Biografie

Was promoted from featured player to full cast member on Saturday Night Live (1975) in the middle of her first year on the show (2001-2002). The only other SNL cast member to have this distinction is Eddie Murphy during the 1980-1981 season.

Is only seven years older than Rachel McAdams, who plays her daughter in Girls Club - Vorsicht bissig! (2004).

She succeeded Jimmy Fallon (who left after season 29) as Tina Fey's co-anchor of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update sketch and making this the first all-female team beginning on the 30th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live (1975).

Best friends with Tina Fey and Seth Meyers. Friends with Rashida Jones.

Was four months pregnant with her son Abel when she completed filming on the second season of Parks and Recreation (2009).

No one looks stupid when they're having fun!

Be yourself. No one else can be you.

[at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards] Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu and I hear she's amazing in it.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

[a metaphor for the end of her marriage] The process of divorce is about loading a blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.