Full Transcript for Ashley Padilla

00:03:56.530 together in the world as performers that feels very natural 83 00:03:56.710 --> 00:03:58.129 and fun and playful. 84 00:03:58.770 --> 00:04:00.050 How did you first meet? 85 00:04:00.930 --> 00:04:05.009 We first met at the show, like her first episode. 86 00:04:06.930 --> 00:04:10.509 And just pretty quickly, it was clear that like, oh, 87 00:04:10.550 --> 00:04:14.750 this is somebody who has got chops like crazy. And 88 00:04:14.770 --> 00:04:18.490 I think specifically both like performer and writer chops, like 89 00:04:20.370 --> 00:04:22.930 she's such a confident performer and so able to bring 90 00:04:22.970 --> 00:04:27.180 like real acting to the sketches she does. But then 91 00:04:27.209 --> 00:04:30.199 also like what she writes, you're also like, damn, you're 92 00:04:30.220 --> 00:04:32.699 good at both of those things. That's crazy. 93 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:35.959 And did you start writing with her right away? 94 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.980 No, really. Her whole first season, we didn't collaborate much. 95 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:41.959 I think we maybe wrote one or two things that 96 00:04:42.050 --> 00:04:45.949 didn't make it to air. But, yeah, the first real 97 00:04:46.290 --> 00:04:50.449 collaboration was the weekend update thing, the couple who just 98 00:04:50.470 --> 00:04:52.329 hooked up. Right. Yeah. 99 00:04:52.589 --> 00:04:54.029 And your tie is askew. 100 00:04:54.329 --> 00:04:57.129 My tie is askew. It's very steamy. It's very. 101 00:04:57.170 --> 00:05:00.329 Your hair has got that bedhead thing, and you guys 102 00:05:00.379 --> 00:05:02.100 are talking about the Super Bowl. 103 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:03.079 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 104 00:05:04.189 --> 00:05:06.329 I mean, that is my favorite thing about weekend update 105 00:05:06.370 --> 00:05:09.370 features is what the characters are talking about. 106 00:05:09.389 --> 00:05:12.649 This is who you got to talk about this. And 107 00:05:12.670 --> 00:05:16.389 they're doing a very bad job. It's like just the 108 00:05:16.620 --> 00:05:19.319 worst run show in the world. That's like the premise 109 00:05:19.379 --> 00:05:21.420 of weekend update is they have the worst booker of 110 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:22.779 all time. Yeah. 111 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.819 They have terrible guests. Um, and what do you like 112 00:05:25.860 --> 00:05:26.579 about writing with her? 113 00:05:26.939 --> 00:05:29.800 I think what I like the most about Ashley's writing 114 00:05:29.860 --> 00:05:33.540 and writing with her is like, uh, her ideas are 115 00:05:33.620 --> 00:05:37.899 all like about playing the realness of the scene. And 116 00:05:38.060 --> 00:05:41.399 so that's just fun to create in that space where 117 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:45.379 it's like, we're playing real emotion to comedic effect rather 118 00:05:45.420 --> 00:05:48.459 than like being kind of over the top silly. It's 119 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:50.769 just a fun energy to get into. 120 00:05:51.089 --> 00:05:51.269 Yeah. 121 00:05:51.310 --> 00:05:53.550 I want to talk to her about that today is that, 122 00:05:53.810 --> 00:05:56.310 you know, she's a really good actress. And so she's 123 00:05:56.449 --> 00:06:01.170 like acting everything very naturally and very real. And it's, 124 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:06.180 funny because she puts herself in very insane and she's 125 00:06:06.220 --> 00:06:10.449 often like very incredulous as a character. She kind of 126 00:06:10.490 --> 00:06:12.850 can't believe what's happening to her. 127 00:06:13.089 --> 00:06:13.209 Yeah. 128 00:06:13.269 --> 00:06:15.839 I think about the like fart sketch that she did, 129 00:06:16.569 --> 00:06:19.589 which everybody loves a fart sketch, but it's so funny 130 00:06:19.629 --> 00:06:21.949 the way she plays it, where it's like, this woman 131 00:06:22.009 --> 00:06:27.459 is very legitimately upset that it just happened. It's not like, Oh, 132 