Oct 21, 2025 · 1:04:14
Mariska Hargitay on Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Hang, in Short
Christopher Meloni crashes the pre-interview from Mariska's apartment, which he describes as basically a superhero lair. "It's a fence that goes down and you go into a cave," he tells Amy, complete with fingerprint sensors and full Batmobile vibes. The two Wet Hot American Summer alumni reminisce about that cult classic before talking about his insane 50-year workout streak (longest break: two weeks). But the real heart here is Meloni on his SVU partnership with Mariska. They used to practice playing drunk together between takes, critiquing each other's spatial awareness. He invented a fake boyfriend named Gerald for her as a running bit. When Amy asks what makes their bond work, Meloni calls it spiritual, comparing it to how he felt arriving in New York, like he should've been born there. That's a solid citizen, he says. His question for Mariska: what's the driving force behind all her work?
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Hello everyone. Welcome to another
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episode of Good Hang. Very excited about
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our guest today, the one, the only
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Marisha Hargatee. We have wanted
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Marishka to come by uh for a very long
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time. We're so happy that she's here and
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we're going to talk about a lot of very
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exciting stuff. We're going to talk
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about her beautiful new HBO documentary,
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My Mom, Jane. We're going to talk about
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um the fact that she's America's
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favorite detective. We're going to
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discuss what parts we would play in an
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all female version of Hamilton. It's a
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great interview and um let's get started
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listening to it. But oh, but before we
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do, guess who we have? You know, we
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always like to talk to somebody who
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knows our guest, who has a question for
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our guest. And we got a good one. We got
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Christopher Maloney. That's right.
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Detective Stabler is here. And you may
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know him from Oz and from SVU and from
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Law and Order: Organized Crime. Uh, most
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importantly, you might know him from his
