From 1982 to 1985, I had the privilege of being on Saturday Night Live.

And there was one sketch that I did in which I played Christina Delorean, the wife of John

Delorean, who I guess he invented the Delorean car, and he had some big cocaine scandal

at the time.

I mean, could there be anything more 80s than that?

Anyway, for the scene, the hair and makeup people gave me a blowout.

You know, they straighten my hair because Christina Delorean had straight hair and I had

really, really curly hair.

And the scene was, you know, funny or whatever, probably not.

I think my husband, Brad, might have played John Delorean, but it doesn't matter.

This is not what I'm talking about.

What matters here is that it was the first time I had ever had straight hair in a sketch.

Usually it was just my own curly hair or wig, right?

So the Monday after the show aired, when we came back to work at 30 Rock, one of the

very big bosses called me into his office and he sat me down specifically to tell me that

he really liked how I had done my hair in the John Delorean sketch.

And then he tells me that he had gotten a call from somebody at NBC, saying that at least

five NBC executives wanted to, and I quote, fuck me because they thought my hair looks so

good.

Oh, lucky me.

He actually prefaced the whole thing by saying, I've got good news.

Yeah, he did.

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