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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

  421. 14:57

    probably more introverted than people

  422. 14:59

    would assume. Right.

  423. 15:00

    I would agree with that. People are

  424. 15:02

    often disappointed.

  425. 15:04

    No, but it's true. I think also because

  426. 15:07

    our people know us our origins into the

  427. 15:11

    public life is comedy. So people think

  428. 15:13

    if you're at a dinner table and someone

  429. 15:16

    says, "Kristen, tell that story and 14

  430. 15:19

    people look at you." That's my

  431. 15:20

    nightmare.

  432. 15:22

    I'm so bad at it.

  433. 15:24

    I'm really bad. And And I was talking to

  434. 15:27

    my husband. I was like, "I'm really bad

  435. 15:29

    at like telling stories." And he's like,

  436. 15:31

    "Yeah."

  437. 15:32

    He's like, "I've noticed

  438. 15:33

    you're you are." And I was a little

  439. 15:35

    shocked, but then it made me realize

  440. 15:36

    that like it's true. I I don't like

  441. 15:39

    that. I don't I'm not good at it.

  442. 15:42

    Halfway through I realize everyone's

  443. 15:44

    looking at me and then I'm like, how did

  444. 15:46

    this how does this end? I'm like, I'm

  445. 15:48

    not.

  446. 15:50

    And some people are so good at it.

  447. 15:52

    Oh, yeah. And some people when they go

  448. 15:54

    in to tell a story, they like settle in

  449. 15:56

    like here we go like a warm sweater and

  450. 15:58

    I'm in. And I'm like, don't stop because

  451. 16:00

    I don't want people to ask me to tell a

  452. 16:02

    story.

  453. 16:04

    I know because it's it is it is like I

  454. 16:07

    mean there's so much to talk to you

  455. 16:10

    about today and like like I don't even

  456. 16:11

    know where to start because there's so

  457. 16:13

    much good stuff to talk about. I want to

  458. 16:15

    talk about groundings and I want to talk

  459. 16:16

    about the beginnings of things because I

  460. 16:18

    feel like I don't think a lot of people

  461. 16:20

    know your beginnings of things. Like

  462. 16:22

    what what were you like as a kid? Were

  463. 16:24

    you you said that you didn't know you

  464. 16:28

    said you had no like big plans to be an

  465. 16:30

    actor or a performer at all? No,

  466. 16:32

    no. I mean, I I would like watch movies

  467. 16:35

    and be like, "Oh, yeah, I want to do

  468. 16:37

    that." But I think that's like everybody

  469. 16:39

    wanted to like

  470. 16:40

    Were you ever like in a school play or

  471. 16:42

    or you know?

  472. 16:44

    No. I mean, I

  473. 16:46

    an attention seeker in any way.

  474. 16:48

    I think maybe a little bit just from

  475. 16:52

    like my parents getting divorced

  476. 16:55

    and being like, I'm going to cause

  477. 16:58

    trouble.

  478. 16:58

    Oh, you became a little bit of a

  479. 17:00

    troublemaker. Yes, I did.

  480. 17:02

    Exciting.

  481. 17:02

    I did. And I don't know if that turned

  482. 17:04

    into like

  483. 17:05

    But you caused a little problem.

  484. 17:07

    I did. And I'm not bragging about it. I

  485. 17:09

    feel terrible, especially now that I'm a

  486. 17:10

    parent.

  487. 17:11

    Well, but what are Can you share any of

  488. 17:13

    I mean, I was got detention a lot. I was

  489. 17:16

    suspended a handful of times. I had

  490. 17:19

    police come to my house for like a prank

  491. 17:22

    prank phone calling stuff. Okay.

  492. 17:24

    But still, they came.

  493. 17:26

    Um, and that was scary. But I was I

  494. 17:30

    think because and I and I I'm bringing

  495. 17:32

    it back to like parents divorce which

  496. 17:35

    don't turn this off. It's gonna be

  497. 17:36

    funny. Um

  498. 17:39

    uh it really affected my life. Yeah. And

  499. 17:42

    I think I went into like my friend

  500. 17:46

    group, which I think happens a lot where

  501. 17:49

    if things are like uncertain at home,

  502. 17:51

    like your friends become your family.

  503. 17:54

    And I was just always with my friends

  504. 17:55

    and always sleeping over at other

  505. 17:57

    people's houses. And some of the people

  506. 17:58

    I was hanging out with were like

  507. 18:02

    uh troublemakers, I guess. And I just

  508. 18:06

    kind of like got in with a little bit of

  509. 18:09

    the wrong crowd, I think, young. And

  510. 18:11

    then I moved when my mom moved to

  511. 18:12

    Rochester and I I moved with her and at

  512. 18:14

    the time I was like I don't want to

  513. 18:15

    move. These are my friends.

  514. 18:17

    But thank God that like saved my life.

  515. 18:20

    Yeah,

  516. 18:20

    it really saved my life.

  517. 18:21

    It is true. Like especially now that you

  518. 18:23

    have kids, you know, we we know that

  519. 18:25

    like

  520. 18:26

    it that whoever you're around, the

  521. 18:29

    proximity of who you're around can

  522. 18:30

    really dictate what kind of choices you

  523. 18:32

    make.

  524. 18:33

    Yeah. And it's hard as a parent. No. I

  525. 18:36

    mean, my kids are five, so I'm not I

  526. 18:38

    can't totally.

  527. 18:39

    But even when my kids were five, you'd

  528. 18:41

    see other 5-year-olds, you'd be like,

  529. 18:42

    "You got to stay away from them."

  530. 18:43

    I know. You're like, "Do you really want

  531. 18:44

    to have a play date with them?" Really?

  532. 18:46

    No.

  533. 18:47

    Be like, "Are you sure?"

  534. 18:48

    I don't know. They seem nice, but like

  535. 18:51

    And then you just pick up, you just hold

  536. 18:52

    the phone upside down and you're like,

  537. 18:53

    "I just called their mom and they're not

  538. 18:55

    home. They've moved.

  539. 18:57

    They'll be at school on Monday.

  540. 18:58

    Their mom said no more play dates."

  541. 19:00

    Okay. So, you But where do you grow up?

  542. 19:02

    Where where's your hometown? in before

  543. 19:04

    in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

  544. 19:05

    right? And then

  545. 19:06

    Amish town,

  546. 19:09

    which also probably added to a little

  547. 19:11

    bit of the mischief like

  548. 19:12

    Yeah, cuz there wasn't a lot to do, you

  549. 19:14

    know, like playing playing down at the

  550. 19:16

    creek,

  551. 19:18

    running through the corn fields. I

  552. 19:20

    really was. But yeah, I I don't know. I

  553. 19:23

    don't know if it's the place or just who

  554. 19:26

    I was hanging out with. I don't know.

  555. 19:29

    Yeah. And then did is it really true

  556. 19:31

    that a psychic told you that you were be

  557. 19:34

    an actress?

  558. 19:35

    Okay, let me just clarify this story.

  559. 19:37

    Okay, is that a fake story?

  560. 19:38

    Because it's not totally fake.

  561. 19:42

    Um, I'll give you like the short

  562. 19:44

    version, but I I was living in Arizona.

  563. 19:46

    I was going to school there. I was at

  564. 19:47

    the University of Arizona in Tucson, and

  565. 19:50

    I did not really want to be there.

  566. 19:52

    Yeah.

  567. 19:53

    And I just felt like I was supposed to

  568. 19:54

    be

  569. 19:56

    somewhere else. Um, I was an art major

  570. 19:59

    and I just I wasn't like I wasn't

  571. 20:03

    connecting with something. I did take an

  572. 20:06

    acting class. It was like acting 101. I

  573. 20:08

    think that's what it's called. Um, and I

  574. 20:11

    was terrified to do it because I hated

  575. 20:14

    speaking in front of the class.

  576. 20:16

    Like would skip school, which is always

  577. 20:18

    the worst thing because then you have to

  578. 20:20

    come back on a different day and do the

  579. 20:21

    book report when everyone else is like,

  580. 20:22

    "We did this last week." It's just even

  581. 20:24

    more awkward. But I hated speaking in

  582. 20:27

    front of the class. Like I would just

  583. 20:29

    get anxiety.

  584. 20:32

    So I didn't want to take this class. I

  585. 20:33

    took it. I loved it.

  586. 20:37

    And I was like, I don't want to be here.

  587. 20:39

    I'm not supposed to be here. And I do

  588. 20:42

    have this theory that if you ask

  589. 20:44

    yourself questions in the mirror, you

  590. 20:46

    cannot lie to yourself.

  591. 20:47

    And it's very

  592. 20:50

    uh

  593. 20:51

    Ooh,

  594. 20:52

    yes. That's deep. like looking in the

  595. 20:55

    mirror

  596. 20:55

    and just being like where

  597. 20:58

    what do you want to do?

  598. 21:00

    And it was like I want to move to LA and

  599. 21:02

    try to be an actor

  600. 21:03

    and that had kind of never

  601. 21:06

    come out of my mouth before. It just

  602. 21:08

    seemed like something so

  603. 21:11

    far I'm not I just didn't seem like

  604. 21:14

    anything that would ever happen. So, and

  605. 21:18

    at this time in Arizona, I was like, you

  606. 21:20

    know, going to like spiritual bookstores

  607. 21:22

    as we do in our 20s,

  608. 21:25

    getting crystals.

