Tina Fey says Steve Martin as soon as made a terrifying and completely correct remark to her.
The “Saturday Night Live” alum appeared on the inaugural episode of Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast earlier this week, and instructed her good friend and former “SNL” colleague that she was nonetheless a author on the sketch present when Martin dropped by.
“He wasn’t hosting, but he came on the show and he had just been on ‘Letterman’ the night before,” Fey instructed Poehler.
She continued, “I mentioned, ‘Oh my gosh, you were so funny on “Letterman” last night.’ And he simply very matter-of-factly mentioned, ‘Oh, well, you have to kill every time.’”
As Poehler laughed, Fey added, “And that has haunted me every day since.”
Martin was “right,” Fey asserted.
“If you’re a beautiful actress from, I don’t know, like ’Melrose Place” … you may go on and be like, ‘I went to the store once,’” she mentioned. “But if you’re a comedy person? You have to kill every time? Oh god.”
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Although Fey claimed she “constantly” falls in need of that objective, “SNL” followers often hail her tenure from 2000 to 2006 as one of many biggest. The previous forged member, head author and “Weekend Update” co-anchor went on to create hit NBC sitcom “30 Rock” after departing “SNL.”
Fey did recall some profession moments that didn’t fairly pan out, and cited blowing an audition for a fast-food business due to a now-faded scar on her face. In hindsight, nevertheless, the nine-time Emmy winner seems to have gotten the final giggle.
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She mentioned she realized as soon as she obtained to the audition that she was unlikely to get the half, which was for an individual pulling as much as a drive-thru, due to her then-prominent scar.
“And I just remember in the thing … like scooting like I’m in the drive-thru, being like, ‘I’ll have the fish filet meal, and my scar will have an orange soda,’ and then just leaving,” she mentioned.
