Transcript: Kristen Wiig on Good Hang with Amy Poehler
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Hello everyone. Welcome to another
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episode of Good Hang. Oh, this is a good
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one. We have comedy legend Kristen Wig.
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You may know Kristen from SNL, from
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Bridesmaids, from Barb and Star, from
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Palm Royale. Um, but we're going to talk
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about a lot of stuff today. We're going
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to talk about working together uh on a
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show at the same time. We're going to
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talk about Carol Brunette and how much
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we love Carol and everything she does.
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We're going to talk about um The Real
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Housewives of Salt Lake City and why I
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should start watching it immediately.
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And we're going to talk about her new
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movie, Gabby's Dollhouse. So, that's out
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and we're going to get into all of that
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good stuff. But, we always like to start
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our shows with someone that knows our
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guest and can speak well of our guest
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behind their back and can give me a
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question to ask our guests. And we have
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another celeb, I mean, another comedy
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great, another former SNL cast member.
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um who uh I had the privilege to share
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the stage with and that is Bill Hater.
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You all know Bill Hater. Barry, what
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what I need to say. You know, you know
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Bill. Bill. Bill,
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can you hear me? I'm going to get my
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[Music]
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Hi.
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How's it going?
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It's going good. I'm I'm I'm zooming you
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from the studio and and wig is coming in
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today. Thank you for doing this.
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Oh, no problem. Thanks for having me.
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Of course. I hope I can get I can get
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you in the stewed. Oh man, I'd love to.
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How's life?
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Life's good. We're just like, yeah, just
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writing, you know, the girl, you know,
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Hannah's, you know, 16, Harper's 13.
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Wow.
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Haley's 11.
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Yeah, they're great kids.
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Yeah, just very sweet kids. So, very
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feel very very lucky. I mean, they play
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a lot of joke. My My 13-year-old
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yesterday scared the [ __ ] out of me. She
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sent me a a I was in bed reading and she
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sent me a text and I looked at it and it
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was a picture from underneath my bed and
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I go and I hear under my bed. I was like
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oh my god she was underneath my bed.
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I was like what the [ __ ] is wrong with
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you? And she just was dying laughing.
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She was like oh my god. All right. Good
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night. Good night. Just like just scared
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me. It was so creepy. I was like why'
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you do that? She was like, I don't know.
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Just hid under my bed
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cuz she's your child.
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Yeah, my child. Yeah, exactly.
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Okay, so we're going to talk about wig
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and you know, I'm so I like I'm getting
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ready for this interview today with her
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and it's like I don't even know where to
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start with Kristen. She's so good, so
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talented. She's done so many things
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during SNL, after SNL. Like she's had
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this incredible career on her own terms
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always. I mean, you two have done so
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much incredible work together on the
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show and in Skeleton Twins, which is
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just beautiful work from the both of
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you. And I guess
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how would you describe Kristen as a you
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know, as a friend and a performer?
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You know, Andy and I had started the
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show. Jason was already kind of but we
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were all kind of in the same we were
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freshman all at the same time and then
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Kristen came in like three shows later.
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So, I remember going into our office and
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we were writing a Vincent Price sketch
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and I was kind of like, I've been here
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for three uh weeks. So, hey, newbie,
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I know where the bathrooms are.
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I know where the bathrooms are. I know
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uh you have to change elevators uh at
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this floor but and um and I uh said um
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hey do you we're writing this you know
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Vincent Price thing you know if you have
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any old character or something you know
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I was like Amy's playing a cigarette
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girl you remember that you Chesterfield
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cigarettes and you tap dance and Fred's
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doing something and she went oh I'm I'm
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a
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could maybe do Judy Garland And I'm
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like, "Oh, would that sound like?" And
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she went, "Maybe like you ever get the
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feeling that your hands are made out of
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sand."
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And I went, "Okay."
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Okay. So,
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and you're really good.
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Then I was like, "Um, never mind. Okay.
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I didn't realize who I was talking to.
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That's a really good line." And the
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impression was like spot on.
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Yeah.
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She's just so good at like um
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at knowing how what would work on the
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show, too. Like just
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that's a perfect Yes. I always say like
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I don't know if you I felt like here's
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what the show likes, here's what I like
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and I was trying to find this V v
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diagram and like for her it was like the
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same diagram. It's like what she
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naturally found funny
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the show it just it worked on the show
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and I watched her for seven years and
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every table read I feel like she did
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something different.
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Yeah. She's just such a crazy range.
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Yeah, the range. That's the word I'm
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looking for is I was like, how did she
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how did she do that?
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I know. She
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played this Italian guy once and never
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got on a show, but she played this
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Italian man once. And he would just go,
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oh yeah.
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And someone be like, I do. And he's
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like, oh yeah, oh baby, yeah. And I was
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like, where did you [ __ ] get this,
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you know? And you're just like, where
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did that come from? And she's like, I
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don't know, you know. Um, but she just
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kind of it just felt very effortless to
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her in a way that I I always really
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admired and I really admired and again,
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you know, you you Maya, you guys are
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this way. It was like before the shows
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it was like focused but cool as
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cucumbers could go out do the show, come
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back and and just had this confidence
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and she she had that as as well, you
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know.
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Yeah, she really did. She like it felt
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like she entered the show a fully formed
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cast member ready to go
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completely.
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Yeah. And she also like like it's like
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made it look fun.
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Yeah.
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It wasn't there wasn't like a science to
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it. There was I don't know if this makes
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sense. There was no like equal thing.
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She was just being goofy.
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Yes.
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But and it didn't seem disposable at the
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same time though. And that's really
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hard. It was like wow that's a thing I'm
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going to remember and that was fun. But
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she's still just loose and having fun
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with it. Yes, totally hear you.
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Does that make sense?
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It's It's 100% the best way to sum up.
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Like
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I feel like when I was watching her do
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her sketches, I could sense her laughing
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about them the night before.
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I remember she did a Penelope sketch
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and Liza Minnelli was in it at the end.
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And uh
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the Liza Manelli,
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the Liza Menelli and Yes. The Liza. And
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she and the thing was Penelopey was
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always making things up and it was like,
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"Oh, I I can't do that because I'm going
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out with Liza Minnelli and a tomato
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tonight." Right. Right.
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And um
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and Liza Minnelli showed up at the end.
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And when Liza Minnelli came out on stage
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and goes, "Hey, Penelope." I just saw
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Kristen just try so hard not to laugh.
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It was like just hearing her go, "Hey,
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hey." And she had a tomato with her.
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She's like, "Hey, Penelopey. Me and
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Tommato are excited to go out to Christ
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just
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like biting her lips like found it so
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funny.
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Yes.
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Another one I'll say real quick and we
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but the other one I remember was I was I
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was a game show host and a thing when
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when Maya hosted and it came it was a
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game show. She had written it with James
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and she was before the sketch even
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started on air Kristen was looking at me
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and laughing really hard. I didn't know
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why she was just laughing and shaking
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her head like your first line is so
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stupid and it was kind of like I think I
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Yeah. And then and they had changed it
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between dress and air and my first line
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was to Vanessa Bayer who was a
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contestant. I go before we went to the
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break you said you you said the answer
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to the question was beef. I'm sorry the
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correct answer was nine.
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And as I was saying that, Kristen was
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like shaking her head and laughing like,
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"I'm sorry, dude." We couldn't think of
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anything else.
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Yeah.
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Like that's what I think of her. It's
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just like she's just having fun, you
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know?
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Yes. Yes. So well said. So well said. Um
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Okay. So do you have a question? Do you
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think I should ask her? Anything about
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anything? doesn't have to be about SNL
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or comedy, but anything that I could ask
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her on your behalf or
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I I'm just always curious if she was
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always that confident in that ability.
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Was that was that a thing when she
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started at Groundlings? Did she come in
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going like did did she have Cuz as you
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said very well, she came in fully formed
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and I was like, was it always that way?
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Because she had such a confidence in her
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ideas.
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Yes. Yes. that that that kind of I
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remember asking her I was like how do
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you write this
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like how did you do that and she goes I
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don't know I just think it and I do it
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you know so she just always had such a
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massive confidence in her ideas
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that's a good way to put it that's a
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really good way to put it
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forte was kind of that way too
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would do a thing and you would go what
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how did where did that come from and you
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know that look in their eyes where
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they're like it never occurred to them
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that that might be a crazy idea or
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Yes.
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I'm like my character has remember I was
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in a sketch of hers and I feel like a
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character either I did or a character
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had pepperoni nipples
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like nipples of pepperoni. I was like
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where'd you come up with that? And it
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was like looking at you like well we're
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on a sketch show too
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you know
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I would take it too literally. I don't
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know. But yeah, that would be a
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question. I was like, yeah, where did
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that was there ever a moment early days
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where was that learned and honed or did
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that did she just come out?
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That's a great question. Thanks, Bill. I
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know Chris is going to be so psyched we
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talked today. Thank you so much for
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doing it.
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All right. Thanks, buddy.