  609. 21:26

    Oh my god. Pendulums of like I was like

  610. 21:30

    really in like a nice like healthy way.

  611. 21:33

    Um,

  612. 21:34

    and I wasn't like doing voodoo or

  613. 21:36

    anything. Um, and I went into this

  614. 21:39

    bookstore and there was a sign that was

  615. 21:41

    like

  616. 21:42

    I swear it said like psychic Mike. It

  617. 21:44

    was like a dollar a minute. And I was

  618. 21:45

    like, I'm going to go see that guy. And

  619. 21:47

    I went in and I sat down and he was

  620. 21:49

    like, oh, give me your ring. And he was

  621. 21:50

    like holding my ring. And he was like,

  622. 21:52

    he's like, what are you doing here? He's

  623. 21:55

    like, why are you here? He's like, you

  624. 21:57

    should have been in LA like a year ago.

  625. 22:00

    No way. Just out of my life.

  626. 22:02

    Love it.

  627. 22:03

    He could have said that to every person

  628. 22:06

    that walked in there.

  629. 22:08

    He's like, "What are you doing here?"

  630. 22:09

    That's what he says to every person. And

  631. 22:11

    they're just like, cuz no one knows. You

  632. 22:13

    don't go into a psychic cuz you know

  633. 22:14

    what you're doing.

  634. 22:15

    Exactly.

  635. 22:16

    But I

  636. 22:18

    I like went home and packed up my car.

  637. 22:20

    What?

  638. 22:21

    And my cuz my roommate at the time lived

  639. 22:23

    in LA and I was like, "Can I come stay

  640. 22:25

    with you?

  641. 22:26

    Didn't tell my parents.

  642. 22:27

    Packed up my car.

  643. 22:28

    Bad girl."

  644. 22:29

    Drugged my cat.

  645. 22:31

    Drove to LA and just

  646. 22:36

    quit quit quit school.

  647. 22:37

    Quit school.

  648. 22:38

    Dang. You are a rebel wig. You're Yes,

  649. 22:42

    you are.

  650. 22:43

    It was very uh I think because I knew

  651. 22:46

    someone

  652. 22:48

    Sure.

  653. 22:49

    it was less scary.

  654. 22:50

    Um

  655. 22:52

    but yeah, to like get an apartment and

  656. 22:56

    got a job.

  657. 22:57

    I mean, back then it was you only needed

  658. 22:59

    to know like one person to make a

  659. 23:01

    humongous career and life change. It was

  660. 23:04

    like, I'll just go. Same thing with me.

  661. 23:05

    I knew someone who had graduated from

  662. 23:07

    college who was my old roommate who was

  663. 23:08

    living in Chicago. So, I was like, all

  664. 23:09

    right, I'll just move to Chicago. like

  665. 23:11

    she's there.

  666. 23:12

    Like that's all you needed was one

  667. 23:13

    person

  668. 23:14

    and

  669. 23:14

    and we didn't have like phones or

  670. 23:18

    anything like that.

  671. 23:19

    We just drove.

  672. 23:20

    We just drove

  673. 23:21

    with like a map

  674. 23:22

    and a cat and a map and we were just

  675. 23:24

    like And then we just looked at and then

  676. 23:26

    the signs were just arrows. It just said

  677. 23:28

    Hollywood.

  678. 23:29

    Yeah.

  679. 23:30

    It just said success Hollywood acting

  680. 23:32

    town and you just and you pulled up. So

  681. 23:35

    you go to Groundling. What What year do

  682. 23:37

    you get in Groundlings? What year do you

  683. 23:38

    start Groundlings? I I waited a couple

  684. 23:41

    years cuz once I got to LA, I was like,

  685. 23:44

    I've never acted before.

  686. 23:46

    Oh, so you didn't start right away. I

  687. 23:48

    was like, what? This town is full of

  688. 23:51

    every person here is trying to do that.

  689. 23:54

    And I

  690. 23:55

    I got freaked out and I worked at like a

  691. 23:57

    hot dog restaurant and then I worked at

  692. 23:59

    anthropology and I was like doing all

  693. 24:01

    these like odd jobs. And then

  694. 24:04

    um

  695. 24:05

    a friend of mine that I was working for

  696. 24:07

    when I was doing like painting, I'd had

  697. 24:09

    a million jobs. Um he was like, "Have

  698. 24:12

    you ever been to the Groundlings?" And I

  699. 24:14

    was like, "No, what is it?" And he's

  700. 24:15

    like, "You should go." He's like, "I

  701. 24:16

    just think you'd like it."

  702. 24:19

    And yeah, that first show I'd never seen

  703. 24:21

    improv. I'd never seen like live sketch,

  704. 24:23

    but it was like

  705. 24:24

    Jen Culage,

  706. 24:26

    um Michael Hitchcock.

  707. 24:29

    Uh, and I was just like, "This is what I

  708. 24:33

    want to do."

  709. 24:34

    Wow. Yeah.

  710. 24:35

    This is it. Oh my god. They're just

  711. 24:37

    making stuff up.

  712. 24:39

    I was like, "I don't have to like read

  713. 24:41

    and say a line a certain way that's like

  714. 24:43

    right or wrong. I could just like do

  715. 24:45

    that."

  716. 24:45

    And it was like n it was it was the '9s.

  717. 24:48

    So, you're doing sketch and improv and

  718. 24:50

    like like everybody like hoping to get

  719. 24:52

    on SNL.

  720. 24:54

    Yeah. Just like that was the goal was

  721. 24:56

    like and you're watching people

  722. 24:58

    go and get on.

  723. 24:59

    Yeah. And then Mad TV came out and that

  724. 25:02

    was the thing and a lot of people were

  725. 25:03

    auditioning for that.

  726. 25:04

    Right. Right.

  727. 25:04

    Cuz that was happening out here.

  728. 25:06

    I remember there was that time when it

  729. 25:07

    was like you can audition for Matt TV

  730. 25:08

    and SNL like you like it was very like

  731. 25:10

    one or the other like choose now. And it

  732. 25:12

    was like babe no one's offering me

  733. 25:14

    either job.

  734. 25:16

    You're like having imaginary

  735. 25:18

    conversations in your head about like if

  736. 25:19

    Matt TV asks I'm going to say no. It's

  737. 25:21

    like they're not asking.

  738. 25:26

    Wait, did you do sketch in college?

  739. 25:28

    Yeah, I did like improv and like an

  740. 25:30

    improv group in college and we did like

  741. 25:32

    sketches at the end of the show

  742. 25:33

    and it was and you know it was I loved

  743. 25:36

    my improv group. It was called My

  744. 25:37

    Mother's Flea Bag, which is like sure.

  745. 25:39

    And um you know, I love an improv group

  746. 25:42

    name. And My Mother's Flea Bag had been

  747. 25:44

    around forever, you know, and they and

  748. 25:46

    we had it was like a little frat for

  749. 25:48

    like a little nerdy frat or sority. And

  750. 25:50

    we had all these rituals and customs.

  751. 25:53

    And at the end of our show, we would go,

  752. 25:55

    "It's it's it's my mother's flea bag."

  753. 25:59

    Like as if it was like live from S, you

  754. 26:02

    know, like we were doing some like

  755. 26:03

    version of SNL and we would do sketches

  756. 26:05

    and improv. Oh, that's so cute.

  757. 26:07

    But you didn't do any sketch or improv

  758. 26:08

    in um University of Arizona.

  759. 26:10

    No no no no no.

  760. 26:11

    Interesting. Amazing. So then much later

  761. 26:14

    you go can you I mean

  762. 26:17

    your audition for SNL

  763. 26:20

    is it it is weird to like have auditions

  764. 26:23

    out in the world? I don't know. Did you

  765. 26:24

    watch any of the 50th stuff when they

  766. 26:27

    were showing?

  767. 26:27

    I haven't watched you watch and I've

  768. 26:30

    never seen my audition. I never want to

  769. 26:32

    ever see it cuz I did two.

  770. 26:35

    Okay. You audition and then what

  771. 26:37

    happened?

  772. 26:38

    Well, okay. You auditioned once and then

  773. 26:41

    you got it and you turned it down.

  774. 26:42

    I turned it down

  775. 26:43

    because Matt TV was coming back. No, I

  776. 26:46

    uh I auditioned and then I didn't hear

  777. 26:50

    anything and then the season started.

  778. 26:53

    And then you were like, I'm not on.

  779. 26:54

    Okay.

  780. 26:54

    I'm not there.

  781. 26:57

    And then

  782. 27:00

    Oh, wait. No. How did it go? Maybe. No,

  783. 27:02

    no, maybe that's wrong. I auditioned.

  784. 27:04

    No, that's not right. I auditioned.

  785. 27:07

    Uh, didn't hear anything. Then they

  786. 27:10

    asked me to audition again and I was

  787. 27:13

    like, I did everything.

  788. 27:15

    I was like, what?

  789. 27:17

    Okay. I don't even know what was in that

  790. 27:20

    second audition. And then

  791. 27:22

    and then I didn't hear anything. And

  792. 27:24

    then the season started and that's when

  793. 27:25

    I was like, I didn't get it. No, but

  794. 27:27

    then they called me and they were like,

  795. 27:28

    can you you we'd love we have a spot for

  796. 27:31

    you. Whatever. I forget. Can you come in

  797. 27:33

    like 2 weeks?

