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Hello, everyone.
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Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. We are really
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excited about.
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Our guest today. It is Ashley Padilla.
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Ashley is so talented, so funny. In her third season
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at SNL, just an excellent cast.
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Member who we've all fallen in love with.
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And we are gonna talk about a lot of fun
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stuff today. We're gonna talk about the wonderful Diane Keaton.
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We're gonna talk about getting arrested and mouthing off to cops.
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We're gonna talk about how lucky we are to have
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comedy as our job and how we... pinch ourselves every day.
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We're going to get into a lot of good stuff.
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But before we do, we are going to talk to
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somebody who knows our guest, who works with our guest,
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and that is Andrew Dismukes, another hilarious performer and writer
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on SNL, a good Texas boy who has a real
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New York coffee order. So let's check in with Andrew.
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I believe he's speaking to us from a poorly lit
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hotel room.
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Andrew?
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drinking there? What's your coffee order?
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I'm in Appleton, Wisconsin right now. I did some stand-up,
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so nice hotel coffee. Okay.
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You went down and got it and brought it back
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up to your room?
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Fantastic.
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How do you take your coffee?
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Black, straight up.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm a real one.
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Pretty serious stuff.
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Well, yeah. I'm a tough guy. I'm a tough New
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York guy.
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Andrew, I was so happy that we were talking today
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and realizing that I need to get you into the
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stude because I feel like.
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Are you a New York guy? Did you grow up
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in the East? I don't know enough about you. No,
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you're not.
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I'm from Texas originally. I've become a New York guy
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in my heart.
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Actually, you have because you've been living in the city
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for how long now?
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Yeah, nine years now.
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Dang.
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It's crazy. And I've seen like none of it. Every
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time people ask me like what my favorite restaurant is,
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I'm like, there's one like two blocks from my house
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that's great.
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And do you have a set tonight, stand-up set tonight,
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or did you just do one last night?
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I did one last night, flying back home later.
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How did it go?
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Crushed. Crushed. Just say it. There's no two ways about it. Crushed.
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And did you change some minds? You changed some lives?
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Well, that's what it's really all about, is it's about
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touching hearts and changing minds. And we did. We did.
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Yeah, and I know I have heard that people have
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asked you to stop.
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Touching their hearts.
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And I said, too bad.
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HR has asked you to stop touching someone's hearts.
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I'm just trying to change people. Well, you're literally touching
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their hearts. I thought that's what I.
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Was supposed to do.
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I'm very excited to talk to you about Ashley today
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because you two have something that you just kind of can't, manufacturer,
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which is chemistry. You two have a way of being
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together in the world as performers that feels very natural
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and fun and playful.
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How did you first meet?
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We first met at the show, like her first episode.
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And just pretty quickly, it was clear that like, oh,
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this is somebody who has got chops like crazy. And
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I think specifically both like performer and writer chops, like
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she's such a confident performer and so able to bring
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like real acting to the sketches she does. But then
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also like what she writes, you're also like, damn, you're
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good at both of those things. That's crazy.
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And did you start writing with her right away?
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No, really. Her whole first season, we didn't collaborate much.
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I think we maybe wrote one or two things that
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didn't make it to air. But, yeah, the first real
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collaboration was the weekend update thing, the couple who just
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hooked up. Right. Yeah.
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And your tie is askew.
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My tie is askew. It's very steamy. It's very.
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Your hair has got that bedhead thing, and you guys
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are talking about the Super Bowl.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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I mean, that is my favorite thing about weekend update
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features is what the characters are talking about.
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This is who you got to talk about this. And
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they're doing a very bad job. It's like just the
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worst run show in the world. That's like the premise
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of weekend update is they have the worst booker of
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all time. Yeah.
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They have terrible guests. Um, and what do you like
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about writing with her?
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I think what I like the most about Ashley's writing
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and writing with her is like, uh, her ideas are
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all like about playing the realness of the scene. And
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so that's just fun to create in that space where
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it's like, we're playing real emotion to comedic effect rather
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than like being kind of over the top silly. It's
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just a fun energy to get into.
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Yeah.
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I want to talk to her about that today is that,
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you know, she's a really good actress. And so she's
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like acting everything very naturally and very real. And it's,
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funny because she puts herself in very insane and she's
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often like very incredulous as a character. She kind of
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can't believe what's happening to her.
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Yeah.
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I think about the like fart sketch that she did,
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which everybody loves a fart sketch, but it's so funny
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the way she plays it, where it's like, this woman
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is very legitimately upset that it just happened. It's not like, Oh,
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I farted. It's like, oh my God, I fart. I'm like,
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I just love that. I love that approach that she has.
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Me too. For people that don't know, she plays a.
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Woman who her coworkers try to surprise her. They turn
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on the lights and she farts as soon as she
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sees them.
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And it's just like downhill from there. She cannot get
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past it.
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And then there's like two minutes of her asking everybody
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what they make, what their salary is.
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So good.
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Played very real. Do you have a question for Ashley today?
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Anything big or small that I could ask her?
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I feel like Groundlings specifically, when people come to SNL
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from Groundlings, it feels like that. It feels like those
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people are so equipped for SNL off the jump. Thinking
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like Mikey, Heidi, Ashley, as well as like former cast
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members who come back and host. It just feels like
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that's the most... mappable training ground for people in a
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really interesting way. And I guess I'm just curious what
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would like, if she has any insight in like, what
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was it that she learned in Groundlings or what was
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it that Groundlings specifically instilled in her that made her
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be like so ready and so equipped? What's the thing
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she learned in Groundlings or just from that time
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her life that she feels like has applied the most
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to being on SNL?
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Ah, great question.
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I mean, what if we found out that Groundlings has
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like a mini SNL set and they just run drills?
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That would be, I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, I'm just
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so impressed with her like so quickly. I'm like, what's
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the secret? How did, what did you learn? Like, please
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tell me.
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She does do a thing that I think good. And
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I think you do this too. And is that, you know,
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in sketch you have to be grounded, but you also
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can't be like too, too internal, right?
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To interior you.
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Know i'm sure like actors come on the show and
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there they get kind of quiet and they really want
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to and you're like oh no you have to be loud.
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Totally totally yeah i think especially just in that room
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like i think people have talked about it where it's
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like doesn't have the best acoustics like there is a
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thing of like sometimes you'll do a sketch and you'll
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be like i don't think anybody in that room heard
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what i was saying I think everybody in the audience
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was like, oh, wow, they just went and did like
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a silent little play. Yeah. And we didn't enjoy it.
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They did a little whisper play.
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They did a little whisper play. So, yeah, being able
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to be micro, but also like, yeah, play big enough
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to get laughs in that room is very important. And
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she does do that very well.
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Yeah, right on.
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Awesome.
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Well, it's great to see.
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The last time I saw you, I felt like I
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was dressed as a man and I was holding a tortoise.
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Because of something that you wrote.
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Yeah, we had a sketch where you were dressed as
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a man and holding a tortoise.
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Well, thank you for that.
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And thank you for doing that.
We really appreciated it.
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Of course. And I will, the tortoise wrangler who, you know,
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was very nice, did warn me that the tortoise could
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and would most likely bite.
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And you handled it like a champ and we really
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appreciated that. Because the wrangler did say that and we
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were like, and you're cool with that, right, Amy? You're
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cool with maybe getting bitten?
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Totally.
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Well, thank you for talking from your hotel room. Good
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luck with the coffee.
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Thank you.
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Please don't turn any lights on. Just stay in the dark.
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I'm going to stay in the dark because this is
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just sort of where I like to be. This is
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just where I am. comfortable. Yeah. With a hard light
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coming here in our chat, I think that's best for
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a Zoom. And I'm sure that your producers are really
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happy that this is my configuration.
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Well, we're going to use those Zoom filters. We're going
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to put on funny sunglasses. We're going to put on
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like a beret.
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You're going to make me look like a cool, tough guy. Yeah, nice.
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Yeah, like a New Yorker.
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Right. Like in New York, I got sunglasses on like
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in New York.
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Andrew, thank you so much for doing this. Ashley's going
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to be thrilled that we talked and it's so great
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to see you.
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Thank you, Amy.
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Yeah, thank you so much.
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Okay, buddy.
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Bye.
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Bye. Thanks.
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Come on.
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I'm so excited. Oh, this is crazy.
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Yeah, I know.
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What?
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People don't know that we're talking on a very stormy
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and rainy morning.
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It's very rainy.
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I mean, I don't know if people care.
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About the weather outside when we do this podcast.
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Every day you're like, today's forecast.
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I don't.
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But I was like, maybe it's too stormy.
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Maybe Ashley won't come.
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Yes.
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I got scared.
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Not today, I can't do this. Sorry, Amy. It's raining.
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Okay, are we good with Ashley's?
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Okay, wait.
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Oh, you can, I can move this.
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Okay, let's move this.
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We can scoot, we can scoot.
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I can move this. Can I take a sip of
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this yet?
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No, it's lighter fluid in there.
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Oh, fuck.
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It's for the cameras.
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Just do water, but it's for the cameras?
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I'm so sorry.
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There's no way. We can't drink anything here. Okay, I
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trust you.
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Yes, of course you can. Okay, very good.
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So move. I thought it was a little bit of
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a dance.
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Did you see Ashley's episode?
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They're just kind of moving.
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Okay.
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And weirdly, the laptop is the only.
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Thing you can see.
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It just gets closer to camera.
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It's fun because look at this.
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Can you imagine if I was just on it to
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the whole time?
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And you're on Facebook. You're on Twitter being like, ever
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been so bored in your life? I'm on Facebook Marketplace.
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You're on Facebook Marketplace.
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Ashley Padilla is here.
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Yeah.
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I'm so happy you're here.
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I can't believe it.
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I'm thrilled you're here. And congratulations on being one of
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the captains of the show.
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Wow. Coming from the captain. Ma'am.
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Ma'am, please don't talk to me. Oh, please don't. Oh,
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I don't want to talk about my life. Please don't.
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I'm interviewing you.
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Oh, but the cast is so good right now. The
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show is so gelled. Congratulations on having an incredible year.
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Thank you.
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Your second year, second season.
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Yes.
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And I guess what I wanted to start with is
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that I don't, you know, I don't know a lot
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about you.
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Very mysterious, Ashley. And you like to keep it that way.
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Yeah.
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So, great talking to you.
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Bye-bye.
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Anyways, it's still raining outside. The rain is getting harder.
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Let's talk about the rain. But you're a private person.
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Uh-huh.
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Or I would say you don't have a lot of.
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It's not that I'm private. Okay, tell me. It's that
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I'm so scary boring. And I thought, I'm going to
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reveal this.
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Okay.
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Last night, in bed, going to bed, thinking about today.
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And I had an image of us sitting there, no talking,
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and you going, so.
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And I was like, no, Ashley, that won't happen. She'll
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have questions for sure.
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She'll think of something.
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She'll think of something.
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She'll talk about the weather, something. She'll say that it's
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raining outside.
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I had a nightmare that you were like, okay. Because
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there's nothing to share.
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That's not, everyone has something to share. Everyone does. Cut
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to Sue.
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But one of my kind of themes of today is
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that you entered the show kind of as a grown-ass woman.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like, with your skills and your readiness for the show
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and us getting to know you on the show seem
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to have matched, in my opinion.
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Yes, yeah.
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And that's very, very cool and satisfying to watch. And also,
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you have something that I really, really love. When you
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talk about your job and your show is a real
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gratitude for how.
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cool it is to get paid to do comedy on TV.
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It's crazy. No, it's crazy. I'm scared if I say
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it out loud too.
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Much, people will be like, hey.
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She's right!
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Get her out of here!
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Or pay her nothing! What the hell? I do worry
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about that.
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Because to be a successful actor on a TV show
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that is so beloved that people are responding to your work,
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and even just You know, I was looking up the
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number again because I always get blown away by the
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fact that there's only been like 180, 170-something cast members. Yeah.
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It's a club. It's crazy. It's an airplane. It's an airplane.
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So to be on that show, I guess, what are
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the still kind of pinch-me moments two years in that
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feel like this?
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You speaking to me. It really is so crazy. It's like.
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There's pinchy moments every day because it's so silly because
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what you said, I mean, I've been practicing this craft
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for so long.
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Yes.
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Even in childhood, doing it without you realizing you're doing it, right?
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Just being an idiot and funny and saying you're annoying.
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And it's just like, it was so natural to me.
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And so to do it, For a living is crazy.
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I know.
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It's a pinch me moment all the time.
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What kind of little kid were you?
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I was loud and really funny, I think.
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And I think, you know, my uncle, I think, my
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uncle Chris, he's the one who really got me into
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sketch comedy.
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He would.
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I did a thing called the sign spinner. I came
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up with this girl named Esther, the sign spinner.
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Oh, like the person that's outside.
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Yeah. And she was a character named Esther who would,
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she signed spin for, for fun. Cause she loved it.
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So she'd make signs for different restaurants around town and.
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Do it for free.
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And they're like, get out of our, we don't, and
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it was this thing we came up with and he
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like recorded it with me and how old were you?
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Edited it with me.
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13 so he was the one who was like you
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have something and i like comedy and let's make this
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and he was like he was the man he played
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the manager of this place i was like get out
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of here and i'm like i like doing this and
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i was there and i remember being so proud of
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myself that i could keep a straight face like you'd
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be like cut and i'd be like i didn't even.
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Laugh i didn't even laugh it was hilarious the whole.
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Time that was funny the whole time i was keeping
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that in I wanted to laugh.
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Were you watching Sketch at the time? Like, did he?
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I don't know that I was watching Sketch.
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A lot of people have cool uncles who like introduce
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them to music and comedy.
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Oh, yeah.
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What were you watching at 13
or what were you into?
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I was watching The Office and I was really obsessed
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with it.
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I was really obsessed with. Dwight Schrute.
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Yes.
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And I wanted to, that's kind of why I wore
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the glasses as Esther. And like, I was obsessed with
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him in a big way because he was doing the
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thing I wanted to do, which was being crazy.
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Yeah.
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And committing to it. Yes. And what was crazy and
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funny was that he was doing it out of his
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own truth as a character. So he wasn't trying to
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go for the joke.
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Right.
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What was funny was that he was, he thought this
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was serious. And it was that, yeah.
