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But they weren’t - leaving insiders to wonder if Kattan was remembering correctly.īut Kattan goes into lengthy detail about what he believes happened the night he broke his neck. Carl Lauryssen scroll down to the end of the story for more information.) Insiders said they would have known had Kattan broken his neck on the show - it would have been a serious enough incident that the network’s legal team and human resources would have been involved, particularly because it happened on camera. (UPDATED: Variety has now heard back from Dr. Kattan was unable to provide documentation that NBC was aware of the injury, and Variety also attempted to contact Kattan’s surgeon, who didn’t respond to several requests by press time. But none of them could recall Kattan’s injury, even after they made their own internal inquiries to see if anyone else remembered it. Variety spoke to several insiders, including staffers mentioned by Kattan in his book, who have worked closely with Kattan as part of the “SNL” production team and who also would have been present on set and aware of any follow-up claims. A spokesperson for NBC said the network had no record of any claim and declined to comment further. Michaels declined a request to be interviewed for this story. Kattan also told Variety that NBC paid for two of the five surgeries he had over the years. Aymong, the comedian said, promised to “take care of it,” and that Michaels passed along a doctor recommendation.

In an interview this week at Variety’s offices, Kattan said he told SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels and producer Ken Aymong about the accident.

“The impact that my injury and subsequent surgeries had on my career was immense, but more importantly, the fallout proved to be devastating to some of the closest relationships in my life.” “Even today, I still can’t open my hand wide enough to use my fingers normally on the keyboard,” he wrote.

In the book, Kattan complains that he still suffers the effects of that moment, which can be found as a clip on NBC’s website.

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