Comedian Tina Fey revealed she is happy to no longer be on “Saturday Night Live.”
Fey said to actor David Tennant earlier this week that she was glad to no longer have a part because the political climate has made the show more complicated.
“The culture is so ugly and the political climate is so ugly. We would always have everybody on because you could,” said Fey, who was on the sketch comedy TV show from 1997-2006. “You’d have Bush Sr. come do a thing with Dana Carvey before I worked there. It’s so truly ugly now.”
The 48-year-old comedian famously impersonated Sarah Palin on the show in guest appearances when the former Alaska governor ran as the late Sen. John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election.
She dismissed the suggestion that she played a role in the Republican’s political downfall.
“I think she’s the nail in her own coffin, but I think it shined a light on something,” Fey said, adding that she did not want Palin to guest star on the show.
“I didn’t want to be in a two-shot with her,” Fey said. “Because I just thought, ‘Well, that’s what they’ll show when I die.’ When I die, that’s what they’ll show on the Emmys. And they still might!”
She also brushed off the notion that the comedy show can change anyone’s political beliefs.
“I don’t think that show can really sway people,” Fey said. “I think you can shine a light. You can help them articulate something they’re already feeling about a given person.”
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