May 12, 2026 · 1:12:20

Da'Vine Joy Randolph on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

with DJ Da'Vine Joy Randolph

The Hang, in Short

Amy gets director David Freyne on the line to dish about guest Da'Vine Joy Randolph before the main interview. He's calling from overseas to talk about his film Eternity, where Da'Vine proves she can land joke after joke with zero apparent effort. Which is annoying, really. Between gushing about her comedic timing and "weird level of calm," David opens up about finding a brain tumor during production and how making a movie about the afterlife oddly prepared him to face mortality with curiosity instead of fear. Amy immediately wants to know where Da'Vine's unflappable energy comes from because she's "phased by most things." David's burning questions for Da'Vine: when did she realize she was hilarious, and can that supernatural composure be learned? They agree it's deeply unfair for one person to be that good at both drama and comedy.

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  1. 0:05

    Hello everyone. Welcome to another

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    episode of Good Hang. We are going to

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    talk today to Davine Joy Randolph and I

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    am really, really excited. I'm such a

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    fan of her work and we are going to get

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    into it today. We're going to talk about

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    opera. We're going to talk about musical

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    theater. We're going to talk about how

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    to do a good Boston accent. And we're

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    going to hear how Aluccino made her cry

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    in a good way. So, uh, it's a great

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    convo. and I can't wait to get started.

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    But before we do, we always talk to

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    somebody who knows our guest and has a

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    question to ask our guest. And joining

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    me today is a director of the film

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    Eternity. Um, a film that Dave Mine is

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    in. And uh I I believe uh he is uh

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    calling from uh another country. He's

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    zooming from another country, another

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    time zone. So let's see. Uh it's David

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    Fra joining us. David, can you hear us?

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    This episode is presented by Hilton.

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    Guys, you know what vacation

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    perfectionism is? It's the pressure to

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