Everyone melts “like buttah” in front of Barbra Streisand — even Mike Myers and the Queen of Pop, Madonna. That’s what happened when the Yentl star made a surprise appearance on a special installment of “Coffee Talk” from the February 22, 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live.
On the long-running “Coffee Talk” sketch, Mike Myers played Linda Richman, a talkative woman with an exaggerated Brooklyn accent (who was based on his then real-life mother-in-law also named Linda Richman). Myers’ Linda absolutely adored Barbra Streisand, whom she dedicated her “Coffee Talk” call-in show to.
This particular episode of “Coffee Talk” not only had Myers as Linda Richman but also featured special guest star Madonna as her best friend Liz Rosenberg (along with Liz’s mother, played by Roseanne Barr, who hosted the episode along with her then-husband Tom Arnold). The trio lamented the recent Oscar nominations and how even though The Prince of Tides received seven nods from the Academy, Streisand didn’t get one for Best Director.
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