But believe it or not, there’s more to Rudolph than her ability to crack people up.
She’s also quite the singer, though you may have picked up on that from her SNL skits.
So what else is there to know about the versatile and talented Maya Rudolph?
Scroll down to discover her untold truth.
“There’s this moment I remember from when I was seven or eight,” she toldInterviewmagazine.
I thought, This is much better than feeling bad; I want to make her feel good."
Her friend stopped crying and started laughing.
“There’s the power that comedy gives you, and enjoyment,” she continued.
That would be a hard yes, Maya!
Wait, who’s Maya Rudolph’s mother?
“She was a diva in the most exquisite sense.”
“Those are very vivid memories for me,” she added.
Well, who wouldn’t want to be a singer when your mother is that incredibly gifted?
Of course, Rudolph was devastated.
She spent a long time grieving such a profound and heartbreaking loss.
“I just fell in love with her,” she gushed in an interview withHuffPost.
“She had some sort of special quality.
Something in her spirit was really sweet and lovable and endearing and I found it incredibly funny.”
I just responded to that," she continued.
“I found her take on stuff really specific, particular, sweet and funny.”
“It was my childhood dream,” she shared withNPR.
“To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.”
But, being a part of theSNLteam isn’t easy, as Rudolph tells it.
The hours are long, for one, and the demands of the show swallow your entire life.
“I still remember the lines I’ve flubbed.”
Fortunately, Rudolph was able to rely on her fellow cast members for connection and support.
I gave all my energy to that show."
While it did require her to make a ton of sacrifices, Rudolph liked the creative intensity on set.
So in 2007, when her first child was two years old, Rudolph left the show.
“It was too hard,” she shared.
“And nobody else understands or cares, when they don’t have kids.”
So she made the decision to pursue her dream, and put life on the road behind her.
“Me and my friend Gretchen, we played here,” she shared.
“We’re playing Bonnaroo.
I think that’s a big deal, right?”
Indeed it is, as nearly 50,000 people attend the festival every year, according to theTennessean.
“I remember dancing in socks, on the rug and on the bed.
It was just the jammiest, funkiest, most exciting, interesting.
I’d just never really heard that before,” she recalled in an interview withNPR.
“I fell in love with Prince when I sawPurple Rain, the movie.
That’s really what cracked it wide open.”
But what you might not know about the movie is that Maya Rudolph had a part in it.
Well, at least at first.
“I had the coolest character,” she shared in an interview withThe Guardian.
However, Rudolph didn’t receive an invitation to return to the set when it came time for reshoots.
As it turns out, her character was no longer included in the film.
“All my scenes were cut.
I was devastated,” she lamented.
Rudolph’s squad didn’t dissolve when she leftSaturday Night Liveeither.
No, they’ve continued to be there for one another as the years pass by.
In a confused moment, she approached George Clooney, thinking that she’d met him before.
“As I was walking over to him, I thought, ‘I know this guy.
We’ve worked together,'” she recalled toThe Guardian.
Despite the fact that Clooney was cool about the whole thing, Rudolph was mistaken.
“This was all happening so quickly,” she confessed.
“It was only as my arms were closing around him that I thought, ‘No.
I had a part onChicago Hope, notER.
I don’t know this person atall.'”
Although the couple has welcomed four children together,these stars never got married.
Instead, she prefers to label him as her husband, since “people know what that means.”
However, Rudolph didn’t exactly have an easy time giving birth to her children.
“My body went through a lot,” she revealed in a chat withThe Oprah Magazine.
“Working publicly and having body issues is f****** tough.
That couldn’t have been easy to deal with.
Rudolph later went under the knife to, as she said, “put the muscles back together.”
After her surgery, she took up Pilates to strengthen and heal her core.
I tend to talk myself out of it.
I fight with myself.”
And as Rudolph tells it, the experience was absolutely unforgettable.
“It changed my life!”
she gushed on an episode ofThe Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
“It was a nod to historical black colleges and universities,” she continued.