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Well, That is what I think is so interesting about
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your work is like, I do think you come to
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it from.
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An acting place.
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Right?
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I love that.
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So did you want to be, did you consider when
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you were a young person, like, did you say I
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wanted to be comedian or do I want to be
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an actor?
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I don't think I knew the difference. I just knew,
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same with Steve Carell.
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I mean, like.
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His, the laughs he would get, I'd watch the office
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just stay. And my mom always got me the, um,
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season for Christmas. Like I knew it was coming every
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Christmas was the new season.
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In like the.
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DVD set because I would sit and watch it for
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hours because that's the whole, without realizing it, that is
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what they're all doing.
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They're all just acting really well.
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Right.
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And Steve Carell as well, just all this little inner
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work that he's doing. Right. Is getting the laugh. He's barely,
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sometimes has lines and he's getting a laugh.
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Yes.
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So. Yes.
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I didn't put two and two together. I just think it's,
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it just was natural. It was like, oh, that's how
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I get the laugh is when I am so locked in.
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I remember there was this like, once I remember there
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was this thing I did for a friend, my friend Sierra,
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we went to a museum, I don't know why, we
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were just like having a gal's day, as you do,
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you go to the museum.
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And drink grape juice and a gin as wine.
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You drink grape juice, you know, okay.
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So you know.
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And we were doing that, and we were at.
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The museum, and I was making her laugh because I
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was acting like the bench in the middle of the
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place was a piece of artwork, and I was like,
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it's real, it's real.
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And people started watching and she's crying nearby. And I
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remember writing down later at Groundlings in class, like, the
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bench is beautiful. Believe the bench is beautiful. Believe it is.
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There's art all around this girl. But she thinks that's
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a piece of art. Believe it's beautiful. And it's like...
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Just suspend people's, but I don't know it's a joke.
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You don't know you're funny. The character doesn't know they're funny.
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Never.
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Ever.
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So did you come from a funny family? You have
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three siblings.
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Yes.
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What is your birth order?
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I'm second.
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So Lindsay's the oldest. It's me and then Sammy and Teddy.
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And they are, they would attest this. They're all funnier
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than me.
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And funny mom?
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My mom is very funny.
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You're very close to your mom.
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Yes.
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And I love that your mom was like, you should
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go into comedy.
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Yeah.
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That doesn't happen a lot where someone's mom is like,
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think about comedy.
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She.
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Could you imagine if it didn't work out? And I
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was like, what you did? I wanted to be an accountant.
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I wanted to be an accountant.
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You made me go.
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Groundlings.
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Yeah, she Googled comedy class and was like, go there.
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Okay, so what did she do for a job?
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She worked at Adobe and worked her way up software
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and worked her way up. Like didn't go to college,
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single mom, four children.
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Dang.
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At my age now. Oof.
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What? What?
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It doesn't make sense.
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No.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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And so for her to do that, I mean, all
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four of us have unique personalities. Like we're all like,
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my sister has a hair salon. My little sister is
515
00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.250
a tattoo artist. Like my little brother's a great screenwriter,
516
00:22:00.509 --> 00:22:02.849
also working as a nurse, but he writes these movies.
517
00:22:03.250 --> 00:22:06.950
Like everyone, and she just watered those plants. She wasn't
518
00:22:06.990 --> 00:22:09.609
trying to make you not do it. She wasn't trying
519
00:22:09.630 --> 00:22:12.900
to go, no, go do this. Ashley, go play football
520
00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:14.299
or whatever your parents.
521
00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:15.740
Make you do. Yeah, go play football.
522
00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:17.240
I got lucky. Yeah.
523
00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:20.299
She didn't make me do that.
524
00:22:20.500 --> 00:22:23.359
We all kind of learn by people modeling for us.
525
00:22:23.420 --> 00:22:26.099
What did you learn about work by watching your mom
526
00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:26.619
work so hard?
527
00:22:27.029 --> 00:22:30.269
That she could, she was just a hustler.
528
00:22:30.309 --> 00:22:34.430
She still is. She's just a hustler. Like even at Adobe,
529
00:22:34.829 --> 00:22:36.970
working her way up at that.
530
00:22:36.869 --> 00:22:41.769
Company, you know, she became an executive producer of like
531
00:22:41.809 --> 00:22:42.789
the live events.
532
00:22:42.809 --> 00:22:45.029
So when we would go, I did hair and makeup
533
00:22:45.109 --> 00:22:46.690
for a long time. That's how I would make money.
534
00:22:47.289 --> 00:22:49.069
And she would hire me to do hair and makeup,
535
00:22:49.109 --> 00:22:52.410
me and my sister and at these big events. And
536
00:22:52.430 --> 00:22:54.250
you just, you're on the headset and she's like, and
537
00:22:54.269 --> 00:22:59.859
I was
like, what a powerhouse. Like she just knew
538
00:22:59.900 --> 00:23:03.039
what she wanted and like, was like, and all these
539
00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:05.279
like love everyone that works there.
540
00:23:05.460 --> 00:23:06.279
A lot of men.
541
00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:09.700
Yeah. And she's like the one telling you and like producing.
542
00:23:09.740 --> 00:23:12.019
And it was just so cool. And I do think it,
543
00:23:12.859 --> 00:23:15.319
influenced me and also her saying go do this like
544
00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:17.900
you can do it but I just never had any
545
00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:20.940
fear I never wondered if I was too small for
546
00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:23.329
the world or like yeah that never crossed my mind
547
00:23:23.349 --> 00:23:25.549
because she was such a great example of that.
548
00:23:25.329 --> 00:23:29.329
So cool yeah I mean she says okay let's look
549
00:23:29.390 --> 00:23:30.690
up comedy clubs.
550
00:23:30.750 --> 00:23:36.829
Yeah and It could have ended so badly. It's so crazy.
551
00:23:36.869 --> 00:23:38.329
She's like, you and I are going to a comedy
552
00:23:38.349 --> 00:23:40.009
club and you're going to do comedy for your mother.
553
00:23:40.029 --> 00:23:41.630
It's crazy.
554
00:23:41.890 --> 00:23:44.210
Did you think that this was going to be your job?
555
00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:47.160
No way. I was so, no way.
556
00:23:47.180 --> 00:23:48.759
No way. No.
557
00:23:49.180 --> 00:23:54.140
And I was so scared for life.
558
00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:57.799
Like I was, I didn't go to college. I went
559
00:23:57.819 --> 00:24:01.670
for a week at community college. I left on a Friday.
560
00:24:01.690 --> 00:24:05.430
I went on a Monday, left on a Friday. You
561
00:24:05.450 --> 00:24:06.789
were like, I left something in my car.
562
00:24:06.809 --> 00:24:07.450
I'll be right back.
563
00:24:07.650 --> 00:24:09.509
Oh, my God. I wish I should have done that.
564
00:24:09.890 --> 00:24:15.990
Instead, I pull aside a teacher who's not in charge
565
00:24:16.029 --> 00:24:16.349
of that.
566
00:24:16.369 --> 00:24:19.099
I go, I'm talking to you. I pull him aside
567
00:24:19.130 --> 00:24:20.210
and I'm like, I can't do this.
568
00:24:20.950 --> 00:24:21.579
I don't know what I'm doing.
569
00:24:21.619 --> 00:24:23.160
And he was like, so you need to go to
570
00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:28.380
the administration. I'm teaching biology or whatever. And I sobbed
571
00:24:28.420 --> 00:24:29.500
him and I said, I just can't do this.
572
00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:31.880
This isn't for me. Because I was sitting there going,
573
00:24:32.150 --> 00:24:34.329
I just got out of this. I just got out
574
00:24:34.369 --> 00:24:36.849
of high school that I hated and almost failed.
575
00:24:36.869 --> 00:24:37.950
What kind of student were you?
576
00:24:38.210 --> 00:24:38.890
Oh, awful.
577
00:24:39.250 --> 00:24:43.559
I'm shocked. Awful. I'm shocked. You're so smart.
578
00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:45.880
I'm
shocked that you were. But I had no interest
579
00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:47.900
in anything they were putting out with that.
580
00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:49.579
You were like, I'm never going to need this.
581
00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:51.619
I said, when am I going to need this? Yeah.
582
00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:57.049
You tell me and I will submit this homework.
583
00:24:57.269 --> 00:24:58.430
Because tell me.
584
00:24:58.710 --> 00:25:01.410
I'm trying to figure out your... Don't worry, we'll cut this, Jenna.
585
00:25:01.730 --> 00:25:03.799
I'm trying to figure out your Enneagram number.
586
00:25:03.890 --> 00:25:04.759
Your disease.
587
00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:07.960
Because you're such a... This is very challenger-y.
588
00:25:08.420 --> 00:25:09.200
Wait, what?
589
00:25:09.460 --> 00:25:09.980
Well, but.
590
00:25:11.059 --> 00:25:12.609
Not being a good student.
591
00:25:12.789 --> 00:25:16.490
Bad girl. Not just not being a good student. Bad girl.
592
00:25:16.529 --> 00:25:18.230
Tell me more. What do you mean? How did you
593
00:25:18.250 --> 00:25:18.849
get in trouble?
594
00:25:19.349 --> 00:25:21.569
Arrested. No!
595
00:25:21.670 --> 00:25:23.829
Finally, we got to it.
596
00:25:24.450 --> 00:25:26.970
She's got a record. Talk to me, Padilla.
597
00:25:28.470 --> 00:25:33.039
Disorderly conduct. Was it some kind of, what was it? Shoplifting?
598
00:25:33.059 --> 00:25:34.119
Okay, here's what I was charged with.
599
00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:34.660
Okay.
600
00:25:36.019 --> 00:25:42.519
Obstruction of justice. Resisting arrest. So cool.
601
00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:46.720
My mother pulling in as I'm cuffed on the cop car.
602
00:25:47.859 --> 00:25:50.859
Cuffed on top of the cop car. She pulls in,
603
00:25:51.019 --> 00:25:56.029
single mother. Pulls in in her boyfriend's truck. Headset still on.
604
00:25:57.829 --> 00:25:58.349
One second.
605
00:25:59.369 --> 00:26:02.470
She gets out and she's looking at me like, talking
606
00:26:02.490 --> 00:26:04.190
to the cop and he's like, so we found her
607
00:26:04.230 --> 00:26:05.049
in the rose bush.
608
00:26:06.490 --> 00:26:11.539
My extension's crazy. I've got my flip phone thing with
609
00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:19.920
a keyboard, and I'm like, my mom's here. These cops. Basically,
610
00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:22.640
I was running from a party.
611
00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:24.599
That's what I mean, running from a party.
612
00:26:24.700 --> 00:26:27.900
But there had been a hit and run down the way. Oh.
613
00:26:28.259 --> 00:26:31.000
And me, and I can't say his name. I had
614
00:26:31.019 --> 00:26:33.019
my fake Chanel. He had my fake Chanel.
615
00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:35.950
Mm-hmm. Oh my God.
616
00:26:35.970 --> 00:26:37.329
Did they care that it was fake?
617
00:26:37.349 --> 00:26:44.589
Did they get you? That's why I got arrested. I said, girls.
618
00:26:45.289 --> 00:26:45.930
Get over here.
619
00:26:46.529 --> 00:26:49.609
They arrested me because I hid in a rosebush for,
620
00:26:49.630 --> 00:26:51.069
I think, four hours.
621
00:26:51.910 --> 00:26:54.519
And when they pulled me out, I said, I said,
622
00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:55.559
and they wrote this down.
623
00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:57.500
They wrote this down. It was in the police report.
624
00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:00.259
I said, it's about time you motherfuckers caught me.
625
00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:07.880
Oh my God. Ashley! For who? What is that for?
626
00:27:07.900 --> 00:27:09.539
I love that.
627
00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:15.049
What was that for? Was I on camera? I mean, what?
628
00:27:15.369 --> 00:27:16.329
Because you know what?
629
00:27:16.809 --> 00:27:20.430
Because you doubled down. Because you were nervous.
630
00:27:21.450 --> 00:27:22.299
And you were like, I'm going.
631
00:27:22.230 --> 00:27:26.109
To go extra cocky. I can relate. I went so cocky.
632
00:27:26.190 --> 00:27:28.750
I was in a tube top hair.
633
00:27:28.750 --> 00:27:29.130
16.
634
00:27:29.130 --> 00:27:29.869
About time.
635
00:27:30.230 --> 00:27:32.490
So 16, it's about time you guys caught me.
636
00:27:32.490 --> 00:27:33.950
I said, it's about time you motherfuckers caught me. They
637
00:27:36.269 --> 00:27:39.369
cuffed me. Dang. They cuffed me and I was like,
638
00:27:39.529 --> 00:27:41.470
please uncuff me before my mother gets here. And they
639
00:27:41.490 --> 00:27:45.420
were like, fine. And they like uncuffed me. And I said,
640
00:27:45.460 --> 00:27:47.819
how'd you guys know that I was there? And they
641
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:51.099
were like, we had the place surrounded. And this young
642
00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:53.539
boy who ran with me had your fake Chanel.
643
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.269
Did he also get arrested?
644
00:27:57.289 --> 00:28:00.970
Yes, he did. He got arrested.
645
00:28:01.349 --> 00:28:03.529
So did you go to court where charges dropped?
646
00:28:03.890 --> 00:28:08.210
Well, this is where it gets interesting. If it wasn't already,
647
00:28:09.009 --> 00:28:14.470
they were like, because you're 16 or something, this can
648
00:28:14.509 --> 00:28:19.630
be removed from your record. If you go to court-ordered
649
00:28:19.869 --> 00:28:21.849
therapy with your mother.
650
00:28:23.779 --> 00:28:25.960
And your mother was like, I'm busy.
651
00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:28.039
Excuse me?
652
00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:29.710
That's punishment for her.
653
00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:31.420
She had to sit there.
654
00:28:31.509 --> 00:28:34.470
And I remember, I love you, Mom. She had these, like,
655
00:28:34.650 --> 00:28:36.970
red nails, blonde hair. She's a working woman.
656
00:28:37.369 --> 00:28:39.349
She's sitting there, and the therapist was like, I want
657
00:28:39.390 --> 00:28:42.670
you guys to draw for me. And my mom was like, no.
