--- ---  # Here's the Advice Whoopi Goldberg Gave Tiffany Haddish About Hosting _SNL_ ## Video: 5 Stars You Didn't Know Were on SNL [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Stars You Didn't Know Were on SNL](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2Ddng8GG.m3u8) (1:38)  _Published 2017-09-25. 5 Stars You Didn't Know Were on SNL_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 2, 2018 9:11 PM UTC  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 1730 -- Pictured: Host Tiffany Haddish during the Opening Monologue in Studio 8H on Saturday, November 11, 2017 -- (Photo by: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 1730 -- Pictured: Host Tiffany Haddish during the Opening Monologue in Studio 8H on Saturday, November 11, 2017 -- (Photo by: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 2, 2018 9:11 PM UTC When [Tiffany Haddish](http://time.com/5048460/tiffany-haddish-taylor-swift-cooking/) hosted [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4704110/saturday-night-live-time-zones/) in November, she made history as [the first black female comedian to do so](http://time.com/5020704/tiffany-haddish-snl-monologue/), something that she discovered when she approached industry icon and [EGOT recipient](http://time.com/4675741/oscars-2017-almost-egot-lin-manuel-miranda/), Whoopi Goldberg. In an interview with [_The New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/movies/tiffany-haddish-on-nasty-men-her-snl-feat-and-girls-trip.html?%5Fr=1), the [_Girls Trip_](http://time.com/4864477/girls-trip-review/) star revealed that she reached out to Goldberg because she had appeared on the show in the past, although to Haddish’s surprise, Goldberg had only appeared in a single _SNL_ sketch. “I Googled and saw that Whoopi Goldberg had been on it, so I reached out to her,” Haddish said, before sharing the advice that Goldberg gave her for her _SNL_ hosting gig: “You the first, b-tch, you better do a good job.” Haddish seems to have taken Goldberg’s advice to heart, delivering among other things, [a hilarious monologue](http://time.com/5020704/tiffany-haddish-snl-monologue/) that managed to tackle sexual harassment and Donald Trump’s hair. 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