After starring in one of the most game-changing films in cinematic history, it could be easy for an actor to take themselves too seriously - not Carrie Fisher.

The actor, who has passed away at the age of 60, first played Princess Leia in George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).

She celebrated the film's success in 1978 with a stint presenting comedy series Saturday Night Live - and as has become expected when Fisher's involved, it was a show-stopper.



Fisher's opening monologue stays focused on the film with the actor telling the audience how she turned to her "good friend" Obi-Wan Kenobi for joke advice; she then reels off a very wordy anecdote involving creatures Bantha and Jabba the Hutt featuring voiceover interjections from Kenobi himself.

She also goes on to mock her character's iconic costume in a skit which sees her get hit on by a lecherous Bill Murray following which Fisher, then 22, can be seen launching into a musical number about being a girl "from outer space."

The same episode also features Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in character as The Blues Brothers, the film version of which Fisher would make a cameo appearance in just two years later.