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Mark Ruffalo has never hosted “Saturday Night Live,” and he doesn’t think he’ll be asked to again after turning down Lorne Michaels.

On Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast on Monday, Ruffalo told the host that he’s “scared” to take up the gig and he’ll probably “never be asked back” after he rejected Lorne Michaels’ invitation to Studio 8H.

“I’ll never be asked back,” Ruffalo said. “I don’t think Lorne Michaels likes it when you say no. It just scared the living s–t out of [me]. I don’t know.”

Ruffalo specified that reading live on-camera from cue cards is what causes him the most anxiety.

“It scares me. I’m dyslexic. I’m not gonna lie. You don’t lie on this show,” the actor said, and Maron asked him how dyslexic he was. “I’ll lose where I’m at on the page. When I hear about how that show works, changing things at the last second, and I want to be good at it. I’ve been watching that my whole life and like, I don’t want to be the guy, the host who sucks. I owe Lorne Michaels more than that.”

Trying to find a silver lining, Maron suggested that Ruffalo might be better memorizing lines instead of reading them from the cards — but no dice.

“I have the double whammy. I’m dyslexic, and I have a hard time memorizing stuff. Like, I have to start so early,” Ruffalo said.

“What am I going to do? Ginkgo, now it’s wasabi. I chase all the memory s–t,” Ruffalo said. “I try everything. I’ve tried everything across the board.”

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I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and we’re convincing Sharon, her character, or whatever, to take her clothes off to go through the security thing,” he said, adding, “It’s so 1992, you know, it’s from another era.”

Stone said she wasn’t bothered by the sketch, but agreed it was created in a different time.

“I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony,” she said. “And I think that we were all committing misdemeanors [back then] because we didn’t think there was something wrong then. We didn’t have this sense. I had much bigger problems than that, you know what I mean? That was funny to me, I didn’t care. I was fine being the butt of the joke.”

“When I was doing the Indian character… there was no malice in it,” Carvey replied. “It was really me rhythmically trying to get laughs. So I just want to say that watching it — comedy needs a straight person and you were perfect in it. You were completely sincere and you made us funny.”

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