658
00:28:42.690 --> 00:28:47.960
And she's like, no.
659
00:28:48.809 --> 00:28:54.950
Okay and i remember she.
660
00:28:54.849 --> 00:28:57.269
Like didn't she's like flipping her magazine
like i'm not
661
00:28:57.329 --> 00:29:00.630
doing that and i drew something and they said draw
662
00:29:00.670 --> 00:29:03.490
yourself and draw a house that's what they said to
663
00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:06.700
do whoa and i drew a house and myself and
664
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:11.779
i should not amy the woman says now why did
665
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:18.700
you draw yourself smaller than the house And I was like, because... My.
666
00:29:20.619 --> 00:29:20.960
Mom's like.
667
00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:32.230
The clock's ticking and... Why did you try it? And
668
00:29:32.269 --> 00:29:37.049
I was like, to fit in the house. And she's like,
669
00:29:39.470 --> 00:29:43.190
You feel small. It was like crazy. And I was like.
670
00:29:43.250 --> 00:29:44.339
That's incredible.
671
00:29:44.380 --> 00:29:46.359
And meanwhile, I'm like, my mom has to, I'm already
672
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:48.579
in trouble. And my little brother had to come. I
673
00:29:48.619 --> 00:29:50.779
don't know why. He was like, I'll draw too. And
674
00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:51.740
he was drawing.
675
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.619
And he drew a castle with a man named Fred
676
00:29:56.660 --> 00:29:59.279
getting electrocuted.
677
00:29:58.380 --> 00:30:00.579
On the side of the castle. And she said, I'm
678
00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:02.619
going to keep this one for the files. And my
679
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.160
mom was driving. I'm like, great. Now they're going to
680
00:30:04.180 --> 00:30:08.539
take Teddy. now the court's gonna take Teddy.
681
00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:14.009
It was like, this is, you were a bad girl.
682
00:30:14.029 --> 00:30:17.190
She deserves an Oscar if that's what we should give her.
683
00:30:17.549 --> 00:30:19.410
What is an Oscar for being a mom? She had
684
00:30:19.450 --> 00:30:20.890
to deal with some shit.
685
00:30:20.970 --> 00:30:26.400
Okay, so then she was like, take some, take some
686
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.150
of your comedy fun. She was like, channel some of
687
00:30:29.210 --> 00:30:32.759
this into a professional experience.
688
00:30:32.930 --> 00:30:33.279
Yes.
689
00:30:33.410 --> 00:30:33.990
Stop.
690
00:30:34.259 --> 00:30:35.380
Okay. Stop.
691
00:30:35.430 --> 00:30:35.859
Stop.
692
00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:36.279
Stop.
693
00:30:36.660 --> 00:30:39.200
And like, I went and got a job at Sephora
694
00:30:39.579 --> 00:30:41.200
and they gave me a job.
695
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:43.579
I mean, I just loved having a job that I
696
00:30:43.660 --> 00:30:46.480
actually liked. I was probably just, I was just in bliss.
697
00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:48.240
And like, there was a rule. You had to like
698
00:30:48.299 --> 00:30:50.980
wear five articles of makeup at the time.
699
00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:54.380
So I learned to do makeup, I became like an
700
00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:57.740
educational manager. I was like rising up like my mom
701
00:30:57.759 --> 00:30:59.539
did at her job. I was like rising up and
702
00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:01.759
I didn't go to college and I was like getting
703
00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:03.420
responsibilities and then.
704
00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:07.160
So you like to be the boss. I like to
705
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:09.299
get the most out of everything.
706
00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:12.660
And I think sometimes, especially in worlds like that where
707
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:14.519
there's like, you know, steps.
708
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:15.180
Yes.
709
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.960
I just like being the best at everything I'm doing.
710
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:20.289
And not against anyone else. I'm not trying to be
711
00:31:20.329 --> 00:31:22.609
better than anyone. I'm just like, how much more can
712
00:31:22.670 --> 00:31:23.150
I do?
713
00:31:23.170 --> 00:31:23.240
Yes.
714
00:31:23.410 --> 00:31:24.150
You know?
715
00:31:24.349 --> 00:31:26.789
That's why probably things like school, you're like, there's nowhere
716
00:31:26.809 --> 00:31:27.269
to grow here.
717
00:31:27.430 --> 00:31:28.470
There's nowhere to grow.
718
00:31:28.490 --> 00:31:29.799
You're like, what's past an A?
719
00:31:30.750 --> 00:31:31.289
And what?
720
00:31:31.309 --> 00:31:31.849
What? What?
721
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:38.160
What? I'm sorry.
722
00:31:38.180 --> 00:31:40.289
I still, I stand by that.
723
00:31:40.309 --> 00:31:43.730
I'm like doing all of that. Oh my God.
724
00:31:43.849 --> 00:31:44.130
Yeah.
725
00:31:44.430 --> 00:31:46.269
Unless you know what you're doing and go to school.
726
00:31:48.140 --> 00:31:51.599
I don't know. I don't know if you believe that.
727
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:53.859
You don't know if you believe that when you say that.
728
00:31:54.259 --> 00:31:57.349
I guess I'm just like, unless you're interested in it.
729
00:31:57.430 --> 00:32:00.970
Unless you're interested in it. Because to absorb information, you
730
00:32:01.009 --> 00:32:02.130
have to want to know.
731
00:32:02.210 --> 00:32:02.769
That's true.
732
00:32:03.089 --> 00:32:03.309
Right?
733
00:32:03.349 --> 00:32:05.109
To retain the information.
734
00:32:05.130 --> 00:32:06.789
Because you didn't do theater in high school.
735
00:32:07.430 --> 00:32:10.019
No, I did one play because during bad girl times.
736
00:32:11.900 --> 00:32:14.680
I didn't, I didn't submit, like you're supposed to submit
737
00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:17.369
the classes you want to take. And I just didn't
738
00:32:17.410 --> 00:32:19.490
do it. So there, my mom's phone ringing again. They're like,
739
00:32:19.509 --> 00:32:21.289
she didn't do this. And so she had to come
740
00:32:21.390 --> 00:32:23.509
down to the principal's office and we had to like
741
00:32:23.630 --> 00:32:25.430
fill out a thing together. And they were like, she
742
00:32:25.450 --> 00:32:26.089
was like, what's left?
743
00:32:26.670 --> 00:32:30.220
And they're like, theater. I was like, no, please don't
744
00:32:30.259 --> 00:32:30.700
make me.
745
00:32:31.220 --> 00:32:32.140
And
I did it.
746
00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:35.140
And I remember I didn't even tell anyone. And I
747
00:32:35.180 --> 00:32:38.720
was like in, what was it called? The Emperor's New Clothes.
748
00:32:38.740 --> 00:32:39.619
Is that what it's called?
749
00:32:39.900 --> 00:32:40.259
I don't know.
750
00:32:40.829 --> 00:32:41.230
You were there.
751
00:32:41.250 --> 00:32:43.009
I remember.
752
00:32:43.329 --> 00:32:44.710
You were scouting in the audience.
753
00:32:44.809 --> 00:32:47.289
Yeah, I was in the audience.
754
00:32:47.490 --> 00:32:50.890
And I got the role of the lead princess.
755
00:32:50.990 --> 00:32:54.079
And I remember floating down the aisle. I came from
756
00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:57.500
the audience to the stage, loved it, then pretended it
757
00:32:57.720 --> 00:32:58.440
never happened.
758
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:03.349
I was like, put that away. That's crazy. Interesting.
759
00:33:03.430 --> 00:33:03.690
Yeah.
760
00:33:04.150 --> 00:33:06.369
So loved it when you got it. You were like
761
00:33:06.470 --> 00:33:09.059
stepping into it. Here we go. So you're not so
762
00:33:09.099 --> 00:33:10.759
much introverted, very extroverted.
763
00:33:10.980 --> 00:33:14.079
Very extroverted, very loud. But just, yeah, not knowing you
764
00:33:14.099 --> 00:33:15.529
could make money on it, I guess.
765
00:33:15.589 --> 00:33:17.569
Yeah, sure. I mean, did you know anyone who was
766
00:33:17.609 --> 00:33:18.430
an actor or?
767
00:33:19.029 --> 00:33:19.230
No.
768
00:33:19.849 --> 00:33:20.589
Yeah.
769
00:33:20.609 --> 00:33:20.670
No.
770
00:33:21.130 --> 00:33:24.849
And then, you know, you get to, I, I worked
771
00:33:24.910 --> 00:33:28.180
at Sephora and then my, my longtime, my like high
772
00:33:28.220 --> 00:33:31.220
school boyfriend who I love, he's the best. We broke
773
00:33:31.339 --> 00:33:34.180
up and I, I became so depressed and there I
774
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:35.539
was with money.
775
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:36.299
Right.
776
00:33:36.339 --> 00:33:37.200
An apartment.
777
00:33:37.619 --> 00:33:40.809
I did the thing. I, I very quickly did the
778
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:44.650
thing that like you're supposed to do, you know? And
779
00:33:44.690 --> 00:33:46.470
when I saw it didn't make me happy, I was
780
00:33:47.470 --> 00:33:50.619
miserable and, And now I don't have this boyfriend, and
781
00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:52.140
I just felt so sad.
782
00:33:52.299 --> 00:33:56.509
And my mom was like, what if you try– you're funny.
783
00:33:56.549 --> 00:33:57.769
What if you tried this thing?
784
00:33:57.789 --> 00:34:00.069
Because I'd made it to the top at Sephora in
785
00:34:00.109 --> 00:34:01.130
the way that I could.
786
00:34:01.150 --> 00:34:01.309
Yeah.
787
00:34:01.329 --> 00:34:04.400
And, like, I just– yeah, I felt so unhappy.
788
00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.299
And there was this quiet little voice in there that was, like,
789
00:34:07.819 --> 00:34:10.079
wanting something more, but I didn't know what it was.
790
00:34:10.139 --> 00:34:13.409
And so I felt– awful about myself you're almost just
791
00:34:13.449 --> 00:34:17.880
like something's wrong with me like nothing's satisfying me and
792
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:20.360
then my mom said that and then I I went.
793
00:34:20.610 --> 00:34:24.639
You find your people at Groundlings yeah And for people
794
00:34:24.659 --> 00:34:27.369
that don't know who, you know, Groundlings, it's an improv
795
00:34:27.389 --> 00:34:32.349
and sketch group and hugely influential for so many people. Like,
796
00:34:32.369 --> 00:34:34.929
incredible alum came out of there. What were you doing
797
00:34:34.969 --> 00:34:38.050
for money when you were taking classes? Were you waiting tables?
798
00:34:38.619 --> 00:34:40.920
Makeup and working, yeah, in restaurants.
799
00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:46.139
Yeah, I was doing weddings and makeup jobs and I did, like,
800
00:34:46.179 --> 00:34:49.719
music videos or, like, just, like, I did this.
801
00:34:49.820 --> 00:34:52.670
I forget who the artist was. I can't even say it.
802
00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:57.469
They paid me like cold hard cash, just like a
803
00:34:57.530 --> 00:34:57.889
thing of cash.
804
00:34:57.929 --> 00:34:58.090
Oh, okay.
805
00:34:58.650 --> 00:34:59.989
And when I first got to LA, I mean, it
806
00:35:00.010 --> 00:35:00.769
was just.
807
00:35:01.369 --> 00:35:02.230
Just whatever you could do.
808
00:35:02.230 --> 00:35:03.670
Just whatever I could do.
809
00:35:03.750 --> 00:35:04.130
Yeah.
810
00:35:04.269 --> 00:35:05.690
When I first got to LA, I got a job
811
00:35:05.730 --> 00:35:08.889
at the Church Key. It was like this American style
812
00:35:08.969 --> 00:35:12.389
dim sum place. And I had to dress up as
813
00:35:12.469 --> 00:35:20.750
a Pan Am stewardess. With a little hat, a little outfit,
814
00:35:21.369 --> 00:35:23.309
and heels. And I once came in with flats and
815
00:35:23.329 --> 00:35:25.400
they were like, no, no, no, no, no.
816
00:35:25.409 --> 00:35:25.909
They were like, honey.
817
00:35:25.949 --> 00:35:28.070
Go to your car or find something. And I had
818
00:35:28.090 --> 00:35:29.059
to go buy heels.
819
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:31.739
And I came back and I pushed around a dim
820
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:36.500
sum cart where I made liquid nitrogen alcoholic otter pops.
821
00:35:37.909 --> 00:35:39.380
So I take the Otter Pop. Which one would you like?
822
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:40.400
Put it in the thing.
823
00:35:40.780 --> 00:35:43.519
Pour liquid nitrogen, no gloves, because I want you to
824
00:35:43.539 --> 00:35:44.639
look good.
825
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:49.880
Burning myself. Burning myself. And I think I was 20,
826
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.820
because I remember they let me do.
827
00:35:51.960 --> 00:36:03.389
It, maybe. So you go to Groundlings. How do you
828
00:36:03.469 --> 00:36:05.860
get the audition for SNL? I.
829
00:36:07.909 --> 00:36:12.570
I'd been working for
Diane Keaton, actually, for a long time.
830
00:36:12.929 --> 00:36:14.409
Okay. So let's talk about Diane.
831
00:36:14.429 --> 00:36:14.510
Yeah.
832
00:36:14.829 --> 00:36:16.050
So you were her assistant.
833
00:36:16.329 --> 00:36:17.070
Yeah.
834
00:36:17.250 --> 00:36:18.650
And how did you two meet? How did you get
835
00:36:18.690 --> 00:36:19.070
that job?
836
00:36:19.369 --> 00:36:25.119
When I moved to LA, my mother's friend's sister was
837
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:29.619
her main assistant and was like, let's grab coffee. And
838
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.900
we had a coffee and her name's Stephanie.
839
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:32.559
She's the best.
840
00:36:32.610 --> 00:36:35.889
She's taught me Everything. Her and Diane have taught me
841
00:36:36.590 --> 00:36:37.349
so much.
842
00:36:37.610 --> 00:36:42.699
It is crazy. I can't believe it. Even looking back,
843
00:36:43.179 --> 00:36:44.519
like even just.
844
00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:47.940
Down to like getting me my first real purse, you know,
845
00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.840
I have a fake shit.
