This 12 months’s milestone fiftieth anniversary celebration of Saturday Evening Stay probably felt like a household reunion for Abby Elliott.
After her four-season run on the NBC sketch comedy present from 2008 to 2012, the Golden Globe nominee not too long ago opened up about her household’s legacy on the present, which incorporates dad Chris Elliott‘s 1994-’95 run and her uncle Steve Higgins‘ was co-head author from 1995 to ’97, having since served as a producer on SNL.
“I imply, it’s wild,” she stated on SiriusXM’s The Julia Cunningham Present, noting that Higgins is “my mother’s sister’s husband. … I imply, one thing within the Niedert girls. I imply, they have to identical to humorous males.”
Abby’s cousin and Steve’s son John Higgins has been on the present since 2021, showing as a part of the comedy trio Please Don’t Destroy. The group often pokes enjoyable at their very own “nepo child” standing, with Martin Herlihy, who’s former SNL author/producer Tim Herlihy’s son.
Admitting that holidays with the household are “actually enjoyable,” Abby stated, “We wish to celebration and have enjoyable. And it’s a time the place nobody’s making an attempt to, you realize, do bits ’trigger it’s like chill time. It’s household time to relax. However we dance, we have now dance events.”
Abby Elliott as Rachel Maddow on the Nov. 20, 2010 episode of ‘Saturday Evening Stay’ (Dana Edelson/NBC/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Chris has beforehand famous he had a “horrible time” on the long-running Lorne Michaels present after he was first supplied a spot in 1985 however turned it down because of his job on Late Evening with David Letterman, the place he met Abby’s mother, expertise booker Paula Niedert.
“I all the time need to preface this by saying that each one the solid, they actually preferred me, they had been all very nice,” he informed Salon in 2012. “I feel I simply went there once I was too previous. I had already achieved Get a Life, Cabin Boy and 9 years working for Dave, and I used to be amazed that folks like Chris Farley and Adam Sandler had been nonetheless competing for airtime on the present, which is the method there.”
Chris added, “It’s a very unhealthy course of. You’re doing comedy however you’re competing together with your fellow solid members for airtime. I had by no means labored in an surroundings like that.”
