Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast attracts an ongoing string of A-list celebrity guests — but Martha Stewart likely won’t be showing up any time soon.
Poehler, 54, joked while interviewing fellow Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer on the Tuesday, December 23, episode that she’s too afraid to interview Stewart, 84, due to years of SNL impressions that poke fun at Stewart’s mannerisms.
“Martha, I’m not going to invite you on the show because I’m too scared but please listen and know that you’re something else,” Poehler quipped as she and Gasteyer, 58, reflected on how to perfect a Stewart impersonation.
While both Poehler and Gasteyer revealed they were both “obsessed” with the culinary queen, the pair, who were SNL castmates in the early 2000s, said that a motionless mouth is key while mimicking Stewart’s on-camera presence.
“When we’re doing Martha, what are we doing with her lips? And how do we talk?” Poehler asked Gasteyer, who said that Stewart is “very aware of how the camera is going to look on her.”
Poehler joked, “It’s a barely moving mouth … we’re going to make a Christmas meal and barely nothing’s going to move.”
The twosome’s hilarious discussion wasn’t the first “Good Hang” interview to feature Stewart, who hosted Martha Stewart Living for TV in the late 1990s before The Martha Stewart Show took off in 2005 and ran until 2012.
During the July 15 episode, which featured comedian Cole Escola, Poehler and Escola, 39, discussed his adoration for Stewart which sparked jokes from the pair.
“I want to serve cold mashed potatoes to dying Martha Stewart,” Escola quipped. “That’s my dream dinner party. Her last bite. I would get to say, like, you know I served Martha her last bite.”
Poehler then joked that Stewart’s response would be something like, “Mmm, cold.”
Stewart addressed how others impersonate her during a January appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Fallon, 51, broached the topic, pointing out that Stewart had been impersonated “nine times” on SNL by former and current castmates including Poehler, Gasteyer, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Rachel Dratch and guest hosts Janeane Garofalo and David Spade.
“He’s my favorite,” Stewart said, pointing to a photo of Spade, 61, while in character on SNL. “He was wearing my poncho. The real poncho.”
She also confirmed that she enjoyed watching impressions of herself, telling Fallon, “I love it. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. You might as well be imitated.”
Fallon also asked whether Stewart would ever want to serve as a guest host on the live NBC program, to which she joked that she’d once put her hand up for the gig despite tricky timing on her part. “I wanted to and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson, that camp that I was in for a while, and my parole officer wouldn’t give me the time to do it,” Stewart told Fallon, who laughed along with his audience. “I was allowed to be out of my house eight hours a day. That bastard [the parole officer]. I’m so pissed. Maybe someday. I would be amazing.”
Stewart’s Alderson remarks referenced her five-month incarceration at Alderson’s Federal Prison Camp which lasted from October 2004 to March 2005. She was placed behind bars on charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justice in relation to an insider trading scandal.
