Maya Rudolph remembers her first appearance. The Late Show with David LettermanHe recalls that it wasn’t the best experience. The interviewer was asked to re-interview the interviewer. Saturday Night Live alum says she “did not have a good time.”
“He said my name wrong, and I just sat there, like, I grew up my whole life in love with you,”She told WSJ. Magazine. “And now my heart is broken. And I’m sitting here embarrassed and humiliated. I didn’t know how to handle it. I didn’t know how to come up with something funny to say. My public persona muscle wasn’t strong yet.”
Rudolph, however, recalls that she was able to remember the times when she had “definitely gotten much better”When she feels it. “uncomfortable”She tries “to be funny.”
Rudolph accepted Letterman’s apology for her mistaken pronunciation of her name. “I’m sorry that I mispronounced your name. I’m just a boob, there’s no excuse for it, and from the bottom of my heart, I sincerely apologize.”