SNL’s Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer Reunite!
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
During the three years they overlapped in the cast of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer didn’t have “some big sketch together.” But they always made each other laugh and ever since they left the show have kept looking for new ways to collaborate. Now, they have reunited in a big way to co-write and co-star in ‘A Clüsterfünke Christmas,’ their new parody of those guilty pleasure Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies for Comedy Central. In this episode, Dratch and Gasteyer break down how they pulled off their spot-on send-up and reminisce about the highs and lows of their time on SNL—from behind-the-scenes antics to wild after parties to the struggles they faced in the entertainment industry when they each decided to move on.
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| 0:00.0 | The two hilarious women on today's show didn't actually share the screen that often on Saturday Night Live. |
| 0:06.9 | But when they did, it was always magical. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, I'm Margaret Joe McCullen. |
| 0:17.4 | And I'm Lynn Vershade. |
| 0:19.1 | And you're listening to The Delicious Dish Dish on National Public Radio. |
| 0:27.2 | Well, Lynn, Faith in Magora, I'm happy to say that one of our all-time favorite holidays is upon us. |
| 0:37.1 | St. Patrick's Day. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, for most of us, this lusty and raucous celebration means one thing above all else. |
| 0:46.1 | Gathering with rowdy friends to can bivoli overindulge in that nectar of the gods, |
| 0:52.9 | bicarbonate of soda. |
| 1:01.4 | This is the last laugh. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Rachel Dratch and Anna Gastire on SNL |
| 1:09.5 | as the co-hosts of NPR's The Delicious Dishish |
| 1:11.8 | Dish, after Dratch took over for Molly Shannon. |
| 1:15.3 | Rachel and Anna joined me on Zoom from an undisclosed hotel in New York to talk about |
| 1:20.4 | a cluster funk Christmas, their new meticulous parody of Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas |
| 1:25.9 | movies that premiered on Comedy Central this past weekend. |
| 1:29.3 | But mostly we talked about the ups and downs of their time on SNL. |
| 1:33.3 | Ana Gassdier joined the show in 1996, when it was making its transition from the male-dominated days of Chris Farley and Adam Sandler |
| 1:41.3 | to a cast that included a parade of hilarious women, including |
| 1:46.1 | Molly Shannon, Sherry O'Terry, and eventually Tina Faye, Amy Polar, Maya Rudolph, and Rachel Dratch, |
| 1:52.6 | who signed on in 1999. This episode contains a lot of really funny stories about SNL, from both |
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