comic recalled that he was tasked with driving Kove back home from the set that night and explained on the podcast that while the two men were on the freeway, Kove turned to him.
“He was like, ‘Bill, are you mad at me?'” the former Saturday Night Live player recalled.
It was decided that to make up for causing his driver for the day to land in hot water with his boss that morning, Kove would buy him some dessert at the nearest McDonald’s — a cookie and a milkshake, specifically. Only said cookie and milkshake never reached Hader’s hands. Though both items did enter the car with Kove upon his return from inside the restaurant.
“He comes back out eating the chocolate cookie and the milkshake,” Hader said. “And he just sits in the back and goes, ‘Come on, let’s go.’ It was the biggest ‘fuck you.’ … It was a weird mind fuck of, like, ‘I’m gonna get you this thing,’ and then he ate it in front of me. And then I just drove home in silence.”
For Hader, the nasty and uncomfortable behavior from Kove took the honor of his first “welcome to Hollywood, kid” moment.
“I didn’t talk to him after that,” Hader said of the few more days of driving Kove. “I just kind of stared straight ahead.”
While it’s unclear if Hader ever received an apology for this dark behavior, he told Maron on the podcast that he has forgiven Kove for that nasty denial of a milkshake 27 years ago.
“I heard he was going through a divorce, or something was happening with him,” Hader noted. “He might be a really nice guy, but I just … rubbed him the wrong way. I don’t know what was going on.”
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 27, 2025 8:01 AM |
You got off lucky
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 27, 2025 8:30 AM |
I remember him from Cagney & Lacey. Ugly fuck.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 27, 2025 9:07 AM |
He did porn in the 70s.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 27, 2025 9:08 AM |
He showed (not too impressive) dong in a 70s exploitation movie. Maybe his anger issues stem from inadequacy
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 27, 2025 9:17 AM |
In his prime, his features bore a certain simian allure.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 27, 2025 1:01 PM |
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