Merited a place in TIME magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with an homage written by Russell Crowe. (May 2017)
In October 2014, at the age of 47, she became the oldest person to join the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975), surpassing George Coe and Michael McKean, who were both 46 when they joined the show in 1975 and 1994, respectively.