Sep 30, 2025 · 1:02:57

Kristen Wiig on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

The Hang, in Short

Bill Hader opens the episode with a perfect Kristen Wiig origin story. Three weeks into his SNL run, he invited the newbie to write a Vincent Price sketch. She casually offered to play Judy Garland, then delivered this haunting improvised line: "Maybe like you ever get the feeling that your hands are made out of sand." Bill immediately knew he was dealing with someone operating on another level. Amy and Bill geek out over Kristen's fully formed confidence from day one, her effortless range (Penelope! That Italian guy!), and how she made sketch comedy look fun without being disposable. The throughline? Kristen never questioned her weird ideas. Pepperoni nipples, whatever. Bill's daughter also scared the hell out of him by texting a photo from under his bed, which tracks. They also preview Amy's upcoming chat about Gabby's Dollhouse, Palm Royale, and why she needs to watch Real Housewives of Salt Lake City immediately.

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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

  319. 11:45

    know, I know you don't do a lot of

  320. 11:47

    interviews. I feel very I feel honored.

  321. 11:49

    Well, thank you, you you do what you

  322. 11:52

    need to do for work.

  323. 11:53

    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

  327. 11:59

    job.

  328. 11:59

    Yes. Yes. But you don't love to, you

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    know, um, you want to kind of keep your

  330. 12:06

    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.

  333. 12:12

    Sure.

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    But, you know, there's such a the line

  335. 12:15

    is so blurred now. I'm happy to discuss

  336. 12:17

    anything with you because you're my

  337. 12:19

    friend. But, you know,

  338. 12:20

    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,

  342. 12:26

    I don't know.

  343. 12:27

    I know. And also I learned something

  344. 12:29

    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

  352. 12:46

    and you get under the blanket what it is

  353. 12:49

    but you I don't want to know.

  354. 12:51

    I know and it's such a great it's very

  355. 12:53

    healthy

  356. 12:54

    because it doesn't matter. I know. I

  357. 12:56

    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

  360. 13:03

    can read a million reviews and you can

  361. 13:05

    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.

  364. 13:11

    Oh yeah.

  365. 13:12

    So I like I just had having this movie

  366. 13:15

    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.

  377. 13:34

    I I easily I'm sensitive too. That's

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    part of

  379. 13:37

    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

  384. 13:47

    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

  401. 14:21

    I feel bad? I I know.

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    I thought I liked it and then in my mind

  403. 14:24

    I'm like, "Well, now did I

  404. 14:26

    I just Yeah,

  405. 14:27

    I know. So, I I think about you all the

  406. 14:29

    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

  409. 14:35

    cats for this.

  410. 14:36

    We're going to put I want filter.

  411. 14:38

    Yeah, we're going to put I'm going to

  412. 14:40

    have flames coming out. We're going to

  413. 14:42

    be It's going to be babies. This is

  414. 14:43

    going to hang babies. And we're going to

  415. 14:47

    I want to look 30 years younger, but

  416. 14:49

    naturally guys

  417. 14:50

    you look incredible. just make it look

  418. 14:51

    incredible and and I do feel like you

  419. 14:54

    are like I don't I wouldn't consider you

  420. 14:55

    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

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