Sep 16, 2025 · 1:05:12
Olivia Colman on Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Hang, in Short
Benedict Cumberbatch kicks things off with a solid bit about needing glasses now but refusing LASIK because, and I quote, he hides behind them so people think he's smarter. He and Amy bond over their matching 1.6 prescriptions before he dishes on Olivia Colman, his co-star in The Roses. They've apparently never worked together before this, which seems wild. Benedict gushes about how annoyingly upbeat Olivia is, like how is anyone that authentically delightful? The two get into a whole thing about British versus American humor, with Benedict admitting Americans have "passed you in the mean Olympics" and "broken the dial" on roasting culture. He asks Olivia what she's most afraid of, which is genuinely sweet. Then Amy and Olivia compare ages (Amy's 50, Olivia's 51) and discuss their parallel paths through comedy institutions, SNL and Footlights.
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Hello everyone. Welcome to another
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episode of Good Hang. H what an a lovely
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guest we have today. Olivia Coleman, an
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incredible actress, just a dear, tender
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beautiful person. And um we are going to
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talk about a lot of great things today.
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We're going to talk about
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whether or not it's important to fight
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in relationships. We're going to talk
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about playing the queen. Uh we are going
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to talk about her new movie, The Roses
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and all the hilarious people that she
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got to be in it with. We're talking
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about so many good things today. Um but
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we always want to uh start these
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episodes by bringing in someone who
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knows our guest, who helps us uh ease
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into our guest, who gives us a question
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to ask our guest. And we got a big star
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today. We have an actor who was in
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Doctor Strange. He was Sherlock. He is
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in the roses. He is also famously in a
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Kian Peele sketch where they name
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football player names. He is the one
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the only Benedict Cumberbatch
