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Hillary Clinton wasn’t impressed by Julia Sweeney’s 1993 “Saturday Night Live” impression of her then-teenage daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
Sweeney, 63, recalled the sketch while appearing on Wednesday’s episode of fellow “SNL” alums Dana Carvey and David Spade’s “Fly on the Wall” podcast during a conversation about the show’s lack of female representation in the early ’90s. The group discussed how political figures, like Hilary and Sarah Palin, presented the show an opportunity to include women in sketches.
Spade then jogged Sweeney’s memory, recounting that she once played Chelsea, who was 13 years old at the time, stressing that her portrayal “rubbed somebody wrong.”
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“Yeah, Hillary,” Sweeney replied, revealing that the politician and former secretary of state “wrote a letter” to “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels, criticizing the sketch.
“People were saying how unattractively I was playing Chelsea and all I did was not wear makeup and put braces on,” Sweeney recalled. “If you say that, you’re saying I’m unattractive!
“I wasn’t trying to play her unattractive,” the comedian reiterated, explaining: “I just didn’t wear makeup and put on braces. That was it, and a wig. A long wig.”
Despite the misinterpretation, Sweeney admitted the show “was wrong” for going through with the sketch, part of the January 1993 episode hosted by “Pulp Fiction” star, Harvey Keitel.
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“I understood what Hillary was saying, especially now that I’m a parent. It’s like, yeah f**k off,” she said. “I mean, don’t play kids. That was
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SNL, after an impression of her teenage daughter was broadcast.The news that the former US presidential candidate wrote in to the show was shared by Saturday Night Live star Julia Sweeney, who spoke about the incident in a recent interview.Sweeney – who worked on the show between 1990 and 1994 – was appearing on the Fly On The Wall podcast recently when she took a look back at one of her more-controversial skits, which saw her get in hot water from the former First Lady.Here, she recalled the time she did an impression of Clinton’s then-teenage daughter Chelsea on the show, which soon “rubbed somebody wrong”.“People were saying how unattractively I was playing Chelsea, and all I did was not wear makeup and put braces on,” she told Dana Carvey and David Spade, who were hosting the podcast. “If you say that, you’re saying I’m unattractive!”“I wasn’t trying to play [Chelsea] unattractive” she insisted.
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But her letters.Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Julia Sweeney revealed Wednesday that Hillary Clinton once sent a letter to the producer of the show expressing disapproval over the portrayal of her teenage daughter, Chelsea.Sweeney, 63, made the startling revelation on the “Fly on the Wall” podcast after co-host David Spade, 59, recalled the 1993 skit where the actress portrayed the former First Daughter and how it “rubbed somebody wrong.” “Yeah, Hillary,” responded Sweeney, adding that the former presidential candidate complained about the skit. The contents of Clinton’s letter were not shared on the podcast. The scene, entitled “Inaugural Ball,” aired shortly after Bill Clinton’s election as US president.
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