(Also, alpacas.)

But, she admits, “I smelled it coming.

I remember when Tina [Fey] smelled it coming for Sarah Palin. "

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Just really stupid stuff.”

I just wanted to do improv and theater, and I knew that."

“And we all laugh about it now.

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We’re like, ‘And now I have a degree in photography!'”

“Yeah,” she laughs, “I think that’s code for like, ‘new ingenue.’

Or maybe ‘not white.'”

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; And I said, ‘Because I love wearing wigs.'"

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Today she takes appearing onSNLas its own kind of circa-2021 challenge.

So it’s tough to find the thing.

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I loved being able to kind of hook onto that and like kind of play this confidence in that.

That’s a fun game."

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