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Talk to you soon. Bye.
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Hi bud. Thank you for doing this. You
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know, I know you don't do a lot of
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interviews. I feel very I feel honored.
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Well, thank you, you you do what you
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need to do for work.
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Exactly.
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But you and and you
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follow through with your obligations
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with that, but you're not Yes. I do my
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job.
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Yes. Yes. But you don't love to, you
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know, um, you want to kind of keep your
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your life private.
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Yeah. And like if I'm promoting
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something, I'm happy to talk about that.
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Sure.
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But, you know, there's such a the line
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is so blurred now. I'm happy to discuss
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anything with you because you're my
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friend. But, you know,
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I know it's it's when it's someone that
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you don't know and they're asking you
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certain personal things, you're a little
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bit like,
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I don't know.
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I know. And also I learned something
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from you many years ago that I think
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about all the time which is also I mean
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I what I love about how you interact
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with your work is like you put it out
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there but you don't necess you kind of
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just like put it out there and it's out
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there
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away
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and you get under the blanket what it is
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but you I don't want to know.
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I know and it's such a great it's very
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healthy
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because it doesn't matter. I know. I
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know it doesn't.
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And actually, I remember Samberg telling
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me a long time ago, like during SNL, you
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can read a million reviews and you can
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quote the bad ones like word for word.
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Like I can remember things people said
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about me.
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Oh yeah.
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So I like I just had having this movie
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come out, this kids movie, and I texted
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my publicist and I was like, "Don't send
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me anything."
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Yeah.
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I will probably call her at some point
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and say, "Did they hate it?" right?
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Do they like it?
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But I don't want to be sent
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because it just gets in your brain and
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it's not what your experience is and
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like I don't know.
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I I easily I'm sensitive too. That's
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part of
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same. And I you said something to me
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that I think about all the time which is
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I had like an evening where I was wore
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whatever wore an outfit felt good in it
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had a good time and then went home and
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saw the picture of it and just was like
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like just felt really sad and you were
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like oh I don't like I don't do that.
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But I don't look at pictures after an
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event or something like I trust that
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where what you know like I just kind of
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like remember the feeling of it and I'm
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working with great people and I when I
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head out the door I feel good and I like
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like leave it at that and I think about
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it all the time because
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bigger than like how we look. It's just
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like the idea of like the world weighing
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in on your mental on your own
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and believe me I got there because I
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would go and look and then I would just
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feel horrible. I'm like but wait why do
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I feel bad? I I know.
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I thought I liked it and then in my mind
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I'm like, "Well, now did I
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I just Yeah,
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I know. So, I I think about you all the
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time when I do try when I try not to
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look at pictures of myself. Um but we
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are going to um change our faces into
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cats for this.
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We're going to put I want filter.
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Yeah, we're going to put I'm going to
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have flames coming out. We're going to
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be It's going to be babies. This is
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going to hang babies. And we're going to
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I want to look 30 years younger, but
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naturally guys
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you look incredible. just make it look
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incredible and and I do feel like you
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are like I don't I wouldn't consider you
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an introvert but I do think you're
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probably more introverted than people
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would assume. Right.
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I would agree with that. People are
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often disappointed.
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No, but it's true. I think also because
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our people know us our origins into the
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public life is comedy. So people think
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if you're at a dinner table and someone
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says, "Kristen, tell that story and 14
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people look at you." That's my
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nightmare.
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I'm so bad at it.
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I'm really bad. And And I was talking to
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my husband. I was like, "I'm really bad
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at like telling stories." And he's like,
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"Yeah."
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He's like, "I've noticed
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you're you are." And I was a little
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shocked, but then it made me realize
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that like it's true. I I don't like
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that. I don't I'm not good at it.
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Halfway through I realize everyone's
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looking at me and then I'm like, how did
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this how does this end? I'm like, I'm
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not.
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And some people are so good at it.
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Oh, yeah. And some people when they go
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in to tell a story, they like settle in
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like here we go like a warm sweater and
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I'm in. And I'm like, don't stop because
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I don't want people to ask me to tell a
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story.
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I know because it's it is it is like I
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mean there's so much to talk to you
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about today and like like I don't even
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know where to start because there's so
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much good stuff to talk about. I want to
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talk about groundings and I want to talk
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about the beginnings of things because I
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feel like I don't think a lot of people
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know your beginnings of things. Like
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what what were you like as a kid? Were
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you you said that you didn't know you
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said you had no like big plans to be an
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actor or a performer at all? No,
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no. I mean, I I would like watch movies
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and be like, "Oh, yeah, I want to do
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that." But I think that's like everybody
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wanted to like
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Were you ever like in a school play or
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or you know?
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No. I mean, I
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an attention seeker in any way.
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I think maybe a little bit just from
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like my parents getting divorced
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and being like, I'm going to cause
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trouble.
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Oh, you became a little bit of a
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troublemaker. Yes, I did.
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Exciting.
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I did. And I don't know if that turned
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into like
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But you caused a little problem.
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I did. And I'm not bragging about it. I
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feel terrible, especially now that I'm a
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parent.
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Well, but what are Can you share any of
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I mean, I was got detention a lot. I was
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suspended a handful of times. I had
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police come to my house for like a prank
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prank phone calling stuff. Okay.
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But still, they came.
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Um, and that was scary. But I was I
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think because and I and I I'm bringing
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it back to like parents divorce which
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don't turn this off. It's gonna be
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funny. Um
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uh it really affected my life. Yeah. And
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I think I went into like my friend
- 17:46
group, which I think happens a lot where
- 17:49
if things are like uncertain at home,
- 17:51
like your friends become your family.
- 17:54
And I was just always with my friends
- 17:55
and always sleeping over at other
- 17:57
people's houses. And some of the people
- 17:58
I was hanging out with were like
- 18:02
uh troublemakers, I guess. And I just
- 18:06
kind of like got in with a little bit of
- 18:09
the wrong crowd, I think, young. And
- 18:11
then I moved when my mom moved to
- 18:12
Rochester and I I moved with her and at
- 18:14
the time I was like I don't want to
- 18:15
move. These are my friends.
- 18:17
But thank God that like saved my life.
- 18:20
Yeah,
- 18:20
it really saved my life.
- 18:21
It is true. Like especially now that you
- 18:23
have kids, you know, we we know that
- 18:25
like
- 18:26
it that whoever you're around, the
- 18:29
proximity of who you're around can
- 18:30
really dictate what kind of choices you
- 18:32
make.
- 18:33
Yeah. And it's hard as a parent. No. I
- 18:36
mean, my kids are five, so I'm not I
- 18:38
can't totally.
- 18:39
But even when my kids were five, you'd
- 18:41
see other 5-year-olds, you'd be like,
- 18:42
"You got to stay away from them."
- 18:43
I know. You're like, "Do you really want
- 18:44
to have a play date with them?" Really?
- 18:46
No.
- 18:47
Be like, "Are you sure?"
- 18:48
I don't know. They seem nice, but like
- 18:51
And then you just pick up, you just hold
- 18:52
the phone upside down and you're like,
- 18:53
"I just called their mom and they're not
- 18:55
home. They've moved.
- 18:57
They'll be at school on Monday.
- 18:58
Their mom said no more play dates."
- 19:00
Okay. So, you But where do you grow up?
- 19:02
Where where's your hometown? in before
- 19:04
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
- 19:05
right? And then
- 19:06
Amish town,
- 19:09
which also probably added to a little
- 19:11
bit of the mischief like
- 19:12
Yeah, cuz there wasn't a lot to do, you
- 19:14
know, like playing playing down at the
- 19:16
creek,
- 19:18
running through the corn fields. I
- 19:20
really was. But yeah, I I don't know. I
- 19:23
don't know if it's the place or just who
- 19:26
I was hanging out with. I don't know.
- 19:29
Yeah. And then did is it really true
- 19:31
that a psychic told you that you were be
- 19:34
an actress?
- 19:35
Okay, let me just clarify this story.
- 19:37
Okay, is that a fake story?
- 19:38
Because it's not totally fake.
- 19:42
Um, I'll give you like the short
- 19:44
version, but I I was living in Arizona.
- 19:46
I was going to school there. I was at
- 19:47
the University of Arizona in Tucson, and
- 19:50
I did not really want to be there.
- 19:52
Yeah.
- 19:53
And I just felt like I was supposed to
- 19:54
be
- 19:56
somewhere else. Um, I was an art major
- 19:59
and I just I wasn't like I wasn't
- 20:03
connecting with something. I did take an
- 20:06
acting class. It was like acting 101. I
- 20:08
think that's what it's called. Um, and I
- 20:11
was terrified to do it because I hated
- 20:14
speaking in front of the class.
- 20:16
Like would skip school, which is always
- 20:18
the worst thing because then you have to
- 20:20
come back on a different day and do the
- 20:21
book report when everyone else is like,
- 20:22
"We did this last week." It's just even
- 20:24
more awkward. But I hated speaking in
- 20:27
front of the class. Like I would just
- 20:29
get anxiety.
