‘SNL’ alum Jorma Taccone shatters pelvis after…
Comedian Jorma Taccone has opened up about his near-fatal fall from a 20-foot ladder earlier this summer season.
The “Saturday Night Live” alum, 48, detailed the stunning incident during the latest episode of “The Lonely Island & Seth Meyers Podcast” launched Tuesday, Sept. 2.
Taccone, who is one-third of Andy Samberg’s The Lonely Island comedy trio, revealed that he shattered his pelvis and suffered a indifferent sacrum after the scary drop.
Jorma Taccone at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in New York City on January 31, 2010. Getty Images
Jorma Taccone at the NYC premiere of “The Naked Gun” on July 28, 2025. Variety via Getty Images
“One of the projects I wanted to do this summer was I wanted to build… there’s a barn, and the back half of the barn has this big white wall,” Taccone started, detailing the lead-up to the tumble. “I was like, this is great, we can do a big mural.”
“I was painting this barn, and as a final touch, I was like, I should hang these lights that will go around the eve of the barn to highlight the barn,” the “Hot Rod” actor, whose daughter was turning 5, continued. “I was doing that on the day.”
But after borrowing a “very rickety” ladder with “not good” legs from a neighbor and climbing 20 toes up, Taccone almost froze as it started to “give way” before “going down under him.”
Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island carry out during the 2016 MTV Movie Awards in Burbank, California, on April 9, 2016. Getty Images
Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, Weird Al Yankovic and Jorma Taccone pose at the SiriusXM Studio in New York City on May 18, 2016. Getty Images
“In this moment, my life flashes before my eyes, I’m like, Oh no, I’ve got to get off this ladder,” the comedy author, who appeared to be becoming a member of the podcast episode from a hospital mattress, recalled. “I had enough time as I’m falling to be like, I’m going to die.”
“I drop, I look over, I see the yard, I’m like, This is going to hurt a lot,” he continued. “I fall straight on my butt, taking all of the impact on my butt. Then I do a lot of screaming and cursing.”
“Keep in mind, it’s my daughter’s fifth birthday party, so it wasn’t the coolest way to start the day,” Taccone added. “I’m like, Call an ambulance!”
Jorma Taccone attends the NYC premiere of “The Naked Gun” at the SVA Theatre on July 28, 2025. Getty Images for Paramount Pictures
Jorma Taccone during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on February 9, 2023. Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images
After being rushed to the hospital, the “I’m on a Boat” singer discovered that he “shattered my pelvis on my left-hand side pretty badly” and that his “sacrum has detached from my spine.”
The pelvis is the bony construction inside your hips, buttocks and pubic area, per the Cleveland Clinic. The sacrum is the triangular-shaped bone positioned at the bottom of the backbone.
“A disc is bad now, so they have to chuck that out,” Taccone said. “It takes a while to schedule the surgery because they wanted to do the front part and the back part as well.”
Jimmy Fallon, Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on May 16, 2016. NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island performs during Clusterfest in San Francisco, California, on June 1, 2018. FilmMagic
As for the aftermath of the devastating fall, the “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” director confirmed that he would need up to half a yr to totally get better and stroll again.
“On the plus side, all the doctors have been like, ‘You’ll be walking within three to six months and you’ll be back to like all of the stuff that you normally do,’” he told Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Seth Meyers. “So we shall see.”
“I’m just gonna have to fight through the pain,” Taccone concluded. “It’s definitely no joke.”
The Post has reached out to Taccone’s reps for remark.
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