  798. 27:34

    I'm finding that out that they hired you

  799. 27:36

    after the season had started.

  800. 27:38

    Yeah. You guys had done three shows and

  801. 27:41

    then they were like, "Come watch uh I I

  802. 27:44

    literally got there on like a Friday. I

  803. 27:48

    came and I watched Lance Armstrong's

  804. 27:51

    show

  805. 27:52

    and then

  806. 27:53

    comedian comedies Lance Armstrong."

  807. 27:57

    But I remember being like, "What?"

  808. 28:00

    Because to watch a show from the floor,

  809. 28:02

    no matter what, is intense. But knowing

  810. 28:04

    that I was

  811. 28:06

    starting on Monday and nobody

  812. 28:08

    No, no one knew because nobody told

  813. 28:10

    anyone that is like notoriously not good

  814. 28:14

    at onboarding.

  815. 28:15

    No no

  816. 28:16

    they're not good at onboarding.

  817. 28:17

    And then I just showed up on Monday.

  818. 28:19

    Yeah. But I I do remember going to the

  819. 28:22

    party and going outside and calling my

  820. 28:25

    friend and like sobbing cuz I was like

  821. 28:29

    what? I was so overwhelmed. I didn't

  822. 28:32

    like know anybody and I'm like in I was

  823. 28:35

    like in New York, you know what I mean?

  824. 28:37

    I didn't I didn't know the city and I

  825. 28:40

    was so scared.

  826. 28:42

    Yeah. cuz I knew no matter what I was

  827. 28:43

    going to be on and I just didn't know

  828. 28:46

    what like how do you get there from

  829. 28:48

    never even being on the floor

  830. 28:51

    to like 8 days later or whatever like

  831. 28:53

    being on the show.

  832. 28:54

    I mean the only thing I can compare it

  833. 28:56

    to and I know it sounds kind of cheesy

  834. 28:58

    but it feels like it is like an

  835. 28:59

    emergency room where someone's like

  836. 29:02

    you're going to have to save people's

  837. 29:03

    lives just watch what we're doing now.

  838. 29:05

    Like that was how it felt. You were

  839. 29:07

    like, and again, it's not saving

  840. 29:08

    people's lives what we did, but like

  841. 29:10

    it's like this really well-run emergency

  842. 29:12

    room where everyone knows what they're

  843. 29:14

    doing and they have a part and you're

  844. 29:15

    just like in everyone's way.

  845. 29:16

    They're like, "Do you need a scalpel?"

  846. 29:19

    No, totally. Totally. And they're like,

  847. 29:21

    "You have to know how to do this. Like,

  848. 29:23

    no one's going to teach you."

  849. 29:24

    Yeah. Or like, you know, we have a

  850. 29:25

    meeting in 10 minutes. It's like, "No,

  851. 29:27

    no,

  852. 29:28

    no one told me.

  853. 29:29

    No one told me."

  854. 29:33

    Did that happen when you were there?

  855. 29:34

    Oh my god. I mean, I started at 911. So,

  856. 29:37

    they were

  857. 29:38

    That was your first show.

  858. 29:39

    That's right.

  859. 29:41

    When when when

  860. 29:44

    cut when when when Rudy Giuliani, you

  861. 29:47

    can cut go to this camera. Just cut to

  862. 29:49

    commercial. Um Yeah. When Rudy Giuliani

  863. 29:51

    said like, "Why be funny?" And Lauren

  864. 29:54

    Lauren said, "Can we be funny?" And Rudy

  865. 29:55

    Giuliani said, "Why start now?" And the

  866. 29:58

    first responders were on stage. That was

  867. 30:00

    my first show. And it was like and

  868. 30:01

    everyone was like, "I think comedy's

  869. 30:02

    over." and and you know but here

  870. 30:04

    and I remember thinking well maybe like

  871. 30:07

    hang in there for six bar months so I

  872. 30:09

    can just tell my parents that I did the

  873. 30:10

    show. Yeah that was and that was

  874. 30:13

    and talk about no no not not no one told

  875. 30:17

    you where the meeting was but people

  876. 30:18

    were like fleeing the building.

  877. 30:20

    Yeah

  878. 30:20

    because there was anthrax in it. So, um,

  879. 30:24

    what there was anthrax sent to

  880. 30:27

    Oh right.

  881. 30:28

    30 Rock and like 2 or 3 weeks in, people

  882. 30:30

    were running out of the building and I

  883. 30:31

    was like, "Where's everyone going?" And

  884. 30:33

    they're like, "We're leaving cuz there's

  885. 30:34

    Anthax in the building." I was like,

  886. 30:34

    "So, we should go. We should leave then.

  887. 30:37

    I don't want to get in trouble." Um, so

  888. 30:39

    yeah. So, you and I both had It's so

  889. 30:41

    There was no, you know, there was

  890. 30:43

    obviously Shoemaker being one of them,

  891. 30:45

    like great producers who took us aside

  892. 30:47

    and said like,

  893. 30:49

    "Make sure you do this, whatever." But

  894. 30:50

    it was you were really thrown to the

  895. 30:52

    wolves which I guess is kind of like how

  896. 30:53

    the show is

  897. 30:54

    and I think that's why it's great.

  898. 30:56

    Yeah, I know. But but I wig from the

  899. 30:59

    minute you started and I did watch your

  900. 31:01

    audition and it's so good and it's it's

  901. 31:05

    every single character Oh, I think every

  902. 31:07

    single character in your audition ends

  903. 31:09

    up being a fully realized character on

  904. 31:10

    the show which is amazing.

  905. 31:11

    I don't that can't be true.

  906. 31:13

    I think it's true. And you're so like

  907. 31:16

    you arrive at that show in my opinion

  908. 31:19

    ready and confident to try what is the

  909. 31:23

    job which is like to try your dumb

  910. 31:25

    ideas. Do you think it was the it was it

  911. 31:27

    was groundings that got you ready for

  912. 31:29

    that? Like do you think that's what

  913. 31:31

    I think groundings helped me realize

  914. 31:34

    what I do and my voice like as a writer

  915. 31:38

    and as a performer. So, I was kind of

  916. 31:39

    like, I'm going to do that and if that

  917. 31:42

    doesn't work, then I know I'm not going

  918. 31:45

    to like work here. So, I remember that

  919. 31:48

    first like Tuesday, no, Wednesday um

  920. 31:53

    read through. Yeah. My god. Um

  921. 31:55

    I was like, if they don't get it like

  922. 31:57

    this, this is where I know if like it

  923. 32:00

    doesn't translate beyond that theater on

  924. 32:02

    Melrose and that like I'm in a different

  925. 32:04

    place. Do you know what I mean?

  926. 32:05

    Yes. But that's a that's you know. Okay.

  927. 32:07

    So, we do this thing on the show where

  928. 32:09

    we talk to we talk well behind people's

  929. 32:11

    backs. We talked to Bill Hater today and

  930. 32:13

    and your your brother

  931. 32:15

    and um and and hater and I were talking

  932. 32:19

    about you and how great you are. And we

  933. 32:21

    were saying that there's this feeling

  934. 32:22

    that we always got from you, which is

  935. 32:24

    exactly that, which is like you were

  936. 32:25

    putting up stuff that made you laugh and

  937. 32:28

    you were like, "Well, this is what I

  938. 32:30

    enjoy." It was, you know, there wasn't

  939. 32:32

    that feeling of like, let me try to get

  940. 32:35

    something that might get on or let me

  941. 32:37

    try to get something that might please

  942. 32:38

    the host or whatever. It was always like

  943. 32:40

    your the confidence in your idea. And

  944. 32:43

    his question for you is the one that

  945. 32:46

    like I feel like I'm asking right now,

  946. 32:47

    which is like when how did you get the

  947. 32:50

    confidence in your own ideas? Where did

  948. 32:52

    it come from?

  949. 32:53

    I

  950. 32:55

    It's weird because I don't see it as

  951. 32:57

    confidence.

  952. 32:59

    Um,

  953. 33:01

    I think I just kind of I don't know. I'm

  954. 33:04

    just talking. I've never really answered

  955. 33:06

    this, but I think I kind of wanted to

  956. 33:09

    know where I was in the world as far as

  957. 33:12

    like my

  958. 33:15

    uh point of view

  959. 33:18

    and like the more I would put up that I

  960. 33:22

    thought was funny, the more I could kind

  961. 33:24

    of like hone what what kind of works and

  962. 33:27

    what doesn't. Does that make sense? But

  963. 33:29

    I do remember Forte telling me once in

  964. 33:31

    his office

  965. 33:32

    me saying

  966. 33:34

    something like, "I don't know if Lauren

  967. 33:36

    would like this or and he was like,

  968. 33:38

    don't do that." He's like, "Never write

  969. 33:41

    for if you think someone else is going

  970. 33:43

    to think this is funny." He's like,

  971. 33:44

    "Write if like you think it's funny."

  972. 33:46

    And I like I always carried that with

  973. 33:48

    me.

  974. 33:48

    Um

  975. 33:49

    I mean you and Will Forte share that.