846
00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:50.500
Like I love, I love fashion and all that stuff.
847
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:53.869
And they just, they're just the best. And like, they
848
00:36:53.889 --> 00:36:54.849
just taught me so much.
849
00:36:54.949 --> 00:36:58.050
And, um, I meet with her and she goes, you know,
850
00:36:58.090 --> 00:37:01.630
we're always looking for someone to do errands and all
851
00:37:01.650 --> 00:37:03.989
that stuff. And, At the time, I didn't, you know,
852
00:37:04.050 --> 00:37:07.860
Diane Keaton, I knew her as the mom from Family Stone. Right.
853
00:37:08.139 --> 00:37:10.139
I did not watch Annie Hall. I had not seen
854
00:37:10.179 --> 00:37:13.300
The Godfather and all that. She made me watch those movies.
855
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:15.519
She did. She said, you haven't seen Annie Hall? You're
856
00:37:15.539 --> 00:37:15.980
going to go.
857
00:37:15.940 --> 00:37:17.500
Home and you're going to watch it and tell me
858
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:17.940
what you think.
859
00:37:18.139 --> 00:37:18.739
And I did.
860
00:37:18.860 --> 00:37:20.820
And I watched The Godfather. She asked me what I thought.
861
00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:22.539
She was so incredible.
862
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:25.539
And it really did start as like a small job,
863
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:28.480
just like come and, you know, help at this party.
864
00:37:28.500 --> 00:37:31.340
And I did. And I remember them sort of like
865
00:37:31.699 --> 00:37:33.760
chatting like, what are we going to do? And then,
866
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:34.539
and then she was like, well.
867
00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:35.619
What about, you know, her?
868
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.320
Does she, does she, is she working? And so I did,
869
00:37:38.389 --> 00:37:40.690
I took on that job and it started with the
870
00:37:40.730 --> 00:37:42.369
kids and then it turned into like, oh, well, can
871
00:37:42.389 --> 00:37:45.070
you run Diane's Instagram? And I was like, okay. And
872
00:37:45.090 --> 00:37:46.789
then that turned into, well, you gotta, you know, spend
873
00:37:46.829 --> 00:37:48.929
time with Diane. You guys gotta look at.
874
00:37:48.909 --> 00:37:51.829
Videos and make stuff for her Instagram. And then it
875
00:37:51.869 --> 00:37:57.119
just all snowballed and slowly it, it became my whole
876
00:37:57.179 --> 00:38:05.539
life at a time. Like, Reading scripts and working on projects.
877
00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:07.780
And we eventually sold a book together.
878
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.599
Okay, so when you're running her Instagram, which was often
879
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:13.380
in all caps.
880
00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:14.039
Yes.
881
00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:16.000
Was that her writing?
882
00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:20.500
Yes. She was like, make sure that's... In caps. Yelling
883
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:21.599
at the audience.
884
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:26.389
It's so funny because it's, it's, it's so crazy how
885
00:38:26.449 --> 00:38:28.690
quickly it became my own, like, all.
886
00:38:28.630 --> 00:38:30.750
Right, yes, that's like, like it was normal.
887
00:38:30.849 --> 00:38:31.130
Yeah.
888
00:38:31.750 --> 00:38:33.469
She is so special. She is.
889
00:38:33.489 --> 00:38:36.869
She's really one in a million. She's so original. Like
890
00:38:37.250 --> 00:38:41.210
she had this thing that, how would you describe, how
891
00:38:41.230 --> 00:38:44.630
would you describe that thing she had? That's like magic.
892
00:38:44.789 --> 00:38:45.130
Yeah.
893
00:38:45.530 --> 00:38:46.329
It's freaky.
894
00:38:46.610 --> 00:38:52.019
It was so delightful and playful. And I, I, Eccentric
895
00:38:52.820 --> 00:38:54.199
isn't really quite the right word.
896
00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:57.300
It was just very, very original how she moved through life.
897
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:01.940
She's very special. She just floated around like a butterfly.
898
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:03.619
She was like a butterfly. And she really was, even
899
00:39:03.659 --> 00:39:05.780
working with her. She was like, oh, look at this.
900
00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:09.000
She taught me to see the world around me.
901
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:10.619
The shapes.
902
00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:14.699
As silly as that sounds, she'd go, look at the building.
903
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:16.139
We'd stop.
904
00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:16.980
She'd pull over.
905
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:18.039
Do you see this?
906
00:39:18.539 --> 00:39:19.420
My God, the tree!
907
00:39:20.289 --> 00:39:21.389
The way the light comes.
908
00:39:21.610 --> 00:39:25.400
She got me to like notice everything as if I
909
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:26.719
was with a child.
910
00:39:26.739 --> 00:39:27.489
It's so crazy.
911
00:39:27.530 --> 00:39:29.969
It was wonder like a child that she kept in.
912
00:39:30.210 --> 00:39:30.420
Her 70s.
913
00:39:31.829 --> 00:39:35.429
And that's
what's rare. It's not that she was any
914
00:39:35.510 --> 00:39:39.530
different than anybody else. She was just willing to stick
915
00:39:39.570 --> 00:39:42.610
with that and keep that wonder that goes away at
916
00:39:42.670 --> 00:39:45.280
some point. Because it taught me that it was even
917
00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:48.019
going away in myself. Because she brought it back and
918
00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:50.050
now I see those things. I stop and I go,
919
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.460
oh my God, I love the way that that shape is.
920
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:57.800
And that's my daily life now because of her. And
921
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:01.110
I see pictures and I love images and even making
922
00:40:01.130 --> 00:40:04.010
the book with her, like, you know, every page and
923
00:40:04.050 --> 00:40:06.949
every image and like, what's better and why does this
924
00:40:06.989 --> 00:40:09.380
need to be black and white and not have color?
925
00:40:09.610 --> 00:40:14.159
Why do you like this contrast? It's like, it's such
926
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:17.769
a gift. It's crazy. It's like school. That's the school, right?
927
00:40:17.809 --> 00:40:21.079
That's the stuff that I'm going, holy shit, I'm retaining everything.
928
00:40:21.099 --> 00:40:21.659
Wow.
929
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:23.920
And what book did you make together?
930
00:40:23.940 --> 00:40:25.619
What was it about? Fashion First.
931
00:40:25.699 --> 00:40:30.900
Because her and I have a love for collaging and pictures.
932
00:40:30.940 --> 00:40:34.800
And she got me into that. And we tried to
933
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:39.199
sell a collage book that no one was interested in.
934
00:40:39.260 --> 00:40:41.619
I mean, I'm going, it's Diane Keaton.
935
00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:44.699
Everyone's like, you're crazy if you think we are making
936
00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:46.849
this book because no one's going to buy it. And
937
00:40:47.269 --> 00:40:49.050
just getting the rights for the images would be crazy
938
00:40:49.070 --> 00:40:51.630
because the mouth belongs to someone else and the eyes.
939
00:40:52.349 --> 00:40:56.070
And we're going, make it happen. And she was so
940
00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:58.440
pissed that no one wanted to make this. But as
941
00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.320
I was doing research for that book, I went, hold
942
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:03.420
on now. Why don't you have a fashion book? And
943
00:41:03.460 --> 00:41:05.860
I showed her all of the images I brought.
944
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:06.960
I came to work one day. I remember I was
945
00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:08.880
so nervous. And Stephanie kind of gave me the sign.
946
00:41:08.900 --> 00:41:09.880
She's like, show her this.
947
00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:12.179
Because Stephanie had been kind of trying to tell her
948
00:41:12.219 --> 00:41:14.449
for a long time to do this thing. I came
949
00:41:14.489 --> 00:41:16.380
with images because that's her language.
950
00:41:16.539 --> 00:41:16.860
Yeah.
951
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:18.519
And I was like, look at all of your outfits.
952
00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:21.460
Look at everything you've done. Look at, you know what
953
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:22.820
I mean? And when I showed her all of them,
954
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:25.099
she went, okay, this is good. And we pitched it.
955
00:41:25.099 --> 00:41:26.480
She was like, okay, I am very stylish.
956
00:41:26.619 --> 00:41:29.139
That's when we showed Rizzoli. And that's when they were like,
957
00:41:29.219 --> 00:41:30.179
all right, we'll make this.
958
00:41:31.289 --> 00:41:31.489
Yeah.
959
00:41:31.769 --> 00:41:33.889
I couldn't believe she let me design it. She let
960
00:41:33.929 --> 00:41:36.449
me design the cover. She let me design the book.
961
00:41:36.590 --> 00:41:39.570
She let me do everything. And I went, but I've
962
00:41:39.590 --> 00:41:41.469
never made a book before. And she's like, you will
963
00:41:41.489 --> 00:41:41.849
figure it out.
964
00:41:42.230 --> 00:41:42.650
So cool.
965
00:41:42.670 --> 00:41:44.719
She had no doubt. Yes.
966
00:41:44.739 --> 00:41:45.579
It's weird.
967
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:50.070
How amazing, Ashley. I know. What a loss.
968
00:41:50.489 --> 00:41:52.170
She's so special. Yeah.
969
00:41:52.469 --> 00:41:55.309
And she really cared about me. She would come to
970
00:41:55.349 --> 00:41:57.610
Groundlings shows when like, why.
971
00:41:57.389 --> 00:42:00.219
Were you there? Yeah, going to comedy.
972
00:42:00.260 --> 00:42:01.239
I always said.
973
00:42:01.099 --> 00:42:06.239
To her, I said, you shouldn't come to this. Yeah.
974
00:42:06.460 --> 00:42:07.139
And I mean it.
975
00:42:07.460 --> 00:42:07.940
Yeah.
976
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:11.500
And she was like, I'm coming. Yeah. And I'm going
977
00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:14.199
to wear a tutu and a big old hat.
978
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:14.519
Yep.
979
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:16.719
And I said, I even said the first time she came,
980
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:18.420
I said, please, you know, I just don't want you
981
00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:19.719
to get mobbed is what it was.
982
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:21.659
I just felt like, oh, I also kept the two
983
00:42:21.699 --> 00:42:22.679
very separate, right?
984
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:23.000
Sure.
985
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:27.449
You're being a struggling comedian, you know? And then I
986
00:42:27.469 --> 00:42:31.789
go to this icon's house. I was living a double life. Yeah.
987
00:42:31.869 --> 00:42:36.210
And then when the two would come together, I remember
988
00:42:36.269 --> 00:42:39.809
she was like, I'll lay low. And I was like, okay, great.
989
00:42:40.489 --> 00:42:42.679
I'm looking through the thing when she arrives and she's...
990
00:42:43.849 --> 00:42:48.269
In the biggest tutu and biggest, excuse me, excuse me.
991
00:42:48.409 --> 00:42:49.670
Her tutu's getting on people's.
992
00:42:49.789 --> 00:42:51.130
Excuse me, excuse me.
993
00:42:51.349 --> 00:42:53.050
And every time she's laughing, yes!
994
00:42:53.510 --> 00:42:56.329
Ever sketch, ah!
995
00:42:57.849 --> 00:43:00.030
I mean, she really was a fairy godmother and she
996
00:43:00.139 --> 00:43:01.679
dressed like a fairy godmother.
997
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:03.000
She dressed like a fairy godmother.
998
00:43:03.019 --> 00:43:03.699
She was a fairy godmother.
999
00:43:03.739 --> 00:43:06.639
And I was just like, and everyone backstage, Diane Kings!
1000
00:43:06.699 --> 00:43:09.239
I'm like, I know. She's here.
1001
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:12.639
So she helped you get the audition. She, like, she
1002
00:43:12.820 --> 00:43:16.159
encouraged you to audition. She basically believed that you could
1003
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:16.469
do it.
1004
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:17.769
She believed I could do it.
1005
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:21.039
But I will say, I mean, everyone believed in me.
1006
00:43:21.139 --> 00:43:21.639
Yeah.
1007
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:26.559
But nothing was happening. And so I was going to quit. Yeah.
1008
00:43:26.599 --> 00:43:29.340
Talk to me about that. You were just, you were thinking.
1009
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:30.219
I was tired.
1010
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:30.739
Yeah.
1011
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:34.000
It had been, I mean, like you said, you're like,
1012
00:43:34.019 --> 00:43:36.400
you came into SNL kind of fully formed.
1013
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:40.250
But it's because I. I respect what people are doing
1014
00:43:40.329 --> 00:43:41.710
online with the comedy.
1015
00:43:41.730 --> 00:43:43.429
I'm not good at that.
1016
00:43:43.530 --> 00:43:46.110
And so every time the opportunity came up, it was like, well,
1017
00:43:46.130 --> 00:43:48.230
do something online, do front-facing comedy, do all that.
1018
00:43:48.750 --> 00:43:51.170
I resisted the urge because it just wasn't for me.
1019
00:43:51.510 --> 00:43:53.150
And I went, well, if that's not for me, I
1020
00:43:53.769 --> 00:43:55.429
kind of associated it with, well, then I guess I'm
1021
00:43:55.469 --> 00:44:00.070
not willing to do the work, which wasn't true.
1022
00:44:00.130 --> 00:44:02.159
I was always doing the work. I was doing live shows.
1023
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:03.719
Just who's in the audience?
1024
00:44:03.889 --> 00:44:08.340
Not, you know, no one that can really make, a
1025
00:44:08.380 --> 00:44:09.099
career for you.
1026
00:44:09.139 --> 00:44:11.940
No guffmans. There's no guffmans.
1027
00:44:12.340 --> 00:44:16.489
Where's the guffman? Where's the guffman?
1028
00:44:16.630 --> 00:44:22.110
We're waiting. So I, I just felt tired and I
1029
00:44:22.150 --> 00:44:26.489
was like, fuck this. I, I, I decided I, I
1030
00:44:26.570 --> 00:44:28.690
was more willing to decide to live my life.
1031
00:44:29.050 --> 00:44:29.380
Yeah.
1032
00:44:29.590 --> 00:44:31.440
I was like, I'm done. I'm done with the, will
1033
00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:33.420
I get the, will I, I just made a book.
1034
00:44:34.039 -->
00:44:36.619
I was like, There's other ways to make money and
1035
00:44:36.659 --> 00:44:39.679
be creative. That's what she taught me. And I was like,
1036
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:40.039
I'm done.
