There is a moment in every life when you finally feel like a success. It might be a raise, a diploma or — on rare occasions — one of the Beatles knowing your name.

For Laraine Newman — one of “Saturday Night Live’s” original Not Ready for Prime Time Players — her first inkling of true stardom happened in the lobby of 30 Rock in 1975.

“Out of my peripheral vision, I see these forms. And they come into focus, and it’s John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” she recalls.

“John comes up and says, ‘Hi Laraine.’ Not ‘Hi.’ But ‘Hi Laraine .’ It was one of those life moments where you know that you’re doing exactly the right thing and you’re in precisely the right place at the right time. Total joy,” she says. “I kept thinking, ‘He knows my name!’ I was screaming inside. Then I called a friend who said, ‘Ev

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