  976. 33:51

    You guys both share that feeling of like

  977. 33:53

    when it comes from either one of you,

  978. 33:56

    there's no doubt that the two of you

  979. 33:58

    have been laughing about it and like

  980. 34:00

    like you find it funny just die a slow

  981. 34:04

    death.

  982. 34:05

    But I love those times too like

  983. 34:09

    writing those. I remember you and I

  984. 34:11

    wrote something that to this day like

  985. 34:13

    James and I quote when we were like

  986. 34:17

    performers in like a cafe.

  987. 34:19

    Oh. and it died a terrible day. And I

  988. 34:21

    remember we were like describing

  989. 34:25

    some the way someone looked as a pencil

  990. 34:29

    because they had a yellow outfit on and

  991. 34:31

    like a pink hat or something. We just

  992. 34:33

    said they look like a pencil. I don't

  993. 34:35

    know if that's Well, it didn't work

  994. 34:36

    either but

  995. 34:39

    maybe the way James But there was

  996. 34:41

    something about it that when you're

  997. 34:43

    doing it and you know that little moment

  998. 34:46

    where like this is the little hook where

  999. 34:48

    the audience laughs and when they don't

  1000. 34:50

    and you have like four more minutes.

  1001. 34:52

    Oh, I know. It's exquisite though. It's

  1002. 34:54

    It's like a sweat that if you get

  1003. 34:56

    through the fever of it, then you feel

  1004. 34:59

    like you your immune system is like

  1005. 35:01

    stronger. Also, you were seeing your

  1006. 35:04

    heroes. I'm sorry for me, you included.

  1007. 35:07

    Everyone's doing

  1008. 35:09

    their best and everyone has stuff.

  1009. 35:11

    Sometimes it doesn't work and you're

  1010. 35:12

    like, "Oh, okay." This happens to

  1011. 35:15

    everybody.

  1012. 35:16

    Yeah.

  1013. 35:16

    But the cool thing about it is when you

  1014. 35:18

    show up and there's like 50 sketches to

  1015. 35:19

    read.

  1016. 35:21

    The people people think that they're

  1017. 35:23

    going to work and you just never know. I

  1018. 35:26

    know. But so much of your stuff worked.

  1019. 35:29

    Like crush.

  1020. 35:31

    I mean, it's like, okay, well, you've

  1021. 35:34

    talked about this and I've heard you

  1022. 35:35

    talk about it and really made me laugh.

  1023. 35:36

    Your for the first sketch you were in at

  1024. 35:39

    SNL

  1025. 35:39

    Oh, yeah. was

  1026. 35:40

    when uh you right Yeah.

  1027. 35:44

    were pregnant in the butt.

  1028. 35:47

    My character was pregnant.

  1029. 35:48

    Your character.

  1030. 35:51

    But it was It's funny because back it up

  1031. 35:53

    even to like my first pitch because that

  1032. 35:56

    was JB Smooth,

  1033. 35:57

    right? The great performer JB Smooth.

  1034. 36:00

    the great everything but the best

  1035. 36:02

    pitcher.

  1036. 36:02

    Incredible.

  1037. 36:03

    And he pitched this thing where you were

  1038. 36:05

    pregnant in the butt and everyone was

  1039. 36:06

    laughing and I didn't know that like

  1040. 36:08

    he's the he just does like funny

  1041. 36:09

    pitches,

  1042. 36:10

    right?

  1043. 36:10

    And he wrote it.

  1044. 36:12

    I think and he often he often JB I think

  1045. 36:15

    you often pitch stuff that maybe you

  1046. 36:16

    weren't going to write.

  1047. 36:18

    Yes. You know what I mean? I always

  1048. 36:19

    pitch stuff I wasn't going to write.

  1049. 36:20

    Same. That was kind of the thing on

  1050. 36:21

    Monday night. You would be like um and

  1051. 36:23

    you just kind of [ __ ] your way to

  1052. 36:24

    get a laugh

  1053. 36:25

    and then you'd be like okay and now I

  1054. 36:26

    really have to buckle down. But I think

  1055. 36:28

    because the response was so funny, JB

  1056. 36:30

    was like, I should write I gotta write

  1057. 36:31

    this. That's the other thing. And you're

  1058. 36:32

    like, I wasn't really gonna write that

  1059. 36:34

    thing.

  1060. 36:34

    Yeah.

  1061. 36:35

    It was my very first sketch.

  1062. 36:38

    Jason Lee.

  1063. 36:40

    Jason Lee was Foo Fighters.

  1064. 36:42

    Yes. Fighters.

  1065. 36:43

    Foo Fighters. I did say that. A

  1066. 36:45

    Fighters.

  1067. 36:48

    I'm so happy that was my first.

  1068. 36:51

    That was your first sketch. And do you

  1069. 36:52

    remember the first like I mean the first

  1070. 36:54

    character? You have so many. But do you

  1071. 36:56

    remember the first one that was a

  1072. 36:58

    recurring that you thought is Was it

  1073. 36:59

    Target Lady? Like where you felt like,

  1074. 37:01

    oh, I'm going to get to do this again.

  1075. 37:03

    Like I have some kind of

  1076. 37:04

    I don't know.

  1077. 37:05

    I know. It might was it A-holes with

  1078. 37:07

    Sedakus?

  1079. 37:08

    It was either A-holes or Target Lady.

  1080. 37:10

    Yeah.

  1081. 37:11

    I mean, for people who don't remember,

  1082. 37:13

    um, you know, Kristen has done so many

  1083. 37:16

    characters. I mean, we could talk about

  1084. 37:17

    them all day, but there was a there was

  1085. 37:20

    Target Lady who was of course very very

  1086. 37:22

    excited about things getting improved.

  1087. 37:24

    She goes, and had an incredible haircut.

  1088. 37:26

    Great wigs. Thank you.

  1089. 37:28

    Um, incredible wig. And then another

  1090. 37:30

    great wig and another character was

  1091. 37:31

    A-holes, which is Sedakus, Jason

  1092. 37:33

    Sedakus. And you and you guys were kind

  1093. 37:34

    of like

  1094. 37:36

    just like the worst people to show up

  1095. 37:38

    anywhere.

  1096. 37:38

    Yeah. Yeah.

  1097. 37:39

    Yeah. And you did a great move where you

  1098. 37:41

    would play with your hair and chew gum.

  1099. 37:45

    Real simple.

  1100. 37:48

    So there you are. You're at SNL crushing

  1101. 37:50

    it. Bridesmaids comes out. Brad Smith

  1102. 37:53

    comes out while you're on the show.

  1103. 37:54

    Yes.

  1104. 37:55

    That's I don't think people understand

  1105. 37:56

    that. I I mean I don't think I did

  1106. 37:58

    either. The the timeline of that you

  1107. 38:00

    were still on the show when the gigantic

  1108. 38:03

    um incredible explosion that is

  1109. 38:05

    bridesmaids happens and you're still and

  1110. 38:09

    you know a lot of people have to kind of

  1111. 38:11

    launch and then figure out their their

  1112. 38:14

    way after they leave the show. You're

  1113. 38:16

    kind of having this moment while you're

  1114. 38:18

    still having a full-time job on the

  1115. 38:20

    show. What was that like? Was it hard to

  1116. 38:21

    balance like going back and forth or

  1117. 38:23

    shooting or press or any of that stuff

  1118. 38:24

    or do you remember it being kind of

  1119. 38:26

    smooth?

  1120. 38:26

    I don't really think I knew how well it

  1121. 38:29

    was doing until like later until I was

  1122. 38:31

    off the show.

  1123. 38:33

    Yeah. You had some more perspective on

  1124. 38:35

    it?

  1125. 38:35

    I think so.

  1126. 38:36

    And you and Annie Malo who wrote it

  1127. 38:37

    together like did you guys get to have a

  1128. 38:40

    moment where you said looked at each

  1129. 38:41

    other and said like holy [ __ ]

  1130. 38:43

    Later cuz I remember after opening

  1131. 38:45

    weekend they were like

  1132. 38:47

    well we tried. And we were like, "Sorry,

  1133. 38:52

    really? Why?" Cuz

  1134. 38:54

    Yeah, because you know, opening weekend

  1135. 38:55

    was always the thing. It was a comedy

  1136. 38:57

    and it didn't make a certain thing and

  1137. 38:59

    we were like,

  1138. 39:00

    "Oh, well, okay." We just thought like

  1139. 39:04

    that was it.

  1140. 39:05

    Wow.

  1141. 39:06

    And then I think just more and more

  1142. 39:07

    people kept seeing it and then happened

  1143. 39:09

    later. Yeah. It was a grower.

  1144. 39:11

    Wow. That's so cool. I mean, it's still

  1145. 39:14

    we talk we're talking about stuff from

  1146. 39:15

    20 years ago, but it still remains a lot

  1147. 39:18

    of people's favorite comedy and it's

  1148. 39:20

    still a spec for what it looks like to

  1149. 39:23

    have like a bunch of women in a film

  1150. 39:25

    together writing their own material like

  1151. 39:27

    like what a hard well done mostly female

  1152. 39:32

    com like it's still such a superior

  1153. 39:35

    piece of work wig.

  1154. 39:37

    Thank you Amy.

