Tina Fey Reveals 'A Dirty Secret' Of 'Saturday Night Live'
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The former "SNL" star made the disclosure to help the U.K.'s new version of the sketch comedy show.
Tina Fey on Friday revealed a “dirty secret” of “Saturday Night Live” to save the makers of a U.K. version a bit of stress.
At the Edinburgh TV Festival, presenter Graham Norton mentioned to the ex-“SNL” writer and star (1997-2006) that he could not believe British writers would stay up all night Tuesday, as American counterparts have, to finish sketches before table reads on Wednesday.
The till-the-wee-hours shifts are the stuff of “SNL” legend, but Fey got candid about their effectiveness.
“Here’s a dirty secret, you don’t have to do it that way, you could start in the morning,” she told Norton, per Scotland’s Dunfermline Press.
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