- 20:32
So I didn't want to take this class. I
- 20:33
took it. I loved it.
- 20:37
And I was like, I don't want to be here.
- 20:39
I'm not supposed to be here. And I do
- 20:42
have this theory that if you ask
- 20:44
yourself questions in the mirror, you
- 20:46
cannot lie to yourself.
- 20:47
And it's very
- 20:50
uh
- 20:51
Ooh,
- 20:52
yes. That's deep. like looking in the
- 20:55
mirror
- 20:55
and just being like where
- 20:58
what do you want to do?
- 21:00
And it was like I want to move to LA and
- 21:02
try to be an actor
- 21:03
and that had kind of never
- 21:06
come out of my mouth before. It just
- 21:08
seemed like something so
- 21:11
far I'm not I just didn't seem like
- 21:14
anything that would ever happen. So, and
- 21:18
at this time in Arizona, I was like, you
- 21:20
know, going to like spiritual bookstores
- 21:22
as we do in our 20s,
- 21:25
getting crystals.
- 21:26
Oh my god. Pendulums of like I was like
- 21:30
really in like a nice like healthy way.
- 21:33
Um,
- 21:34
and I wasn't like doing voodoo or
- 21:36
anything. Um, and I went into this
- 21:39
bookstore and there was a sign that was
- 21:41
like
- 21:42
I swear it said like psychic Mike. It
- 21:44
was like a dollar a minute. And I was
- 21:45
like, I'm going to go see that guy. And
- 21:47
I went in and I sat down and he was
- 21:49
like, oh, give me your ring. And he was
- 21:50
like holding my ring. And he was like,
- 21:52
he's like, what are you doing here? He's
- 21:55
like, why are you here? He's like, you
- 21:57
should have been in LA like a year ago.
- 22:00
No way. Just out of my life.
- 22:02
Love it.
- 22:03
He could have said that to every person
- 22:06
that walked in there.
- 22:08
He's like, "What are you doing here?"
- 22:09
That's what he says to every person. And
- 22:11
they're just like, cuz no one knows. You
- 22:13
don't go into a psychic cuz you know
- 22:14
what you're doing.
- 22:15
Exactly.
- 22:16
But I
- 22:18
I like went home and packed up my car.
- 22:20
What?
- 22:21
And my cuz my roommate at the time lived
- 22:23
in LA and I was like, "Can I come stay
- 22:25
with you?
- 22:26
Didn't tell my parents.
- 22:27
Packed up my car.
- 22:28
Bad girl."
- 22:29
Drugged my cat.
- 22:31
Drove to LA and just
- 22:36
quit quit quit school.
- 22:37
Quit school.
- 22:38
Dang. You are a rebel wig. You're Yes,
- 22:42
you are.
- 22:43
It was very uh I think because I knew
- 22:46
someone
- 22:48
Sure.
- 22:49
it was less scary.
- 22:50
Um
- 22:52
but yeah, to like get an apartment and
- 22:56
got a job.
- 22:57
I mean, back then it was you only needed
- 22:59
to know like one person to make a
- 23:01
humongous career and life change. It was
- 23:04
like, I'll just go. Same thing with me.
- 23:05
I knew someone who had graduated from
- 23:07
college who was my old roommate who was
- 23:08
living in Chicago. So, I was like, all
- 23:09
right, I'll just move to Chicago. like
- 23:11
she's there.
- 23:12
Like that's all you needed was one
- 23:13
person
- 23:14
and
- 23:14
and we didn't have like phones or
- 23:18
anything like that.
- 23:19
We just drove.
- 23:20
We just drove
- 23:21
with like a map
- 23:22
and a cat and a map and we were just
- 23:24
like And then we just looked at and then
- 23:26
the signs were just arrows. It just said
- 23:28
Hollywood.
- 23:29
Yeah.
- 23:30
It just said success Hollywood acting
- 23:32
town and you just and you pulled up. So
- 23:35
you go to Groundling. What What year do
- 23:37
you get in Groundlings? What year do you
- 23:38
start Groundlings? I I waited a couple
- 23:41
years cuz once I got to LA, I was like,
- 23:44
I've never acted before.
- 23:46
Oh, so you didn't start right away. I
- 23:48
was like, what? This town is full of
- 23:51
every person here is trying to do that.
- 23:54
And I
- 23:55
I got freaked out and I worked at like a
- 23:57
hot dog restaurant and then I worked at
- 23:59
anthropology and I was like doing all
- 24:01
these like odd jobs. And then
- 24:04
um
- 24:05
a friend of mine that I was working for
- 24:07
when I was doing like painting, I'd had
- 24:09
a million jobs. Um he was like, "Have
- 24:12
you ever been to the Groundlings?" And I
- 24:14
was like, "No, what is it?" And he's
- 24:15
like, "You should go." He's like, "I
- 24:16
just think you'd like it."
- 24:19
And yeah, that first show I'd never seen
- 24:21
improv. I'd never seen like live sketch,
- 24:23
but it was like
- 24:24
Jen Culage,
- 24:26
um Michael Hitchcock.
- 24:29
Uh, and I was just like, "This is what I
- 24:33
want to do."
- 24:34
Wow. Yeah.
- 24:35
This is it. Oh my god. They're just
- 24:37
making stuff up.
- 24:39
I was like, "I don't have to like read
- 24:41
and say a line a certain way that's like
- 24:43
right or wrong. I could just like do
- 24:45
that."
- 24:45
And it was like n it was it was the '9s.
- 24:48
So, you're doing sketch and improv and
- 24:50
like like everybody like hoping to get
- 24:52
on SNL.
- 24:54
Yeah. Just like that was the goal was
- 24:56
like and you're watching people
- 24:58
go and get on.
- 24:59
Yeah. And then Mad TV came out and that
- 25:02
was the thing and a lot of people were
- 25:03
auditioning for that.
- 25:04
Right. Right.
- 25:04
Cuz that was happening out here.
- 25:06
I remember there was that time when it
- 25:07
was like you can audition for Matt TV
- 25:08
and SNL like you like it was very like
- 25:10
one or the other like choose now. And it
- 25:12
was like babe no one's offering me
- 25:14
either job.
- 25:16
You're like having imaginary
- 25:18
conversations in your head about like if
- 25:19
Matt TV asks I'm going to say no. It's
- 25:21
like they're not asking.
- 25:26
Wait, did you do sketch in college?
- 25:28
Yeah, I did like improv and like an
- 25:30
improv group in college and we did like
- 25:32
sketches at the end of the show
- 25:33
and it was and you know it was I loved
- 25:36
my improv group. It was called My
- 25:37
Mother's Flea Bag, which is like sure.
- 25:39
And um you know, I love an improv group
- 25:42
name. And My Mother's Flea Bag had been
- 25:44
around forever, you know, and they and
- 25:46
we had it was like a little frat for
- 25:48
like a little nerdy frat or sority. And
- 25:50
we had all these rituals and customs.
- 25:53
And at the end of our show, we would go,
- 25:55
"It's it's it's my mother's flea bag."
- 25:59
Like as if it was like live from S, you
- 26:02
know, like we were doing some like
- 26:03
version of SNL and we would do sketches
- 26:05
and improv. Oh, that's so cute.
- 26:07
But you didn't do any sketch or improv
- 26:08
in um University of Arizona.
- 26:10
No no no no no.
- 26:11
Interesting. Amazing. So then much later
- 26:14
you go can you I mean
- 26:17
your audition for SNL
- 26:20
is it it is weird to like have auditions
- 26:23
out in the world? I don't know. Did you
- 26:24
watch any of the 50th stuff when they
- 26:27
were showing?
- 26:27
I haven't watched you watch and I've
- 26:30
never seen my audition. I never want to
- 26:32
ever see it cuz I did two.
- 26:35
Okay. You audition and then what
- 26:37
happened?
- 26:38
Well, okay. You auditioned once and then
- 26:41
you got it and you turned it down.
- 26:42
I turned it down
- 26:43
because Matt TV was coming back. No, I
- 26:46
uh I auditioned and then I didn't hear
- 26:50
anything and then the season started.
- 26:53
And then you were like, I'm not on.
- 26:54
Okay.
- 26:54
I'm not there.
- 26:57
And then
- 27:00
Oh, wait. No. How did it go? Maybe. No,
- 27:02
no, maybe that's wrong. I auditioned.
- 27:04
No, that's not right. I auditioned.
- 27:07
Uh, didn't hear anything. Then they
- 27:10
asked me to audition again and I was
- 27:13
like, I did everything.
- 27:15
I was like, what?
- 27:17
Okay. I don't even know what was in that
- 27:20
second audition. And then
- 27:22
and then I didn't hear anything. And
- 27:24
then the season started and that's when
- 27:25
I was like, I didn't get it. No, but
- 27:27
then they called me and they were like,
- 27:28
can you you we'd love we have a spot for
- 27:31
you. Whatever. I forget. Can you come in
- 27:33
like 2 weeks?