  1155. 39:40

    Um, no question.

  1156. 39:42

    Commercial. I got a commercial.

  1157. 39:53

    There's so many funny characters that I

  1158. 39:55

    want to talk about, but I won't I won't

  1159. 39:57

    embarrass you by going through them. But

  1160. 39:59

    I've said this to you before. My

  1161. 40:00

    favorite character is the surprise lady.

  1162. 40:04

    Thanks. That's one of my favorites.

  1163. 40:05

    I love her. I I love her for a million

  1164. 40:08

    reasons. I love her because the the the

  1165. 40:09

    the way you play her is so funny. I love

  1166. 40:12

    her wig. Fantastic wig. Always in a

  1167. 40:14

    turtleneck.

  1168. 40:15

    Always.

  1169. 40:16

    Well, she had to hide in it.

  1170. 40:18

    She had to hide in it. That's right.

  1171. 40:21

    That's right. Did you Did you write it

  1172. 40:24

    was in the script that we like that we

  1173. 40:26

    pulled it over? Yes.

  1174. 40:29

    And when I when I say that was one of my

  1175. 40:31

    favorites, that comes from doing it.

  1176. 40:34

    Yeah,

  1177. 40:34

    like I

  1178. 40:36

    I like being I like being in a sketch

  1179. 40:39

    where

  1180. 40:41

    there's a lot of people and there are

  1181. 40:43

    moments where everyone is looking around

  1182. 40:45

    like what is going on? I love that

  1183. 40:47

    moment. I love a cut to Kenan just

  1184. 40:52

    like we got to get out of here. Like

  1185. 40:54

    this lady is nuts.

  1186. 40:55

    I my favorite thing.

  1187. 40:57

    That actually would be a really good way

  1188. 40:58

    to sum up a lot of your characters.

  1189. 41:00

    Oh yeah. Most of my sketches, if you go

  1190. 41:02

    back and look, I'm like, "No, you got to

  1191. 41:04

    cut to people being weirded out by me to

  1192. 41:07

    remind the audience that." But why I

  1193. 41:09

    love the surprise lady so much is cuz

  1194. 41:11

    there's a lot of wig in it, I think,

  1195. 41:12

    because she is

  1196. 41:14

    nervous

  1197. 41:16

    but excited

  1198. 41:17

    and she loves a party

  1199. 41:21

    and she cannot wait to deliver that good

  1200. 41:24

    news. She can't wait. And the

  1201. 41:27

    physicality of her and the way

  1202. 41:31

    So funny. God, I just watch clips of it

  1203. 41:34

    all the time.

  1204. 41:36

    Yes.

  1205. 41:37

    I love it so much. It's so funny and

  1206. 41:41

    stupid.

  1207. 41:41

    Yep.

  1208. 41:41

    Funny and stupid.

  1209. 41:42

    Yes.

  1210. 41:42

    Which is the best,

  1211. 41:43

    which we know is the highest praise in

  1212. 41:45

    comedy.

  1213. 41:45

    Agree. Like the the more people go, "H,

  1214. 41:49

    that's so dumb."

  1215. 41:51

    Dumb and you're like, "Yay, I did it."

  1216. 41:55

    Okay, speaking of like hilarious, funny,

  1217. 41:58

    and physical, can you just talk for a

  1218. 42:00

    minute about what it's like to work with

  1219. 42:01

    Carol Bernett on

  1220. 42:03

    Oh, your season is coming out. Season

  1221. 42:05

    two is coming out November. Okay.

  1222. 42:07

    12th. Yes.

  1223. 42:07

    Palm Royale.

  1224. 42:08

    Um,

  1225. 42:11

    so many things I could say about Carol.

  1226. 42:13

    When I met her, I just fully cried

  1227. 42:16

    and I was not expecting it. And I don't

  1228. 42:19

    that is never except for when my kids

  1229. 42:21

    were born and I saw them and I cried. I

  1230. 42:23

    can't remember a time

  1231. 42:25

    when I just I didn't think I was gonna

  1232. 42:27

    cry and then they just it just like

  1233. 42:29

    burst out of my eyes. I wasn't expecting

  1234. 42:32

    it.

  1235. 42:33

    I I watched her as a kid. There's uh

  1236. 42:38

    she's as you know,

  1237. 42:39

    she's just the greatest person.

  1238. 42:42

    She was very important to us.

  1239. 42:44

    Yes. So important to us. And the fact

  1240. 42:46

    that she just did it

  1241. 42:47

    Mhm.

  1242. 42:48

    as a woman

  1243. 42:50

    during that time and so many people said

  1244. 42:52

    no.

  1245. 42:52

    It makes perfect sense that you guys

  1246. 42:54

    were working together because you

  1247. 42:55

    definitely have

  1248. 42:56

    I mean you have that thing that she has

  1249. 42:59

    um which is you're able to enter a scene

  1250. 43:02

    and just

  1251. 43:03

    dominate in that way in a a hilarious

  1252. 43:07

    joyful

  1253. 43:09

    and confident way. But you also like

  1254. 43:12

    tiny small and grounded things too. I

  1255. 43:14

    think you have a lot of other interests

  1256. 43:16

    too. Like I actually think you like

  1257. 43:18

    for people who don't know you're you

  1258. 43:20

    you're an artist. You love to and you're

  1259. 43:22

    a musician. What's your relationship to

  1260. 43:24

    music and singing and making music?

  1261. 43:27

    Well, music is definitely the thing that

  1262. 43:31

    I need to create anything else. Like if

  1263. 43:35

    I'm going to draw, I have to have music

  1264. 43:36

    on. Or if I'm writing something, it's

  1265. 43:38

    always to like music that I

  1266. 43:41

    am picturing will be in this part of the

  1267. 43:43

    thing. I think it like opens up that

  1268. 43:45

    part of my brain

  1269. 43:48

    that allows me to go in and be like,

  1270. 43:50

    "What do you really think?" Cuz if I

  1271. 43:52

    just sit there,

  1272. 43:53

    I think like, "Oh, what will they

  1273. 43:55

    think?" Does that make sense?

  1274. 43:56

    Yeah, for sure.

  1275. 43:57

    Um,

  1276. 43:58

    and then I mean, I've always sang like I

  1277. 44:01

    sang in like, you know, the choir when I

  1278. 44:04

    was a kid.

  1279. 44:05

    Have you ever thought about wanting to

  1280. 44:07

    sing?

  1281. 44:08

    Yes.

  1282. 44:08

    Sing.

  1283. 44:09

    Yeah. Like I mean you do sing sing but

  1284. 44:11

    like

  1285. 44:11

    but I would love to do like a

  1286. 44:13

    help not like a record.

  1287. 44:16

    I would love to do that.

  1288. 44:18

    You should you should

  1289. 44:19

    but I don't even know how to like get

  1290. 44:21

    started.

  1291. 44:22

    Just this just you just

  1292. 44:24

    Can you weigh in on the comments on this

  1293. 44:26

    sing?

  1294. 44:27

    How does Kristen get started?

  1295. 44:29

    How do you get into the music business?

  1296. 44:32

    It also feels like you could do you

  1297. 44:35

    could dip your toe into some version of

  1298. 44:37

    it where it didn't have to feel so like

  1299. 44:39

    Yeah. Like like a thing.

  1300. 44:41

    Yeah. Like you could join someone's

  1301. 44:42

    band.

  1302. 44:44

    Whose band should you join?

  1303. 44:47

    Again, weigh in. If you've got a band,

  1304. 44:51

    just take them in a new direction.

  1305. 44:53

    Just just quieter. Just a little bit

  1306. 44:56

    quieter.

  1307. 44:56

    Just calling them up. Like guys, I know

  1308. 44:59

    you have your thing and your thing works

  1309. 45:01

    great. You've been doing it a long time

  1310. 45:04

    and we think what if you just

  1311. 45:05

    and your fans would love to sit down

  1312. 45:07

    and I've got the music for it.

  1313. 45:09

    Your fans would love to put their arms

  1314. 45:11

    down.

  1315. 45:11

    Do you go to still go to rock shows

  1316. 45:13

    anymore

  1317. 45:14

    cuz we when we were young and and out

  1318. 45:16

    and about, we did it up. We did it up.

  1319. 45:19

    That's why those honestly the best years

  1320. 45:21

    of my life like being in New York and on

  1321. 45:22

    we

  1322. 45:23

    and being young and

  1323. 45:25

    we did it up and now

  1324. 45:27

    I do not do it.

  1325. 45:28

    No,

  1326. 45:30

    don't do it.

  1327. 45:31

    The thought of going to a concert.

  1328. 45:33

    The thought of getting ready to go out

  1329. 45:35

    at 11:00, which is what I used to do.

  1330. 45:37

    Oh my god. Never.

  1331. 45:40

    Can you imagine?

  1332. 45:41

    I go out to dinner with my friends at

  1333. 45:42

    6:00.

  1334. 45:43

    Okay, let's talk about

  1335. 45:44

    6 p.m. cuz I want to be home. love to

  1336. 45:47

    eat dinner at 6 p.m.

  1337. 45:48

    Me too.

  1338. 45:49

    What's your ideal bedtime?

  1339. 45:51

    Well, you mean sleep or get in the bed?

