Gilda Radner

When actress Emma Stone was asked about her comedy influences in a December 2010 Girlfriend magazine interview, she replied, "Gilda Radner is the whole reason I wanted to do what I do. My mom is such an enormous Gilda Radner and Saturday Night Live fan. She showed me Gilda at at a very young age and, ever since, it's been Gilda."

After Gilda's death her husband Gene Wilder testified before a Congressional committee that Radner's condition had been misdiagnosed and that if doctors had inquired more deeply into her family background they would have learned that her grandmother, aunt and cousin had all died of ovarian cancer, and therefore they might have attacked the disease earlier. At that same hearing, Wilder said, "If I need to cry or think a little bit, I'll go over to the cemetery where she is buried to make sure the tree our friends planted is doing well and the grounds are kept up. I think one of the things that would make Gilda happiest is if Sparkle, her Yorkshire terrier, pee-peed right on top of her grave. One for Mama. She'd laugh.'