Funny Girls

June, 1998

One-minute-20 to the 'French Whore,"' announces a Saturday Night Live stage manager. Cheri Oteri, in black lace, her left arm in a sling, prepares for a game-show sketch in which she plays Babette, a 58-year-old Parisian prostitute. Next to the coffee machine Molly Shannon rehearses her send-up of Monica Lewinsky peddling her forthcoming tell-all book, How to Give the President a Hummer. (She prefers to call it Mouth Love.) Nearby, Ana Gasteyer massages a joke with a writer for her portraya...

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