‘WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD’

SNL Star Had ‘Terrible’ Run-In With ‘Karate Kid’ Biter: ‘The Biggest F**k You’

An SNL favorite says the embattled “Karate Kid” actor led him on a wild goose chase.

The week just keeps getting worse for the Cobra Kai dojo. Years before Martin Kove made headlines for biting his co-star Alicia Hannah-Kim at the Washington State Summer Con on Sunday, Saturday Night Live star Bill Hader revealed his own bizarre encounter with Kove on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. In the late 90s, Hader was tasked with driving Kove back and forth to a film shoot. Apparently, Kove gave Hader the wrong directions to the set because he “hadn’t read the script yet.” “He got me lost on purpose,” Hader said. It only got worse for Hader after the shoot, when Kove insisted on stopping at a McDonald’s and promised to buy him a cookie and milkshake. “He comes back out eating the chocolate cookie and the milkshake... It was the biggest f--k you,” he said, calling it his first true “Welcome to Hollywood” moment. Hader also told Maron that Kove’s obnoxious behavior might have been due to his ongoing divorce. Needless to say, the incident didn’t stop Hader’s meteoric rise to the pinnacle of comedy, as the actor cracked up SNL audiences from 2005 to 2013 with his irreverent characters and impressions.