- 27:34
I'm finding that out that they hired you
- 27:36
after the season had started.
- 27:38
Yeah. You guys had done three shows and
- 27:41
then they were like, "Come watch uh I I
- 27:44
literally got there on like a Friday. I
- 27:48
came and I watched Lance Armstrong's
- 27:51
show
- 27:52
and then
- 27:53
comedian comedies Lance Armstrong."
- 27:57
But I remember being like, "What?"
- 28:00
Because to watch a show from the floor,
- 28:02
no matter what, is intense. But knowing
- 28:04
that I was
- 28:06
starting on Monday and nobody
- 28:08
No, no one knew because nobody told
- 28:10
anyone that is like notoriously not good
- 28:14
at onboarding.
- 28:15
No no
- 28:16
they're not good at onboarding.
- 28:17
And then I just showed up on Monday.
- 28:19
Yeah. But I I do remember going to the
- 28:22
party and going outside and calling my
- 28:25
friend and like sobbing cuz I was like
- 28:29
what? I was so overwhelmed. I didn't
- 28:32
like know anybody and I'm like in I was
- 28:35
like in New York, you know what I mean?
- 28:37
I didn't I didn't know the city and I
- 28:40
was so scared.
- 28:42
Yeah. cuz I knew no matter what I was
- 28:43
going to be on and I just didn't know
- 28:46
what like how do you get there from
- 28:48
never even being on the floor
- 28:51
to like 8 days later or whatever like
- 28:53
being on the show.
- 28:54
I mean the only thing I can compare it
- 28:56
to and I know it sounds kind of cheesy
- 28:58
but it feels like it is like an
- 28:59
emergency room where someone's like
- 29:02
you're going to have to save people's
- 29:03
lives just watch what we're doing now.
- 29:05
Like that was how it felt. You were
- 29:07
like, and again, it's not saving
- 29:08
people's lives what we did, but like
- 29:10
it's like this really well-run emergency
- 29:12
room where everyone knows what they're
- 29:14
doing and they have a part and you're
- 29:15
just like in everyone's way.
- 29:16
They're like, "Do you need a scalpel?"
- 29:19
No, totally. Totally. And they're like,
- 29:21
"You have to know how to do this. Like,
- 29:23
no one's going to teach you."
- 29:24
Yeah. Or like, you know, we have a
- 29:25
meeting in 10 minutes. It's like, "No,
- 29:27
no,
- 29:28
no one told me.
- 29:29
No one told me."
- 29:33
Did that happen when you were there?
- 29:34
Oh my god. I mean, I started at 911. So,
- 29:37
they were
- 29:38
That was your first show.
- 29:39
That's right.
- 29:41
When when when
- 29:44
cut when when when Rudy Giuliani, you
- 29:47
can cut go to this camera. Just cut to
- 29:49
commercial. Um Yeah. When Rudy Giuliani
- 29:51
said like, "Why be funny?" And Lauren
- 29:54
Lauren said, "Can we be funny?" And Rudy
- 29:55
Giuliani said, "Why start now?" And the
- 29:58
first responders were on stage. That was
- 30:00
my first show. And it was like and
- 30:01
everyone was like, "I think comedy's
- 30:02
over." and and you know but here
- 30:04
and I remember thinking well maybe like
- 30:07
hang in there for six bar months so I
- 30:09
can just tell my parents that I did the
- 30:10
show. Yeah that was and that was
- 30:13
and talk about no no not not no one told
- 30:17
you where the meeting was but people
- 30:18
were like fleeing the building.
- 30:20
Yeah
- 30:20
because there was anthrax in it. So, um,
- 30:24
what there was anthrax sent to
- 30:27
Oh right.
- 30:28
30 Rock and like 2 or 3 weeks in, people
- 30:30
were running out of the building and I
- 30:31
was like, "Where's everyone going?" And
- 30:33
they're like, "We're leaving cuz there's
- 30:34
Anthax in the building." I was like,
- 30:34
"So, we should go. We should leave then.
- 30:37
I don't want to get in trouble." Um, so
- 30:39
yeah. So, you and I both had It's so
- 30:41
There was no, you know, there was
- 30:43
obviously Shoemaker being one of them,
- 30:45
like great producers who took us aside
- 30:47
and said like,
- 30:49
"Make sure you do this, whatever." But
- 30:50
it was you were really thrown to the
- 30:52
wolves which I guess is kind of like how
- 30:53
the show is
- 30:54
and I think that's why it's great.
- 30:56
Yeah, I know. But but I wig from the
- 30:59
minute you started and I did watch your
- 31:01
audition and it's so good and it's it's
- 31:05
every single character Oh, I think every
- 31:07
single character in your audition ends
- 31:09
up being a fully realized character on
- 31:10
the show which is amazing.
- 31:11
I don't that can't be true.
- 31:13
I think it's true. And you're so like
- 31:16
you arrive at that show in my opinion
- 31:19
ready and confident to try what is the
- 31:23
job which is like to try your dumb
- 31:25
ideas. Do you think it was the it was it
- 31:27
was groundings that got you ready for
- 31:29
that? Like do you think that's what
- 31:31
I think groundings helped me realize
- 31:34
what I do and my voice like as a writer
- 31:38
and as a performer. So, I was kind of
- 31:39
like, I'm going to do that and if that
- 31:42
doesn't work, then I know I'm not going
- 31:45
to like work here. So, I remember that
- 31:48
first like Tuesday, no, Wednesday um
- 31:53
read through. Yeah. My god. Um
- 31:55
I was like, if they don't get it like
- 31:57
this, this is where I know if like it
- 32:00
doesn't translate beyond that theater on
- 32:02
Melrose and that like I'm in a different
- 32:04
place. Do you know what I mean?
- 32:05
Yes. But that's a that's you know. Okay.
- 32:07
So, we do this thing on the show where
- 32:09
we talk to we talk well behind people's
- 32:11
backs. We talked to Bill Hater today and
- 32:13
and your your brother
- 32:15
and um and and hater and I were talking
- 32:19
about you and how great you are. And we
- 32:21
were saying that there's this feeling
- 32:22
that we always got from you, which is
- 32:24
exactly that, which is like you were
- 32:25
putting up stuff that made you laugh and
- 32:28
you were like, "Well, this is what I
- 32:30
enjoy." It was, you know, there wasn't
- 32:32
that feeling of like, let me try to get
- 32:35
something that might get on or let me
- 32:37
try to get something that might please
- 32:38
the host or whatever. It was always like
- 32:40
your the confidence in your idea. And
- 32:43
his question for you is the one that
- 32:46
like I feel like I'm asking right now,
- 32:47
which is like when how did you get the
- 32:50
confidence in your own ideas? Where did
- 32:52
it come from?
- 32:53
I
- 32:55
It's weird because I don't see it as
- 32:57
confidence.
- 32:59
Um,
- 33:01
I think I just kind of I don't know. I'm
- 33:04
just talking. I've never really answered
- 33:06
this, but I think I kind of wanted to
- 33:09
know where I was in the world as far as
- 33:12
like my
- 33:15
uh point of view
- 33:18
and like the more I would put up that I
- 33:22
thought was funny, the more I could kind
- 33:24
of like hone what what kind of works and
- 33:27
what doesn't. Does that make sense? But
- 33:29
I do remember Forte telling me once in
- 33:31
his office
- 33:32
me saying
- 33:34
something like, "I don't know if Lauren
- 33:36
would like this or and he was like,
- 33:38
don't do that." He's like, "Never write
- 33:41
for if you think someone else is going
- 33:43
to think this is funny." He's like,
- 33:44
"Write if like you think it's funny."
- 33:46
And I like I always carried that with
- 33:48
me.
- 33:48
Um
- 33:49
I mean you and Will Forte share that.
- 33:51
You guys both share that feeling of like
- 33:53
when it comes from either one of you,
- 33:56
there's no doubt that the two of you
- 33:58
have been laughing about it and like
- 34:00
like you find it funny just die a slow
- 34:04
death.
- 34:05
But I love those times too like
- 34:09
writing those. I remember you and I
- 34:11
wrote something that to this day like
- 34:13
James and I quote when we were like
- 34:17
performers in like a cafe.
- 34:19
Oh. and it died a terrible day. And I
- 34:21
remember we were like describing
- 34:25
some the way someone looked as a pencil
- 34:29
because they had a yellow outfit on and
- 34:31
like a pink hat or something. We just
- 34:33
said they look like a pencil. I don't
- 34:35
know if that's Well, it didn't work
- 34:36
either but
- 34:39
maybe the way James But there was
- 34:41
something about it that when you're
- 34:43
doing it and you know that little moment
- 34:46
where like this is the little hook where
- 34:48
the audience laughs and when they don't
- 34:50
and you have like four more minutes.
- 34:52
Oh, I know. It's exquisite though. It's
- 34:54
It's like a sweat that if you get
- 34:56
through the fever of it, then you feel
- 34:59
like you your immune system is like
- 35:01
stronger. Also, you were seeing your
- 35:04
heroes. I'm sorry for me, you included.
