Christine Ebersole

really? Who would you say you would like to pattern yourself after? Is there anybody out there that just amazes you?

For me, definitely Broadway stars like Christine Ebersole.

She's my biggest inspiration for sure.

Or obviously Patti LuPone, the big diva.

uh

we got the answer he's like no there's not not even any like hint of like oh you'll have to see it's gonna be christine ebersole uh which is like okay uh Great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It looks like his last Hallmark role was a movie called Love at First Glance from 2017.

Christine Ebersole plays Alana's grandma, Norma.

Christine currently plays Dottie on the CBS sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola.

She was a cast member and Weekend Update co-anchor on Saturday Night Live from 1981 to 1982.

I appreciate it.

And of course, we never got to Christine Ebersole, we never got to Marie Hill.

There's so much.

They're all in the book.

still comes back but what i don't think you

know yeah no what i was thinking because you have robin duke christine ebersole and mary gross who were three women on who started season seven yeah so given how snl was even though gene was running the show it was still boys club i know that the the um the network wouldn't have wanted like uh the the the female cast outnumber the male cast in 1981 so i was kind of thinking like if you had denny and if you had gail i kind of think christine ebersole out of the three between rob that's who you get mary gross yeah you bring

christine and not mary gross she's kind of like an ann

risley type but with more comedic chops than ann risley so i kind of think christine ebersole would would do what they wanted ann risley to do but better okay

okay Based on typecasting and stuff, I think Christine Eversol is the one they would have picked out of those three, yeah.

I agree.

So it's interesting.

And I was thinking about this, like out of the cast that we knew arrived in season seven, who would work with the holdovers.

He was, like, I think the default singer on the show, and then with his departure, I guess Veronica's next in line.

That makes sense, right? I mean, and, uh, I mean, J- Mike, could we see a, like a Christine Ebersole-like, uh, trajectory with, uh, Veronica as far as, like, putting her in her own sketch to sing?

I mean, it's, it's possible.

[laughs] We, you know, Garrett Morris-

He did great character work on it.

And again, this was in 1981, season seven, and the cast was Robin Duke, Christine Ebersole, Mary Gross, Tim Kazerinsky, Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo.

Tony Rosato and Brian Doyle Murray.

And it was it was a weird transitional time.

It's a sloppy sketch, but they did a lot of great prop work.

Tim Kazerinsky comes out, you know, basically dressed as Frankenfurter, so you get to see him, you know, in drag.

And Christine Ebersole and Mary Gross also come out dressed up as characters from Rocky Horror.

So basically...