And of course he had to keep going.

“I remember just coming off a couple of sketches being like, ‘Whoa, that was bad.

I hope the next one’s better because that one…'” he recalled.

Dane Cook hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2005

Dane Cook hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2005.Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Cook clarified that he fumbled the live broadcast rather than the dress rehearsal.

“Oh, something missed the mark,” he remembered thinking at the time.

The audience was into it, and Dratch smiled much of the time, which had to mean something.

“I was on the radar.

“But he didn’t care too much about that.”

Listen to Cook’s story on theFly on the Wallepisode above.