Bill Hader Dancing to Anything

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About

Bill Hader Dancing to Anything refers to a clip of actor Bill Hader dancing in a box from a Saturday Night Live sketch that Twitter users set to various other songs in September of 2019. The video of Bill Hader dancing went viral again in 2023 after people used a CapCut template to post green-screened versions of the meme on TikTok.

Origin

On July 28th, 2015, Saturday Night Live's YouTube channel uploaded a sketch that was cut for time called "Alan." In the sketch, Bill Hader is a product meant to provide entertainment by doing a small dance in a glass box (shown below).

Spread

On September 17th, 2019, Twitter user @LustsFilm posted a remix of Hader dancing to "Like a G6," gaining over 5,900 retweets and 21,000 likes. The account has since been deleted.

The same day of LustsFilm's tweet, they launched an account devoted to remixes of the footage, @billhaderdancin.^[1] They then began posting numerous remixes of the clip, including remixes set to "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac and "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel. The popularity of the videos was covered by Twitter Events^[2] and the Daily Dot.^[3] As of June 23rd, 2023, the account has been suspended but can be accessed via Internet Archive.^[4]

2023 Bill Hader Dancing CapCut Template

On June 13th, 2023, TikToker^[5] @lordtoasterstrudel posted a video using the Bill Hader dancing meme, gathering over 1 million plays and 300,000 likes in a week (seen below, left). On June 16th, 2023, CapCut user @Igreenscreenthin posted a template for a green-screened version of the Bill Hader dancing meme.^[6] Also on June 16th, TikToker^[7] @thehazelnuthomestead posted a video using the template and gathering over 1 million plays and 150,000 likes ina week (seen below, right).