United Kingdom, April 20 -- Tina Fey has insisted Saturday Night Live does not "try to control the narrative and politics."

The 55-year-old comic worked on the show from 1997-2006, including a stint as the programme's first female head writer from 1999, and she believes it was important for SNL to shine a light on current events in a truthful way.

Tina found it "fascinating to know that what you say will be sort of taken seriously," recalling a particularly "interesting" six-week period when she, Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler were tasked with creating a number of sketches about former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin.

Speaking at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for History Talks' event over the weekend, she said: "We always worked really hard...