What Up With That? (Presidents’ Day Edition) I genuinely felt joyful.”īest moment: The smile on Rudolph’s face as she dances with Armisen’s Obama while the “Cosby” theme music plays. It goes: My children’s births, ‘Cosby.’ No. Doing that dance like she did during the opening credits was one of the most exciting life moments. Rudolph plays Michelle Obama by way of Phylicia Rashad. The first lady’s effort to call attention to childhood obesity incorporates a new half-hour family comedy. It’s just a stupid, dumb voice, but it gets her every time.”īest moment: Shonda and Vonda highlight the benefits of a lifetime supply of chicken.

Something about that voice … it’s a voice we do when we’re joking around with each other in life. It tripped some sort of wire in her where she couldn’t stop. I heard it, this laugh of hers that comes from the throat. When we were coming out in the golf cart, I looked at her and I knew. It tickled a funny bone where Kristen got the giggles -– even in rehearsal. Rudolph: “There was something crazy about that sketch from the beginning. Wiig and Bill Hader find it impossible to keep it together. Trouble comes when they try to showcase the prizes. Rudolph and Kristen Wiig play game show models Shonda and Vonda. For proper effect, just make sure to draw out the two syllables in “whimsy.” “I get a lot of people quoting that line to me now,” Rudolph says. Was this an act of malice?” asks a bewildered West. She’s magical to me.”īest moment: Angelou tampers with the briefcase of Dr. She’s so incredibly regal and beautiful and smart. Once again, here you are trying to imitate one of these people you love. I don’t do her justice, but I was trying. Rudolph: “It was just so great that the message of it was about honor. Maya has four children with her partner, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.Taking a page from “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers,” Rudolph imagines a “Punk’d”-style show run by an even more unlikely host. In 2006, she co-starred in the film A Prairie Home Companion (2006), directed by the legendary Robert Altman and based on the NPR show by Garrison Keillor. Famous sketches include a dead-on impression of fashion diva Donatella Versace high school flake 'Megan', the host of her own morning talk show, 'Wake-up WakeField' and one of the members of the R&B parody 'Gemini's Twin'. On May 6, 2000, Maya joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975), and became one of that show's most popular performers. When The Rentals disbanded, Maya decided to pursue her dream of a career in comedy, joining the famed troupe 'The Groundlings'. Maya began touring with the group, singing backup and playing Moog synthesizer. Maya was featured on the 1999 release 'Seven More Minutes', where she sang backup vocals on 'Barcelona' and 'My Head is in the Sun'. After graduation in 1994, Maya left the band and soon joined The Rentals, fronted by Weezer bassist Matt Sharp. It was here that Maya formed the band 'Supersauce' with fellow students.

In 1990, Maya enrolled at the University of California at Santa Cruz, majoring in photography. The Paltrows and the Rudolphs became family friends and, in 2000, Richard Rudolph and Maya filled the role of music supervisors on the Bruce Paltrow-directed film Duets (2000), which starred Gwyneth.

Augustine by the Sea School, where she met childhood friend, Gwyneth Paltrow. Here Minnie recorded 'Lovin' You', her most famous single, in which one can hear her sing 'Maya, Maya, Maya' at the end of the song Riperton said that the song was used as a lullaby for Maya. In 1973, Maya, her parents, and her older brother, Marc Rudolph, moved to California to further Minnie's music career. Her mother was African-American and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Lithuania, Russia, Germany, and Hungary). Maya Rudolph was born on Jin Gainesville, Florida, to Richard Rudolph, a music producer, and soul singer Minnie Riperton.

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