That is so difficult.
Tina Fey, 54, praised her former boss Lorne Michaels as “irreplaceable” after suggesting that the “student” Saturday Night Live “could easily be” taking care of the iconic sketch show when he retires.
“It’s irreplaceable,” Fey told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. “Your set of gifts and skills is completely unique.
Fey did not comment if he would take the job if he was given the opportunity.
The creator of “30 Rock” added that he was “kind of his part” giving the cry, but does not think that the 80 -year -old comedy executive should still leave the concert.
Fey was in conversations to take the future showrunner once the visionary producer decided to retire, a source exclusively told The Post in July 2023.
Michaels, who has a leg leading “SNL” since its inception in 1975, said that Fey is “brilliant” and that it would be a great successor, but the creator of multiple words was not the only person who would be consulted for the position.
“It could be easily Tina Fey, but you know, there are many people who are now that they are also, you know,” Michaels told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet of the Emmy 2024 awards.
“I will say that I feel that there are very few things that Tina would do well in this world,” he told The Hollywood Reporter to The Hollywood Reporter to The Hollywood Reporter.
The pioneer showrunner has not announced plans to withdraw from the NBC comedy program, but previously hinted that it could deliver the reins after the 50th anniversary, which was held in February.
“I have the feeling that it would be a very good time to leave,” Michaels told CBS Mornings in 2021. “But here is the point: I won the program to be bad. I care too much.
The nine -time Emmy winner worked as a receptionist in an YMCA to pay the improvisation classes in “The Second City” before Michaels hired her to be a writer in New York City in 1997.
Two years later, Fey quickly became the main writer of “SNL”.
Shortly after the promotion, it became an “weekend update” with Jimmy Fallon and any Poehler.
The comedian left the night sketches show in 2006 and wrote the cult film “Mean Girls and created shows such as” 30 Rock “and” Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt “while continued his career on the screen attracting in movements,” MPPPETS “