"Basic Instinct" star Sharon Stone hosted "SNL" in 1992, and appeared in the "Airport Security Sketch." In it, Dana Carvey plays an Indian security guard who forces Stone to undress in case she's carrying something dangerous. The joke is that the staff are doing it because Stone is attractive.
In March 2024, Carvey apologized to Stone when she appeared on the "Fly on the Wall With Dana Carvey and David Spade" podcast.
"I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man, and we're convincing Sharon, her character, or whatever, to take her clothes off to go through the security thing," he said. "It's so 1992, you know, it's from another era."
She responded, saying that she understood that the 1990s was a different time for comedy and that she enjoyed the sketch.
"I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony. And I think that we were all committing misdemeanors because we didn't think there was something wrong then," she said.
"We didn't have this sense. I had much bigger problems than that, you know what I mean?" She added: "That was funny to me, I didn't care. I was fine being the butt of the joke."