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Barbara Walters was often impersonated with large wit and adulation, and Saturday Night Live alum Cheri Oteri’s instrumentality connected the precocious writer was the pick of the crop. To amusement however overmuch Barbara meant to her pursuing the icon’s decease astatine the property of 93, Cheri paid tribute portion appearing connected CNN’s New Year’s Eve peculiar with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.
Cheri admitted that earlier proceeding astir her passing, she had planned to bash her iconic SNL content of the icon arsenic she ‘started a podcast’ arsenic Cheri knew that determination was ‘no modern quality mean that she didn’t germinate with’. But retired of respect, she didn’t bash the impression, but alternatively paid tribute to the pistillate who was ‘part of the cloth of my childhood’ and gave her blessing to person the ‘big responsibility’ of parodying her connected the show.
Cheri Oteri, who memorably portrayed Barbara Walters connected "Saturday Night Live," remembers the TV fable pursuing her death. #CNNNYE https://t.co/oouPLpZMfq pic.twitter.com/85YYnZJd8u
— CNN (@CNN) January 1, 2023
During her tenure on SNL, Cheri performed a smorgasbord of characters and impressions, but nary different than her impersonation of Barbara Walters became the talented actress’ calling card. She wowed the unrecorded Studio 8H audiences with it a reported 23 times connected the show!
She adjacent reprised the impersonation for the 2020 CNN New Year’s Eve solemnisation hosted by Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper. “Oh, Andrew, Anderson, erstwhile again, it has been a pleasance for you to person maine connected your alcohol-laced pedestrian New Year’s Eve special during the apocalypse we call 2020,” Cheri’s Barbara said connected the broadcast. “Now I’m acrophobic I’ve got to chopped my vulnerability clip with you some short, due to the fact that I’m considered precocious hazard – or, astatine this point, conscionable high. Since we’re inactive successful the location agelong of the beatified hellhole we call 2020.”
And Barbara co-signed Cheri’s impersonation! On her last occurrence of The View successful 2014, Barbara adjacent introduced a pre-taped conception wherever she is interviewed by Cheri, who is playing Barbara! Check it retired above!
Barbara’s passing was confirmed by her rep successful a connection to HollywoodLife, which said the prima “passed distant peacefully successful her location surrounded by loved ones.” The rep added, “She lived her beingness with nary regrets. She was a trailblazer not lone for pistillate journalists, but for each women.”
Following her death, galore different celebs and journalists who had the luck of moving with the icon took to societal media to wage tribute. Read each the heartwarming messages here.
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