Tina Fey

Then-newcomer Tina Fey was ordered to have a word with Saturday Night Live guest host Sylvester Stallone over his words ― he wasn’t pronouncing them clearly enough.

Reminiscing in a recent instalment of SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, Tina described her awkward debut as a writer in 1997.

The Rocky star had played up verbal mannerisms in his movies, and perhaps they were getting in the way of a sketch for the ’97 season premiere.

“I think possibly my first week as a writer, Sylvester Stallone [hosted] and a note came back that was, ‘Tell him he needs to enunciate more. We can’t understand him’. And then the writer that I was working with, he was more experienced, and he’s like ‘OK, you go do it,’”........

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