At the time she had left the show but was asked to return.<\/p>\n
Fey said: “I wasn’t sure. I know I looked a little like her but I also knew someone like Kristen Wigg could have done with ease.”<\/p>\n
But for six weeks, it made her famous.<\/p>\n
She added: “So many people watched it and recognised me. They’d come up to me in the street. <\/p>\n
“A French newspaper even ran a picture of me and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton, thinking we were the real people.<\/p>\n
“At the end of it all, it started to get a little scary, and then it piqued when Sarah Palin appeared on the show.”<\/p>\n
In April it was announced that the UK would launch its own version of the long running sketch show, produced by the US show’s creator Lorne Michaels.<\/p>\n
Graham Norton, who shared the festival stage with Fey, said he didn’t believe that British writers would stay up all night on a Tuesday, as they do in the US, to finish scripts in time for the Wednesday read through.<\/p>\n
But Fey said: “Here’s a dirty secret. You don’t have to do it that way. You could start in the morning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the time she had left the show but was asked to return. Fey said: “I wasn’t sure.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-87444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}