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:31.779 I farted. It's like, oh my God, I fart. I'm like, 133 00:06:32.379 --> 00:06:34.759 I just love that. I love that approach that she has. 134 00:06:34.779 --> 00:06:37.540 Me too. For people that don't know, she plays a. 135 00:06:39.230 --> 00:06:43.389 Woman who her coworkers try to surprise her. They turn 136 00:06:43.430 --> 00:06:45.750 on the lights and she farts as soon as she 137 00:06:45.810 --> 00:06:46.310 sees them. 138 00:06:46.449 --> 00:06:49.069 And it's just like downhill from there. She cannot get 139 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:49.610 past it. 140 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:52.800 And then there's like two minutes of her asking everybody 141 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:54.350 what they make, what their salary is. 142 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:56.300 So good. 143 00:06:56.379 --> 00:07:00.079 Played very real. Do you have a question for Ashley today? 144 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.259 Anything big or small that I could ask her? 145 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.850 I feel like Groundlings specifically, when people come to SNL 146 00:07:05.870 --> 00:07:11.529 from Groundlings, it feels like that. It feels like those 147 00:07:11.589 --> 00:07:16.470 people are so equipped for SNL off the jump. Thinking 148 00:07:16.509 --> 00:07:21.129 like Mikey, Heidi, Ashley, as well as like former cast 149 00:07:21.149 --> 00:07:22.990 members who come back and host. It just feels like 150 00:07:23.089 --> 00:07:29.550 that's the most... mappable training ground for people in a 151 00:07:29.589 --> 00:07:31.389 really interesting way. And I guess I'm just curious what 152 00:07:31.509 --> 00:07:33.670 would like, if she has any insight in like, what 153 00:07:33.750 --> 00:07:35.769 was it that she learned in Groundlings or what was 154 00:07:35.790 --> 00:07:40.089 it that Groundlings specifically instilled in her that made her 155 00:07:40.189 --> 00:07:43.990 be like so ready and so equipped? What's the thing 156 00:07:44.029 --> 00:07:48.290 she learned in Groundlings or just from that time

in 157 00:07:48.329 --> 00:07:51.180 her life that she feels like has applied the most 158 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:52.439 to being on SNL? 159 00:07:52.889 --> 00:07:53.949 Ah, great question. 160 00:07:54.089 --> 00:07:55.949 I mean, what if we found out that Groundlings has 161 00:07:55.990 --> 00:07:58.470 like a mini SNL set and they just run drills? 162 00:08:00.310 --> 00:08:05.040 That would be, I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, I'm just 163 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.560 so impressed with her like so quickly. I'm like, what's 164 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:09.860 the secret? How did, what did you learn? Like, please 165 00:08:09.899 --> 00:08:10.279 tell me. 166 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.079 She does do a thing that I think good. And 167 00:08:13.100 --> 00:08:15.459 I think you do this too. And is that, you know, 168 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.189 in sketch you have to be grounded, but you also 169 00:08:18.290 --> 00:08:21.170 can't be like too, too internal, right? 170 00:08:21.529 --> 00:08:23.490 To interior you. 171 00:08:23.430 --> 00:08:26.399 Know i'm sure like actors come on the show and 172 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.319 there they get kind of quiet and they really want 173 00:08:29.339 --> 00:08:31.639 to and you're like oh no you have to be loud. 174 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:36.000 Totally totally yeah i think especially just in that room 175 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:37.759 like i think people have talked about it where it's 176 00:08:37.779 --> 00:08:40.629 like doesn't have the best acoustics like there is a 177 00:08:40.690 --> 00:08:43.250 thing of like sometimes you'll do a sketch and you'll 178 00:08:43.269 --> 00:08:46.190 be like i don't think anybody in that room heard 179 00:08:46.210 --> 00:08:50.750 what i was saying I think everybody in the audience 180 00:08:50.789 --> 00:08:52.730 was