Award-winning actress Tiny Fey regrets the ending of her Charlottesville sketch last summer on "Saturday Night Live," telling David Letterman she would have made the ending stronger if she could do it again.
"I felt like a gymnast who did a really solid routine and on the ending broke her ankle," Fey told Letterman during an interview on his new Netflix show, "My Next Guest Needs no Introduction."
Fey, a University of Virginia graduate, performed the sketch reacting to the fatal clashes between neo-Nazis and protesters over the summer that left a counter-protester dead. Fey told Letterman she regrets "the last two or three sentences of the piece."
The sketch ends with Fey stuffing her mouth with cake, warning about more neo-Nazi protests that were scheduled to take place:
"In conclusion, I really wanna say, to encourage all good sane Americans to treat these rallies this weekend like the opening of a thoughtful movie with two female leads — don't show up. Let these morons scream into the empty air. I love you Charlottesville, and as Thomas Jefferson once said, 'Who's that hot light-skinned girl over by the butter churn?'"
"The implication was that I was telling people to give up and to not be active," Fey told Letterman. "That was not my intention, obviously. … If I had a time machine, I would end the piece by saying, 'Fight them in every way except the way that they want.'
"I wanted to help, and I chumped it," Fey told Letterman.
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