But then, people got cold feet because Frank Gifford’s a legend and he’s getting up there in age. There was also a whole run about them doing it in the gazebo, and it played like gangbusters. That was actually what brought the house down: the whole build-up of them making a fine paste and putting it on each other’s genitalia. In the read-through, the lovemaking ritual of Frank and Kathie Gifford was like four pages long. We started out with a pretty solid little sketch: just Kristen Wiig doing her thing as Kathie Lee. Thinking back on it, that’s probably the most time I ever spent on one sketch because it kept being like, “Add this person in, put this in, put that in.” By the time this particular sketch got on the air, the co-writer, Marika Sawyer, and I had been up for probably 36 hours straight. Whenever you have a situation where you can put different guests in there, it’s always changing right up until air. The Today show sketch was always a tough one. When you’re going through it - it’s the worst, you just want to die - but looking back on it, seeing the wheels come off is the funniest thing in the world. I want to preface this by saying sometimes the funniest moments from SNL are the times where the wheels come off.
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