like, oh, wow, they just went and did like 181 00:08:52.769 --> 00:08:57.039 a silent little play. Yeah. And we didn't enjoy it. 182 00:08:57.309 --> 00:08:59.049 They did a little whisper play. 183 00:08:59.070 --> 00:09:04.200 They did a little whisper play. So, yeah, being able 184 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.940 to be micro, but also like, yeah, play big enough 185 00:09:06.980 --> 00:09:09.059 to get laughs in that room is very important. And 186 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:10.000 she does do that very well. 187 00:09:10.179 --> 00:09:10.899 Yeah, right on. 188 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:11.470 Awesome. 189 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:12.929 Well, it's great to see. 190 00:09:12.970 --> 00:09:14.529 The last time I saw you, I felt like I 191 00:09:14.769 --> 00:09:16.690 was dressed as a man and I was holding a tortoise. 192 00:09:17.490 --> 00:09:18.529 Because of something that you wrote. 193 00:09:18.549 --> 00:09:19.610 Yeah, we had a sketch where you were dressed as 194 00:09:19.629 --> 00:09:20.610 a man and holding a tortoise. 195 00:09:20.669 --> 00:09:21.549 Well, thank you for that. 196 00:09:22.389 --> 00:09:24.350 And thank you for doing that.

We really appreciated it. 197 00:09:24.350 --> 00:09:28.519 Of course. And I will, the tortoise wrangler who, you know, 198 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:34.480 was very nice, did warn me that the tortoise could 199 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:36.019 and would most likely bite. 200 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:38.960 And you handled it like a champ and we really 201 00:09:38.980 --> 00:09:42.870 appreciated that. Because the wrangler did say that and we 202 00:09:42.889 --> 00:09:44.289 were like, and you're cool with that, right, Amy? You're 203 00:09:44.309 --> 00:09:45.210 cool with maybe getting bitten? 204 00:09:45.409 --> 00:09:45.710 Totally. 205 00:09:47.049 --> 00:09:50.960 Well, thank you for talking from your hotel room. Good 206 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:51.840 luck with the coffee. 207 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:52.440 Thank you. 208 00:09:52.500 --> 00:09:55.629 Please don't turn any lights on. Just stay in the dark. 209 00:09:55.649 --> 00:09:57.350 I'm going to stay in the dark because this is 210 00:09:57.370 --> 00:09:59.549 just sort of where I like to be. This is 211 00:09:59.570 --> 00:10:03.070 just where I am. comfortable. Yeah. With a hard light 212 00:10:03.129 --> 00:10:05.490 coming here in our chat, I think that's best for 213 00:10:05.529 --> 00:10:07.389 a Zoom. And I'm sure that your producers are really 214 00:10:07.429 --> 00:10:09.889 happy that this is my configuration. 215 00:10:09.970 --> 00:10:12.269 Well, we're going to use those Zoom filters. We're going 216 00:10:12.289 --> 00:10:14.950 to put on funny sunglasses. We're going to put on 217 00:10:14.990 --> 00:10:15.850 like a beret. 218 00:10:15.870 --> 00:10:18.909 You're going to make me look like a cool, tough guy. Yeah, nice. 219 00:10:19.149 --> 00:10:19.840 Yeah, like a New Yorker. 220 00:10:20.690 --> 00:10:22.450 Right. Like in New York, I got sunglasses on like 221 00:10:22.509 --> 00:10:23.669 in New York. 222 00:10:24.850 --> 00:10:27.429 Andrew, thank you so much for doing this. Ashley's going 223 00:10:27.450 --> 00:10:29.360 to be thrilled that we talked and it's so great 224 00:10:29.379 --> 00:10:29.759 to see you. 225 00:10:29.779 --> 00:10:30.220 Thank you, Amy. 226 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:31.539 Yeah, thank you so much. 227 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:32.100 Okay, buddy. 228 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:32.639 Bye. 229 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:33.620 Bye. Thanks. 230 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:39.250 Folks, it's officially fall, which means we've entered the season 231 00:10:39.330 --> 00:10:44.049 of change. Changing leaves, refreshed wardrobes, and new routines. But 232 00:10:44.090 --> 00:10:46.750 the one thing that doesn't need to change, your phone. 233 00:10:47.269 --> 00:10:49.850 The smartest upgrade this season isn't a new phone. It's 234 00:10:49.909 --> 00:10:54.610 a better wireless plan. Switch to Visible, the ultimate wireless hack. 235 00:10:54.970 --> 00:10:58.950 You get unlimited 5G data and unlimited hotspot powered by 236 00:10:58.990 --> 00:11:02.250 Verizon