  1340. 45:53

    Great question,

  1341. 45:54

    cuz those are different from hours.

  1342. 45:57

    Um, I would say, what is your what is

  1343. 45:59

    your ideal time to be in bed?

  1344. 46:02

    What do you try when do you try to get

  1345. 46:04

    in bed?

  1346. 46:04

    8:30 9:00.

  1347. 46:06

    Love it.

  1348. 46:06

    Asleep by 10

  1349. 46:10

    10:30. Yeah,

  1350. 46:11

    cuz I do like waking up early.

  1351. 46:13

    Yes. when everyone else is asleep so I

  1352. 46:15

    can have my my little quiet time.

  1353. 46:17

    Yeah, cuz you have little ones and you

  1354. 46:18

    have to kind of get ready for that cuz

  1355. 46:20

    morning is intense.

  1356. 46:21

    Morning's tough.

  1357. 46:22

    Yeah. Now that I have teenagers, it's

  1358. 46:23

    really funny now. Like

  1359. 46:25

    my mornings are I have 5 hours before

  1360. 46:28

    people wake up.

  1361. 46:29

    I'm like it's 10:30. You have to get up.

  1362. 46:32

    Yeah. But don't they say it's like a

  1363. 46:33

    brain thing? Like they have to let them

  1364. 46:35

    sleep.

  1365. 46:37

    A teenager wrote that. I

  1366. 46:39

    like mom here. I I heard it was a brain

  1367. 46:41

    thing. this article.

  1368. 46:43

    I'm supposed to sleep. The scientist

  1369. 46:45

    said,

  1370. 46:48

    "Um, okay. We're going to get to Gabby's

  1371. 46:50

    Dollhouse, which just came out."

  1372. 46:51

    Okay. So cute.

  1373. 46:53

    Is it fun to play a villain? You've

  1374. 46:56

    played him. I know. That character looks

  1375. 46:58

    so funny and fun.

  1376. 46:59

    Well, my kids love Gabby Stall House,

  1377. 47:02

    and so

  1378. 47:03

    I knew that this was going to be this

  1379. 47:06

    was going to go a long way for me at

  1380. 47:07

    home.

  1381. 47:08

    Yeah. Um, and then the script happened

  1382. 47:10

    to be really cute and Ryan Craiggo, the

  1383. 47:12

    director's dream.

  1384. 47:14

    Awesome.

  1385. 47:15

    Um,

  1386. 47:16

    yeah, and it was just really fun. And we

  1387. 47:18

    had the premiere on Saturday and I got

  1388. 47:21

    like a little emotional watching it

  1389. 47:24

    because

  1390. 47:25

    it's so positive. M

  1391. 47:28

    it is so

  1392. 47:31

    it's got such a great message and you

  1393. 47:33

    know when you're in a theater just with

  1394. 47:35

    other people having the same experience

  1395. 47:37

    and like you're just completely blocked

  1396. 47:38

    out from what's going on in the world.

  1397. 47:41

    There was just something so like oh this

  1398. 47:43

    is going to go out in the world and it's

  1399. 47:45

    like really nice.

  1400. 47:46

    Yeah, I feel you, man. I It's like the

  1401. 47:49

    world is rough right now and it's like

  1402. 47:51

    anything that's like some kind of like

  1403. 47:53

    funny or peaceful or I guess just like

  1404. 47:56

    anything that just can like take you

  1405. 47:58

    away.

  1406. 47:59

    I can't do anything dark right now.

  1407. 48:01

    No, I can't. It's already everything is

  1408. 48:04

    already so dark. I mean that's why I ask

  1409. 48:06

    my guest this and I'll ask you this is

  1410. 48:08

    like what what's making you laugh? Like

  1411. 48:10

    I'm asking people all the time like what

  1412. 48:12

    do you what do you watch on

  1413. 48:15

    We got to fly. We got to fly. Sorry.

  1414. 48:18

    Oh, we got a fly.

  1415. 48:20

    Let's get it. I was told there'd be no

  1416. 48:21

    flies in here.

  1417. 48:23

    I have I did a sweep before I got

  1418. 48:24

    married.

  1419. 48:24

    I have a fake I have fake I have fake

  1420. 48:26

    bread that has a quarter in it.

  1421. 48:29

    Let's see if we can catch the fly.

  1422. 48:31

    Why is there a quarter?

  1423. 48:32

    I don't know. I think cuz you need to

  1424. 48:33

    have something in there, right?

  1425. 48:34

    Yeah, it's a feel bad for the

  1426. 48:36

    And then it's ceramic and Yeah. Then

  1427. 48:38

    there's just change in it.

  1428. 48:39

    Do you have that thing sometimes where

  1429. 48:40

    you feel bad for inanimate objects?

  1430. 48:42

    Yes. So do I.

  1431. 48:43

    Have you seen Julio Torres's stuff? Um,

  1432. 48:46

    uh, he does a bunch of stuff about with

  1433. 48:48

    inanimate objects. He's a stand up. He's

  1434. 48:50

    hilarious.

  1435. 48:50

    I think that's like a thing.

  1436. 48:51

    And it is a very, um, where I look at

  1437. 48:54

    things and I feel like, oh, he's lonely.

  1438. 48:57

    Yes.

  1439. 48:58

    Yeah, I do.

  1440. 48:59

    That happens to me.

  1441. 49:00

    Yeah. How does it manifest for you? How

  1442. 49:01

    do you see it? I remember so

  1443. 49:04

    specifically I was in the bathroom and

  1444. 49:08

    you know how you have like um it's like

  1445. 49:09

    a pill thing and maybe it's like I don't

  1446. 49:11

    know if it was like allergy pills and

  1447. 49:12

    you pop them through

  1448. 49:14

    and there's like two, right? And I

  1449. 49:16

    needed two but there was one left over

  1450. 49:19

    and so I grabbed that one and then one

  1451. 49:21

    from the other one and my dad was like

  1452. 49:23

    why didn't you just get two from this

  1453. 49:25

    one? And I was like, "Well, that one's

  1454. 49:26

    been by itself for so long."

  1455. 49:29

    And I I feel like he thought that was

  1456. 49:31

    cute, but I wonder if he was like, "Oh,

  1457. 49:33

    no."

  1458. 49:34

    Yes.

  1459. 49:34

    But I remember think, well, clearly I

  1460. 49:36

    wouldn't just these two have been

  1461. 49:38

    together the whole time. This one's been

  1462. 49:39

    by itself. Now I sound crazy.

  1463. 49:41

    No, I completely do like like when

  1464. 49:44

    you're a kid, stuffed animals like you

  1465. 49:46

    have to like make sure that like they

  1466. 49:47

    can breathe.

  1467. 49:50

    Why are you laughing? Yes. And I often

  1468. 49:52

    rotate because I think, well, you've had

  1469. 49:54

    a good view for a while and this one has

  1470. 49:57

    been back. I feel bad when I'm like,

  1471. 49:59

    this one has been behind the other one

  1472. 50:00

    or in a drawer and I'm like, that one

  1473. 50:03

    has been in in the dark for too long.

  1474. 50:06

    Yes.

  1475. 50:06

    I I totally do that.

  1476. 50:08

    Okay. Me, too.

  1477. 50:08

    And same with just a random objects. And

  1478. 50:11

    I wonder if there is some kind of like

  1479. 50:14

    what what's the we're anthropomorphizing

  1480. 50:16

    things. for making them feel like

  1481. 50:17

    they're human. But there must be some

  1482. 50:19

    kind of connection to like our

  1483. 50:21

    or maybe we don't want to be left alone.

  1484. 50:24

    Cut to commercial.

  1485. 50:28

    Cut to commercial. Cut to a slow

  1486. 50:30

    commercial.

  1487. 50:31

    Is that a lip gloss?

  1488. 50:32

    Cut to a Cut to a sad lip gloss

  1489. 50:35

    commercial.

  1490. 50:38

    Do you know how much money a makeup that

  1491. 50:40

    would be so smart? would be smart

  1492. 50:42

    just having people put their makeup on

  1493. 50:44

    but everyone's sad

  1494. 50:45

    and they're crying

  1495. 50:46

    because people be like did you see that

  1496. 50:47

    commercial?

  1497. 50:48

    You're right. That's a great idea.

  1498. 50:50

    Happy like putting on their makeup. What

  1499. 50:51

    if people are just bummed out?

  1500. 50:53

    You're so right. If they're tears are

  1501. 50:56

    coming down and they be like I remember

  1502. 50:58

    that. I'm buying that.

  1503. 50:59

    Or they come they come home after a long

  1504. 51:01

    night and they're like they throw up and

  1505. 51:02

    then they put their makeup back on.

  1506. 51:04

    Yes. And then they put it back on.

  1507. 51:05

    You're so right.

  1508. 51:06

    Yeah.

  1509. 51:07

    Clinique.

  1510. 51:12

    Um, so what are you listening to

  1511. 51:16

    watching? Do you watch comedy? And no,

  1512. 51:19

    I know it's hard, right? I can't do it.

  1513. 51:21

    It's hard.

  1514. 51:21

    I have a hard time watching.

  1515. 51:24

    It's not hard, but as a kid, I think

  1516. 51:26

    what made me fall in love with TV and

  1517. 51:31

    film is that I would get completely lost

  1518. 51:33

    in it.

