“AI can't write comedies,” says the Saturday Night Live star.

Saturday Night Live star Tina Fey said she's not worried about AI (AI) taking over from the comedy writer.

“AI can do all sorts of scary things, such as writing music, but so far it can't be made fun,” she told the audience on the final day of the Edinburgh Television Festival.

The American actress and comedian invaded comedy as part of the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City, and later appeared on the NBC sketch comedy show.

One of her most famous roles was as US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin until the 2008 election.

She left the show but was asked to return.

Faye said: “I wasn't sure. I know I looked like her, but I also knew that someone like Kristen Wigg could do it easily.”

But for six weeks, it made her famous.

She added:

“The French newspaper posted a photo of me and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton. We thought we were real people.

“At the end of it all, I started to get a little scared and when Sarah Palin appeared on the show, it peered in.”

In April it was announced that the UK would be unveiling a long sketch show in its own version produced by US show creator Lorne Michaels.

Graham Norton, who shared the festival scene with Faye, said he doesn't believe that the British writer will wake up all night on Tuesday and complete the script in time for Wednesday's reading.

But Faye said: “Here is the dirty secret. You don't have to do it that way. You can start in the morning.”

Faye, who created the 30 Rock, revealed that former Prime Minister David Cameron wanted to tell her about the British show while he was in power.

She recalled:

“I was so happy to have a break every day on my camera, jeans and dirty hair.

“And I got this call from someone from NBC, which demanded that if you could come to Rockefeller Center, David Cameron be here and meet you.

“He was the current prime minister. That's why he wanted to meet me and say hello.”

Fay says that Cameron invited her to the UK, but she didn't start offering.

She continued.

“And I didn’t seem to be able to do it because we all want to do it the way they do it.

Meanwhile, Fey described her latest show, The Four Seasons, based on the 1981 film, as a “restraint movement.”

She added: “I had to keep telling other writers. When a character meets another person, they have to be normal, not outrageous.”

The second season of the show is currently in production, and she said her own experiences in the middle age provided her with plenty of ideas.

Faye said: “I'm 55 and something can happen at that age, and some of it is terrible.”

She also told the festival how she grew up in British TV classics like Monty Python and Benny Hill.

And when asked to name her favorite shows of the last 50 years, Faye was nominated for absolutely fantastic and I might destroy you.

The comedian was asked by members of the audience for her favorite Scottish films, and despite this being her first visit to the country, she replied with confidence to her local hero.

Fay also revealed that she wants to return to the UK to tour restless feet, a show she created with Amy Poehler about her 30-year friendship.