Katy Perry Said Lorne Michaels Paid Her the Ultimate Compliment After an ‘SNL’ Appearance

Katy Perry has been a guest on Saturday Night Live multiple times over the years and has gotten to know the cast well. Not long after one of her appearances, Perry spoke to SNL cast member Kristen Wiig. She discussed the experience of being on the show, as well as a compliment Lorne Michaels paid her. Perry explained why it shocked her.

Katy Perry said Lorne Michaels gave her a glowing compliment after ‘SNL’

After appearing as the musical guest on SNL in 2010, Perry hosted the show for the first time in Dec. 2011. She enjoyed her time working on the show. She said she also grew to love producer Michaels, who paid her a major compliment at the after-party.

“I really started to adore Lorne, too,” she told Wiig in a conversation for Interview Magazine . “At the after-party, he said something very sweet to me where he put me in the same sentence as Barbra Streisand. I was like, What? It was so nice.”

Perry wouldn’t repeat the compliment, though. She didn’t want to irritate Streisand’s fans.

“I don’t want to repeat what he said because I don’t want her fans to revolt,” she said. “What are her fans called ? Streisanders? Streisies? I can’t imagine her ever addressing her fans as Streisies.”

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Perry said that one of her favorite moments of hosting the show came when she gave Wiig a friendship bracelet.

“But my favorite part of doing SNL was definitely when I got to give you a best-friend necklace in front of my real best friend,” she said, adding, “She was sitting right there. She’s a cute, funny little girl. She’s an actress as well. I had told her that I had made this necklace for you, but I’d never given one to her or anything … It was so beyond rude and awesome at the same time.”

The first time Perry appeared on the show, Wiig gave her a present that referenced one of the singer’s tweets.

“I said something like, ‘It’d be a dream come true to have a lock of Kristen Wiig’s hair to put under my pillow,’” she recalled. “So when I did the show, you gave me a little card with a sweet message and a tiny lock of hair with a little baby-blue bow attached.”

She said the show was more work than she realized

While Perry enjoyed her experience on the show, she admitted it was hard work .

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“I thought it was really fun, and, of course, interesting and educational in terms of how the industry works . . . You know how they call SNL ‘the institution?’ It is like an institution — but in a good way,” she said. “There’s nothing like it, so everyone kind of dreams about doing it. But then you actually get there and realize how much work it is and how little time you guys have to put the whole show together … I think we had three consecutive 20-hour days or something.”

Perry went on to appear as the musical guest again, but this was her only time hosting.