Mike Myers used to 'go into a depression' if his sketches were cut from Saturday Night Live

Mike Myers used to "go into a depression" if his sketches were cut from Saturday Night Live.

The 62-year-old star was a writer on the comedy series from 1989 to 1995 and has made occasional appearances over the years since, and he hated the dress rehearsal before the live show because it left him feeling "nervous" and deeply unhappy if his skits didn't make it through to the final programme.

He told Variety: "Dress rehearsal bums me out and I get nervous. Then if the sketch gets in, I’m like, ‘OK!’ I’m way more psyched that it got in, that I’m going to be in the show this week.”

“I used to go into a depression when my sketch got cut."

However, the Austin Powers star learned a new perspective from Conan O'Brien, who was one of Saturday Night Live's writers from 1988 to 1991.

He said: "Then one week, Conan had worked with a very, very hard host who had put him through the wringer.

"Conan was just a mess and saw that a sketch was cut and he goes, ‘Perfect. It’s all going perfectly to plan.’ It got a big laugh, and I was like, ‘You can be that way? You don’t have to be depressed?’

"He taught me how to say, ‘OK. It’s not the end of the world.’”