During an interview with the Casual Conversations podcast, actor and comedian Will Sasso reflected on his 1999 feud with WWE Hall Of Famer Bret Hart. Check out the highlights below (via Fightful).
On his MADtv segment with Bret Hart:
“It started in our bit. There’s this writer/producer, Canadian, from Winnipeg, wrote on Kids in the Hall, Brian Hartt, he was co-executive producer on MADtv and the first head writer. He was a big wrestling fan. We had Bret Hart come in in 97, right before the screwjob, and we did a sketch. At the end of the second take, Brian goes, ‘Go back in,’ it was all about this family bullying the son and now I’m friends with Bret Hart, so they can’t bully him anymore. At the end of the bit, Bret leaves and we go back to razzing the son, and Bret comes back through the door. This is the take they use. He comes in, starts messing around with me. Like a dumbshit, I’m like a 400 pound 20-something, I pick him up on my shoulder and spin him around a bit, which Bret didn’t have a problem with because I’m a big looking guy and he’s a nice guy. We’re not in his world at this point, maybe it pissed him off, I don’t know. We come up with this idea to have him come back the next year and be pissed at me.”
On his WCW Nitro match with Hart in February 1999:
“We did it in Tampa, it was a Nitro, and he goes, ‘Let’s go to the ring and feel it out.’ The first thing he does is a Russian leg sweep. ‘Oh, that’s fucking fun, cool.’ The ring has a little bit of give. He goes, ‘You horse around, do physical comedy, and played football. You get it. You watch this.’ ‘No, I don’t, Bret. I don’t get it.’ The reason he’s saying that is he’s the Excellence of Execution, he can have a match with a sack of potatoes. That’s what he did that night. For me, it was no offense. The whole point was Bret Hart is looking at this like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ Brian Hartt and I, we hate it when you see Jay Leno put Hulk Hogan in a headlock. Fuck that. if you respect this art form, this should be a joke. Bret was happy to hear that. He gets in there, looking at the crowd, looking at the ref. ‘What am I supposed to do with this? What the fuck?’ He slaps me around, beats the shit out of me, and goes off. We go for a test of strength, he kicks me in the nuts, does a clothesline, and that should be it. He goes, ‘Don’t move, I will move you whenever I want to do something.’ I can’t wait to sell the shit out of it because I love physical comedy. ‘Please throw me around.’ At the end of it, just throws me in the sharpshooter. At the end of it, I’m fine. He’s stomping me in the corner and his boot is moving so fast, then it just stops. It was like being in a dream and I got to experience just what makes him, in my opinion, the best.”
