By the nature of it being live, it's immediate and it's probably riskier,” Gasteyer says of SNL. “There's not a lot of time spent hand-wringing and wondering if someone's going to be offended.”

Live from New York, it was not Martha Stewart. During a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the lifestyle expert was asked if she’d ever host “Saturday Night Live.” “I wanted to and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson,

Martha Stewart has revealed that she was once asked to host “Saturday Night Live,” but her parole officer wouldn’t allow it. During an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” on Monday, Stewart said she got the call from Lorne Michaels after her release from prison in 2005.