“The more uncomfortable he is, the more weird he is, the funnier he is,” she said. Sheindlin (Judge Judy) far preferred her improvised performance on “Curb” over her scripted one on “Saturday Night Live.”“I didn’t sleep for days beforehand,” she said of her “S.N.L.” role. “They kept saying, ‘No, do it this way, say it that way,’ and I had to do several takes,” she said. When Lucy Lawless came on to play David’s love interest, she said, Schaffer and the former “Curb” writer Alec Berg were off to the side, offering feedback in between takes. “‘And instead of saying you don’t like Ted Danson, this time play that you do.

Source: New York Times October 15, 2020 15:11 UTC