  1519. 51:34

    Now I'm like, "Oh, they shot this at

  1520. 51:37

    night.

  1521. 51:38

    Totally. Did they eat before? Like, is

  1522. 51:40

    this the beginning of the night shoot?

  1523. 51:42

    His hair is different.

  1524. 51:43

    No, his hair is different. They shot us

  1525. 51:44

    out of order.

  1526. 51:45

    I noticed that stuff and it drives me

  1527. 51:47

    insane.

  1528. 51:48

    Me too.

  1529. 51:49

    And my kids sometimes, you know, I'll be

  1530. 51:51

    like, "This isn't in Canada." They'll be

  1531. 51:53

    like, "Mom," I'm like, "It's not

  1532. 51:55

    Canada."

  1533. 51:55

    I totally noticed that, too.

  1534. 51:57

    The trees and they're just like, "Mom,

  1535. 51:58

    stop."

  1536. 52:00

    I totally do that, too.

  1537. 52:02

    Okay. So,

  1538. 52:03

    so I I do watch reality

  1539. 52:06

    and I am not ashamed. You shouldn't be.

  1540. 52:08

    Oh, I'm a Bravo gal for sure.

  1541. 52:10

    Okay. What? Who? Who are you at all?

  1542. 52:13

    Have you done the Have you done um Andy

  1543. 52:15

    Cohen and talked about watch Have you

  1544. 52:17

    done that and talked about the house?

  1545. 52:18

    Who are your faves? Who do you love?

  1546. 52:22

    So many.

  1547. 52:23

    I mean, there's it depend like different

  1548. 52:25

    cities have different I'm I'm about to

  1549. 52:28

    Salt Lake just started

  1550. 52:29

    a new a new season.

  1551. 52:30

    Yes. A new season of Salt Lake, which is

  1552. 52:33

    one of my favorite

  1553. 52:35

    Okay.

  1554. 52:37

    We got back.

  1555. 52:37

    Jenna just said what makes Salt Lake so

  1556. 52:40

    good for people like myself that don't

  1557. 52:41

    know.

  1558. 52:41

    It's just bonkers.

  1559. 52:45

    Great.

  1560. 52:46

    Um everything that makes the the fashion

  1561. 52:50

    the what the ladies they're just I love

  1562. 52:54

    it so much. I have noticed like at night

  1563. 52:58

    it probably isn't the best thing to

  1564. 52:59

    watch before I go to sleep

  1565. 53:01

    because it gives you nightmares

  1566. 53:02

    just because of the yelling and the

  1567. 53:03

    brightness and like all the things

  1568. 53:05

    you're not supposed to have before you

  1569. 53:06

    go to sleep,

  1570. 53:07

    right?

  1571. 53:07

    Um the yelling and the brightness.

  1572. 53:09

    But I love I love watching non

  1573. 53:14

    acting.

  1574. 53:15

    Yes, it helps my brain not it helps me

  1575. 53:19

    turn it off a little bit. Now I get a

  1576. 53:22

    little embarrassed for people and

  1577. 53:24

    stressed for them

  1578. 53:25

    watching what?

  1579. 53:27

    Reality.

  1580. 53:27

    Oh, reality. Yes. Oh, I Yes.

  1581. 53:29

    But but what is it about watching

  1582. 53:32

    non-acting that like relaxes you?

  1583. 53:34

    Because I've heard that quite a bit from

  1584. 53:35

    people who watch it. It's like it's

  1585. 53:36

    weirdly relaxing even though there's

  1586. 53:38

    like conflict and all that stuff. Can

  1587. 53:40

    you do you know why?

  1588. 53:43

    Well, I think with acting, you're

  1589. 53:46

    watching someone who has looked at a

  1590. 53:48

    scene, studied a scene, they're doing

  1591. 53:49

    the scene, they've edited, it's the best

  1592. 53:52

    version.

  1593. 53:53

    Um, there's effort there. There's so

  1594. 53:56

    many people working on it. And then with

  1595. 53:57

    reality, it's just like this just

  1596. 53:59

    happened.

  1597. 54:00

    These two people are talking and this

  1598. 54:02

    lady said that thing and oh my god,

  1599. 54:05

    and I just I don't know. I like just

  1600. 54:07

    being out in the world and seeing these

  1601. 54:10

    people.

  1602. 54:10

    Yes. walk around and just their parties

  1603. 54:14

    and their outfit.

  1604. 54:15

    There's so many parties.

  1605. 54:17

    I love these women so much. They are my

  1606. 54:19

    family.

  1607. 54:19

    Can we watch a clip from Salt Lake that

  1608. 54:22

    you would it if you were to tell if I've

  1609. 54:24

    never I've never watch Salt Lake.

  1610. 54:26

    Oh. Oh my god.

  1611. 54:27

    I know this is hard, but what would be

  1612. 54:29

    one?

  1613. 54:29

    I guess maybe What about when when the

  1614. 54:33

    the van when Jen Shaw gets

  1615. 54:35

    I would say Jen Shaw. Yes. Sprinter van.

  1616. 54:38

    Sprinter van. You can't just write

  1617. 54:39

    sprinter van because you will get every

  1618. 54:41

    franchise.

  1619. 54:43

    They're always in a sprinter van going.

  1620. 54:46

    I genuinely don't know what I'm going to

  1621. 54:48

    see here.

  1622. 54:49

    Okay. Should I give you some context?

  1623. 54:51

    Please.

  1624. 54:51

    Please.

  1625. 54:51

    So, Jen Shaw is currently right or she

  1626. 54:54

    get out incarcerated.

  1627. 54:57

    Still in.

  1628. 54:57

    He's incarcerated. Okay.

  1629. 54:58

    Incarcerated with Elizabeth Holmes.

  1630. 55:00

    They're in the same

  1631. 55:02

    and they're buddies. One can hope. One

  1632. 55:04

    can hope. Um,

  1633. 55:07

    they were going on a trip and the FBI.

  1634. 55:13

    There's so much exciting laughter.

  1635. 55:17

    I'm taking my time up to talk about. Um,

  1636. 55:19

    no, I love it.

  1637. 55:20

    The FBI was raiding her I'm just looking

  1638. 55:22

    at you, Jenna. Raiding her house. So,

  1639. 55:24

    she like didn't show up and it's the all

  1640. 55:27

    the girls on the van realizing

  1641. 55:30

    what is happening. I'm not selling it as

  1642. 55:32

    well. You have to. So, okay. When the

  1643. 55:36

    FBI shows up, it's this.

  1644. 55:39

    Yeah, maybe that's it.

  1645. 55:41

    There's a couple here, but the police

  1646. 55:44

    are looking for

  1647. 55:45

    Oh, but it's when she's on Oh, this is

  1648. 55:47

    what it is. She's on the van.

  1649. 55:49

    She's in

  1650. 55:49

    and she's like, "Oh,

  1651. 55:52

    okay."

  1652. 55:52

    She finds out

  1653. 55:53

    and she leaves saying that her husband's

  1654. 55:56

    in the hospital.

  1655. 55:58

    Oh, is that the clip where she goes on a

  1656. 56:00

    long rant about my husband's in the

  1657. 56:01

    hospital? No, that's not Gencha. Oh, no.

  1658. 56:03

    Okay. Um Okay, here we go. Let's see

  1659. 56:06

    what this is.

  1660. 56:09

    This is incredible,

  1661. 56:10

    guys. What if she's on the run? I love

  1662. 56:12

    this.

  1663. 56:12

    What if she's on the run?

  1664. 56:13

    Like, get a head start.

  1665. 56:15

    Yeah, that's true.

  1666. 56:18

    NYPD police

  1667. 56:20

    officers showed up looking for

  1668. 56:23

    They're all on the phone.

  1669. 56:24

    Think she is in the hospital, but

  1670. 56:26

    thanks. Wait, you think call share. You

  1671. 56:29

    think she got a tip off call that this

  1672. 56:30

    was happening left.

  1673. 56:31

    All right.

  1674. 56:33

    Okay. They're all on the phone in the

  1675. 56:35

    sprinter van.

  1676. 56:36

    All with sunglasses on.

  1677. 56:37

    I'm just going to message her.

  1678. 56:39

    No one's taking their sunglasses off.

  1679. 56:41

    Amy, this is that was one minute

  1680. 56:43

    of an entire episode almost.

  1681. 56:47

    I can't recommend it enough.

  1682. 56:48

    I got to tell you, when you explain it,

  1683. 56:50

    it does sound fun. I mean

  1684. 56:53

    there is something about Real Housewives

  1685. 56:55

    which is like if you didn't get on board

  1686. 56:56

    it's like I don't even know where to

  1687. 56:58

    start.

  1688. 56:58

    I can tell you what season to start with

  1689. 57:00

    any city because there are seasons to

  1690. 57:02

    miss.

  1691. 57:02

    Okay. Okay. That's good to know. I would

  1692. 57:04

    I wouldn't mind that cuz I have heard I

  1693. 57:05

    mean Los Cultistas Bowen they're

  1694. 57:07

    obsessed and they talk a lot about Salt

  1695. 57:10

    Lake. Yes.

  1696. 57:10

    And I do feel like now might be the time

  1697. 57:13

    to start if there's a new season

  1698. 57:14

    starting.

