Fran Lebowitz breaks down why she has zero interest in watching the SNL sketch skewering her

NBC’s Saturday Night Live returned for its first show of 2021, where, during its Weekend Update segment, there was a sketch skewering Fran Lebowitz (played by Bowen Yang) and Martin Scorsese (played by Kyle Mooney).

The real Lebowitz and Scorsese are featured in the new Netflix series Pretend It’s a City, where the writer expounds on several topics with Scorsese.

While speaking with Andy Cohen on his Radio Andy Sirius XM show, Lebowitz explained why she has no desire to watch the sketch at all.

Sketch: NBC’s Saturday Night Live returned for its first show of 2021, where, during its Weekend Update segment, there was a sketch skewering Fran Lebowitz (played by Bowen Yang) and Martin Scorsese (played by Kyle Mooney)

No desire: While speaking with Andy Cohen on his Radio Andy Sirius XM show, Lebowitz explained why she has no desire to watch the sketch at all

No desire: While speaking with Andy Cohen on his Radio Andy Sirius XM show, Lebowitz explained why she has no desire to watch the sketch at all

The sketch largely skewered Scorsese for seemingly cracking up hysterically at every one of Lebowitz’s jokes in the Netflix series.

Cohen mentioned that you know you’ve made it ‘big’ when SNL skewers you, and asked Lebowitz if she had seen the sketch.

‘I did not see it. I didn’t know anything about it,’ she said, adding she shut her phone off to go to sleep, only to wake up the next morning to several messages. 

Skewers: The sketch largely skewered Scorsese for seemingly cracking up hysterically at every one of Lebowitz's jokes in the Netflix series

Skewers: The sketch largely skewered Scorsese for seemingly cracking up hysterically at every one of Lebowitz’s jokes in the Netflix series

‘I went into the kitchen where there’s my answering machine, a device, which you may have to describe to your listeners,’ she joked of the antiquated device.

‘There were messages on it, and I thought something horrible happened, someone died, you know? And so I got these messages. But no, I didn’t see, I have no way of seeing it, and that’s OK,’ she added.

Lebowitz mentions in the interview that she doesn’t have a cell phone, computer, or even internet access in her New York City apartment.

Antiquated: 'I went into the kitchen where there’s my answering machine, a device, which you may have to describe to your listeners,' she joked of the antiquated device

Antiquated: ‘I went into the kitchen where there’s my answering machine, a device, which you may have to describe to your listeners,’ she joked of the antiquated device

When asked if she has any ‘curiosity’ about the sketch, she said she does not, for one simple reason. 

‘I generally don’t like to watch myself and this has always been true, even when I looked a lot better,’ she began.

‘I don’t like to watch myself. I don’t like to hear my voice. I would never watch myself on television when I know I’m on television,’ she added.

Sketch curiosity: When asked if she has any 'curiosity' about the sketch, she said she does not, for one simple reason

Sketch curiosity: When asked if she has any ‘curiosity’ about the sketch, she said she does not, for one simple reason

She explained that, when people ask why she doesn’t like to watch herself, she replied, ‘Well, I know what I said, and I don’t want to watch it.’

‘I’m trying to guess if I had known it was going to be on, would I have watched it? I probably would not have, but I would have at least known it was going to be on. So I really knew nothing about this,’ Lenowitz clarified.

She added that SNL, ‘certainly didn’t alert me that this was going to be on,’ and that she was ‘surprised by it.’

Known: 'I’m trying to guess if I had known it was going to be on, would I have watched it? I probably would not have, but I would have at least known it was going to be on. So I really knew nothing about this,' Lenowitz clarified

Known: ‘I’m trying to guess if I had known it was going to be on, would I have watched it? I probably would not have, but I would have at least known it was going to be on. So I really knew nothing about this,’ Lenowitz clarified

No alert: She added that SNL, 'certainly didn’t alert me that this was going to be on,' and that she was 'surprised by it'

No alert: She added that SNL, ‘certainly didn’t alert me that this was going to be on,’ and that she was ‘surprised by it’