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Tina Fey doesn’t play around when it comes to her marriage.
More than 20 years ago, Tina Fey, who is 54 years old, was upset when her husband, Jeff Richmond, was featured in a humiliating sketch on Conan O’Brien’s “Late Night” show. On a recent episode of his podcast, Conan O’Brien reminisced about the incident.
During a conversation with Amy Poehler on his podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” O’Brien, who is 61 years old, mentioned running into Tina Fey and her husband Jeff Richmond at “SNL.” O’Brien apologized to Jeff for immediately recalling the sketch in which Jeff, a talented and successful composer who is now 64 years old, portrayed Cupid.
O’Brien vividly remembered the 2001 sketch in which Jeff Richmond was dressed in a diaper, suspended from a rope holding a bow and arrow, with glitter in his hair and shirtless. The comedic sketch left a lasting impression on O’Brien and Fey.
“He’s kind of just spinning at rehearsal awkwardly,” O’Brien explained, adding that he “didn’t know” who Richmond was at the time.
“Tina had passed a monitor, and she went, ‘That’s my husband, you f—er. What have you done to him?’” O’Brien said.
The comedian added of Richmond, “I don’t care what he does. He’ll get an Oscar for scoring something, and I’ll still think, ‘Heh, you were Cupid.’”
Fey and O’Brien previously addressed Richmond’s “Late Night” bit when Fey made her first appearance as a guest on the show in 2001.
“He doesn’t like for me to be the only bread winner in our little family,” said Fey, who was engaged to Richmond at the time. “So he likes to work and have his own money, because he has a big sense of pride and dignity, so he does bits on your show sometimes.”
O’Brien then showed a clip of Richmond’s sketch, featuring the shirtless composer wearing a white diaper, cupid wings and a blonde wig while holding a bow, and reading out a list of sexually transmitted diseases to the camera.
“Me and him gonna make a baby some day!” Fey joked. “I’m gonna make a baby with that man.”
Fey and Richmond began dating in 1994 when they were both working at Second City in Chicago.
“I don’t want to say she was funny ‘for a woman,’ but there were so many talented men there at the time, and then suddenly there was Tina, who was so funny — and she was at home with all those boys on the stage,” Richmond told The New Yorker in 2003.
The couple tied the knot in a Greek Orthodox ceremony in June 2001. They went on to welcome two daughters, Alice, 19, and Penelope, 12.