1037
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:42.380
I'm just fucking done. I'll figure out something else. I
1038
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:44.889
just want to be happy. And that does not lie
1039
00:44:45.130 --> 00:44:50.190
in waiting to see if this commercial is going to
1040
00:44:50.230 --> 00:44:51.630
call me after pinning me.
1041
00:44:51.710 --> 00:44:52.329
You know what I mean?
1042
00:44:52.349 --> 00:44:52.869
Yes.
1043
00:44:53.030 --> 00:44:55.719
I was like, no, I'm just done. And that's when,
1044
00:44:56.139 --> 00:44:58.079
you know, Naomi Odenkirk, who is.
1045
00:44:58.099 --> 00:45:00.820
Yeah, Bob Odenkirk's wife, very famous manager.
1046
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:01.199
She is unreal.
1047
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:01.500
Yeah.
1048
00:45:03.630 --> 00:45:05.670
We went to breakfast and she was like, what have
1049
00:45:05.690 --> 00:45:09.889
you been doing? You're traveling with Diane. What is your life?
1050
00:45:10.050 --> 00:45:11.340
And I'm like, I guess I just.
1051
00:45:12.780 --> 00:45:14.679
I don't know. Like, I'm just not doing it anymore,
1052
00:45:14.699 --> 00:45:16.860
I guess. Like, I don't want to perform live.
1053
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:20.840
I was losing that interest because I hit the ceiling
1054
00:45:20.860 --> 00:45:21.679
of what I could do.
1055
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:24.000
Right. I made Maine. I, like, did everything. And it
1056
00:45:24.019 --> 00:45:26.940
was just like, all right, I guess this path is done.
1057
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:31.000
I love performing, but this is no longer serving me
1058
00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:33.639
to become a better person within myself.
1059
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:34.119
Yeah.
1060
00:45:34.179 --> 00:45:34.860
I felt stunted.
1061
00:45:35.179 --> 00:45:36.460
And then she said, well, let me try one more
1062
00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:38.719
thing and let's do this party of three show, which
1063
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:41.559
was me, Chris Kleckner and Alex Bonifer. She's like, well,
1064
00:45:41.579 --> 00:45:43.360
do your best stuff because I didn't want to do
1065
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:45.530
it alone. And she was like, pick your friends. They're
1066
00:45:45.570 --> 00:45:48.070
dear friends. And we're always in each other's stuff. So
1067
00:45:48.110 --> 00:45:49.789
we did a show and then that kind of caught
1068
00:45:50.289 --> 00:45:52.849
some momentum. And then we were in Netflix as a joke.
1069
00:45:52.909 --> 00:45:56.590
And then it was SNL wants you to showcase.
1070
00:45:57.550 --> 00:45:58.719
And then I was like, okay.
1071
00:45:58.739 --> 00:45:59.949
And they came to party of three and then they
1072
00:46:00.010 --> 00:46:02.690
asked me to showcase after the show. So I performed,
1073
00:46:02.730 --> 00:46:04.050
they just see me. And then I ran over to
1074
00:46:04.150 --> 00:46:07.010
UCB Franklin and did it.
1075
00:46:07.090 --> 00:46:08.230
What impressions did you do?
1076
00:46:08.750 --> 00:46:09.110
Oh God.
1077
00:46:09.670 --> 00:46:12.849
I know. I did Diane. I did Diane actually, because
1078
00:46:12.889 --> 00:46:14.469
I was like, I don't do impressions. Who am I
1079
00:46:14.489 --> 00:46:15.250
around the most?
1080
00:46:15.809 --> 00:46:16.329
Diane.
1081
00:46:16.929 --> 00:46:19.190
And she's so funny. I did her like voiceover. I
1082
00:46:19.329 --> 00:46:22.519
did like her doing a voiceover for like planet Earth
1083
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.230
where she's just yelling that they're hurting each other. She's so...
1084
00:46:25.110 --> 00:46:30.409
We're hurting each other. She's just so funny. And that
1085
00:46:30.630 --> 00:46:32.769
was an easy one. And then, oh my God, I
1086
00:46:32.849 --> 00:46:35.030
don't even know what else I did. I'm not good
1087
00:46:35.070 --> 00:46:37.110
at impressions. And that's something that I've always been like, well,
1088
00:46:37.130 --> 00:46:38.289
then I guess I'm not good for SNL.
1089
00:46:38.530 --> 00:46:39.260
Isn't it funny?
1090
00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:43.500
Because it's... I'm not good at impressions either. And it's like,
1091
00:46:43.900 --> 00:46:47.679
it's a weird thing where... Someone's like, so just also,
1092
00:46:47.699 --> 00:46:49.760
I guess it would be like if you're applying for
1093
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:51.760
a job and they're like, also just do a little
1094
00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:53.039
bit of painting.
1095
00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:54.420
100%.
1096
00:46:54.420 --> 00:46:56.760
Also, you just have to do three paintings.
1097
00:46:56.780 --> 00:46:57.400
You're my lawyer.
1098
00:46:57.539 --> 00:47:00.900
I just need you to do three paintings. Just three.
1099
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:02.719
And you're like, okay, I'll do the best I can
1100
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:03.199
at painting.
1101
00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:05.320
And do it at the opening before you even go
1102
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.199
into your lawyering. Do the cold open.
1103
00:47:07.340 --> 00:47:09.530
Do the paintings first before we talk about the lawyering.
1104
00:47:09.909 --> 00:47:13.510
And on your way to doing the painting, walk past...
1105
00:47:13.130 --> 00:47:16.469
40 people who are really good at painting.
1106
00:47:16.530 --> 00:47:17.550
Really good at painting.
1107
00:47:18.590 --> 00:47:20.190
Make sure you take a look at their photos.
1108
00:47:20.289 --> 00:47:23.960
That makes me feel so much better because I made
1109
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:26.000
the mistake of thinking once I got the show that
1110
00:47:26.019 --> 00:47:27.239
they were like, surely they're not going to ask me.
1111
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:28.900
I'm bad at it. No, they're going to ask you
1112
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:31.079
and they're going to ask you a lot. They're going
1113
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:32.019
to tell you. What
have you done?
1114
00:47:32.099 --> 00:47:34.110
What political impressions have you done on the show so far?
1115
00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:37.889
We shouldn't call them impressions. We just shouldn't label it
1116
00:47:37.949 --> 00:47:38.630
as an impression.
1117
00:47:39.030 --> 00:47:39.369
Okay.
1118
00:47:39.730 --> 00:47:41.730
Political characters. Who have you played?
1119
00:47:41.750 --> 00:47:43.489
I did Kristi Noem.
1120
00:47:43.949 --> 00:47:44.269
Oh, yeah.
1121
00:47:44.289 --> 00:47:45.250
Kristi Noem. That's right.
1122
00:47:45.590 --> 00:47:47.650
I did Pam Bondi. Both of them.
1123
00:47:47.670 --> 00:47:52.090
Both of them. I watched yours.
1124
00:47:52.429 --> 00:47:54.369
I know. Totally gone.
1125
00:47:54.449 --> 00:47:54.869
I know.
1126
00:47:54.929 --> 00:47:58.210
And then I did Caroline Leavitt. All of them just... Yeah.
1127
00:47:58.929 --> 00:48:04.139
Not even scraping the surface of what... I watched you
1128
00:48:04.389 --> 00:48:06.670
and Tina because I had... You both did it.
1129
00:48:06.989 --> 00:48:08.440
And then you had to go and do both of them.
1130
00:48:08.460 --> 00:48:10.320
I had to go and do both of them. And
1131
00:48:10.539 --> 00:48:13.619
just more iconic women, cooler women from the show did it.
1132
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:14.579
And then me.
1133
00:48:14.820 --> 00:48:15.440
And I was like.
1134
00:48:16.489 --> 00:48:16.780
Oh my God.
1135
00:48:16.789 --> 00:48:18.309
I was like, why are you guys making me do this?
1136
00:48:18.349 --> 00:48:19.909
And I was like, can Amy come back?
1137
00:48:20.269 --> 00:48:24.219
That was like when Forte had to do Bush after
1138
00:48:25.030 --> 00:48:25.719
Will Ferrell left.
1139
00:48:25.739 --> 00:48:28.280
Oh, Ferrell. It's so not fair. Okay.
1140
00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:31.199
But did you bring any Groundlings characters to SNL?
1141
00:48:31.579 --> 00:48:36.320
Oh yeah, I did. I did my haircut sketch.
1142
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:37.519
You did for your audition?
1143
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:38.119
Oh, yeah.
1144
00:48:38.340 --> 00:48:39.440
Oh, that's cool.
1145
00:48:39.460 --> 00:48:41.980
Yeah, I did haircut. I did.
1146
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:42.679
God, that sketch.
1147
00:48:42.780 --> 00:48:45.820
I did Kathy a bit. I did this woman Kathy
1148
00:48:45.980 --> 00:48:52.219
for Jack Black, but she sort of changed. Because that's
1149
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:55.739
what's been interesting is that I brought so much to
1150
00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:58.130
the show. I came in like, I've got all this stuff.
1151
00:48:58.150 --> 00:49:00.550
And then you realize it's just such a different medium,
1152
00:49:00.610 --> 00:49:01.710
even though they're both sketch.
1153
00:49:02.630 --> 00:49:04.699
You got to be a little punchier. You need to like.
1154
00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:06.980
Well, it's funny you say that because so we do
1155
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:08.260
this thing on the show where we talk to somebody
1156
00:49:08.300 -->
00:49:09.860
who knows our guests so we can talk well behind
1157
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:10.179
their back.
1158
00:49:10.219 --> 00:49:12.880
And we talked to Andrew today. Andrew Dismutes.
1159
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:15.809
Oh, that's so sweet. He was in his hotel room.
1160
00:49:15.949 --> 00:49:17.070
That is so sweet.
1161
00:49:17.090 --> 00:49:18.570
Drinking black coffee.
1162
00:49:18.590 --> 00:49:19.730
I thought you were going to say sweet.
1163
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:28.280
Whiskey out of a bottle he's doing badly yeah and
1164
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:29.659
he's very worried.
1165
00:49:29.449 --> 00:49:29.780
About it.
1166
00:49:31.289 --> 00:49:33.110
So he asked you for some money yep it.
1167
00:49:33.010 --> 00:49:37.059
Was really appropriate Great. No, he had just done a show.
1168
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:40.250
He was drinking black coffee in a hotel room and
1169
00:49:40.269 --> 00:49:43.929
we were talking about you. And he is so lovely and,
1170
00:49:44.289 --> 00:49:47.280
and works so hard on that show and loves working
1171
00:49:47.300 --> 00:49:47.590
with you.
1172
00:49:47.610 --> 00:49:48.760
He's the best.
1173
00:49:48.780 --> 00:49:50.539
And his question for.
1174
00:49:50.219 --> 00:49:55.659
You was what at Groundlings helps you prepare for SNL?
1175
00:49:55.900 --> 00:49:58.119
Because we were kind of joking that like in many ways,
1176
00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:01.119
it feels like a mini SNL camp there. Like people
1177
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:05.809
get really prepared, but you're saying that also it did
1178
00:50:05.849 --> 00:50:06.309
and it didn't.
1179
00:50:06.409 --> 00:50:08.630
What did it do to help you to get ready
1180
00:50:08.670 --> 00:50:09.349
for the show and.
1181
00:50:09.869 --> 00:50:11.929
I mean, it forces you to write for yourself. If
1182
00:50:11.969 --> 00:50:16.849
there is anything I could ever tell like young comedians,
1183
00:50:16.869 --> 00:50:21.710
but also just like young women, because especially for myself, like,
1184
00:50:22.210 --> 00:50:23.590
I mean, gosh, even Diane.
1185
00:50:23.690 --> 00:50:28.090
I mean, like the scripts she was getting versus what
1186
00:50:28.139 --> 00:50:30.239
I knew she was capable of sometimes, like just like.
1187
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:34.030
the writing for women sometimes bothers me in a way
1188
00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:35.050
that I cannot.
1189
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:35.739
Let's.
1190
00:50:35.550 --> 00:50:37.710
Talk about it for a second. What bothers you? Because
1191
00:50:38.489 --> 00:50:39.869
I know what you mean. It's like.
1192
00:50:40.130 --> 00:50:43.309
I just feel like sometimes we're not as portrayed as.
1193
00:50:43.829 --> 00:50:45.730
Complex. Yes.
1194
00:50:45.750 --> 00:50:48.409
I was going to say aggressively because I'm like, we're just,
1195
00:50:48.730 --> 00:50:51.369
we got shit going on. It's complex. It's deep. It's
1196
00:50:51.409 --> 00:50:52.050
so nuanced.
1197
00:50:52.110 --> 00:50:55.619
It's like, I have so many things about me that
1198
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:58.039
I want to see on screen and.
1199
00:50:57.860 --> 00:50:59.329
In comedy and....
1200
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:04.440
And I do wonder sometimes if to get there, we
1201
00:51:04.460 --> 00:51:07.170
just need to be a little more willing.
1202
00:51:06.929 --> 00:51:07.610
To write for ourselves.
1203
00:51:07.630 --> 00:51:10.570
And that's what Groundlings did for me was you do
1204
00:51:10.630 --> 00:51:12.929
not get on that stage unless.
1205
00:51:13.750 --> 00:51:15.730
you are writing something for yourself. Yeah.
1206
00:51:15.769 --> 00:51:17.869
I mean, you might be in some people's stuff maybe,
1207
00:51:17.909 --> 00:51:19.469
but like it's the same at SNL. It's like you
1208
00:51:19.489 --> 00:51:22.170
can write around all day for someone to write something
1209
00:51:22.190 --> 00:51:23.570
for you or you can just write it yourself.
1210
00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:24.050
Right.
1211
00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:26.050
And I feel that way with movies as well. Like
1212
00:51:26.139 --> 00:51:29.500
I'm so lucky to be now like getting to do movies,
1213
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:33.440
but I'm still writing. I am writing so much and
1214
00:51:33.460 --> 00:51:36.099
I will never stop because I have to speak for myself.
1215
00:51:36.260 --> 00:51:36.579
Right.
