‘SNL’ Alum Vanessa Bayer Recalls How She ‘Almost’ Became Ted Danson’s Daughter-in-Law

Vanessa Bayer is trying again at what might have been!

During an look on SiriusXM’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, the Saturday Night Live alum, 43, advised host Ted Danson: “ I have something that I wanted to tell you, which is that I was almost your daughter-in-law.”

When requested if she was referring to his stepson Charlie McDoeffectively — a director and screenwriter who’s the son of Danson’s spouse Mary Steenburgen and actor Malcolm McDoeffectively — the comic shared, “Charlie and I went on a date.”

Bayer recalled how she and McDoeffectively went on a “coffee date” at Cafe Gratitude, and added with a giggle, “I think it went well. There was some texting after.”

Danson then requested if that’s “a sign” for her technology, and he or she responded, “Of course, if there’s no texting after then it’s over.” 

Bayer acknowledged that McDoeffectively has since discovered love with spouse Lily Collins, an actress who can be the daughter of Phil Collins and Jill Tavelman. The pair obtained engaged in 2020 and tied the knot a yr later. She stated, “I know he’s married now and he has a beautiful, very talented wife, and I know her dad is very cool.”

However, the No Good Deed star couldn’t assist however jokingly brag about her personal father’s accomplishments.

“But my dad is cool, too. Not only does he have a packaging company, so just to suss out him versus Phil Collins,” she teased. “He has a package company… Let’s say you buy a CD. And you open it and then you decide you don’t want to keep it. You can’t return it because you took out the shrink wrap. That’s where my dad comes in.” 

“That would have been your life, and also, my dad claims to be the first Todd. The first person to ever be named Todd,” she added. 

“Do you assume that is true, Vanessa?” the A Man on the Inside star requested and Bayer replied, “I support it blindly.”

Steenburgen, 71, recalled in an interview with E! News in October understanding that Collins, 35, might be the one for her son earlier than the pair met.

“To be sincere, I met my daughter-in-law earlier than he did,” she recalled on the time. “And I checked out her and thought, ‘You would simply be so superb with my son.'”

“I met her in Jane Fonda‘s 80th birthday party, and I fell in love with her,” she added. “And then, when he told me who it was that he was dating, I zipped it!”

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