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