It’s genuinely hard to imagine Mariska Hargitay as anyone but Olivia Benson after multiple decades of her starring on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” and with the utmost due respect to Hargitay, it’s hard to imagine her being funny. However, according to an interview that Hargitay did with Amy Poehler, she originally started out trying to be a comedian until her life unexpectedly pivoted her into the super-dark sex crimes TV show.
In an episode of Poehler’s deeply charming podcast “Good Hang,” Hargitay told Poehler that she actually auditioned for one of the most popular network comedies in TV history. “I did a lot of [comedy auditions],” Hargitay — the daughter of…
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