Sarah Sherman started hysterically sobbing after her SNL checks were sent to late comedy icons estate

Sarah Sherman is recounting a heartbreaking moment.The “Saturday Night Live” star, 32, recently revealed a cosmic connection she had to the late Gilda Radner, who appeared on the sketch comedy show from 1975 to 1980, before her 1989 death from ovarian cancer at age 42.“I got a giant envelope in the mail,” Sherman recounted on Vulture’s “Good One” podcast last week, “with a handwritten letter that was like, ‘Hey, I’m Gilda Radner’s brother.

Weird thing happened where I’ve been receiving all of your residuals checks for the past few months.'”Sherman broke down after receiving the message from the beloved comic’s sibling.“I started, like, hysterically sobbing, obviously,” she confessed.“Because I’m like, ‘Okay, God’s speaking to me right now.’ The fact that my SAG residuals checks had been sent to Gilda Radner’s estate?”Sherman immediately told “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels.“I texted Lorne [and] I was like, ‘Oh my God, my checks have been sent to Gilder Radner’s estate! Isn’t this like a crazy coincidence?'” the actress explained.

“‘I feel like this is like a miracle or like I feel like this is a spirit is talking.'”“Obviously, that’s a schizophrenic text message,” she quipped.But Michaels, 80, simply replied: “That’s sweet.”Radner was the first person to be hired for Season 1 of “Saturday Night Live” alongside Garrett Morris, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Chevy Chase and Laraine Newman.The fallen star was on air for five seasons, bringing fan-favorite characters to life, such as Lisa Loopner of “The Nerds,” Roseanne Roseannadanna and Baba Wawa — her Barbara Walters parody,Radner took home an Emmy for her work on “SNL” in 1978.Sherman, meanwhile, joined the NBC series during Season 47 in October 2021.The “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” actress came under fire in April for her “White Lotus” parody that left Aimee Lou Wood feeling hurt.Despite...