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SNL alum Jorma Taccone suffered a dangerous fall from a ladder, which has left him temporarily unable to walk.
The 48-year-old comedian detailed the scary incident while appearing from bed during the new episode of The Lonely Island & Seth Meyers Podcast.
He fell 20 feet from a ladder inside a barn at his home in Connecticut.
‘One of the projects I wanted to do this summer was I wanted to build… there’s a barn, and the back half of the barn has this big white wall. I was like, this is great, we can do a big mural,’ he told his co-hosts Seth, Andy Samberg, and Akiva Schaffer.
He said he ‘borrowed tons of ladders’ for the project.
‘I was painting this barn, and as a final touch, I was like, I should hang these lights that will go around the eve of the barn to highlight the barn. I was doing that on the day.’
SNL alum Jorma Taccone, 48, suffered a dangerous fall from a ladder, which has left him temporarily unable to walk; Pictured in 2022
Taccone is best known as a member of SNL’s comedy trio The Lonely Island, alongside his childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer; (L-R) Taccone, Samberg and Schaffer pictured in 2009
‘I’m using this ladder that my neighbor let me borrow, and he was like, “Hey, this ladder is bad, like, you shouldn’t use this ladder. This doesn’t have a footing thing,” I was like, “It’ll be good,”‘ he said.
He went on: ‘When this happens, I’m probably 20 feet off the ground on this very rickety ladder and I have it diagonal. The legs are not good, the base of the ladder is not good.’
Jorma then recalled feeling the ladder ‘give way’ and go down under him.
‘In this moment, my life flashes before my eyes, I’m like, oh no, I’ve got to get off this ladder. I had enough time as I’m falling to be like, I’m going to die.’
‘I drop, I look over, I see the yard, I’m like, this is going to hurt a lot. I fall straight on my butt, taking all of the impact on my butt. Then I do a lot of screaming and cursing. Keep in mind, it’s my daughter’s fifth birthday party, so it wasn’t the coolest way to start the day. I’m like, “Call an ambulance!”‘
After the fall he recalled feeling ‘sort of numb’ while waiting for help.
He was then taken to the hospital where doctors said he ‘shattered’ his pelvis on the left side and that his ‘sacrum has detached from my spine.’
