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12-05-2024, 05:30 PM
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How Jeff Daniels used a clip of Valerie Bertinelli to perfect a last-minute Jay Leno impression on SNL (https://ew.com/how-valerie-bertinelli-helped-jeff-daniels-perfect-jay-leno-snl-impression-8756389)
>>>In 1991, Jeff Daniels was called upon by the comedy gods, or at least Lorne Michaels, to do a last-minute impression of Jay Leno for his guest hosting gig on Saturday Night Live. The only problem was that Daniels had never done a Jay Leno impression, or any impression, for that matter.
Valerie Bertinelli and the word "Lamborghini" helped him nail his Leno just in time to go live from New York, Daniels recalls in Alive and Well Enough Continues, the second season of his audio-only memoir released through Audible.<<<
>>>Back at his hotel, Daniels had 15 sketches to memorize and a VHS tape of Leno hosting a recent episode of The Tonight Show. Try as he might, the versatile actor could not nail down Leno's voice. So he popped in that VHS and watched Leno interview his first guest, Valerie Bertinelli. The host asked Bertinelli about her then- husband Eddie Van Halen, who had just celebrated a birthday. Leno asked the One Day at a Time actress what she had gotten him: a Lamborghini.
An astonished Leno repeated the word "Lamborghini!" in such a way that it gave Daniels the in he needed to perfect his Leno impression.<<<
How Jeff Daniels used a clip of Valerie Bertinelli to perfect a last-minute Jay Leno impression on SNL (https://ew.com/how-valerie-bertinelli-helped-jeff-daniels-perfect-jay-leno-snl-impression-8756389)
>>>In 1991, Jeff Daniels was called upon by the comedy gods, or at least Lorne Michaels, to do a last-minute impression of Jay Leno for his guest hosting gig on Saturday Night Live. The only problem was that Daniels had never done a Jay Leno impression, or any impression, for that matter.
Valerie Bertinelli and the word "Lamborghini" helped him nail his Leno just in time to go live from New York, Daniels recalls in Alive and Well Enough Continues, the second season of his audio-only memoir released through Audible.<<<
>>>Back at his hotel, Daniels had 15 sketches to memorize and a VHS tape of Leno hosting a recent episode of The Tonight Show. Try as he might, the versatile actor could not nail down Leno's voice. So he popped in that VHS and watched Leno interview his first guest, Valerie Bertinelli. The host asked Bertinelli about her then- husband Eddie Van Halen, who had just celebrated a birthday. Leno asked the One Day at a Time actress what she had gotten him: a Lamborghini.
An astonished Leno repeated the word "Lamborghini!" in such a way that it gave Daniels the in he needed to perfect his Leno impression.<<<