- 35:07
Everyone's doing
- 35:09
their best and everyone has stuff.
- 35:11
Sometimes it doesn't work and you're
- 35:12
like, "Oh, okay." This happens to
- 35:15
everybody.
- 35:16
Yeah.
- 35:16
But the cool thing about it is when you
- 35:18
show up and there's like 50 sketches to
- 35:19
read.
- 35:21
The people people think that they're
- 35:23
going to work and you just never know. I
- 35:26
know. But so much of your stuff worked.
- 35:29
Like crush.
- 35:31
I mean, it's like, okay, well, you've
- 35:34
talked about this and I've heard you
- 35:35
talk about it and really made me laugh.
- 35:36
Your for the first sketch you were in at
- 35:39
SNL
- 35:39
Oh, yeah. was
- 35:40
when uh you right Yeah.
- 35:44
were pregnant in the butt.
- 35:47
My character was pregnant.
- 35:48
Your character.
- 35:51
But it was It's funny because back it up
- 35:53
even to like my first pitch because that
- 35:56
was JB Smooth,
- 35:57
right? The great performer JB Smooth.
- 36:00
the great everything but the best
- 36:02
pitcher.
- 36:02
Incredible.
- 36:03
And he pitched this thing where you were
- 36:05
pregnant in the butt and everyone was
- 36:06
laughing and I didn't know that like
- 36:08
he's the he just does like funny
- 36:09
pitches,
- 36:10
right?
- 36:10
And he wrote it.
- 36:12
I think and he often he often JB I think
- 36:15
you often pitch stuff that maybe you
- 36:16
weren't going to write.
- 36:18
Yes. You know what I mean? I always
- 36:19
pitch stuff I wasn't going to write.
- 36:20
Same. That was kind of the thing on
- 36:21
Monday night. You would be like um and
- 36:23
you just kind of [ __ ] your way to
- 36:24
get a laugh
- 36:25
and then you'd be like okay and now I
- 36:26
really have to buckle down. But I think
- 36:28
because the response was so funny, JB
- 36:30
was like, I should write I gotta write
- 36:31
this. That's the other thing. And you're
- 36:32
like, I wasn't really gonna write that
- 36:34
thing.
- 36:34
Yeah.
- 36:35
It was my very first sketch.
- 36:38
Jason Lee.
- 36:40
Jason Lee was Foo Fighters.
- 36:42
Yes. Fighters.
- 36:43
Foo Fighters. I did say that. A
- 36:45
Fighters.
- 36:48
I'm so happy that was my first.
- 36:51
That was your first sketch. And do you
- 36:52
remember the first like I mean the first
- 36:54
character? You have so many. But do you
- 36:56
remember the first one that was a
- 36:58
recurring that you thought is Was it
- 36:59
Target Lady? Like where you felt like,
- 37:01
oh, I'm going to get to do this again.
- 37:03
Like I have some kind of
- 37:04
I don't know.
- 37:05
I know. It might was it A-holes with
- 37:07
Sedakus?
- 37:08
It was either A-holes or Target Lady.
- 37:10
Yeah.
- 37:11
I mean, for people who don't remember,
- 37:13
um, you know, Kristen has done so many
- 37:16
characters. I mean, we could talk about
- 37:17
them all day, but there was a there was
- 37:20
Target Lady who was of course very very
- 37:22
excited about things getting improved.
- 37:24
She goes, and had an incredible haircut.
- 37:26
Great wigs. Thank you.
- 37:28
Um, incredible wig. And then another
- 37:30
great wig and another character was
- 37:31
A-holes, which is Sedakus, Jason
- 37:33
Sedakus. And you and you guys were kind
- 37:34
of like
- 37:36
just like the worst people to show up
- 37:38
anywhere.
- 37:38
Yeah. Yeah.
- 37:39
Yeah. And you did a great move where you
- 37:41
would play with your hair and chew gum.
- 37:45
Real simple.
- 37:48
So there you are. You're at SNL crushing
- 37:50
it. Bridesmaids comes out. Brad Smith
- 37:53
comes out while you're on the show.
- 37:54
Yes.
- 37:55
That's I don't think people understand
- 37:56
that. I I mean I don't think I did
- 37:58
either. The the timeline of that you
- 38:00
were still on the show when the gigantic
- 38:03
um incredible explosion that is
- 38:05
bridesmaids happens and you're still and
- 38:09
you know a lot of people have to kind of
- 38:11
launch and then figure out their their
- 38:14
way after they leave the show. You're
- 38:16
kind of having this moment while you're
- 38:18
still having a full-time job on the
- 38:20
show. What was that like? Was it hard to
- 38:21
balance like going back and forth or
- 38:23
shooting or press or any of that stuff
- 38:24
or do you remember it being kind of
- 38:26
smooth?
- 38:26
I don't really think I knew how well it
- 38:29
was doing until like later until I was
- 38:31
off the show.
- 38:33
Yeah. You had some more perspective on
- 38:35
it?
- 38:35
I think so.
- 38:36
And you and Annie Malo who wrote it
- 38:37
together like did you guys get to have a
- 38:40
moment where you said looked at each
- 38:41
other and said like holy [ __ ]
- 38:43
Later cuz I remember after opening
- 38:45
weekend they were like
- 38:47
well we tried. And we were like, "Sorry,
- 38:52
really? Why?" Cuz
- 38:54
Yeah, because you know, opening weekend
- 38:55
was always the thing. It was a comedy
- 38:57
and it didn't make a certain thing and
- 38:59
we were like,
- 39:00
"Oh, well, okay." We just thought like
- 39:04
that was it.
- 39:05
Wow.
- 39:06
And then I think just more and more
- 39:07
people kept seeing it and then happened
- 39:09
later. Yeah. It was a grower.
- 39:11
Wow. That's so cool. I mean, it's still
- 39:14
we talk we're talking about stuff from
- 39:15
20 years ago, but it still remains a lot
- 39:18
of people's favorite comedy and it's
- 39:20
still a spec for what it looks like to
- 39:23
have like a bunch of women in a film
- 39:25
together writing their own material like
- 39:27
like what a hard well done mostly female
- 39:32
com like it's still such a superior
- 39:35
piece of work wig.
- 39:37
Thank you Amy.
- 39:40
Um, no question.
- 39:42
Commercial. I got a commercial.
- 39:53
There's so many funny characters that I
- 39:55
want to talk about, but I won't I won't
- 39:57
embarrass you by going through them. But
- 39:59
I've said this to you before. My
- 40:00
favorite character is the surprise lady.
- 40:04
Thanks. That's one of my favorites.
- 40:05
I love her. I I love her for a million
- 40:08
reasons. I love her because the the the
- 40:09
the way you play her is so funny. I love
- 40:12
her wig. Fantastic wig. Always in a
- 40:14
turtleneck.
- 40:15
Always.
- 40:16
Well, she had to hide in it.
- 40:18
She had to hide in it. That's right.
- 40:21
That's right. Did you Did you write it
- 40:24
was in the script that we like that we
- 40:26
pulled it over? Yes.
- 40:29
And when I when I say that was one of my
- 40:31
favorites, that comes from doing it.
- 40:34
Yeah,
- 40:34
like I
- 40:36
I like being I like being in a sketch
- 40:39
where
- 40:41
there's a lot of people and there are
- 40:43
moments where everyone is looking around
- 40:45
like what is going on? I love that
- 40:47
moment. I love a cut to Kenan just
- 40:52
like we got to get out of here. Like
- 40:54
this lady is nuts.
- 40:55
I my favorite thing.
- 40:57
That actually would be a really good way
- 40:58
to sum up a lot of your characters.
- 41:00
Oh yeah. Most of my sketches, if you go
- 41:02
back and look, I'm like, "No, you got to
- 41:04
cut to people being weirded out by me to
- 41:07
remind the audience that." But why I
- 41:09
love the surprise lady so much is cuz
- 41:11
there's a lot of wig in it, I think,
- 41:12
because she is
- 41:14
nervous
- 41:16
but excited
- 41:17
and she loves a party
- 41:21
and she cannot wait to deliver that good
- 41:24
news. She can't wait. And the
- 41:27
physicality of her and the way
- 41:31
So funny. God, I just watch clips of it
- 41:34
all the time.
- 41:36
Yes.
- 41:37
I love it so much. It's so funny and
- 41:41
stupid.
- 41:41
Yep.
- 41:41
Funny and stupid.
- 41:42
Yes.
- 41:42
Which is the best,
- 41:43
which we know is the highest praise in
- 41:45
comedy.
- 41:45
Agree. Like the the more people go, "H,
- 41:49
that's so dumb."
- 41:51
Dumb and you're like, "Yay, I did it."
- 41:55
Okay, speaking of like hilarious, funny,
- 41:58
and physical, can you just talk for a
- 42:00
minute about what it's like to work with
- 42:01
Carol Bernett on
- 42:03
Oh, your season is coming out. Season
- 42:05
two is coming out November. Okay.
