{"id":594638,"date":"2026-04-20T00:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:44:14","slug":"tina-fey-on-being-on-the-wrong-side-with-some-snl-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594638\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Fey On Being “On The Wrong Side” With Some ‘SNL’ Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwenty years after her time on Saturday Night Live<\/a> came to an end, Tina Fey<\/a> recently looked back on some of the heavier current events they covered.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Golden Globe winner recently admitted there were certain jokes of which she was \u201con the wrong side,\u201d but insisted the NBC<\/a> sketch comedy show does not \u201ctry to control the narrative and politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI started there in 1997, and I was there when we had to come back for the first show after September 11 and try to figure out what that show could be,\u201d she recalled on Saturday at History Talks<\/a>. \u201cI think I was around but upstairs the day that President Bush came by to meet Will Ferrell. I was there when there was anthrax in the building. The longer I was there, I realized that the show\u2019s relationship to current events, it became a thinner and thinner veil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFey continued, \u201cThey say something, we say something back, they come over, they go, \u2018Oh, we want to be on it too.\u2019 It\u2019s a thrilling and almost scary thing to have this idea that something you say will be heard by person in charge. I mean, I\u2019ve made jokes, but also, I was pretty dumb and not much better now, but there\u2019s jokes that I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh yeah, I was on the wrong side of that.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe comedian found it \u201cfascinating to know that what you say will be sort of taken seriously,\u201d recalling a \u201creally interesting\u201d six-week span when she, Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler were taked with churning out Sarah Palin sketches.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton on \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 (Dana Edelson\/NBC\/Courtesy Everett Collection)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe always worked really hard to make sure that we felt like they were what we would call \u2018a fair hit,\u201d explained Fey. \u201cAnd I think part of that is, one, we knew we would get in trouble if it was wrong or random, but also because it sort of only felt like it would work if it was kind of based in something that was true. Sometimes, people will ask me or ask others, \u2018Does SNL try to control the narrative and politics?\u2019 And they really do not. And also you really can\u2019t. If it\u2019s not true, it will not be funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFey spoke at Philadelphia\u2019s Kimmel Center for History Talks\u2019 event honoring the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary<\/a>, where she was joined by Nicole Kidman, Ted Danson, Kate McKinnon, Colin Jost and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty years after her time on Saturday Night Live came to an end, Tina Fey recently looked back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,1254,12015,123522,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-594638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-nbc","10":"tag-saturday-night-live","11":"tag-tina-fey","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}