Conan O’Brien remembers Tina Fey’s indignant response to husband being put in revealing sketch: ‘That is my husband you f—er’

Tina Fey continues to be ready on some amends from Conan O'Brien.

"I used to be simply at [Saturday Night Live], and I noticed Tina together with her husband Jeff Richmond," O'Brien defined on Monday's episode of the Conan O'Brien Wants a Buddy podcast to visitor Amy Poehler. "And I'm sorry, Jeff, however I instantly go to after we first used Jeff Richmond, and he performed Cupid," O'Brien mentioned, referring to a Late Night with Conan O'Brien sketch. "He was in a diaper hanging on a rope with a bow and arrow and like some glitter in his hair and no shirt."

O'Brien claimed that he "didn't know who Jeff was" on the time, however when Fey noticed Richmond "sort of simply spinning at rehearsal awkwardly," she was none too happy. O'Brien recalled, "Tina had handed a monitor, and she or he went, 'That's my husband, you f—er. What have you ever completed to him?'"

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Reps for Fey and Richmond didn’t reply to Leisure Weekly's request for remark.

Fey and O'Brien mentioned the sketch throughout Fey's first look as a visitor on Late Night time in 2001. Fey was solely engaged to Richmond on the time, not married, and a minimum of within the clip of the sketch performed throughout Fey's interview, Richmond was mercifully solely standing, not hanging suspended from a rope.

"He's an actor, and he's really completed a number of bits in your present. He really did one this week," Fey informed O'Brien. "That is who I'm marrying," she mentioned with mock solemnity. The interview then cuts to Richmond dealing with the viewers in a diaper and cupid wings, with a bow and blonde, curly wig, studying the names of sexually transmitted infections from a listing scrolling from the underside to the highest of the display like a late night time infomercial.

"Me and him gonna make a child some day!" Fey excitedly joked.

Like a lot of the nice comedian luminaries of their technology and the generations previous and following, O'Brien and Fey each frolicked engaged on Saturday Night time Dwell, however their paths solely crossed as soon as, when O'Brien hosted this system in 2001. O'Brien wrote for the present from 1988 to 1991, and Fey began as a author in 1997 earlier than turning into a featured participant in 2000, a twin position she held till she left the present in 2006.

Fey and Richmond met in 1994 within the Chicago improv scene. Richmond informed The New Yorker in 2003, "I don't need to say she was humorous 'for a girl,' however there have been so many gifted males there on the time, after which all of a sudden there was Tina, who was so humorous — and she or he was at residence with all these boys on the stage." The couple have been married in 2001 and have collaborated on just about each challenge Fey has helmed or produced since, from 30 Rock to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to the current Mean Girls musical adaptation.

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Richmond's accomplishments as a composer are as staggering as Fey's — who's received three Emmys out of 18 nominations — as a comedic actor. However that doesn't impress O'Brien a lot. He joked to Poehler, "I don't care what he does. He'll get an Oscar for scoring one thing, and I'll nonetheless suppose, 'Heh, you have been Cupid.'"

You may take heed to the remainder of O'Brien's chat with Fey's buddy and former Weekend Replace co-anchor under.

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