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Oh, this is crazy. 249 00:11:38.659 --> 00:11:39.580 Yeah, I know. 250 00:11:39.820 --> 00:11:40.200 What? 251 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.940 People don't know that we're talking on a very stormy 252 00:11:44.019 --> 00:11:45.220 and rainy morning. 253 00:11:45.460 --> 00:11:46.259 It's very rainy. 254 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:47.840 I mean, I don't know if people care. 255 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.500 About the weather outside when we do this podcast. 256 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:54.049 Every day you're like, today's forecast. 257 00:11:54.389 --> 00:11:54.929 I don't. 258 00:11:54.970 --> 00:11:58.669 But I was like, maybe it's too stormy. 259 00:11:58.769 --> 00:12:00.129 Maybe Ashley won't come. 260 00:12:00.649 --> 00:12:01.250 Yes. 261 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:04.860 I got scared. 262 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.000 Not today, I can't do this. Sorry, Amy. It's raining. 263 00:12:09.019 --> 00:12:11.190 Okay, are we good with Ashley's? 264 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:12.639 Okay, wait. 265 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:14.259 Oh, you can, I can move this. 266 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:15.759 Okay, let's move this. 267 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:16.820 We can scoot, we can scoot. 268 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.139 I can move this. Can I take a sip of 269 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:19.559 this yet? 270 00:12:20.179 --> 00:12:22.080 No, it's lighter fluid in there. 271 00:12:22.100 --> 00:12:23.600 Oh, fuck. 272 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:24.379 It's for the cameras. 273 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.320 Just do water, but it's for the cameras? 274 00:12:26.379 --> 00:12:27.159 I'm so sorry. 275 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.299 There's no way. We can't drink anything here. Okay, I 276 00:12:29.340 --> 00:12:29.899 trust you. 277 00:12:30.100 --> 00:12:32.039 Yes, of course you can. Okay, very good. 278 00:12:32.059 --> 00:12:34.620 So move. I thought it was a little bit of 279 00:12:34.750 --> 00:12:35.210 a dance. 280 00:12:35.230 --> 00:12:37.139 Did you see Ashley's episode? 281 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:38.490 They're just kind of moving. 282 00:12:38.549 --> 00:12:38.649 Okay. 283 00:12:40.750 --> 00:12:42.710 And weirdly, the laptop is the only. 284 00:12:42.509 --> 00:12:43.389 Thing you can see. 285 00:12:43.409 --> 00:12:46.100 It just gets closer to camera. 286 00:12:46.149 --> 00:12:49.700 It's fun because look at this. 287 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:51.639 Can you imagine if I was just on it to 288 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:52.259 the whole time? 289 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:57.980 And you're on Facebook. You're on Twitter being like, ever 290 00:12:58.019 --> 00:13:01.580 been so bored in your life? I'm on Facebook Marketplace. 291 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:02.559 You're on Facebook Marketplace. 292 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:06.659 Ashley Padilla is here. 293 00:13:06.820 --> 00:13:07.139 Yeah. 294 00:13:07.259 --> 00:13:08.419 I'm so happy you're here. 295 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:09.549 I can't believe it. 296 00:13:09.610 --> 00:13:13.529 I'm thrilled you're here. And congratulations on being one of 297 00:13:13.570 --> 00:13:14.789 the captains of the show. 298 00:13:15.009 --> 00:13:18.990 Wow. Coming from the captain. Ma'am. 299 00:13:19.210 --> 00:13:23.350 Ma'am, please don't talk to me. Oh, please don't. Oh, 300 00:13:23.470 --> 00:13:25.980 I don't want to talk about my life. Please don't. 301 00:13:26.029 --> 00:13:26.740 I'm interviewing you. 302 00:13:29.820 --> 00:13:34.299 Oh, but the cast is so good right now. The 303 00:13:34.379 --> 00:13:38.259 show is so gelled. Congratulations on having an incredible year. 304 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:39.240 Thank you. 305 00:13:39.379 --> 00:13:41.360 Your second year, second season. 