- 42:07
12th. Yes.
- 42:07
Palm Royale.
- 42:08
Um,
- 42:11
so many things I could say about Carol.
- 42:13
When I met her, I just fully cried
- 42:16
and I was not expecting it. And I don't
- 42:19
that is never except for when my kids
- 42:21
were born and I saw them and I cried. I
- 42:23
can't remember a time
- 42:25
when I just I didn't think I was gonna
- 42:27
cry and then they just it just like
- 42:29
burst out of my eyes. I wasn't expecting
- 42:32
it.
- 42:33
I I watched her as a kid. There's uh
- 42:38
she's as you know,
- 42:39
she's just the greatest person.
- 42:42
She was very important to us.
- 42:44
Yes. So important to us. And the fact
- 42:46
that she just did it
- 42:47
Mhm.
- 42:48
as a woman
- 42:50
during that time and so many people said
- 42:52
no.
- 42:52
It makes perfect sense that you guys
- 42:54
were working together because you
- 42:55
definitely have
- 42:56
I mean you have that thing that she has
- 42:59
um which is you're able to enter a scene
- 43:02
and just
- 43:03
dominate in that way in a a hilarious
- 43:07
joyful
- 43:09
and confident way. But you also like
- 43:12
tiny small and grounded things too. I
- 43:14
think you have a lot of other interests
- 43:16
too. Like I actually think you like
- 43:18
for people who don't know you're you
- 43:20
you're an artist. You love to and you're
- 43:22
a musician. What's your relationship to
- 43:24
music and singing and making music?
- 43:27
Well, music is definitely the thing that
- 43:31
I need to create anything else. Like if
- 43:35
I'm going to draw, I have to have music
- 43:36
on. Or if I'm writing something, it's
- 43:38
always to like music that I
- 43:41
am picturing will be in this part of the
- 43:43
thing. I think it like opens up that
- 43:45
part of my brain
- 43:48
that allows me to go in and be like,
- 43:50
"What do you really think?" Cuz if I
- 43:52
just sit there,
- 43:53
I think like, "Oh, what will they
- 43:55
think?" Does that make sense?
- 43:56
Yeah, for sure.
- 43:57
Um,
- 43:58
and then I mean, I've always sang like I
- 44:01
sang in like, you know, the choir when I
- 44:04
was a kid.
- 44:05
Have you ever thought about wanting to
- 44:07
sing?
- 44:08
Yes.
- 44:08
Sing.
- 44:09
Yeah. Like I mean you do sing sing but
- 44:11
like
- 44:11
but I would love to do like a
- 44:13
help not like a record.
- 44:16
I would love to do that.
- 44:18
You should you should
- 44:19
but I don't even know how to like get
- 44:21
started.
- 44:22
Just this just you just
- 44:24
Can you weigh in on the comments on this
- 44:26
sing?
- 44:27
How does Kristen get started?
- 44:29
How do you get into the music business?
- 44:32
It also feels like you could do you
- 44:35
could dip your toe into some version of
- 44:37
it where it didn't have to feel so like
- 44:39
Yeah. Like like a thing.
- 44:41
Yeah. Like you could join someone's
- 44:42
band.
- 44:44
Whose band should you join?
- 44:47
Again, weigh in. If you've got a band,
- 44:51
just take them in a new direction.
- 44:53
Just just quieter. Just a little bit
- 44:56
quieter.
- 44:56
Just calling them up. Like guys, I know
- 44:59
you have your thing and your thing works
- 45:01
great. You've been doing it a long time
- 45:04
and we think what if you just
- 45:05
and your fans would love to sit down
- 45:07
and I've got the music for it.
- 45:09
Your fans would love to put their arms
- 45:11
down.
- 45:11
Do you go to still go to rock shows
- 45:13
anymore
- 45:14
cuz we when we were young and and out
- 45:16
and about, we did it up. We did it up.
- 45:19
That's why those honestly the best years
- 45:21
of my life like being in New York and on
- 45:22
we
- 45:23
and being young and
- 45:25
we did it up and now
- 45:27
I do not do it.
- 45:28
No,
- 45:30
don't do it.
- 45:31
The thought of going to a concert.
- 45:33
The thought of getting ready to go out
- 45:35
at 11:00, which is what I used to do.
- 45:37
Oh my god. Never.
- 45:40
Can you imagine?
- 45:41
I go out to dinner with my friends at
- 45:42
6:00.
- 45:43
Okay, let's talk about
- 45:44
6 p.m. cuz I want to be home. love to
- 45:47
eat dinner at 6 p.m.
- 45:48
Me too.
- 45:49
What's your ideal bedtime?
- 45:51
Well, you mean sleep or get in the bed?
- 45:53
Great question,
- 45:54
cuz those are different from hours.
- 45:57
Um, I would say, what is your what is
- 45:59
your ideal time to be in bed?
- 46:02
What do you try when do you try to get
- 46:04
in bed?
- 46:04
8:30 9:00.
- 46:06
Love it.
- 46:06
Asleep by 10
- 46:10
10:30. Yeah,
- 46:11
cuz I do like waking up early.
- 46:13
Yes. when everyone else is asleep so I
- 46:15
can have my my little quiet time.
- 46:17
Yeah, cuz you have little ones and you
- 46:18
have to kind of get ready for that cuz
- 46:20
morning is intense.
- 46:21
Morning's tough.
- 46:22
Yeah. Now that I have teenagers, it's
- 46:23
really funny now. Like
- 46:25
my mornings are I have 5 hours before
- 46:28
people wake up.
- 46:29
I'm like it's 10:30. You have to get up.
- 46:32
Yeah. But don't they say it's like a
- 46:33
brain thing? Like they have to let them
- 46:35
sleep.
- 46:37
A teenager wrote that. I
- 46:39
like mom here. I I heard it was a brain
- 46:41
thing. this article.
- 46:43
I'm supposed to sleep. The scientist
- 46:45
said,
- 46:48
"Um, okay. We're going to get to Gabby's
- 46:50
Dollhouse, which just came out."
- 46:51
Okay. So cute.
- 46:53
Is it fun to play a villain? You've
- 46:56
played him. I know. That character looks
- 46:58
so funny and fun.
- 46:59
Well, my kids love Gabby Stall House,
- 47:02
and so
- 47:03
I knew that this was going to be this
- 47:06
was going to go a long way for me at
- 47:07
home.
- 47:08
Yeah. Um, and then the script happened
- 47:10
to be really cute and Ryan Craiggo, the
- 47:12
director's dream.
- 47:14
Awesome.
- 47:15
Um,
- 47:16
yeah, and it was just really fun. And we
- 47:18
had the premiere on Saturday and I got
- 47:21
like a little emotional watching it
- 47:24
because
- 47:25
it's so positive. M
- 47:28
it is so
- 47:31
it's got such a great message and you
- 47:33
know when you're in a theater just with
- 47:35
other people having the same experience
- 47:37
and like you're just completely blocked
- 47:38
out from what's going on in the world.
- 47:41
There was just something so like oh this
- 47:43
is going to go out in the world and it's
- 47:45
like really nice.
- 47:46
Yeah, I feel you, man. I It's like the
- 47:49
world is rough right now and it's like
- 47:51
anything that's like some kind of like
- 47:53
funny or peaceful or I guess just like
- 47:56
anything that just can like take you
- 47:58
away.
- 47:59
I can't do anything dark right now.
- 48:01
No, I can't. It's already everything is
- 48:04
already so dark. I mean that's why I ask
- 48:06
my guest this and I'll ask you this is
- 48:08
like what what's making you laugh? Like
- 48:10
I'm asking people all the time like what
- 48:12
do you what do you watch on
- 48:15
We got to fly. We got to fly. Sorry.
- 48:18
Oh, we got a fly.
- 48:20
Let's get it. I was told there'd be no
- 48:21
flies in here.
- 48:23
I have I did a sweep before I got
- 48:24
married.
- 48:24
I have a fake I have fake I have fake
- 48:26
bread that has a quarter in it.
- 48:29
Let's see if we can catch the fly.
- 48:31
Why is there a quarter?
- 48:32
I don't know. I think cuz you need to
- 48:33
have something in there, right?
- 48:34
Yeah, it's a feel bad for the
- 48:36
And then it's ceramic and Yeah. Then
- 48:38
there's just change in it.
- 48:39
Do you have that thing sometimes where
- 48:40
you feel bad for inanimate objects?
- 48:42
Yes. So do I.
- 48:43
Have you seen Julio Torres's stuff? Um,
- 48:46
uh, he does a bunch of stuff about with
- 48:48
inanimate objects. He's a stand up. He's
- 48:50
hilarious.
- 48:50
I think that's like a thing.
- 48:51
And it is a very, um, where I look at
- 48:54
things and I feel like, oh, he's lonely.
- 48:57
Yes.
- 48:58
Yeah, I do.
- 48:59
That happens to me.
