Bill Hader shares hilarious anecdote about being fired from early job

Bill Hader recently opened up about his humble beginnings, managing a ticketing counter at his local movie theatre, and the mayhem he got up to as a young employee.

While appearing on Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, the former Saturday Night Live alum shared a particularly amusing incident which eventually got him fired from the job, in conversation with Mulaney who also used to work as a writer for SNL.

“I got fired from a movie theater for ruining the end of ‘Titanic,’” Hader revealed.

Going into more detail, the 46-year-old actor and comedian dished that it was when a bratty group of sorority girls labelled him a lookalike of Charles Manson, the notorious American serial killer, that he decided to get back at them.

“I was working in a movie theater, and ‘Titanic’ hadn’t come out yet, and a sorority had bought out the movie theater and they were in the doorway and I was going, ‘Hey, guys. Can you guys move?’” said Hader.

He further shared, “They were making fun of me. They said I looked like Charles Manson. Which I kinda did. I had a little bowtie on and a cummerbund, and I was like, ‘Hey guys, please move.’ And they were like, ‘No.’”

Frustrated by the nuisance at work, the Emmy winner went ahead and ruined the girls’ night by spoiling the then-unknown end to the epic romance film from 1997.

“So when they went in, as I tore the tickets, I was like, ‘Enjoy the movie. The boat sinks at the end. Leo dies,’” Hader amusingly revealed.

Apparently, the young students did not believe him immediately, to which he replied, “I go, ‘Yeah, you think he’s asleep. But he’s frozen.’ And that showed them.”

Star of the HBO series, Barry finished the anecdote by stating that while his manager found the situation entertaining, he eventually told the young man that he had to fire him.

“The [manager] came down smiling, and he was like, ‘Hey, Bill. I have to fire you.’ He loved it. Couldn’t look me in the eye, though,” the star comedian concluded.

The Leonardo DiCaprio character, Jack Dawson’s death in 1997’s Titanic took the initial moviegoers by great surprise and remains a highly contested plot point among audiences ever since.

Meanwhile, Bill Hader’s episode on Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney is now available to stream on Netflix exclusively.