1216
00:51:36.860 --> 00:51:39.960
And it just creates this confidence and that's what it
1217
00:51:40.019 --> 00:51:42.159
prepared me for was showing up and going, all right,
1218
00:51:42.300 --> 00:51:43.840
none of these writers know who I am.
1219
00:51:43.940 --> 00:51:44.159
Right.
1220
00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:47.050
And nor should they, they've got their own shit. They
1221
00:51:47.070 --> 00:51:50.170
have to write the cold, like they're doing stuff. They're busy.
1222
00:51:50.190 --> 00:51:52.349
They're writing for Amy Poehler. Like, it's like, they've got
1223
00:51:52.389 --> 00:51:52.929
a host.
1224
00:51:53.210 --> 00:51:54.750
They're not going, what is Ashley?
1225
00:51:54.789 --> 00:51:57.030
Like, no. So then I went, all right, then I'm
1226
00:51:57.050 --> 00:51:57.469
going to write.
1227
00:51:57.530 --> 00:51:59.400
And then that's what makes people want to work with
1228
00:51:59.460 --> 00:52:02.079
you is they're like, okay, she knows what she wants
1229
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:04.659
to do. And that's where it's, oh my gosh, like,
1230
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:08.239
Alison Gates, Kent sublet, like showing up and helping me
1231
00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:12.019
make it more SNL more for television. It's gotta be
1232
00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:14.219
a little punchier. It's gotta be choppy. It's gotta like
1233
00:52:14.460 --> 00:52:17.280
the cuts, camera cuts. And like, you can't do what
1234
00:52:17.300 --> 00:52:21.219
you do at groundlings where I can linger. Cause there's
1235
00:52:21.260 --> 00:52:23.809
no time constraint. It's like, we got to get to it.
1236
00:52:23.829 --> 00:52:26.630
You know, you have an interesting quality. That's really awesome
1237
00:52:26.650 --> 00:52:27.530
to watch, which is.
1238
00:52:27.510 --> 00:52:31.030
You do not rush and you take your time and
1239
00:52:31.070 --> 00:52:35.909
you have great timing and it, it's thrilling because we
1240
00:52:35.969 --> 00:52:37.329
all know the construct of that show.
1241
00:52:37.349 --> 00:52:38.670
There's like just not a lot of time.
1242
00:52:39.130 --> 00:52:41.929
And so the luxury of having a little bit of time,
1243
00:52:42.010 --> 00:52:45.909
taking a little time, it feels transgressive. And when it's
1244
00:52:45.929 --> 00:52:49.530
done by somebody who knows what they're doing, it's really fun.
1245
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:52.760
It is my favorite thing to do. It's like my,
1246
00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:54.880
it's just so like.
1247
00:52:55.340 --> 00:52:57.079
I remember even with.
1248
00:52:56.940 --> 00:53:00.380
The haircut sketch, there was a talk about cutting stuff.
1249
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.409
And the first thing to go is, you know, those
1250
00:53:03.469 --> 00:53:05.610
pauses at the beginning. Well, let's just cut your entrance.
1251
00:53:06.489 --> 00:53:10.380
Please let me have that because I need to say
1252
00:53:10.420 --> 00:53:14.099
hi to the audience real quick in a way that's like,
1253
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:16.820
let me show you what I'm feeling and then we'll
1254
00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:19.840
get into it because I like watching people behave.
1255
00:53:19.860 --> 00:53:24.449
And to behave, it's not rushed. To feel nervous or
1256
00:53:24.530 --> 00:53:29.110
anxious or embarrassed, being embarrassed takes a little time. It's
1257
00:53:29.150 --> 00:53:32.170
like that feeling of, It's just, I love it.
1258
00:53:33.190 --> 00:53:36.110
And then now they're on your side, I hope, because
1259
00:53:36.489 --> 00:53:39.469
they're in on the joke with you. And then those
1260
00:53:39.530 --> 00:53:43.679
other jokes pop. That's that song that I like to play.
1261
00:53:43.739 --> 00:53:45.800
It's just a bit of a dance.
1262
00:53:45.900 --> 00:53:46.329
I like it.
1263
00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:49.719
God, it's so true about behavior because we don't really
1264
00:53:49.860 --> 00:53:51.639
often remember what sketches are about.
1265
00:53:51.659 --> 00:53:56.070
The idea is like, what? I don't even remember the idea.
1266
00:53:56.110 --> 00:53:59.599
Like, Someone's mad at someone about whatever. It's these like
1267
00:53:59.699 --> 00:54:03.639
little human behavior moments that are so funny and weird.
1268
00:54:03.659 --> 00:54:03.980
Yeah.
1269
00:54:04.019 --> 00:54:04.980
You're so good at them.
1270
00:54:05.059 --> 00:54:05.719
Thank you.
1271
00:54:05.739 --> 00:54:08.760
I mean, that sketch, there's a sketch where you are
1272
00:54:08.780 --> 00:54:12.519
surprised by your coworkers for your birthday and you fart.
1273
00:54:13.940 --> 00:54:14.260
Yes.
1274
00:54:14.780 --> 00:54:15.340
You fart.
1275
00:54:15.699 --> 00:54:19.039
I couldn't believe that got on television. That was put
1276
00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:19.820
on TVs.
1277
00:54:19.860 --> 00:54:21.400
That's right. It's on TV forever.
1278
00:54:21.420 --> 00:54:22.809
Families is hot ass.
1279
00:54:23.380 --> 00:54:27.099
Your moaning after we.
1280
00:54:29.059 --> 00:54:31.679
Like in terms of the real estate of the sketch,
1281
00:54:31.780 --> 00:54:32.920
it takes up a lot of time.
1282
00:54:33.059 --> 00:54:33.539
Oh, yeah.
1283
00:54:34.340 --> 00:54:39.130
Your reaction to like, what did I do? What just happened?
1284
00:54:39.389 --> 00:54:40.670
How am I going to get through this?
1285
00:54:41.289 --> 00:54:45.690
Is all conveyed in like 20, maybe 25 seconds of moaning.
1286
00:54:45.849 --> 00:54:48.050
And that was not really in rehearsal.
1287
00:54:48.090 --> 00:54:51.070
That's where I want you to apologize to everyone is I,
1288
00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.960
something took over there. And that's where the audience is like,
1289
00:54:55.039 --> 00:54:56.739
I'm sure you felt this. I mean, it's why we
1290
00:54:56.880 --> 00:54:59.440
love live. It's like, you can rehearse something all day.
1291
00:54:59.599 --> 00:55:01.659
Yeah. Until you're in front of a crowd and know
1292
00:55:01.699 --> 00:55:05.780
what they are going to give you. They loved the fart.
1293
00:55:05.809 --> 00:55:09.030
So I went, well, shit, let's sit.
1294
00:55:10.530 --> 00:55:11.250
Here we go.
1295
00:55:11.590 --> 00:55:16.110
Let's sit in the pain of this. I love arrogance.
1296
00:55:16.369 --> 00:55:17.269
Oh my, what is funnier?
1297
00:55:17.289 --> 00:55:17.969
Me too, me too.
1298
00:55:18.010 --> 00:55:20.789
What is funnier than someone being like, happy guys, I farted.
1299
00:55:22.469 --> 00:55:31.219
What you guys wanted? I also played a character who
1300
00:55:31.880 --> 00:55:34.019
was very cocky about the fact that she farted. I
1301
00:55:34.699 --> 00:55:36.980
was like, she accused people of being jealous.
1302
00:55:39.150 --> 00:55:41.090
There was a show called Rock of Love, which was
1303
00:55:41.150 --> 00:55:45.019
like a dating show, and I played a one-legged character
1304
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:47.679
who farted when she jumped around.
1305
00:55:47.739 --> 00:55:48.860
Okay, sure.
1306
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:54.650
And she was like, so I farted, jealous? She said jealous,
1307
00:55:54.730 --> 00:55:56.710
and I'm almost like, no, we're not jealous.
1308
00:55:57.070 --> 00:55:58.989
It is the epitome of why I want to do
1309
00:55:59.010 --> 00:55:59.590
comedy for the.
1310
00:55:59.510 --> 00:55:59.809
Rest of my life.
1311
00:55:59.829 --> 00:56:01.829
I know, and it would be so fun to do.
1312
00:56:02.780 --> 00:56:05.889
Hopping around on one leg being like, because I was,
1313
00:56:06.250 --> 00:56:07.769
she considered herself a real catch.
1314
00:56:07.929 --> 00:56:09.070
And you know what?
That's all it takes.
1315
00:56:09.090 --> 00:56:13.090
That's also my favorite is when someone's like, no you
1316
00:56:15.230 --> 00:56:18.409
want some of this no totally I love that I
1317
00:56:18.409 --> 00:56:21.730
want none of it that is fantastic.
1318
00:56:21.210 --> 00:56:24.309
You and Andrew work so well together by the way.
1319
00:56:24.340 --> 00:56:27.119
He does he's what we're talking about I mean his
1320
00:56:27.239 --> 00:56:31.340
stuff is grounded in yeah realism like he's like he
1321
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:34.280
writes a lot for the show that's all he's he's
1322
00:56:34.300 --> 00:56:35.820
got a very clear voice.
1323
00:56:35.780 --> 00:56:38.679
Yeah yeah and do you feel like starting you started
1324
00:56:38.780 --> 00:56:41.849
at the 50th year was it weird 50th season was
1325
00:56:41.889 --> 00:56:45.550
it weird to start with like like every person coming
1326
00:56:45.610 --> 00:56:47.050
back all the.
1327
00:56:47.010 --> 00:56:47.949
Time I and.
1328
00:56:49.750 --> 00:56:52.349
Mind you no one knew who I was like like
1329
00:56:53.380 --> 00:56:57.659
Emile and Jane are so proactive with their careers that
1330
00:56:57.739 --> 00:57:00.260
they had a following. They were coming in. You know,
1331
00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:02.590
they had fans to watch them. People tuning in were going,
1332
00:57:02.780 --> 00:57:06.829
who is this woman? What is she doing? And I
1333
00:57:06.869 --> 00:57:10.389
was going, I don't know. I don't know. And then
1334
00:57:10.409 --> 00:57:12.579
I would sit in my dressing room and I was like, oh, man.
1335
00:57:13.269 --> 00:57:16.019
Who hired me? Do they know I'm here? And then
1336
00:57:16.059 --> 00:57:17.739
to the point where when I came back for this
1337
00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.429
last season– I was sitting in my dressing room the
1338
00:57:20.590 --> 00:57:23.090
whole first show, not in a single thing.
1339
00:57:23.369 --> 00:57:23.829
Oh, yeah.
1340
00:57:23.989 --> 00:57:26.909
Okay. And then I did my sketch, last sketch of
1341
00:57:26.969 --> 00:57:27.530
the show.
1342
00:57:28.989 --> 00:57:30.250
Which is often the best one.
1343
00:57:30.909 --> 00:57:31.630
It can be.
1344
00:57:32.050 --> 00:57:35.380
It's sort of like a Hail Mary. It's like, yeah,
1345
00:57:35.510 --> 00:57:38.199
I did love that slot. And the more you get
1346
00:57:38.260 --> 00:57:40.380
on the show, the less you get that slot sometimes,
1347
00:57:40.420 --> 00:57:40.860
which I do.
1348
00:57:41.099 --> 00:57:42.159
That slot is fun.
1349
00:57:42.219 --> 00:57:42.480
Yeah.
1350
00:57:42.780 --> 00:57:44.500
And I also want to talk to you about your haircut.
1351
00:57:45.340 --> 00:57:45.940
Oh, okay.
1352
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:46.039
Yeah.
1353
00:57:47.090 --> 00:57:51.030
Okay. Because it's such a bold move to cut your
1354
00:57:51.070 --> 00:57:52.989
hair in the middle of a season.
1355
00:57:53.010 --> 00:57:55.469
I think they'd all say that too.
1356
00:57:55.489 --> 00:57:59.760
Did you have to get permission?
1357
00:58:00.059 --> 00:58:01.420
It's unfair what I did to these.
1358
00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:04.219
You begged for forgiveness. You did not ask for permission.
1359
00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:06.119
I went shorter than I said I was going.
1360
00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:07.639
What's your relationship with Lorne?
1361
00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:11.679
I just really, really admire him. I just think he's
1362
00:58:11.820 --> 00:58:17.699
so smart. And I can't believe someone... was put on
1363
00:58:17.739 --> 00:58:21.679
this earth to give people like you and I, I
1364
00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:25.260
don't know if you think this, but like, being funny
1365
00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:30.360
is so insane. Like, it's just like, what are you
1366
00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:34.880
here for? You make us laugh. I don't know, not
1367
00:58:34.900 --> 00:58:36.610
to diminish it, but it's like, at the end.
1368
00:58:36.530 --> 00:58:40.510
Of the day, it's like. Believe me, it's like, I mean, it's.
1369
00:58:40.769 --> 00:58:41.909
It's so funny.
1370
00:58:41.969 --> 00:58:42.769
I mean, there are.
1371
00:58:42.710 --> 00:58:45.349
Really important jobs in the world, and then.
1372
00:58:45.849 --> 00:58:47.539
We're like. Jealous.
1373
00:58:49.380 --> 00:58:55.719
I'll take my money now. Totally, you're like, dude.
1374
00:58:56.110 --> 00:58:58.909
I mean, it's totally true.
1375
00:58:59.309 --> 00:58:59.630
It's sick.
1376
00:58:59.670 --> 00:59:02.309
We should be on the cop car waiting for our
1377
00:59:02.349 --> 00:59:03.429
moms to pick us up.
1378
00:59:03.590 --> 00:59:05.130
It is sick.
1379
00:59:05.510 --> 00:59:06.130
What we do.
1380
00:59:08.889 --> 00:59:09.590
It's sick.
1381
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:11.199
It's so true.
1382
00:59:11.219 --> 00:59:12.239
It's not okay.
1383
00:59:12.619 --> 00:59:15.480
And we treat it very, people treat it like it's
1384
00:59:15.559 --> 00:59:16.719
very important.
1385
00:59:17.219 --> 00:59:21.250
You cut the second fart? We can't cut the second fart.
1386
00:59:21.269 --> 00:59:24.190
The second fart makes the third fart work. Not on
1387
00:59:24.210 --> 00:59:25.369
my desk by midnight.
