- From one “Superstar!”
A Memoir, and told a tale of two “Superstars!”
“Whitney was so nice.
Whitney Houston and Molly Shannon on ‘Saturday Night Live.'.NBC
They’re like, she’s not going to be in the sketch.
She’s not going to do it,” Shannon told Stern.
“I was like, ‘She’ll do it.
Let me go talk to her.'”
Houston was the musical guest on the Dec. 14, 1996 episode ofSNL, hosted byRosie O’Donnell.
“And I thought,They don’t want to have all of this pressure memorizing these lines.
So I just told Whitney, ‘Look, I’m going to play the Catholic school girl.
You’re going to be like a snotty girl.
All you have to do is, just do whatever you want.
You just have to be snotty, push in front me, out-sing me.
you could say whatever you want.”
Shannon said “out-sing me” and Whitney said, “In what octave?”
Though, really, Houston was more than game.
“She was like, ‘Okay, I’ll do it, I’ll do it!’
So that’s how I got her to do it,” Shannon recalled.
“And that’s what I meant.
I was like, don’t even look at these papers, just have fun!”
“Then the night that the sketch was on, she was not there yet.
And I was like, ‘Oh no.’
So they hadAna Gasteyerdress in the Catholic school outfit so she was ready to go onstage.
And then they’re like, ‘Whitney’s here, Whitney’s here!’
They usher her on and she was fantastic.
She showed up.”
“Rosie was great.
She was so good, and Whitney was so nice after,” Shannon said.
“She loved being in that and she was like, ‘Girl, you’re crazy.’
She had so much fun.
She had such a good sense of humor.”
