Chloe Fineman’s favorite Saturday Night Live holiday sketch features her beloved dog, Peach.
Speaking with PEOPLE exclusively in partnership with Instacart, the Megalopolis actress reveals how her pup became part of a festive skit that was filmed during the pandemic.
The sketch — titled “Christmas Morning” — also stars Beck Bennett, Kristen Wiig and Kyle Mooney. “I play a child. Typical me, a woman in her thirties playing a child, but I’ll take it. It’s deeply flattering, the highlight of my job,” Fineman, 36, jokes.
“In that one, Kristen Wiig wakes up and all she got was the robe,” she recalls of the Dec. 2020 skit, noting that she snuck her puppy into work when the dog handler who was meant to be on set that day was diagnosed with COVID.
“So we snuck my dog in and he’s in that video and I love it because he’s like so cute,” Fineman adds. “He did dog acting, which was basically [when] you put peanut butter all over the set and he just kind of licked stuff.”
“It was really a star turn for my dog and, and he is held by Kristen Wigg,” she adds. “She’s like a hero of mine. So that’s my favorite.”
Elsewhere in her conversation with PEOPLE, Fineman speaks about her partnership with Instacart and a clever mantra for first-time hosts that pays homage to her name: “yule be fine, man.”
In the campaign video, which dropped on Dec. 5, Fineman is exasperated as she prepares for a holiday party in her kitchen. The campaign even features a pre-party pep talk to a DM (host)line with Fineman.
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“I’m a chronically stressed-out person. I live in New York and I’m stressed out for the holidays, but it is that thing, the whole you go to the grocery store, the thing sold out you’re cooking, you forgot something,” she says.
“So you can use Instacart to streamline and make your life easier,” she adds of the app that takes the stress out of shopping.
For those first-time hosts looking to release some stress while cooking: Instacart and Fineman present the Stress Baster. The device is part turkey baster and part stress ball, perfect for cooking while relieving hosting-related tension.
On Dec. 10, the Stress Baster will be available while supplies last via Instacart’s TikTok and Instagram.
“Last year for Thanksgiving discovered Instacart and so it’s like a perfect, meeting of something I actually use and deeply and I’m always just telling people about it,” Fineman tells PEOPLE.
As for any advice for first time hosts this holiday season? “Use Instacart,” she says, adding: “Don’t go overboard.”
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