“Saturday Night Live” character actress Ana Gasteyer believes feminism in comedy has changed.

“It’s not really about feminists anymore,” Gasteyer told the audience of about 600 people Tuesday night. “It’s the mark of the evolution of a movement that we [feminists] are able to laugh at ourselves.”

To demonstrate how feminists have taken themselves too seriously in the past, she repeated an old joke: “How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: That’s not funny.”

She illustrated the changes the feminist movement has gone through by showing a clip of Lilith Fair creator Sarah McLachlan doing a parody of herself on SNL.

Gasteyer said though McLachlan is considered a symbol of feminism, this wasn’t the musician’s original intention.

“She just wants to get her music heard,” Gasteyer said.

Gasteyer said it hasn’t been difficult working for SNL, which has traditionally been male oriented, because fellow cast mates Molly Shannon and Cheri Oteri had established themselves on the show a year before she received her job.

She said SNL’s director, stage manager and three of the writers are women. It’s easy to be prominent on the show because “women are everywhere,” she said.

Gasteyer also outlined her television career, from a guest spot on the “Soup Nazi” episode of “Seinfeld” to her third year at SNL.

She said the pieces she performs on SNL are mainly “concept-oriented pieces.”

“My characters tend to be people who are not terrifically self-aware,” Gasteyer said. “I find boring people infinitely fascinating.”

Some of the “boring” characters Gasteyer has perfected include a National Public Radio show host and “The Delicious Dish” host.

“The tedious and the boring move into the repressed,” she said, mentioning Elizabeth Dole and Martha Stewart as examples.

Gasteyer said she has met several of the women she portrays, including Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dole. However, she said she has not talked with one of her best-known impersonations.

“Martha Stewart has ignored me,” she said.

Gasteyer outlined her week at SNL, which consists of a meeting to think up ideas on Monday; an all-day, all-night writing session on Tuesday; read-thrus on Wednesday; complete re-writes on Thursday; three rehearsals on Friday; and two more rehearsals on Saturday.

Then, at 11:30 p.m. Saturday, the show goes on the air live.

“Then at 1 [a.m.], we go get drunk,” Gasteyer said.

Gasteyer also revealed why former cast member Norm MacDonald left the show — “He doesn’t have an interest in playing sketch characters” — and exactly what she was wearing in the “Martha Stewart’s Topless Christmas Special” sketch — “a flesh-colored bandeau.”

Gasteyer said she’s unsure of what she’ll do after SNL.

“I want to stay on the show for a few more years,” she said.

However, she did name quite a few people she would like to work with in the future, including Julianne Moore and Lily Tomlin.

Her SNL dream hosts included Mark Wahlberg, Will Smith and Ian McKellen.