Jane Curtin is comedy royalty. One of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players on Saturday Night Live when the show launched in 1975, she made her mark as one of the era’s go-to straightmen. At the Weekend Update desk, she sparred with Dan Aykroyd, who she’d don a prosthetic with for the beloved Coneheads sketches, a bit that was later made into a movie. She won back-to-back Emmys for her role as wry single mother Allison Lowell on the beloved ’80s sitcom Kate & Allie, and returned to television in the late ’90s with 3rd Rock From The Sun. More recently, she’s been cast in a number of movies as a quirky but hilarious mother to everyone from Paul Rudd and Andy Samberg to Melissa McCarthy, a nod in some sense to the passing of the comedic torch from generation to generation.
Curtin’s latest project is Godmothered, which premieres on Disney+ December 4. In it, she plays Moira, who both leads and educates all fairy godmothers-albeit in ways that seem to have made wishing for a fairy godmother wildly unfashionable in 2020. The A.V. Club sat down with Curtin to talk about some highlights from her long and groundbreaking career on both the big and small screens.
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