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Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer recently looked back on some of the most iconic moments of her six-year run on the show, in which she regularly impersonated Martha Stewart with her own hilarious twist.
Speaking at a panel at The Groundlings, Gasteyer spoke of Stewart with praise and shined some light on how they chose to portray the lifestyle star.
“We wanted to write [Martha] with as much integrity as possible,” she said.
Gasteyer regularly did impressions of Stewart in the style of episodes of Martha Stewart Living, in which Gasteyer offered some ominous and bizarre tips for preparing for the holidays. But Gasteyer’s most iconic moment on the show occurred in 1996, right in her first season on the show, when she appeared as Stewart offering holiday decorating tips while completely topless in a skit called “Martha Stewart’s Topless Christmas.”
The American Auto star praised Stewart, adding, “There’s a weird hot mom factor to her… sort of a ‘burlesque-y’ vibe.”
Gasteyer has long pointed to that specific skit as being the moment she knew she would be a success on the show.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 2021 about that iconic skit, Gasteyer said, “My first sense of success on the show was Martha Stewart’s Topless Christmas. When I wrote that sketch and when it played, I remember being like, ‘Oh I might not get fired.'”
There appear to be no hard feelings, however. Gasteyer and Stewart crossed paths in 2014 during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, during which Gasteyer even read an apology letter on the air.
“I actually have a public apology that I’d like to issue to Martha,” Gasteyer said at the time. “She’s backstage and hopefully not snacking on the cheese plate and she’ll hear it.”
Her apology letter read: “Dear, Martha: First of all, I apologize for not writing this letter in calligraphy. Martha, I have nothing but respect and fear for you… I apologize for the time I did my impression of you topless. This apology really isn’t for Martha but more for all the small children who were there that day.”
When Stewart later joined Gasteyer and Seth Meyers for a cooking segment, she confessed that she actually enjoyed her impressions.
After joking that Gasteyer was “very occupied writing apology letters about seven years too late,” Stewart added, “Actually, I love your impersonations of me. They were very, very accurate.”