306 00:13:41.700 --> 00:13:42.259 Yes. 307 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:45.100 And I guess what I wanted to start with is 308 00:13:45.379 --> 00:13:47.639 that I don't, you know, I don't know a lot 309 00:13:47.659 --> 00:13:48.039 about you. 310 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:50.710 Very mysterious, Ashley. And you like to keep it that way. 311 00:13:51.610 --> 00:13:51.850 Yeah. 312 00:13:51.950 --> 00:13:53.549 So, great talking to you. 313 00:13:54.610 --> 00:13:55.049 Bye-bye. 314 00:13:55.750 --> 00:14:02.330 Anyways, it's still raining outside. The rain is getting harder. 315 00:14:02.350 --> 00:14:05.840 Let's talk about the rain. But you're a private person. 316 00:14:05.980 --> 00:14:06.220 Uh-huh. 317 00:14:06.659 --> 00:14:08.169 Or I would say you don't have a lot of. 318 00:14:08.379 --> 00:14:10.679 It's not that I'm private. Okay, tell me. It's that 319 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:15.000 I'm so scary boring. And I thought, I'm going to 320 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:15.639 reveal this. 321 00:14:15.659 --> 00:14:15.860 Okay. 322 00:14:16.950 --> 00:14:20.909 Last night, in bed, going to bed, thinking about today. 323 00:14:20.929 --> 00:14:24.850 And I had an image of us sitting there, no talking, 324 00:14:24.909 --> 00:14:26.470 and you going, so. 325 00:14:28.490 --> 00:14:30.789 And I was like, no, Ashley, that won't happen. She'll 326 00:14:30.809 -->

00:14:32.250 have questions for sure. 327 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:34.220 She'll think of something. 328 00:14:34.259 --> 00:14:34.940 She'll think of something. 329 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.659 She'll talk about the weather, something. She'll say that it's 330 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:38.500 raining outside. 331 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:43.259 I had a nightmare that you were like, okay. Because 332 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:44.200 there's nothing to share. 333 00:14:45.610 --> 00:14:49.210 That's not, everyone has something to share. Everyone does. Cut 334 00:14:49.230 --> 00:14:51.429 to Sue. 335 00:14:52.169 --> 00:14:54.730 But one of my kind of themes of today is 336 00:14:54.789 --> 00:14:58.269 that you entered the show kind of as a grown-ass woman. 337 00:14:58.289 --> 00:14:58.929 Oh, yeah. 338 00:14:59.029 --> 00:15:03.500 Like, with your skills and your readiness for the show 339 00:15:03.659 --> 00:15:05.539 and us getting to know you on the show seem 340 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.000 to have matched, in my opinion. 341 00:15:07.019 --> 00:15:07.179 Yes, yeah. 342 00:15:07.570 --> 00:15:12.720 And that's very, very cool and satisfying to watch. And also, 343 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.740 you have something that I really, really love. When you 344 00:15:16.820 --> 00:15:20.019 talk about your job and your show is a real 345 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:22.149 gratitude for how. 346 00:15:23.419 --> 00:15:25.559 cool it is to get paid to do comedy on TV. 347 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:29.919 It's crazy. No, it's crazy. I'm scared if I say 348 00:15:29.940 --> 00:15:30.679 it out loud too. 349 00:15:30.590 --> 00:15:32.090 Much, people will be like, hey. 350 00:15:32.129 --> 00:15:32.990 She's right! 351 00:15:33.450 --> 00:15:35.090 Get her out of here! 352 00:15:35.850 --> 00:15:39.370 Or pay her nothing! What the hell? I do worry 353 00:15:39.409 --> 00:15:40.470 about that. 354 00:15:40.629 --> 00:15:45.190 Because to be a successful actor on a TV show 355 00:15:45.269 --> 00:15:48.639 that is so beloved that people are responding to your work, 356 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:52.210 and even just You know, I was looking up the 357 00:15:52.250 --> 00:15:55.049 number again because I always get blown away by the 358 00:15:55.090 --> 00:15:59.480 fact that there's only been like 180, 170-something cast members. Yeah. 359 00:15:59.659 --> 00:16:02.460 It's a club. It's crazy. It's an airplane. It's an airplane. 