Glen Powell Flew His UPS Driver Named Mitch to “Saturday Night Live” to ‘Prove to Mitch That I Am Not a Liar’

Glen Powell shared a full-circle moment while hosting Saturday Night Live.

During his opening monologue on the Nov. 15 episode of the late-night comedy series, the actor, 37, revealed that he flew his UPS driver in to watch his SNL hosting debut after he initially told him he would be hosting the show in 2021, which ended up not happening at all that year.

“I was actually supposed to host four years ago for Top Gun: Maverick,” Powell said, before explaining that he was on a porch with his family when he got the call about hosting, and as they were celebrating, UPS driver Mitch coincidentally arrived to deliver a package.

“He was like, ‘What is going on?’ and I was like, ‘I’m hosting SNL,’ ” Powell recalled. “And he was like, ‘Are you serious?’ And I was like, ‘Yep, Christmas episode, tune in!’ ” 

The Running Man star said that he and his family took a selfie with Mitch at the time to “mark the occasion,” which he showed on-screen to the audience. “But then my dream got taken away, Top Gun got delayed because of COVID, so SNL had to take their offer back,” Powell said.

Powell added that SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels called him and said, quoting, that without Top Gun, “No one will know who the f— you are.”

“So I didn’t end up hosting, which meant that for four years, this UPS driver was just going around saying, ‘Glen Powell is a liar!’ ” Powell continued.

After finally getting asked again to host SNL this year, the actor shared that he wanted to prove to UPS driver Mitch “that I am not crazy,” so he got his sisters to track him down.

“So to prove to Mitch that I am not a liar, I flew him all the way to New York,” Powell revealed. “He thought it was a scam, but he still came and he is sitting in the audience tonight.”

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Powell then brought Mitch onstage with him to take a selfie together.

“I had to wait my entire life plus four years to be here, but if I have learned anything, it’s that the best things in life don’t happen overnight — and no one knows that better than UPS,” Powell said, jokingly.