Oy vey! Saturday Night Live alum Laraine Newman revealed on Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday night (Feb. 11) that she dodged Barbra Streisand‘s attempt to confront her about her impression of her at a bar mitzvah years ago.
The reveal arrived when Newman and fellow SNL icons Ana Gasteyer, Cecily Strong, Cheri Oteri and Rachel Dratch stopped by the clubhouse, where host Andy Cohen asked whether they have ever been confronted by a star they impersonated on the show.
While all five comics signaled that this has happened to them, Newman was the first to share that the Funny Girl star had tried to approach her about her 1977 impression.
“[Writer] Marilyn Miller wrote this incredible song called ‘Me,’” she remembered, referring to the former SNL writer. “And the lyrics are great. You know, ‘Even if one of my films sucks, it still makes four million bucks for me.’ And she hadn’t seen it.”
Things took a turn when Newman was attending her “son’s friend’s bar mitzvah,” where Streisand was performing.
“She says, ‘I wanna talk to you,’” she continued. “I left. I didn’t wanna talk to her.”
The others named Judge Judy (Oteri), Judge Jeanine Pirro (Strong), Calista Flockhart (Dratch), and Martha Stewart, Celine Dion, and Jo Anne Worley (Gasteyer) as some of the stars who have addressed their impressions with them, though most were positive interactions. Other SNL icons have dealt with such confrontations face to face this week as they promote the show’s 50th anniversary celebration.
On Monday (Feb. 10), Amy Poehler co-hosted Today with Jenna & Friends with Jenna Bush Hager, whom Poehler impersonated in the 2005 sketch “The Bush Twins’ Secret Language” alongside Tina Fey as Bush Hager’s sister, Barbara. While Poehler admitted she was “totally sweating” watching the sketch back with Bush Hager, Bush Hager was a good sport, though she teased, “I could have been there, I wish you would have called me for research!”
Meanwhile Leslie Jones joined The View‘s Hot Topics Table on Wednesday (Feb. 12), where Whoopi Goldberg chatted with Jones about her and Kenan Thompson‘s impressions of the Hot Topics table.