360 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.740 So to be on that show, I guess, what are 361 00:16:06.779 --> 00:16:12.570 the still kind of pinch-me moments two years in that 362 00:16:12.690 --> 00:16:13.970 feel like this? 363 00:16:15.730 --> 00:16:20.320 You speaking to me. It really is so crazy. It's like. 364 00:16:21.450 --> 00:16:25.610 There's pinchy moments every day because it's so silly because 365 00:16:25.669 --> 00:16:29.360 what you said, I mean, I've been practicing this craft 366 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:31.059 for so long. 367 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:31.580 Yes. 368 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:36.740 Even in childhood, doing it without you realizing you're doing it, right? 369 00:16:36.779 --> 00:16:41.899 Just being an idiot and funny and saying you're annoying. 370 00:16:41.950 --> 00:16:45.629 And it's just like, it was so natural to me. 371 00:16:45.690 --> 00:16:48.980 And so to do it, For a living is crazy. 372 00:16:49.139 --> 00:16:49.259 I know. 373 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:50.500 It's a pinch me moment all the time. 374 00:16:50.820 --> 00:16:52.840 What kind of little kid were you? 375 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:57.259 I was loud and really funny, I think. 376 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:02.259 And I think, you know, my uncle, I think, my 377 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.099 uncle Chris, he's the one who really got me into 378 00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:05.880 sketch comedy. 379 00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:06.160 He would. 380 00:17:08.220 --> 00:17:09.720 I did a thing called the sign spinner. I came 381 00:17:09.740 --> 00:17:11.880 up with this girl named Esther, the sign spinner. 382 00:17:11.900 --> 00:17:13.700 Oh, like the person that's outside. 383 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:17.200 Yeah. And she was a character named Esther who would, 384 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:21.019 she signed spin for, for fun. Cause she loved it. 385 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:25.200 So she'd make signs for different restaurants around town and. 386 00:17:25.140 --> 00:17:25.720 Do it for free. 387 00:17:25.740 --> 00:17:28.740 And they're like, get out of our, we don't, and 388 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:30.779 it was this thing we came up with and he 389 00:17:31.259 --> 00:17:34.589 like recorded it with me and how old were you? 390 00:17:34.619 --> 00:17:35.190 Edited it with me. 391 00:17:35.180 --> 00:17:38.920 13 so he was the one who was like you 392 00:17:38.980 --> 00:17:41.970 have something and i like comedy and let's make this 393 00:17:42.029 --> 00:17:43.690 and he was like he was the man he played 394 00:17:43.710 --> 00:17:46.289 the manager of this place i was like get out 395 00:17:46.309 --> 00:17:47.809 of here and i'm like i like doing this and 396 00:17:47.849 --> 00:17:50.009 i was there and i remember being so proud of 397 00:17:50.069 --> 00:17:53.730 myself that i could keep a straight face like you'd 398 00:17:53.750 --> 00:17:57.170 be like cut and i'd be like i didn't even. 399 00:17:57.109 --> 00:17:59.369 Laugh i didn't even laugh it was hilarious the whole. 400 00:17:59.230 --> 00:18:01.410 Time that was funny the whole time i was keeping 401 00:18:01.430 --> 00:18:04.190 that in I wanted to laugh. 402 00:18:04.490 --> 00:18:07.009 Were you watching Sketch at the time? Like, did he? 403 00:18:07.029 --> 00:18:08.509 I don't know that I was watching Sketch. 404 00:18:08.529 --> 00:18:10.410 A lot of people have cool uncles who like introduce 405 00:18:10.430 --> 00:18:11.710 them to music and comedy. 406 00:18:11.950 --> 00:18:12.369 Oh, yeah. 407 00:18:12.430 --> 00:18:14.940 What were you watching at 13