1388
00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:30.559
That's why when you watch shows about people making comedy,
1389
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:33.969
it makes me laugh so hard because it is so serious.
1390
00:59:34.469 --> 00:59:37.670
Taking stuff seriously, that's what we love.
1391
00:59:38.090 --> 00:59:41.230
But to go back to, it's like Lorne found a
1392
00:59:41.289 --> 00:59:47.269
way to give those people jobs. You gave us a
1393
00:59:47.289 --> 00:59:48.369
place to work?
1394
00:59:48.389 --> 00:59:49.230
Mm-hmm.
1395
00:59:49.309 --> 00:59:50.050
Holy hell.
1396
00:59:50.110 --> 00:59:52.929
But let me get back to your haircut. Sorry, long thing.
1397
00:59:52.969 --> 00:59:54.650
But you cut your hair.
1398
00:59:54.670 --> 00:59:55.769
Mm-hmm. Incredible.
1399
00:59:55.789 --> 00:59:56.530
It looks incredible.
1400
00:59:56.570 --> 00:59:57.440
Hey, thank you.
1401
00:59:57.460 --> 00:59:59.000
Do you love having short hair?
1402
00:59:59.139 --> 00:59:59.380
Oh, yeah.
1403
00:59:59.420 --> 01:00:02.019
I've had it before. That's where the haircut sketch came from,
1404
01:00:02.539 --> 01:00:06.329
was me shaving it too short. And pretending I liked
1405
01:00:06.349 --> 01:00:08.110
it and that it was what I meant to do.
1406
01:00:08.510 --> 01:00:10.679
And I was like, this is, ooh, a buzz.
1407
01:00:10.739 --> 01:00:11.599
This is good.
1408
01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:13.980
I'm kind of obsessed, the politics of hair.
1409
01:00:14.079 --> 01:00:15.800
Like, hair means something on the show.
1410
01:00:15.820 --> 01:00:18.119
That's why I shaved it. I mean, originally.
1411
01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:18.699
Really?
1412
01:00:19.139 --> 01:00:19.210
Why?
1413
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:19.699
What do you mean?
1414
01:00:19.739 --> 01:00:23.469
Because I don't like being told what is feminine. Do
1415
01:00:23.489 --> 01:00:26.170
you know what I mean? And there's something inherently, like,
1416
01:00:27.730 --> 01:00:29.550
long hair. It's like, no. No.
1417
01:00:30.699 --> 01:00:33.989
No, when do I feel the prettiest? Because people, whenever
1418
01:00:34.010 --> 01:00:35.690
they meet me, your hair is so beautiful.
1419
01:00:35.710 --> 01:00:36.289
It's so long.
1420
01:00:36.329 --> 01:00:39.489
It's like, I don't really want that to be the
1421
01:00:39.530 --> 01:00:41.650
first thing you think of. It was, like, I like
1422
01:00:41.670 --> 01:00:45.630
to be open and fresh and, like, vulnerable. It makes
1423
01:00:45.670 --> 01:00:49.829
me feel vulnerable because I can't hide. And, like, I
1424
01:00:49.909 --> 01:00:51.690
like feeling open and, like, you can see my face.
1425
01:00:51.710 --> 01:00:54.210
And I was wearing so many wigs. And, yeah, it
1426
01:00:54.230 --> 01:00:56.730
just feels a little, like, I don't know, dominant.
1427
01:00:56.750 --> 01:00:57.690
Like, not dominant. It's, like, assertive.
1428
01:00:58.289 --> 01:00:58.889
Well, you have an.
1429
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:01.420
Interesting play with mask and femme stuff and the way
1430
01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:01.969
you dress, too.
1431
01:01:01.980 --> 01:01:02.139
Totally.
1432
01:01:02.219 --> 01:01:05.019
And Diane, of course, is, like, that kind of, like,
1433
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:08.739
what is your relationship to, like, What is typically masculine
1434
01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:09.659
or typically feminine?
1435
01:01:09.820 --> 01:01:11.239
Do you like to play around with that?
1436
01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:12.420
Yes.
1437
01:01:12.980 --> 01:01:16.059
And it's crazy how much of an influence Diane was
1438
01:01:16.179 --> 01:01:19.139
on that because making the fashion book, we have a
1439
01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:21.519
photo together where we're wearing the same exact outfit because
1440
01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:24.139
I showed up to work dressed like her, not even
1441
01:01:24.280 --> 01:01:25.030
realizing it.
1442
01:01:25.079 --> 01:01:26.880
And we took a picture. And when I went into
1443
01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:29.340
her office the next day, it was framed. She printed
1444
01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:30.550
it out and framed it.
1445
01:01:31.190 --> 01:01:33.570
And it's this image I'm like, holy shit, you taught
1446
01:01:33.630 --> 01:01:36.969
me that like I don't have to be in this
1447
01:01:37.090 --> 01:01:40.969
world for a man's approval, which is something I think
1448
01:01:41.030 --> 01:01:42.829
I was doing for a long time.
1449
01:01:42.889 --> 01:01:45.670
And that's that's so sad to say it out loud.
1450
01:01:45.710 --> 01:01:47.449
But it's just the truth. I don't know if it's the,
1451
01:01:48.130 --> 01:01:50.300
you know, welcome to the father issues.
1452
01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:50.929
I mean, like, right.
1453
01:01:50.949 --> 01:01:51.500
Patriarchy.
1454
01:01:51.699 --> 01:01:51.960
Right.
1455
01:01:52.019 --> 01:01:55.280
And I was always like, oh, my God, vulnerable to
1456
01:01:55.320 --> 01:01:58.039
take my makeup off and like, yes, have my.
1457
01:01:57.960 --> 01:01:58.969
Hair done and.
1458
01:01:59.780 --> 01:02:02.079
Be hot? Yes.
1459
01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:05.199
So what?
1460
01:02:06.860 --> 01:02:10.159
By the way, for who? For who? To who?
1461
01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:10.650
To who?
1462
01:02:11.099 --> 01:02:12.260
And for how long?
1463
01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:20.230
For how long? For how long? Because Mama Tai Tai.
1464
01:02:21.210 --> 01:02:26.190
I have to go to bed, bed. Tie, tie, done, done. Seriously.
1465
01:02:26.210 --> 01:02:26.650
Fuck.
1466
01:02:26.750 --> 01:02:28.260
Fuck. Fuck off.
1467
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:31.119
Seriously, fuck off. Fuck you. I'm done.
1468
01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:32.820
And hotter than ever, though, Ashley.
1469
01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:34.500
Okay, honey. Hotter.
1470
01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:36.940
I mean, it looks incredible.
1471
01:02:37.159 --> 01:02:40.820
Okay. Thank you. It's funny because I feel hotter.
1472
01:02:40.920 --> 01:02:41.139
Yeah.
1473
01:02:41.619 --> 01:02:42.539
Because I'm myself.
1474
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:43.179
Mm-hmm.
1475
01:02:43.260 --> 01:02:44.179
I mean, I told Jodi.
1476
01:02:44.619 --> 01:02:47.639
Jodi was like— Jodi Mancuso, who runs the SNL hair
1477
01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:49.010
department— The best.
1478
01:02:49.030 --> 01:02:50.269
Who Bronx Beat is based on.
1479
01:02:50.469 --> 01:02:54.190
Sweater weather. Yeah. And I said to her, she was like,
1480
01:02:54.210 --> 01:02:56.250
your hair's so pretty. And she's the best. I mean,
1481
01:02:56.309 --> 01:02:57.230
she was so supportive.
1482
01:02:57.289 --> 01:03:01.409
And she was like, you know, she didn't know what
1483
01:03:01.429 --> 01:03:02.489
I looked like with short hair.
1484
01:03:02.550 --> 01:03:02.630
Sure.
1485
01:03:02.650 --> 01:03:04.010
So
she's going, what are you talking about? You want
1486
01:03:04.030 --> 01:03:05.530
to chop all your hair off?
1487
01:03:05.949 --> 01:03:06.309
Yeah.
1488
01:03:06.409 --> 01:03:08.949
And I'm like, I finally got so dramatic. This is
1489
01:03:08.969 --> 01:03:11.949
what's funny, right? I went, my soul says I have
1490
01:03:11.989 --> 01:03:15.329
to do this. She's probably like, just do it, idiot. Like,
1491
01:03:15.369 --> 01:03:18.659
what's this? God, stop texting me. I was like, please.
1492
01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:19.940
She was like, do it.
1493
01:03:20.179 --> 01:03:20.619
Do it.
1494
01:03:20.659 --> 01:03:23.639
And I feel amazing. Because it's also the thing you're
1495
01:03:23.659 --> 01:03:25.699
saying maybe with the challenge. It's like permission. It was
1496
01:03:25.719 --> 01:03:26.860
the permission part too.
1497
01:03:26.880 --> 01:03:27.360
Yeah.
1498
01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:29.820
I think it's really interesting and I think it's very cool.
1499
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:30.530
Thank you.
1500
01:03:30.550 --> 01:03:31.429
It just goes to show.
1501
01:03:31.449 --> 01:03:31.849
Liberating.
1502
01:03:32.110 --> 01:03:35.969
Liberating and also just getting back to the initial theme
1503
01:03:36.250 --> 01:03:40.389
of you is that you have a you have a
1504
01:03:40.550 --> 01:03:43.750
like you're self-possessed in a way that's very inviting it
1505
01:03:43.789 --> 01:03:44.949
doesn't feel like you're.
1506
01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:47.199
An island and no one can know you or interact
1507
01:03:47.219 --> 01:03:48.440
with you know that.
1508
01:03:48.219 --> 01:03:51.079
It's really really but but there's just something about you
1509
01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:53.199
that feels like you kind of have a sense of
1510
01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:55.039
who you are and what you like and you write
1511
01:03:55.079 --> 01:03:58.289
that way you perform that way and it's really intoxicating
1512
01:03:58.349 --> 01:04:00.710
to be around you're welcome thank you so we're gonna
1513
01:04:00.849 --> 01:04:03.690
end with uh impressions.
1514
01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:08.679
Down to camera? No.
1515
01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:11.239
To camera? Do 10 impressions. But you know what we
1516
01:04:11.260 --> 01:04:13.500
used to do? We used to play a game. We
1517
01:04:13.539 --> 01:04:15.179
used to play a game where you had to do
1518
01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:17.610
an impression of somebody. Why are you doing this to me?
1519
01:04:17.650 --> 01:04:19.070
In 10 seconds or you die.
1520
01:04:19.090 --> 01:04:22.409
So you can't kill me legally? Is that the paperwork
1521
01:04:22.449 --> 01:04:23.409
I signed on the way in? Yep.
1522
01:04:24.210 --> 01:04:26.570
So you will give each other someone to do.
1523
01:04:26.650 --> 01:04:27.809
Are you serious?
1524
01:04:27.849 --> 01:04:30.010
Yes. And you have to do it. It does not
1525
01:04:30.030 --> 01:04:32.630
have to be good. Only a five second impersonation.
1526
01:04:33.409 --> 01:04:34.909
You said 10. Oh, I said 10.
1527
01:04:34.889 --> 01:04:36.619
You changed it when you realized you had.
1528
01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:36.860
To do it too.
1529
01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:38.000
You're like five.
1530
01:04:38.019 --> 01:04:39.280
Five. Okay. Okay.
1531
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:42.480
Five second impersonation. And I'll just throw out a name
1532
01:04:42.500 --> 01:04:43.719
and then you can throw it out for me.
1533
01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:46.440
It's really fun.
1534
01:04:46.539 --> 01:04:47.079
It's really fun.
1535
01:04:47.139 --> 01:04:47.800
Okay. Okay.
1536
01:04:47.880 --> 01:04:49.860
Okay. Let me think. Okay. Ready?
1537
01:04:50.619 --> 01:04:51.679
You can't think about it.
1538
01:04:51.699 --> 01:04:52.400
You just have to go.
1539
01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:52.519
Okay.
1540
01:04:52.889 --> 01:04:53.369
Doesn't matter.
1541
01:04:53.409 --> 01:04:53.650
Sure.
1542
01:04:54.030 --> 01:04:54.769
Austin Butler.
1543
01:04:55.170 --> 01:04:55.710
Whoa.
1544
01:04:57.010 --> 01:04:58.250
Here we go.
1545
01:04:58.289 --> 01:04:58.710
We got him.
1546
01:04:59.349 --> 01:04:59.789
We got him.
1547
01:05:00.090 --> 01:05:00.750
Whoa.
1548
01:05:00.769 --> 01:05:02.809
That's true.
1549
01:05:03.190 --> 01:05:03.409
Aye.
1550
01:05:04.590 --> 01:05:05.400
Are we thinking of this?
1551
01:05:05.420 --> 01:05:09.840
Whoa. Should I bring him to the show? Should I
1552
01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:13.179
do it? Should I bring it to season three? Okay.
1553
01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:13.659
Give me one.
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01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:16.079
Season three. I called it because it's my season three.
1555
01:05:16.099 --> 01:05:18.829
It is your season three. 53. That was disrespectful. 53.
1556
01:05:18.809 --> 01:05:30.869
Joan Cusack. Oh, hey, you guys. Oh.
1557
01:05:31.590 --> 01:05:31.989
Okay.
1558
01:05:32.010 --> 01:05:37.320
Oh, my God. We're just doing voices. Here we go. One, two, three.
1559
01:05:37.679 --> 01:05:37.960
Ready?
1560
01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:39.840
Shakira. You nailed.
1561
01:05:41.679 --> 01:05:41.780
It.
1562
01:05:42.739 --> 01:05:42.900
What?
1563
01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:45.519
Shakira.
1564
01:05:47.679 --> 01:05:48.039
Shakira.
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01:05:53.329 --> 01:05:53.690
Okay.
1566
01:05:54.289 --> 01:05:54.690
All right.
1567
01:05:55.150 --> 01:05:55.570
Give me one.
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01:05:57.250 --> 01:05:58.750
I'm going to die. You have to give me one.
1569
01:05:58.789 --> 01:05:59.329
What is his name?
1570
01:05:59.349 --> 01:06:01.389
What is his name? Tommy Lee Jones.
1571
01:06:04.119 --> 01:06:04.800
No!
1572
01:06:05.159 --> 01:06:06.000
Tommy!