- 49:00
Yeah. How does it manifest for you? How
- 49:01
do you see it? I remember so
- 49:04
specifically I was in the bathroom and
- 49:08
you know how you have like um it's like
- 49:09
a pill thing and maybe it's like I don't
- 49:11
know if it was like allergy pills and
- 49:12
you pop them through
- 49:14
and there's like two, right? And I
- 49:16
needed two but there was one left over
- 49:19
and so I grabbed that one and then one
- 49:21
from the other one and my dad was like
- 49:23
why didn't you just get two from this
- 49:25
one? And I was like, "Well, that one's
- 49:26
been by itself for so long."
- 49:29
And I I feel like he thought that was
- 49:31
cute, but I wonder if he was like, "Oh,
- 49:33
no."
- 49:34
Yes.
- 49:34
But I remember think, well, clearly I
- 49:36
wouldn't just these two have been
- 49:38
together the whole time. This one's been
- 49:39
by itself. Now I sound crazy.
- 49:41
No, I completely do like like when
- 49:44
you're a kid, stuffed animals like you
- 49:46
have to like make sure that like they
- 49:47
can breathe.
- 49:50
Why are you laughing? Yes. And I often
- 49:52
rotate because I think, well, you've had
- 49:54
a good view for a while and this one has
- 49:57
been back. I feel bad when I'm like,
- 49:59
this one has been behind the other one
- 50:00
or in a drawer and I'm like, that one
- 50:03
has been in in the dark for too long.
- 50:06
Yes.
- 50:06
I I totally do that.
- 50:08
Okay. Me, too.
- 50:08
And same with just a random objects. And
- 50:11
I wonder if there is some kind of like
- 50:14
what what's the we're anthropomorphizing
- 50:16
things. for making them feel like
- 50:17
they're human. But there must be some
- 50:19
kind of connection to like our
- 50:21
or maybe we don't want to be left alone.
- 50:24
Cut to commercial.
- 50:28
Cut to commercial. Cut to a slow
- 50:30
commercial.
- 50:31
Is that a lip gloss?
- 50:32
Cut to a Cut to a sad lip gloss
- 50:35
commercial.
- 50:38
Do you know how much money a makeup that
- 50:40
would be so smart? would be smart
- 50:42
just having people put their makeup on
- 50:44
but everyone's sad
- 50:45
and they're crying
- 50:46
because people be like did you see that
- 50:47
commercial?
- 50:48
You're right. That's a great idea.
- 50:50
Happy like putting on their makeup. What
- 50:51
if people are just bummed out?
- 50:53
You're so right. If they're tears are
- 50:56
coming down and they be like I remember
- 50:58
that. I'm buying that.
- 50:59
Or they come they come home after a long
- 51:01
night and they're like they throw up and
- 51:02
then they put their makeup back on.
- 51:04
Yes. And then they put it back on.
- 51:05
You're so right.
- 51:06
Yeah.
- 51:07
Clinique.
- 51:12
Um, so what are you listening to
- 51:16
watching? Do you watch comedy? And no,
- 51:19
I know it's hard, right? I can't do it.
- 51:21
It's hard.
- 51:21
I have a hard time watching.
- 51:24
It's not hard, but as a kid, I think
- 51:26
what made me fall in love with TV and
- 51:31
film is that I would get completely lost
- 51:33
in it.
- 51:34
Now I'm like, "Oh, they shot this at
- 51:37
night.
- 51:38
Totally. Did they eat before? Like, is
- 51:40
this the beginning of the night shoot?
- 51:42
His hair is different.
- 51:43
No, his hair is different. They shot us
- 51:44
out of order.
- 51:45
I noticed that stuff and it drives me
- 51:47
insane.
- 51:48
Me too.
- 51:49
And my kids sometimes, you know, I'll be
- 51:51
like, "This isn't in Canada." They'll be
- 51:53
like, "Mom," I'm like, "It's not
- 51:55
Canada."
- 51:55
I totally noticed that, too.
- 51:57
The trees and they're just like, "Mom,
- 51:58
stop."
- 52:00
I totally do that, too.
- 52:02
Okay. So,
- 52:03
so I I do watch reality
- 52:06
and I am not ashamed. You shouldn't be.
- 52:08
Oh, I'm a Bravo gal for sure.
- 52:10
Okay. What? Who? Who are you at all?
- 52:13
Have you done the Have you done um Andy
- 52:15
Cohen and talked about watch Have you
- 52:17
done that and talked about the house?
- 52:18
Who are your faves? Who do you love?
- 52:22
So many.
- 52:23
I mean, there's it depend like different
- 52:25
cities have different I'm I'm about to
- 52:28
Salt Lake just started
- 52:29
a new a new season.
- 52:30
Yes. A new season of Salt Lake, which is
- 52:33
one of my favorite
- 52:35
Okay.
- 52:37
We got back.
- 52:37
Jenna just said what makes Salt Lake so
- 52:40
good for people like myself that don't
- 52:41
know.
- 52:41
It's just bonkers.
- 52:45
Great.
- 52:46
Um everything that makes the the fashion
- 52:50
the what the ladies they're just I love
- 52:54
it so much. I have noticed like at night
- 52:58
it probably isn't the best thing to
- 52:59
watch before I go to sleep
- 53:01
because it gives you nightmares
- 53:02
just because of the yelling and the
- 53:03
brightness and like all the things
- 53:05
you're not supposed to have before you
- 53:06
go to sleep,
- 53:07
right?
- 53:07
Um the yelling and the brightness.
- 53:09
But I love I love watching non
- 53:14
acting.
- 53:15
Yes, it helps my brain not it helps me
- 53:19
turn it off a little bit. Now I get a
- 53:22
little embarrassed for people and
- 53:24
stressed for them
- 53:25
watching what?
- 53:27
Reality.
- 53:27
Oh, reality. Yes. Oh, I Yes.
- 53:29
But but what is it about watching
- 53:32
non-acting that like relaxes you?
- 53:34
Because I've heard that quite a bit from
- 53:35
people who watch it. It's like it's
- 53:36
weirdly relaxing even though there's
- 53:38
like conflict and all that stuff. Can
- 53:40
you do you know why?
- 53:43
Well, I think with acting, you're
- 53:46
watching someone who has looked at a
- 53:48
scene, studied a scene, they're doing
- 53:49
the scene, they've edited, it's the best
- 53:52
version.
- 53:53
Um, there's effort there. There's so
- 53:56
many people working on it. And then with
- 53:57
reality, it's just like this just
- 53:59
happened.
- 54:00
These two people are talking and this
- 54:02
lady said that thing and oh my god,
- 54:05
and I just I don't know. I like just
- 54:07
being out in the world and seeing these
- 54:10
people.
- 54:10
Yes. walk around and just their parties
- 54:14
and their outfit.
- 54:15
There's so many parties.
- 54:17
I love these women so much. They are my
- 54:19
family.
- 54:19
Can we watch a clip from Salt Lake that
- 54:22
you would it if you were to tell if I've
- 54:24
never I've never watch Salt Lake.
- 54:26
Oh. Oh my god.
- 54:27
I know this is hard, but what would be
- 54:29
one?
- 54:29
I guess maybe What about when when the
- 54:33
the van when Jen Shaw gets
- 54:35
I would say Jen Shaw. Yes. Sprinter van.
- 54:38
Sprinter van. You can't just write
- 54:39
sprinter van because you will get every
- 54:41
franchise.
- 54:43
They're always in a sprinter van going.
- 54:46
I genuinely don't know what I'm going to
- 54:48
see here.
- 54:49
Okay. Should I give you some context?
- 54:51
Please.
- 54:51
Please.
- 54:51
So, Jen Shaw is currently right or she
- 54:54
get out incarcerated.
- 54:57
Still in.
- 54:57
He's incarcerated. Okay.
- 54:58
Incarcerated with Elizabeth Holmes.
- 55:00
They're in the same
- 55:02
and they're buddies. One can hope. One
- 55:04
can hope. Um,
- 55:07
they were going on a trip and the FBI.
- 55:13
There's so much exciting laughter.
- 55:17
I'm taking my time up to talk about. Um,
- 55:19
no, I love it.
- 55:20
The FBI was raiding her I'm just looking
- 55:22
at you, Jenna. Raiding her house. So,
- 55:24
she like didn't show up and it's the all
- 55:27
the girls on the van realizing
- 55:30
what is happening. I'm not selling it as
- 55:32
well. You have to. So, okay. When the
- 55:36
FBI shows up, it's this.
- 55:39
Yeah, maybe that's it.
- 55:41
There's a couple here, but the police
- 55:44
are looking for
- 55:45
Oh, but it's when she's on Oh, this is
- 55:47
what it is. She's on the van.
- 55:49
She's in
- 55:49
and she's like, "Oh,
- 55:52
okay."
- 55:52
She finds out
- 55:53
and she leaves saying that her husband's
- 55:56
in the hospital.
- 55:58
Oh, is that the clip where she goes on a
- 56:00
long rant about my husband's in the
- 56:01
hospital? No, that's not Gencha. Oh, no.
