{"id":1997904,"date":"2025-09-04T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1997904"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:16:58","slug":"snls-jorma-taccone-is-recovering-from-a-20-foot-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/snls-jorma-taccone-is-recovering-from-a-20-foot-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217;s&#8217; Jorma Taccone is recovering from a 20-foot fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/music\/la-xpm-2013-jun-11-la-et-ms-album-review-lonely-island-wack-album-20130610-story.html\"><u>Lonely Island <\/u><u>member<\/u> <\/a> Jorma Taccone shattered his pelvis and detached his sacrum after a recent fall from a 20-foot ladder at his farmhouse in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum recounted the incident from his hospital bed during Tuesday\u2019s episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/firelight-taylor-swift\/id1738121304?i=1000724515651\" target=\"_blank\">the \u201cLonely Island &amp; <u>Seth Meyers<\/u><u>\u201d<\/u><\/a> podcast. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a barn, and the back half of the barn has a big white wall. And I was like, \u2018Oh, this is great. We can do a big mural,\u2019\u201d the comedian said to his co-hosts <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2025-08-27\/seth-meyers-trump-four-year-contracts\">Meyers<\/a>, Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg. \u201cThe mural would be very, very large at the top. The apex of this barn is like 25 feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taccone said that he borrowed ladders, including one that his neighbor described as \u201cbad.\u201d As in, \u201cyou shouldn\u2019t use this ladder. Like, it doesn\u2019t have a footing thing. And I was like, \u2018No, it\u2019s really good.\u2018\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Taccone was using the ladder to hang lights around the barn to highlight the mural when he fell 20 feet onto his butt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI literally have enough time as I\u2019m falling to be like, \u2018I\u2019m going to die,\u2019\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The accident was on Aug. 31, his daughter\u2019s fifth birthday, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/saturday-night-live-alum-jorma-taccones-accident-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\">Us Weekly<\/a>. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the coolest way to start the day,\u201d Taccone said.<\/p>\n<p>Two days post-surgery, Taccone said the doctors expect him to walk again within three to six months. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a really scary week, and we\u2019re glad that you didn\u2019t hit your head and that you\u2019re not dead,\u201d Schaffer said.<\/p>\n<p>There was only one question left: How long do the hosts have before they can poke fun at the accident?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, don\u2019t you think it should be instantaneous?\u201d Taccone quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Taccone\u2019s film \u201cOver Your Dead Body,\u201d which he directed, was recently acquired by IFC in May, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/over-your-dead-body-acquired-ifc-1236399324\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Deadline<\/u><\/a>. The theatrical release date is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone shattered his pelvis and detached his sacrum after a recent fall from a 20-foot ladder at his farmhouse in Connecticut. The \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum recounted the incident from his hospital bed during Tuesday\u2019s episode of the \u201cLonely Island &amp; Seth Meyers\u201d podcast. \u201cThere\u2019s a barn, and the back half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1997905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SNLs-Jorma-Taccone-is-recovering-from-a-20-foot-fall.com2Fc72F382F65f89a5b46d7a0c29a72cc66.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}