Conan O’Brien recounted a story that Tina Fey might wish had stayed untold.
During Monday’s episode of his podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend,” the former late-night host shared with guest Amy Poehler an anecdote about recently seeing Tina Fey and her husband, composer and actor Jeff Richmond, at “Saturday Night Live.”
“And I’m sorry, Jeff, but my mind immediately goes back to when we first used Jeff Richmond, and he played Cupid,” O’Brien said. “He was in a diaper, suspended on a rope, holding a bow and arrow, with some glitter in his hair and no shirt.”
According to O’Brien, Fey was less than thrilled to see her husband “kind of just awkwardly spinning at rehearsal” in the “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” sketch.
“Tina had walked past a monitor, and she went, ‘That’s my husband, you f***er. What have you done to him?’” O’Brien recalled.
Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond in 2024. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
CNN has reached out to representatives of Fey for comment.
The incident was brought up on O’Brien’s late-night show when Fey later appeared as a guest in 2001.
Fey explained to O’Brien that she knew Richmond from Chicago, where he had been a director for the renowned Second City comedy troupe.
O’Brien then aired a clip of Richmond dressed as Cupid (though not suspended), rambling off various venereal diseases.
“That’s no joke,” Fey responded. “Me and him are going to make a baby someday!”