- 56:03
Okay. Um Okay, here we go. Let's see
- 56:06
what this is.
- 56:09
This is incredible,
- 56:10
guys. What if she's on the run? I love
- 56:12
this.
- 56:12
What if she's on the run?
- 56:13
Like, get a head start.
- 56:15
Yeah, that's true.
- 56:18
NYPD police
- 56:20
officers showed up looking for
- 56:23
They're all on the phone.
- 56:24
Think she is in the hospital, but
- 56:26
thanks. Wait, you think call share. You
- 56:29
think she got a tip off call that this
- 56:30
was happening left.
- 56:31
All right.
- 56:33
Okay. They're all on the phone in the
- 56:35
sprinter van.
- 56:36
All with sunglasses on.
- 56:37
I'm just going to message her.
- 56:39
No one's taking their sunglasses off.
- 56:41
Amy, this is that was one minute
- 56:43
of an entire episode almost.
- 56:47
I can't recommend it enough.
- 56:48
I got to tell you, when you explain it,
- 56:50
it does sound fun. I mean
- 56:53
there is something about Real Housewives
- 56:55
which is like if you didn't get on board
- 56:56
it's like I don't even know where to
- 56:58
start.
- 56:58
I can tell you what season to start with
- 57:00
any city because there are seasons to
- 57:02
miss.
- 57:02
Okay. Okay. That's good to know. I would
- 57:04
I wouldn't mind that cuz I have heard I
- 57:05
mean Los Cultistas Bowen they're
- 57:07
obsessed and they talk a lot about Salt
- 57:10
Lake. Yes.
- 57:10
And I do feel like now might be the time
- 57:13
to start if there's a new season
- 57:14
starting.
- 57:14
If you have 3,000 hours to kill
- 57:22
Now is the time.
- 57:23
Now's the time.
- 57:25
You know, the holidays are coming.
- 57:26
You're going to be all smuggled in.
- 57:28
But I kind of get it. It's like with the
- 57:29
world being like so there's so much like
- 57:32
that these stakes are relative. I mean,
- 57:34
she did go to jail.
- 57:36
She did. She went to jail
- 57:39
and not one person took their sunglasses
- 57:40
off the whole time.
- 57:41
No, Amy. They can't.
- 57:46
Amazing. Amazing. Oh my god. We love
- 57:49
you.
- 57:49
I love you, wig. I'm so grateful you
- 57:51
came and did this. I hope you had a good
- 57:53
time.
- 57:54
I had the best time. Is it over?
- 57:55
Is there anything I I asked you about
- 57:57
hater?
- 57:58
Is there anything else we need to ask?
- 58:00
Thank and thank you to Bill for doing
- 58:02
this. That was really sweet. Sweet Bill.
- 58:04
I know. Love that guy.
- 58:05
I know. And you guys are so good in
- 58:07
Skeleton Twins, by the way. What a great
- 58:09
I mean so many you've done so many great
- 58:11
things like but the the the way in which
- 58:14
you naturally like it's just very
- 58:17
brother sister stuff there.
- 58:19
Totally.
- 58:20
It's so natural there. Do you believe in
- 58:22
past lives before we go? Yes.
- 58:24
You do?
- 58:24
Oh my god. Yes.
- 58:26
And do you feel like there are people in
- 58:27
your life that you've known before?
- 58:28
Oh yeah. Oh fully.
- 58:30
I think especially people in your inner
- 58:32
circle
- 58:34
have been there before. For sure.
- 58:37
Yes. I do too. Like you meet someone and
- 58:40
there is something about you and Bill in
- 58:42
that film that feels very familiar.
- 58:44
I love that. Maybe.
- 58:46
Yeah. I wonder.
- 58:48
I believe in all that stuff.
- 58:49
You do?
- 58:50
What's the most woohoo thing you believe
- 58:51
in? Do you believe in um um
- 58:54
Yes.
- 58:57
I mean, I probably do.
- 59:00
Do you believe in ghosts?
- 59:02
Yes.
- 59:03
Have you seen a ghost?
- 59:05
No, I haven't seen one, but I've felt
- 59:08
them.
- 59:09
There have been times where I've gone
- 59:11
into I can when I go into a place
- 59:13
sometimes I can
- 59:14
you can feel the energy.
- 59:15
Especially if like maybe someone died
- 59:16
there.
- 59:17
Do you believe in astral projection?
- 59:18
Like people visiting each other in
- 59:20
dreams.
- 59:21
Yes,
- 59:22
you do.
- 59:22
Yes. My great aunt visited me in a dream
- 59:24
after she died.
- 59:26
Wow.
- 59:26
Yes totally.
- 59:28
What was that like? What was that?
- 59:29
I woke up and I sobbed and I was like
- 59:31
14,
- 59:32
but I knew
- 59:35
she was there.
- 59:36
Wow.
- 59:36
Yeah.
- 59:38
Wow.
- 59:39
I believe in all that stuff.
- 59:40
I know. What do we know?
- 59:41
What do we know?
- 59:42
I'm trying to be
- 59:43
So much of it is like sciencebased.
- 59:45
Yeah.
- 59:46
Um
- 59:47
I'm trying to be more open and that's
- 59:49
actually a goal of mine is like to try
- 59:50
to be like less of a detective when it
- 59:52
comes to that stuff and just kind of
- 59:54
like open it up into my I don't want any
- 59:56
ghosts. I I want to see
- 59:58
I don't want I don't want to have
- 59:59
anything to do with
- 1:00:01
I love ghosts. I respect them. I just
- 1:00:03
don't want to see them.
- 1:00:04
No. I have had my house ghostbusted
- 1:00:06
though.
- 1:00:10
Yes.
- 1:00:11
A professional ghostbuster
- 1:00:13
online. Yes.
- 1:00:14
Okay. Online.
- 1:00:17
I need to explain. No. My friend had her
- 1:00:20
house ghostbusted.
- 1:00:21
Ghostbusted.
- 1:00:22
And she was telling the story. She's
- 1:00:24
like, I don't know. I call her. She
- 1:00:26
lives in New Mexico. I was like, "That's
- 1:00:27
crazy. What's her number?" Because she
- 1:00:30
told me things that had happened after
- 1:00:33
postbust. And I was like, "Oh, this is
- 1:00:37
interesting."
- 1:00:37
And we've learned from Psychic Mike that
- 1:00:40
you will pack up if somebody tells you
- 1:00:42
to pack up.
- 1:00:42
I will get out of there. And
- 1:00:45
I did it. And I swear to God, my house
- 1:00:50
felt different.
- 1:00:51
She did it online. I love her though.
- 1:00:53
That's great.
- 1:00:54
I love you, Wink. Thanks for doing this
- 1:00:56
so much. Meant so much. You did it.
- 1:00:57
Thank you.
- 1:01:00
Thank you so much, Kristen. You are
- 1:01:02
awesome. You're just It was so fun to
- 1:01:04
have you here and like I really do count
- 1:01:06
myself lucky that I got to be on the
- 1:01:08
same timeline as you, let alone the same
- 1:01:10
show as you. And for this Polar Plunge,
- 1:01:12
you know, we I didn't even know where to
- 1:01:14
start to talk about the hilarious comedy
- 1:01:17
that Kristen has has given us over the
- 1:01:19
years. So, I just I want to take this
- 1:01:21
time to just remind everybody of all of
- 1:01:24
the ridiculous, hilarious characters
- 1:01:26
that Kristen has given to us over the
- 1:01:28
years. Dunice from the Lawrence Welk
- 1:01:31
Show and Gilly and Penelopey and um uh
- 1:01:36
uh who else? Um
- 1:01:39
um God, so many. we target lady and we
- 1:01:43
talked about the the lady who couldn't
- 1:01:45
wait to you know ruin a surprise and
- 1:01:48
Judy Grimes and um oh my god and and sha
- 1:01:53
shana shauna the like sexy lady at the
- 1:01:56
office and um uh the Hollywood dish lady
- 1:02:00
who spits her water out and Mindy
- 1:02:03
Grayson the woman who can't get password
- 1:02:06
I mean this is like I could I can't stop
- 1:02:10
and and won't stop. Um, but anyway, just
- 1:02:13
do yourself a favor and look those all
- 1:02:15
up. I mean, honestly, if you're looking
- 1:02:17
for something to make you laugh, any
- 1:02:19
clip from Wig anytime is going to do
- 1:02:21
that. So, um, thank you so much for, um,
- 1:02:24
for coming and doing the show, Wig.
- 1:02:26
Appreciate it. And, uh, thanks so much
- 1:02:28
for listening and check us out again
- 1:02:29
soon. Bye.
- 1:02:31
You've been listening to Good Hang. The
- 1:02:33
executive producers for this show are
- 1:02:35
Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman, and
- 1:02:36
me, Amy Polar. The show is produced by
- 1:02:39
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- 1:02:41
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- 1:02:43
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- 1:02:46
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- 1:02:49
Levelvel, and Jenna Weiss Berman.
- 1:02:51
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