'They were like, 'She's not going to be in the sketch. She's not going to do it,. And I was like, 'She'll do it. Let me go talk to her.''
appear as a prim character named Jennifer set to lead the school's choir in a performance of"The Little Drummer Boy." Mary Katherine Gallagher played Jennifer's foil, comically interrupting the latter's every note and shoving in front of her on stage. Rosie O'Donnell also appeared in the sketch as the stern choir director, with Penny Marshall playing an aloof accompanist.
"Sometimes I would see where they would approach the musical guests and they would have too many lines or it's too confusing," Shannon explained to Stern."I thought 'they don't want to have all this pressure memorizing these lines, right?' So I just told Whitney 'look, I'm gonna play the Catholic school girl. You're gonna be like, snotty girl and it's all you have. To do is just do whatever you want.
Coaxing Houston into appearing in the bit proved to be just one of Shannon's challenges when things came down to the wire. “The night that it was the sketch was on she was not there yet. And I was like, ‘Oh no,’" Shannon explained, adding that her fellow cast member on the show,
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