or what were you into? 408 00:18:14.980 --> 00:18:19.579 I was watching The Office and I was really obsessed 409 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:20.339 with it. 410 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.160 I was really obsessed with. Dwight Schrute. 411 00:18:23.539 --> 00:18:23.859 Yes. 412 00:18:24.420 --> 00:18:26.279 And I wanted to, that's kind of why I wore 413 00:18:26.299 --> 00:18:29.690 the glasses as Esther. And like, I was obsessed with 414 00:18:29.750 --> 00:18:32.589 him in a big way because he was doing the 415 00:18:32.609 --> 00:18:35.609 thing I wanted to do, which was being crazy. 416 00:18:35.710 --> 00:18:36.009 Yeah. 417 00:18:36.569 --> 00:18:39.690 And committing to it. Yes. And what was crazy and 418 00:18:39.750 --> 00:18:41.529 funny was that he was doing it out of his 419 00:18:41.650 --> 00:18:43.670 own truth as a character. So he wasn't trying to 420 00:18:43.730 --> 00:18:44.309 go for the joke. 421 00:18:44.329 --> 00:18:44.789 Right. 422 00:18:44.809 --> 00:18:47.000 What was funny was that he was, he thought this 423 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:49.119 was serious. And it was that, yeah. 424 00:18:49.180 --> 00:18:51.690 Well, That is what I think is so interesting about 425 00:18:51.710 --> 00:18:53.890 your work is like, I do think you come to 426 00:18:53.950 --> 00:18:54.450 it from. 427 00:18:54.309 --> 00:18:55.529 An acting place. 428 00:18:56.289 --> 00:18:56.529 Right? 429 00:18:56.609 --> 00:18:57.170 I love that. 430 00:18:57.369 --> 00:19:00.410 So did you want to be, did you consider when 431 00:19:00.430 --> 00:19:02.039 you were a young person, like, did you say I 432 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.230 wanted to be comedian or do I want to be 433 00:19:04.259 --> 00:19:04.880 an actor? 434 00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:08.480 I don't think I knew the difference. I just knew, 435 00:19:08.819 --> 00:19:10.220 same with Steve Carell. 436 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:10.900 I mean, like. 437 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:13.700 His, the laughs he would get, I'd watch the office 438 00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:16.019 just stay. And my mom always got me the, um, 439 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.420 season for Christmas. Like I knew it was coming every 440 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:19.710 Christmas was the new season. 441 00:19:20.210 --> 00:19:20.650 In like the. 442 00:19:20.609 --> 00:19:23.109 DVD set because I would sit and watch it for 443 00:19:23.210 --> 00:19:27.519 hours because that's the whole, without realizing it, that is 444 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:28.180 what they're all doing. 445 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:29.880 They're all just acting really well. 446 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:30.259 Right. 447 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.099 And Steve Carell as well, just all this little inner 448 00:19:33.259 --> 00:19:36.220 work that he's doing. Right. Is getting the laugh. He's barely, 449 00:19:36.259 --> 00:19:37.940 sometimes has lines and he's getting a laugh. 450 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:38.480 Yes. 451 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:39.599 So. Yes. 452 00:19:40.119 -->

00:19:42.390 I didn't put two and two together. I just think it's, 453 00:19:43.089 --> 00:19:45.089 it just was natural. It was like, oh, that's how 454 00:19:45.130 --> 00:19:47.930 I get the laugh is when I am so locked in. 455 00:19:47.950 --> 00:19:51.740 I remember there was this like, once I remember there 456 00:19:51.779 --> 00:19:55.279 was this thing I did for a friend, my friend Sierra, 457 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:58.390 we went to a museum, I don't know why, we 458 00:19:58.410 --> 00:20:00.410 were just like having a gal's day, as you do, 459 00:20:00.430 --> 00:20:01.410 you go to the museum. 