Looking back 20 years after her Saturday Night Live days, Tina Fey reflected on the serious current events they turned into comedy.

The 55-year-old actress and comedian confessed that some jokes she made on the sketch comedy show didn’t age well, saying she was "on the wrong side", but emphasised that the NBC series doesn’t aim to control political narratives.

In chat with History Talks, the two time Golden Globe winner recalled her time on SNL, "I started there in 1997, and I was there when we had to come back for the first show after September 11 and try to figure out what that show could be.”

“I think I was around but upstairs the day that President Bush came by to meet Will Ferrell. I was there when there was anthrax in the building. The longer I was there, I realized that the show’s relationship to current events, it became a thinner and thinner veil,” the Mean Girls actress added.

Continuing, “They say something, we say something back, they come over, they go, ‘Oh, we want to be on it too.’ It’s a thrilling and almost scary thing to have this idea that something you say will be heard by the person in charge. I mean, I’ve made jokes, but also, I was pretty dumb and not much better now, but there’s jokes that I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, I was on the wrong side of that.'”

She described it as “fascinating” to see comedy taken seriously, recalling a “really interesting” six-week period writing Sarah Palin sketches alongside Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler.

"We always worked really hard to make sure that we felt like they were what we would call ‘a fair hit," Tina stated.

"And I think part of that is, one, we knew we would get in trouble if it was wrong or random, but also because it sort of only felt like it would work if it was kind of based in something that was true. Sometimes, people will ask me or ask others, ‘Does SNL try to control the narrative and politics?’ And they really do not. And also you really can’t. If it’s not true, it will not be funny.