One late-night comedian is ready for her daytime close-up.
Saturday Night Live’s Sarah Sherman is set to become a soap star as she appears on two episodes of General Hospital this week, People reports.
Sherman is set to play Robin Finch, an etiquette teacher and dialect theorist. (In a clip shared by People, Sherman guesses where in Brooklyn Lisa LoCicero’s character Olivia Falconeri is from based on her accent—right down to the cross street.)
“I’ll pronounce my French pastries just the way I eat them,” Olivia tells Robin in the scene.
“Incorrectly?” Sherman’s character retorts to dramatic gasps from the room.
“I was so nervous about flubbing my lines,” Sherman told People, “because I was surrounded by pros who memorize like a billion pages of dialogue a day.” (Soap operas generally don’t rely on cue cards during production the way Saturday Night Live does.)
Still, the reported “longtime General Hospital fan” enjoyed the experience of being on the show and meeting some long-running characters. “I had the best time of my life,” she raved to the outlet. She seemed particularly thrilled to meet Maurice Benard, who plays mobster Sonny Corinthos, a.k.a. ‘The Godfather of Port Charles.’ “So I can die happy,” Sherman said.
Sherman isn’t the first late-night star to step into the soap operaverse. Earlier this year, Conan O’Brien became a soap star in Ireland as part of his Max travel show Conan O’Brien Must Go.
Sherman’s two-episode arc on General Hospital airs this Thursday, September 5 and Friday, September 6.
Later this month, Sherman is expected to return to SNL for her fourth season when it premieres on September 28.