460 00:20:01.809 --> 00:20:03.390 And drink grape juice and a gin as wine. 461 00:20:03.410 --> 00:20:06.099 You drink grape juice, you know, okay. 462 00:20:06.140 --> 00:20:06.839 So you know. 463 00:20:06.859 --> 00:20:08.460 And we were doing that, and we were at. 464 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:11.400 The museum, and I was making her laugh because I 465 00:20:11.980 --> 00:20:15.160 was acting like the bench in the middle of the 466 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:16.640 place was a piece of artwork, and I was like, 467 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:20.900 it's real, it's real. 468 00:20:23.390 --> 00:20:27.140 And people started watching and she's crying nearby. And I 469 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.799 remember writing down later at Groundlings in class, like, the 470 00:20:30.819 --> 00:20:34.400 bench is beautiful. Believe the bench is beautiful. Believe it is. 471 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:37.549 There's art all around this girl. But she thinks that's 472 00:20:37.589 --> 00:20:40.849 a piece of art. Believe it's beautiful. And it's like... 473 00:20:41.829 --> 00:20:43.869 Just suspend people's, but I don't know it's a joke. 474 00:20:44.130 --> 00:20:46.430 You don't know you're funny. The character doesn't know they're funny. 475 00:20:47.299 --> 00:20:47.680 Never. 476 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:48.180 Ever. 477 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:50.319 So did you come from a funny family? You have 478 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:51.420 three siblings. 479 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:51.799 Yes. 480 00:20:51.819 --> 00:20:53.220 What is your birth order? 481 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:54.380 I'm second. 482 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:57.779 So Lindsay's the oldest. It's me and then Sammy and Teddy. 483 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.700 And they are, they would attest this. They're all funnier 484 00:21:00.740 --> 00:21:01.059 than me. 485 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:02.000 And funny mom? 486 00:21:02.819 --> 00:21:04.019 My mom is very funny. 487 00:21:04.059 --> 00:21:05.259 You're very close to your mom. 488 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:05.559 Yes. 489 00:21:05.619 --> 00:21:07.700 And I love that your mom was like, you should 490 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:08.599 go into comedy. 491 00:21:08.660 --> 00:21:08.940 Yeah. 492 00:21:09.019 --> 00:21:11.779 That doesn't happen a lot where someone's mom is like, 493 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:13.099 think about comedy. 494 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:14.039 She. 495 00:21:16.549 --> 00:21:17.869 Could you imagine if it didn't work out? And I 496 00:21:17.869 --> 00:21:21.430 was like, what you did? I wanted to be an accountant. 497 00:21:21.509 --> 00:21:22.349 I wanted to be an accountant. 498 00:21:22.369 --> 00:21:23.789 You made me go. 499 00:21:23.869 --> 00:21:24.450 Groundlings. 500 00:21:24.690 --> 00:21:28.150 Yeah, she Googled comedy class and was like, go there. 501 00:21:28.170 --> 00:21:29.630 Okay, so what did she do for a job? 502 00:21:30.390 --> 00:21:35.039 She worked at Adobe and worked her way up software 503 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:37.579 and worked her way up. Like didn't go to college, 504 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:40.500 single mom, four children. 505 00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:40.779 Dang. 506 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:42.630 At my age now. Oof. 507 00:21:43.730 --> 00:21:44.569 What? What? 508 00:21:44.970 --> 00:21:45.950 It doesn't make sense. 509 00:21:45.990 --> 00:21:46.329 No. 510 00:21:46.950 --> 00:21:47.450 Wow. 511 00:21:47.690 --> 00:21:47.970 Yeah. 512 00:21:48.309 --> 00:21:49.710 And so for her to do that, I mean, all 513 00:21:49.769 --> 00:21:53.339 four of us have unique personalities. Like we're all like, 514 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:56.680 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. 1554 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. 1565 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. 1568 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 1600 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.