Jun 23, 2026 · 1:12:25
Greta Lee on Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Hang, in Short
Amy brings on chef Allison Roman to talk well behind Greta Lee's back before the Past Lives star joins. Allison recounts meeting Greta when they both worked restaurants in Brooklyn (Milk Bar basement versus the glamorous Sonbar upstairs). She describes young Greta as impossibly hot, impeccably dressed, and intimidatingly cool. They bond over the chaos of being a stressy host who says things like "you can eat that, but not yet" while guests stand there confused. The best bit: Allison admits she pipes up with cooking advice to confused men at butcher shops, and eight times out of ten they completely ignore her. It's like being a doctor on a plane, she says, except everyone's like "we're good, random lady." Allison's question for Greta gets at restaurant life as actor training. Once a server, always a server.
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Hello everyone. Welcome to another
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episode of Good Hang. Very excited to
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talk to my buddy today, Greta Lee. Greta
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is an incredible actress. You may have
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seen her film Past Lives. You may have
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seen her in The Morning Show. She's been
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in Girls and Broad City and and Russian
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Doll and she's so talented and beautiful
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and wonderful. And we're going to talk
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about a lot of fun things. We're going
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to talk about um being a waitress. We're
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gonna talk about uh how to drown on
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camera. We're gonna talk about all the
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fun we had making Russian doll together.
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And uh she's also gonna explain her new
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part in Toy Story 5 in which she plays
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the villain. And that villain is an
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iPad. Um but uh before we get into
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talking to Greta, we're going to speak
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to somebody who knows her, who wants to
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speak well behind her back, and uh give
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me a question to ask her, and that is
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celebrity chef Allison Roman. Allison
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Roman, an author, a a podcaster, kind of
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a a food expert, hostess with the
