Nancy the hero. Nancy the brat. Skater Nancy Kerrigan showed she was ready to laugh at both her post-Olympic media personas as host of NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
She made fun of her reported $2 million deal with Walt Disney Co., and she made fun of her troubles with rival Tonya Harding.Kerrigan even made fun of her own skating - doing a slapstick pairs number with heavyset cast member Chris Farley that featured Kerrigan spinning gracefully around her sweating and clumsy partner. The two appeared as skaters Anna and Wolfgang Wormeldanger of Luxembourg.
Kerrigan's troubles with her public image have been something of a constant companion since her silver-medal performance in the Olympic games.
During the program's opening monologue, Kerrigan took questions from "the audience," including one performer dressed as Baiul - who couldn't stop crying.
In the monologue, the skater didn't refer directly to rival Harding, whose entourage was linked to a clubbing attack on Kerrigan on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.