Tina Fey‘s dad found a muse in the Saturday Night Live cast — and it wasn’t his daughter.

In the first episode of Amy Poehler‘s new podcast Good Hang, the 30 Rock star recalled her father, Don, becoming enamored by Fred Armisen during her time working with the Portlandia star on SNL. “He was Fred’s biggest fan,” Fey said. 

Fey said that her father, who died in 2015, visited the SNL set while the cast was rehearsing “Weekend Update” during one of Armisen’s “first few shows” as a cast member. “Fred was in a costume for some other sketch — he was in a tuxedo and my dad had not met him yet,” she recalled. “And he just came up to my dad and was in a tuxedo. And just came up to my dad in character, just going, ‘This is Rainbow Room? I look for Rainbow Room?'”

Fey, an SNL writer and cast member from 1997 to 2006, clarified, “I can’t tell the story because I can’t. I shouldn’t be doing this accent, but Fred, I guess, can do it.” Armisen was an SNL cast member from 2002 to 2013.

The Date Night actress said that her father adored the experience. “It was so funny,” she recalled. “He loved it. He loved it.”

Fey’s dad’s love for Armisen’s work inspired him to make fan art of the Documentary Now star. “He used to paint little portraits, little caricatures of Fred as like Fericito, as Prince,” the actress recalled. “He would mail them to me, and I would give them to Fred. And I think Fred still has one.”

Poehler was thrilled by the revelation. “Oh, Don Fey has great taste,” she said. “He was just a smart artist, really cool guy.”

Fey also said she didn’t inherit many of her dad’s artistic abilities. “I wish I had more,” she said. “I think both my daughters have it. I go to Fire Island in the summer, and I like to paint portraits in my free time, and they are terrible. They’re getting slightly better, but not at a rate that would impress. They’re terrible.”

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She continued, “The only thing I want to paint is to try to capture people’s faces, people like that I love. And I should take some classes because, of course, the problem is I don’t draw the head right and then they come out like — sometimes I kind of like how wonky they come out. But no, of the four people in my immediate family, I am the least talented at art. My daughters are very talented.”

Watch the full conversation between Poehler and Fey above.