  1699. 57:14

    If you have 3,000 hours to kill

  1700. 57:22

    Now is the time.

  1701. 57:23

    Now's the time.

  1702. 57:25

    You know, the holidays are coming.

  1703. 57:26

    You're going to be all smuggled in.

  1704. 57:28

    But I kind of get it. It's like with the

  1705. 57:29

    world being like so there's so much like

  1706. 57:32

    that these stakes are relative. I mean,

  1707. 57:34

    she did go to jail.

  1708. 57:36

    She did. She went to jail

  1709. 57:39

    and not one person took their sunglasses

  1710. 57:40

    off the whole time.

  1711. 57:41

    No, Amy. They can't.

  1712. 57:46

    Amazing. Amazing. Oh my god. We love

  1713. 57:49

    you.

  1714. 57:49

    I love you, wig. I'm so grateful you

  1715. 57:51

    came and did this. I hope you had a good

  1716. 57:53

    time.

  1717. 57:54

    I had the best time. Is it over?

  1718. 57:55

    Is there anything I I asked you about

  1719. 57:57

    hater?

  1720. 57:58

    Is there anything else we need to ask?

  1721. 58:00

    Thank and thank you to Bill for doing

  1722. 58:02

    this. That was really sweet. Sweet Bill.

  1723. 58:04

    I know. Love that guy.

  1724. 58:05

    I know. And you guys are so good in

  1725. 58:07

    Skeleton Twins, by the way. What a great

  1726. 58:09

    I mean so many you've done so many great

  1727. 58:11

    things like but the the the way in which

  1728. 58:14

    you naturally like it's just very

  1729. 58:17

    brother sister stuff there.

  1730. 58:19

    Totally.

  1731. 58:20

    It's so natural there. Do you believe in

  1732. 58:22

    past lives before we go? Yes.

  1733. 58:24

    You do?

  1734. 58:24

    Oh my god. Yes.

  1735. 58:26

    And do you feel like there are people in

  1736. 58:27

    your life that you've known before?

  1737. 58:28

    Oh yeah. Oh fully.

  1738. 58:30

    I think especially people in your inner

  1739. 58:32

    circle

  1740. 58:34

    have been there before. For sure.

  1741. 58:37

    Yes. I do too. Like you meet someone and

  1742. 58:40

    there is something about you and Bill in

  1743. 58:42

    that film that feels very familiar.

  1744. 58:44

    I love that. Maybe.

  1745. 58:46

    Yeah. I wonder.

  1746. 58:48

    I believe in all that stuff.

  1747. 58:49

    You do?

  1748. 58:50

    What's the most woohoo thing you believe

  1749. 58:51

    in? Do you believe in um um

  1750. 58:54

    Yes.

  1751. 58:57

    I mean, I probably do.

  1752. 59:00

    Do you believe in ghosts?

  1753. 59:02

    Yes.

  1754. 59:03

    Have you seen a ghost?

  1755. 59:05

    No, I haven't seen one, but I've felt

  1756. 59:08

    them.

  1757. 59:09

    There have been times where I've gone

  1758. 59:11

    into I can when I go into a place

  1759. 59:13

    sometimes I can

  1760. 59:14

    you can feel the energy.

  1761. 59:15

    Especially if like maybe someone died

  1762. 59:16

    there.

  1763. 59:17

    Do you believe in astral projection?

  1764. 59:18

    Like people visiting each other in

  1765. 59:20

    dreams.

  1766. 59:21

    Yes,

  1767. 59:22

    you do.

  1768. 59:22

    Yes. My great aunt visited me in a dream

  1769. 59:24

    after she died.

  1770. 59:26

    Wow.

  1771. 59:26

    Yes totally.

  1772. 59:28

    What was that like? What was that?

  1773. 59:29

    I woke up and I sobbed and I was like

  1774. 59:31

    14,

  1775. 59:32

    but I knew

  1776. 59:35

    she was there.

  1777. 59:36

    Wow.

  1778. 59:36

    Yeah.

  1779. 59:38

    Wow.

  1780. 59:39

    I believe in all that stuff.

  1781. 59:40

    I know. What do we know?

  1782. 59:41

    What do we know?

  1783. 59:42

    I'm trying to be

  1784. 59:43

    So much of it is like sciencebased.

  1785. 59:45

    Yeah.

  1786. 59:46

    Um

  1787. 59:47

    I'm trying to be more open and that's

  1788. 59:49

    actually a goal of mine is like to try

  1789. 59:50

    to be like less of a detective when it

  1790. 59:52

    comes to that stuff and just kind of

  1791. 59:54

    like open it up into my I don't want any

  1792. 59:56

    ghosts. I I want to see

  1793. 59:58

    I don't want I don't want to have

  1794. 59:59

    anything to do with

  1795. 1:00:01

    I love ghosts. I respect them. I just

  1796. 1:00:03

    don't want to see them.

  1797. 1:00:04

    No. I have had my house ghostbusted

  1798. 1:00:06

    though.

  1799. 1:00:10

    Yes.

  1800. 1:00:11

    A professional ghostbuster

  1801. 1:00:13

    online. Yes.

  1802. 1:00:14

    Okay. Online.

  1803. 1:00:17

    I need to explain. No. My friend had her

  1804. 1:00:20

    house ghostbusted.

  1805. 1:00:21

    Ghostbusted.

  1806. 1:00:22

    And she was telling the story. She's

  1807. 1:00:24

    like, I don't know. I call her. She

  1808. 1:00:26

    lives in New Mexico. I was like, "That's

  1809. 1:00:27

    crazy. What's her number?" Because she

  1810. 1:00:30

    told me things that had happened after

  1811. 1:00:33

    postbust. And I was like, "Oh, this is

  1812. 1:00:37

    interesting."

  1813. 1:00:37

    And we've learned from Psychic Mike that

  1814. 1:00:40

    you will pack up if somebody tells you

  1815. 1:00:42

    to pack up.

  1816. 1:00:42

    I will get out of there. And

  1817. 1:00:45

    I did it. And I swear to God, my house

  1818. 1:00:50

    felt different.

  1819. 1:00:51

    She did it online. I love her though.

  1820. 1:00:53

    That's great.

  1821. 1:00:54

    I love you, Wink. Thanks for doing this

  1822. 1:00:56

    so much. Meant so much. You did it.

  1823. 1:00:57

    Thank you.

  1824. 1:01:00

    Thank you so much, Kristen. You are

  1825. 1:01:02

    awesome. You're just It was so fun to

  1826. 1:01:04

    have you here and like I really do count

  1827. 1:01:06

    myself lucky that I got to be on the

  1828. 1:01:08

    same timeline as you, let alone the same

  1829. 1:01:10

    show as you. And for this Polar Plunge,

  1830. 1:01:12

    you know, we I didn't even know where to

  1831. 1:01:14

    start to talk about the hilarious comedy

  1832. 1:01:17

    that Kristen has has given us over the

  1833. 1:01:19

    years. So, I just I want to take this

  1834. 1:01:21

    time to just remind everybody of all of

  1835. 1:01:24

    the ridiculous, hilarious characters

  1836. 1:01:26

    that Kristen has given to us over the

  1837. 1:01:28

    years. Dunice from the Lawrence Welk

  1838. 1:01:31

    Show and Gilly and Penelopey and um uh

  1839. 1:01:36

    uh who else? Um

  1840. 1:01:39

    um God, so many. we target lady and we

  1841. 1:01:43

    talked about the the lady who couldn't

  1842. 1:01:45

    wait to you know ruin a surprise and

  1843. 1:01:48

    Judy Grimes and um oh my god and and sha

  1844. 1:01:53

    shana shauna the like sexy lady at the

  1845. 1:01:56

    office and um uh the Hollywood dish lady

  1846. 1:02:00

    who spits her water out and Mindy

  1847. 1:02:03

    Grayson the woman who can't get password

  1848. 1:02:06

    I mean this is like I could I can't stop

  1849. 1:02:10

    and and won't stop. Um, but anyway, just

  1850. 1:02:13

    do yourself a favor and look those all

  1851. 1:02:15

    up. I mean, honestly, if you're looking

  1852. 1:02:17

    for something to make you laugh, any

  1853. 1:02:19

    clip from Wig anytime is going to do

  1854. 1:02:21

    that. So, um, thank you so much for, um,

  1855. 1:02:24

    for coming and doing the show, Wig.

  1856. 1:02:26

    Appreciate it. And, uh, thanks so much

  1857. 1:02:28

    for listening and check us out again

  1858. 1:02:29

    soon. Bye.

  1859. 1:02:31

    You've been listening to Good Hang. The

  1860. 1:02:33

    executive producers for this show are

  1861. 1:02:35

    Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman, and

  1862. 1:02:36

    me, Amy Polar. The show is produced by

  1863. 1:02:39

    The Ringer and Paperkite. For the Ringer

  1864. 1:02:41

    production by Jack Wilson, Cat Spalain,

  1865. 1:02:43

    Kaia McMullen, and Aia Xenerys. For

  1866. 1:02:46

    Paperkite, production by Sam Green, Joel

  1867. 1:02:49

    Levelvel, and Jenna Weiss Berman.

  1868. 1:02:51

    Original music by Amy Miles.