But the sensibility that the show gained with Tina Fey as the head writer.It became more female-centric probably because they had a lot more female writers.ĪP: You said you had to learn to be a voice actor.
It doesn’t matter who wrote it, who was in it. Lorne (Michaels, the show’s creator) was very egalitarian with what went on the show. Newman: With regard to our shows, we had 13 writers - three women, 10 men - and it was a meritocracy. I was thinking, ‘This is a great job.’ But there’s so many moments, just pee-in-your-pants stuff.ĪP: ‘SNL’ was long criticized for failing to showcase women and include people of color in the cast. We were doing the Coneheads and there was a part where we eat fiberglass insulation and it was made out of rice paper and cotton candy. Newman: There are so many of them, but the one that immediately comes to mind is about food. You’ve just got to keep going.ĪP: Your favorite moment on ‘Saturday Night Live’?
I think that people wrap their biographies up in a pink bow, and it’s important to acknowledge that you can live with a lot of failure. But the one thing that I really wanted to do, because I’ve never seen this in biographies before, is to really lean into the fact that I experienced a lot of failure. Newman: I’m the last person to impart any kind of life lesson. But ultimately what I came to was the fact that, ‘Hey, I was there for that.’ ‘Oh, I lived through that, I had a front row seat to that.’ Even though it is very much my personal life, it’s also the privilege of having a front-row seat at a lot of the pop culture movements in our country.ĪP: What do you hope listeners take away from the memoir about you, about life lessons? Newman: The book’s gone through many reasons for its existence. Remarks were edited for clarity and length.ĪP: When writing the memoir, which includes encounters with celebrities from Fred Astaire to Robert De Niro, did events seem even more remarkable in retrospect? In an interview with The Associated Press, she discussed her approach to the Audible Original book, the “SNL” track record with women and a Coneheads sketch highlight. Revisiting the past, Newman said, allowed her to celebrate beloved “Saturday Night Live” sketches from her 1975-80 tenure and lift the curtain on their creation. She’s proud of her children Hannah and Spike Einbinder, both working actors. She’s been sober for decades and is busy doing voice acting for a variety of projects, including “Despicable Me” films, “American Dad!” and “Doc McStuffins,” along with occasional screen roles. Newman, who turned 69 this month, is in a good place to look back. “And that’s just one of the wonderful moments in my life.” “The fact that I farted in front of Prince” should be motivation enough to listen to the book, Newman said, her lilting voice striking a wry note.
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