A member of The Lonely Island and former Saturday Night Live star is counting his blessings after surviving a scary accident.<\/p>\n
Jorma Taccone, who is one-third of the popular comedy music trio, revealed in a podcast episode with Seth Meyers and fellow Lonely Island members Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer that he endured a recent 20-foot fall in his Connecticut barn.<\/p>\n
Taccone, 48, recorded his part of the Sept. 2 episode of\u00a0\u201cThe Lonely Island and Seth Myers Podcast\u201d<\/a> from the hospital, where he said he was “insanely lucky<\/a>” to be alive following his tumble from a “rickety” ladder.<\/p>\n MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE – JUNE 15: (L-R) Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island performs on Which Stage during the 2019 Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival on June 15, 2019 in Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic for Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival )<\/p>\n The freak accident has left Taccone unable to walk for the time being, but still has him grateful that it wasn’t worse.<\/p>\n Taccone told his co-hosts that he was in the process of getting things together for his daughter’s fifth birthday party when disaster struck.<\/p>\n \u201cI was painting this barn and then I was like, as a final touch,\u00a0I should hang these lights that will go around the barn,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 So I’m using this ladder that my neighbor let me borrow and he was like, \u2018Hey, this ladder is bad, like, you shouldn’t use this ladder. It doesn’t have a footing thing \u2026\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI’m probably 20 feet off the ground on this very rickety ladder and I have it diagonal \u2026 I felt it give way and \u2026 in this moment my life flashes before my eyes and I’m like, \u2018Oh no, I gotta get off this ladder,\u2019 \u201d recalled Taccone. \u201c…As I’m falling [I\u2019m] like, \u2018I’m gonna die.\u2019 And so I drop \u2026 and I fall straight on my butt.\u201d<\/p>\n Taccone said he immediately began screaming and felt “numb,” so he knew something was seriously wrong.<\/p>\n After going to the hospital, Taccone was told he had fractured his pelvis on the left side and detached his sacrum from his spine. He also damaged one of the discs in his back.<\/p>\n On the bright side, things could have been much worse, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cMy doctor came in this morning and was like, \u2018Oh yeah. If you had hit your heels \u2014 if you\u2019d landed on both your heels \u2014 that would have been 10 times worse,\u2019 \u201d Taccone explained. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u201810 times worse? I didn\u2019t know pain at that level was possible.\u2019”<\/p>\n As of now, the writer and comedian is looking at being unable to walk for at least three months. He’ll begin “acute rehab” soon.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the doctors have been like, \u2018You\u2019ll be walking within, like, three to six months, and you\u2019ll be back to all of the stuff that you normally do,\u2019\u201d Taccone said<\/a>. \u201cThe surgery could not have gone better. \u2026 I\u2019m insanely lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Men’s Journal<\/a> on Sep 3, 2025, where it first appeared in the Entertainment<\/a> section. 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Decorating gone wrong<\/h2>\n
Plenty of damage, but still lucky<\/h2>\n