1573
01:06:06.019 --> 01:06:10.719
Yeah, you're going to get into outhouse, doghouse, henhouse.
1574
01:06:13.070 --> 01:06:17.570
Every outhouse. You better check every outhouse, doghouse, henhouse around here.
1575
01:06:17.590 --> 01:06:19.780
Fucking shit, that was him. You gotta catch the guy.
1576
01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:20.820
No, this isn't funny anymore.
1577
01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:21.219
The fugitive.
1578
01:06:21.239 --> 01:06:22.559
We're looking for the fugitive.
1579
01:06:22.760 --> 01:06:26.559
That was him. This isn't even funny anymore. So you
1580
01:06:26.659 --> 01:06:29.710
do do impressions. You did this to embarrass me.
1581
01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:30.880
Ivanka Trump, go.
1582
01:06:31.750 --> 01:06:32.269
What?
1583
01:06:37.269 --> 01:06:40.780
Literally the fact that I'm getting fired from the show
1584
01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:43.179
I'm on after this, she can't do impressions.
1585
01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:44.480
What?
1586
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:46.199
What is that?
1587
01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:53.500
What? What? Okay.
1588
01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:54.199
Oh my God.
1589
01:06:54.949 --> 01:06:57.449
Fuck, that was good. Those were really good.
1590
01:06:57.469 --> 01:06:59.420
Thank you. So were yours.
1591
01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:01.340
You know who I think you could do well, though,
1592
01:07:01.380 --> 01:07:04.219
is Laura Linney. I get that a lot. You sound
1593
01:07:04.239 --> 01:07:05.300
a lot like Laura Linney.
1594
01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:07.519
I get that a lot, and I watch videos of
1595
01:07:07.539 --> 01:07:08.920
her because people have said that. Yeah.
1596
01:07:09.280 --> 01:07:10.260
She's amazing.
1597
01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:14.139
She is. I mean, she's so like.
1598
01:07:14.199 --> 01:07:15.159
She's so great.
1599
01:07:15.179 --> 01:07:18.289
Let's do Laura Linney impersonation. You could do it. This
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01:07:18.309 --> 01:07:18.710
one you could do it.
1601
01:07:18.710 --> 01:07:23.949
Oh, well, now I can't do it. I just do again.
1602
01:07:23.969 --> 01:07:27.309
OK, let's let's have Laura Linney talking about.
1603
01:07:28.469 --> 01:07:31.130
God, I just watched a video of her of about
1604
01:07:31.190 --> 01:07:32.389
her drink.
1605
01:07:32.489 --> 01:07:34.710
Like she just she just had some delicious coffee.
1606
01:07:34.730 --> 01:07:40.210
I mean, I just went delicious. Oh, my God. Oh,
1607
01:07:41.050 --> 01:07:41.530
my God.
1608
01:07:41.550 --> 01:07:44.130
Oh, my God.
1609
01:07:44.150 --> 01:07:47.690
Oh, my God.
1610
01:07:47.750 --> 01:07:48.469
Oh, my God.
1611
01:07:52.280 --> 01:07:55.610
Oh my God. Oh, this coffee is so delicious.
1612
01:07:58.809 --> 01:07:59.230
Oh God.
1613
01:07:59.250 --> 01:08:06.699
That was for you, Laura Linney. We love you. Laura,
1614
01:08:06.719 --> 01:08:09.159
we love you. Oh my God. Oh my God.
1615
01:08:09.179 --> 01:08:10.139
Oh my God.
1616
01:08:10.159 --> 01:08:11.079
You made me cry.
1617
01:08:11.099 --> 01:08:11.300
Okay.
1618
01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:12.780
Oh, I have to ask you one more question.
1619
01:08:13.260 --> 01:08:17.189
What are you listening to these days? Watching, reading? What
1620
01:08:17.210 --> 01:08:21.170
do you do to like, Space out, check out, laugh.
1621
01:08:21.430 --> 01:08:24.909
I'm always taking suggestions from people. Is there a video
1622
01:08:24.979 -->
01:08:26.439
that you frequent?
1623
01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:30.760
I am so big on like survivalist shows. Like to
1624
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:33.000
the point where me and Alison Gates, we write a
1625
01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:33.460
lot together.
1626
01:08:33.539 --> 01:08:34.550
Head writer at SNL.
1627
01:08:34.619 --> 01:08:39.220
She's amazing. We work outside of the show together as well.
1628
01:08:39.300 --> 01:08:40.539
And we were on a Zoom the other day. Supposed
1629
01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:42.560
to be working. Fully supposed to be working.
1630
01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:46.960
And we set that aside to have a vulnerable conversation.
1631
01:08:48.170 --> 01:08:51.340
about to talk to our teams and really lay out
1632
01:08:51.380 --> 01:08:52.859
the game plan of if we want to go on
1633
01:08:52.899 --> 01:08:56.449
Survivor together. We are so serious about it in a
1634
01:08:56.569 --> 01:08:58.430
scary way that we need to stop talking about it
1635
01:08:58.510 --> 01:09:01.880
because both of us want it so we watch these
1636
01:09:01.939 --> 01:09:04.399
shows and there is one that i just got put
1637
01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:08.619
on to called extraction have you heard of this i.
1638
01:09:08.619 --> 01:09:11.210
Think i might have heard of it but not really
1639
01:09:11.250 --> 01:09:13.670
tell me more i'm looking at i have a laptop
1640
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:15.159
And it's coming into frame.
1641
01:09:15.380 --> 01:09:19.520
You, in your head, pick two people that you trust
1642
01:09:19.699 --> 01:09:20.100
and love.
1643
01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:21.039
Okay, got it.
1644
01:09:21.090 --> 01:09:25.930
Now picture that they're in a headquarters. You, Amy Poehler,
1645
01:09:26.569 --> 01:09:27.909
are put in the wilderness.
1646
01:09:28.939 --> 01:09:30.659
Okay. They can see you on screen.
1647
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:32.300
You can talk to them and say, I need food
1648
01:09:32.340 --> 01:09:35.880
and water, but you're fighting other families. They're fighting other
1649
01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:38.159
families in the headquarters to get you what you need
1650
01:09:38.229 --> 01:09:38.970
because their.
1651
01:09:38.810 --> 01:09:40.930
Loved one is out in the wilderness too. Okay.
1652
01:09:41.189 --> 01:09:43.970
So they're doing their own game and you're going, I
1653
01:09:44.010 --> 01:09:46.289
need water. And they're like, we're trying, they can't talk
1654
01:09:46.329 --> 01:09:48.289
to you. Only you can talk to them.
1655
01:09:48.770 --> 01:09:50.220
So you're going, every time you get a box and
1656
01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:51.979
there's nothing in it, you don't know that they just
1657
01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:54.300
played a game in headquarters where they can't get you water.
1658
01:09:55.899 --> 01:09:57.180
So you're like, and then you go, I want to
1659
01:09:57.199 --> 01:09:59.100
be extracted. And they can decide if they want to
1660
01:09:59.119 --> 01:10:00.130
pull you out or not. Or not.
1661
01:10:00.149 --> 01:10:01.130
They can leave you.
1662
01:10:02.689 --> 01:10:05.130
Please go on it with me. It takes four months
1663
01:10:05.170 --> 01:10:05.550
of our life.
1664
01:10:05.750 --> 01:10:07.310
Okay, I have a couple questions about this.
1665
01:10:07.369 --> 01:10:07.630
Yes.
1666
01:10:08.590 --> 01:10:10.930
It feels like you could.
1667
01:10:10.810 --> 01:10:15.659
Just set rules before, which is like- Well, they do.
1668
01:10:15.659 --> 01:10:17.239
So then they start crying and go, I know I
1669
01:10:17.300 --> 01:10:20.800
said that when I said I wanted to be extracted
1670
01:10:20.819 --> 01:10:23.560
to wait two days, but please, please get me out.
1671
01:10:24.899 --> 01:10:27.880
And then the family goes, no, no. She said to
1672
01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:30.119
wait two days. And that was the conversation me and
1673
01:10:30.140 --> 01:10:31.520
Allison were having. I was like, do you want me
1674
01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:37.420
to extract you? And I was literally dead. So you're like,
1675
01:10:37.800 --> 01:10:42.810
I don't know. Whoa.
1676
01:10:42.989 --> 01:10:44.500
It's a fucking, you have to watch it.
1677
01:10:44.550 --> 01:10:47.500
Two seasons. And it's where is it on? It's on, oh,
1678
01:10:47.699 --> 01:10:48.960
it's- I think I watched it on Hulu.
1679
01:10:48.979 --> 01:10:51.819
There's also a movie called Extraction by Chris Hemsworth.
1680
01:10:51.970 --> 01:10:54.069
Don't, I mean, watch that too if you want. I
1681
01:10:54.109 --> 01:10:54.850
haven't seen it.
1682
01:10:55.310 --> 01:10:56.590
Extraction TV show.
1683
01:10:57.010 --> 01:10:57.390
Yes.
1684
01:10:58.170 --> 01:11:01.750
Extracted. Oh, extracted.
1685
01:11:01.770 --> 01:11:02.329
Extracted.
1686
01:11:02.350 --> 01:11:02.770
Extracted.
1687
01:11:03.289 --> 01:11:05.489
Okay, let's just look at, I just want to look
1688
01:11:05.510 --> 01:11:06.109
at a clip of it.
1689
01:11:06.770 --> 01:11:07.890
God, it's so good.
1690
01:11:07.909 --> 01:11:10.329
I have not had any food in six days.
1691
01:11:10.529 --> 01:11:12.489
I should have applied for the floor.
1692
01:11:12.710 --> 01:11:13.670
Rob Lowe wouldn't do.
1693
01:11:13.550 --> 01:11:14.109
This to people.
1694
01:11:15.489 --> 01:11:19.609
Your objective is to choose which survivalists receive crucial supplies.
1695
01:11:19.630 --> 01:11:21.550
Oh, some don't get supplies.
1696
01:11:21.569 --> 01:11:24.890
Yes, some are without fire for weeks. Oh! Begging to
1697
01:11:24.930 --> 01:11:25.250
go home.
1698
01:11:25.270 --> 01:11:29.220
My child has not had fire all week.
1699
01:11:29.729 --> 01:11:32.100
My child has not had fire all week. Right, because
1700
01:11:32.140 --> 01:11:33.920
that's another thing, too. It's a lot of mothers, so
1701
01:11:33.939 --> 01:11:35.159
they're like... My child.
1702
01:11:35.640 --> 01:11:38.060
My child needs a sleeping bag.
1703
01:11:38.659 --> 01:11:41.590
Ma'am, your child's 35. Yes, that is a good point.
1704
01:11:41.609 --> 01:11:42.670
They're all in their 40s.
1705
01:11:44.210 --> 01:11:44.510
Ma'am.
1706
01:11:44.989 --> 01:11:45.289
Ma'am.
1707
01:11:45.350 --> 01:11:45.630
Ma'am.
1708
01:11:47.109 --> 01:11:49.069
Oh, and then they have a, oh, this is satisfying.
1709
01:11:49.090 --> 01:11:49.970
They have a giant button.
1710
01:11:49.989 --> 01:11:51.109
A giant extract button.
1711
01:11:51.449 --> 01:11:53.300
And they have to go hit it in front of everyone.
1712
01:11:53.529 --> 01:11:55.640
It's very good. Ashley. You're amazing.
1713
01:11:55.659 --> 01:11:58.300
Thank you for doing this. This was so fun.
1714
01:11:58.319 --> 01:12:01.699
You're the best. You're so good at impressions. You're so funny.
1715
01:12:02.279 --> 01:12:03.079
You're so funny.
1716
01:12:03.399 --> 01:12:04.279
You're so good at impressions.
1717
01:12:04.300 --> 01:12:08.479
You are so good at impressions. We are so good.
1718
01:12:11.090 --> 01:12:12.250
Thank you so much, Ashley.
1719
01:12:12.289 --> 01:12:16.109
That was so fun and so funny. And it's just
1720
01:12:16.369 --> 01:12:18.010
a joy to talk to you and get to know
1721
01:12:18.029 --> 01:12:21.560
you more. And, you know, Ashley talked a lot about
1722
01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:24.779
one of her mentors, Diane Keaton, her fairy godmother. And
1723
01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:27.180
I just feel for this polar plunge, I want to
1724
01:12:27.199 --> 01:12:31.380
remind us all of some of the many great films
1725
01:12:31.420 --> 01:12:32.239
that Diane made.
1726
01:12:32.939 --> 01:12:35.619
Check out Marvin's Room if you haven't seen that. It's
1727
01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:36.319
so good.
1728
01:12:36.550 --> 01:12:40.109
And Meryl Streep is in it. And a young Leonardo DiCaprio.
1729
01:12:40.529 --> 01:12:45.670
And it's such good acting. Reds, an incredible movie with
1730
01:12:45.710 --> 01:12:51.659
Warren Beatty. It's a beautiful performance from Diane. Crimes of
1731
01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:54.340
the Heart, Sissy Spacek, Jessica Lange.
1732
01:12:54.560 --> 01:12:58.619
I mean, just... Diane, we miss you.
1733
01:12:59.060 --> 01:13:01.460
Thank you, Ashley, for that fun talk. Thank you so
1734
01:13:01.500 --> 01:13:03.399
much for listening today, and we'll.
1735
01:13:03.239 --> 01:13:06.979
See you soon. You've been listening to Good Hang.
1736
01:13:07.180 --> 01:13:10.539
The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Berman,
1737
01:13:10.640 --> 01:13:13.140
and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by The
1738
01:13:13.199 --> 01:13:16.319
Ringer and Paper Kite. For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson,
1739
01:13:16.479 --> 01:13:21.890
Kat Spillane, Kaya McMullen, Alea Zanaris, Bridget Geerlings, Paige Garberini,
1740
01:13:22.050 --> 01:13:22.710
Belle Roman.
1741
01:13:22.850 --> 01:13:23.970
And Drew Van Steenbergen.
1742
01:13:24.390 --> 01:13:27.850
For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and
1743
01:13:27.890 --> 01:13:28.630
Jenna Weiss-Berman.
1744
01:13:28.939 --> 01:13:30.500
Original music by Amy Miles.