‘Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne Lampoons Netflix, Is Impersonated By Maya Rudolph & Fred Armisen In ‘SNL’ Monologue
deadline.comRussian Doll’s co-creator and star Natasha Lyonne tonight hosted her first episode of SNL, speaking in her opening monologue about her Netflix series and more.“Gosh, will you look at this?
I’m hosting the season finale of Saturday Night Live. For a real New Yorker like me, that’s big,” Lyonne said up top. “I have a show called Russian Doll.
The second season…just premiered on Netflix, and two things you really want to be associated with right now are Russia and Netflix.Lyonne went on to say that she’s “genuinely humbled” to be hosting NBC’s sketch series and that the truth is, she feels “a cosmic connection” to it. “The people here are my real-life chosen family.
I’ve been coming here since I was a teenager,” remarked Lyonne. “I co-created Russian Doll with Amy Poehler, and I have great friends from the show…”Coming to the stage at this point were SNL alums Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen, who asked Lyonne if she was busy, then proceeding to do their impressions of the host. (This consisted of the pair saying expressions like “Ipso facto” and “Cock-a-roach” with a raspy voice and squinted eyes.)Following Armisen and Rudolph’s exit from the stage, Lyonne shared that she’d previously dated the former for a period of seven years.
Read more on deadline.com