SNL’s Cheri Oteri on The View, Barbara Walters, Jennifer Coolidge & more

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Jess is joined by SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE character queen CHERI OTERI! Cheri recounts being discovered at The Groundlings alongside Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Griffin and fellow SNL hopefuls Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan and Jennifer Coolidge. Topics: origins of her Barbara Walters impression, the cutthroat pressure between cast & writers for airtime, Jim Carrey’s iconic episode and working w/ Betty White (Hot in Cleveland) & Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm).

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0:00.0	Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives. And my next guest is someone I grew up watching every single week on Saturday Night Live.
0:23.6	She created iconic characters like the cheerleaders with Will Ferrell and her impression of Barbara Walters has stood the test of time since the debut of The View.
0:33.6	She's made appearances on Strangers with Candy, hot in Cleveland, Curb Your Enthusiasm.
0:39.5	Hi, Sherryot Terry.
0:40.9	Hi.
0:42.3	How are you?
0:43.9	I'm very good.
0:45.0	Thank you.
0:46.0	I guess we'll just start with how has your week been going.
0:48.8	Generally speaking, how are you?
0:51.5	Okay.
0:52.1	I'm fine.
0:53.6	Let me see.
0:54.8	I just got it, had to get a new roof put on my house and new gutters and new gutters.
1:00.2	And it's so funny, in all of my life, I don't think I've ever looked at anybody's roof.
1:04.8	And now I'm looking at everybody's roof and seeing how mine compare.
1:09.8	And it's almost like, as much as you spend on a new roof, I want to have people over to
1:13.5	look at the roof.
1:16.1	It's like, there's so much tree covering it.
1:19.2	I'm like, I need to cut these, spend more money to cut the trees down so everybody
1:22.9	can see the freaking roof.
1:24.0	Well, and also so much money went into it.
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