“I really don’t think I have ever told this. But we did meet once, for example, 20 decades back,” the comedian told Us Weekly only about the”Watch With Us” podcast. “Backstage in Conan O’Brien, I was doing some little, and he handed me a coffee. I said,’Cheers,’ because I had been a bartender at the moment. I was like,’No, not Cheers, like your TV series!’ I felt very dumb, but now I get to do scenes with himand I’m in awe of him each time.”
Fey, 50, wrote the part with him in your mind, and when she called him with the deal that he”attempted not to cry” before immediately saying yes.
“[I want] to function with other amazing men and women. That is what I heard from SNL and from Upright Citizens Brigade — I feel like that I thrive in that kind of environment,” he added. “So getting to be on the series with this cast, I feel as though I won the TV lottery.”
During the podcast, the New York native looked back at his time on Saturday Night Live, which he joined in 2008 and remained a cast member until 2017. The writer explained that while his”Drunk Uncle” personality is among the very famous he portrayed on the series, he receives more fans bringing his portrayal of Nicole”Snooki” Polizzi.
As for what makes him laugh, that’s changed a bit amid the pandemic.
“I have a 3 and a half-year-old daughter through a pandemic, so I’m asleep at 8 p.m., like, I do not watch humor anymore! I would like to sleep,” he explained with a laugh. “Whenever I need to laugh or simply don’t want to think, I just go watch that Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion for the scene with Brian Unger. It is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.”
