Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: and I heart radio podcast. Okay, we've got Jane Lynch
Speaker 1: here for and asked me anything Lightning session. Welcome. I
Speaker 1: am buckle up, all right, I mean yeah, she hosts
Speaker 1: the weakest link. This is nothing for her. You know,
Speaker 1: she's a game show host. Okay, sheet all right, First one,
Speaker 1: Kaylee Lemons. How much was improvised? And how much was
Speaker 1: in the script? All on the script? All on the script?
Speaker 1: Very little, very little improvised. Ian Brennan, what was there
Speaker 1: a favorite track suit that you wore on the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was navy blue and it had neon pink and
Speaker 1: I looked so good that those colors are real good.
Speaker 1: I'm really nice and it was shiny. Yeah. Um. Do
Speaker 1: you remember Super Basse Yeah yeah yeah, super Base Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember the learnings from it. Oh and I did
Speaker 1: I wear the the pink too too outfit. I looked
Speaker 1: and the lighting was crazy and Darren Chris did a
Speaker 1: thing with me like he was fantastic. Yep, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember. That's been showing up on TikTok a lot.
Speaker 1: I've seen that clip for some reason. Oh yeah, it's everywhere,
Speaker 1: because sometimes I feel like it's a Mandela effectory, like
Speaker 1: did this happen? Oh, this is a fever dream that
Speaker 1: we all had and know what happened? Ye, Jane Lynch
Speaker 1: do Nicki Minaj and a Nicki Minaj Wig was incredible
Speaker 1: again really And I think it was a Saturday. I
Speaker 1: think we shot that on the Saturday. We were wonderful.
Speaker 1: Remember that we worked on a Saturday. Saturday. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: didn't work on a lot do We didn't work a
Speaker 1: lot of saturdays? Did we? Towards? And I like, what
Speaker 1: was filming Vogue? Like from Holly be Oh it's the best.
Speaker 1: It took forever. Um, it was meticulous. Ryan directed it
Speaker 1: directed it. It meant everything to him and to me.
Speaker 1: And we actually got a lot of the set pieces
Speaker 1: were at Paramount where we shot, so we used a
Speaker 1: lot of the original set pieces. They copied the wardrobe
Speaker 1: war Lou copied them from the actual Madonna wardrobe and um,
Speaker 1: yeah it was fun though, wasn't you guys were in it?
Speaker 1: It was just the girl Chris and yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we came and watched. We came and watched, but you
Speaker 1: guys and you guys did frame for frame to. I
Speaker 1: remember like having having pictures up and you guys actually
Speaker 1: had he had our monitor, and then he had the
Speaker 1: video monitor, the actual video and they they matched the
Speaker 1: actual type. It was black and white and they matched
Speaker 1: the tones perfectly. Wow, that's so good and it worked.
Speaker 1: It was worth it. It was Chris and Amber. That's right.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite Sue insult or rent that
Speaker 1: you remember that you think about every now and then? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do I think about? Oh? Wow, what do I think?
Speaker 1: I like the one where I say I've decided I'm
Speaker 1: no longer going to carry picture I d people shouldn't
Speaker 1: know who I am. I like that and oh, oh,
Speaker 1: oh my god. This is one of my favorites where
Speaker 1: I say, um, you know, this reminds me of the
Speaker 1: couple who bought my house. I assaulted the backyard so
Speaker 1: nothing could grow there for a hundred years. Why they
Speaker 1: wanted me to pay their closing costs. Yeah, it does,
Speaker 1: it does, it does? Yeah, closing. You know when we
Speaker 1: were watching this show back for the first generation of
Speaker 1: this podcast, I remember think because Trump was president at
Speaker 1: the time and there was so much stuff, Sue would
Speaker 1: say that, like, I'm pretty sure we had a segment
Speaker 1: that was like, did Trump say this or did Sue
Speaker 1: say this? Like Trump or Sue? That's great. We were
Speaker 1: laughing about it in and then it happened upon her,
Speaker 1: you know, became actually it became our national nightmare. That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, Sue's funny TV not in real life.
Speaker 1: Your favorite guest star. Oh god, that so many Oh
Speaker 1: my god, um, oh gosh, so sorry. I mean I
Speaker 1: loved Carol Burnett, had to work with her a couple
Speaker 1: of times. I know, just yeah, oh god, everybody was
Speaker 1: so good. Kristin Chenowith knocked it out of the park.
Speaker 1: Stephen Totalowski, remember in the first year, he was the
Speaker 1: old choir teacher who road, who was in a appropriate
Speaker 1: with a boy. Remember that we couldn't do that. Now,
Speaker 1: he did quite a few inappropriate things. He was selling
Speaker 1: you know, marijuana to the kids, right buck. And he
Speaker 1: had a very scary doll collection this isn't and his
Speaker 1: tease and his like kimono. It was odd. He was
Speaker 1: he sold it, He sold it. Yeah. Yeah, they should
Speaker 1: have carried him on. I think gets scored easily and
Speaker 1: then he moves on to something else. But whereas I
Speaker 1: would be like, oh, this works, keep it and he's like,
Speaker 1: we'll do something else. How did you feel get to work,
Speaker 1: getting to work with Hitchcock again? Fantastic? Yeah, just the best.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what did we do? We did that scene?
Speaker 1: What did what did he? What did we do? It
Speaker 1: was the choir director for the Death Player the School
Speaker 1: of the Deaf. Oh my god, just too much. And
Speaker 1: he was a writer on our show too. Then he
Speaker 1: became a writer. Yeah, you know what did joy to
Speaker 1: have her? Someone wanted to know if people are surprised
Speaker 1: when they meet you to find that you're actually nice
Speaker 1: and nothing like Sue. Do you have that reaction? Do
Speaker 1: people have that reaction? I don't think anybody really expects
Speaker 1: the person in real life to be what they're like
Speaker 1: on television. I think we we we don't we get
Speaker 1: the I think for the most part. Yeah, our Sue
Speaker 1: and Sue is still happily married. Yes, you know, it
Speaker 1: was rough going in the first couple of years, but
Speaker 1: they found some peace and they worked very well together.
Speaker 1: They're great partners. So funny. That was glad she remembered that, right,
Speaker 1: I married myself. Sue and Side you had some pretty
Speaker 1: wild storylines towards the act. Oh my god, I did.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when I ran for um Congress and
Speaker 1: then they kind of dropped the storyline and they wrapped
Speaker 1: it up by having me hold a newspaper that I'm
Speaker 1: reading that says Sylvester loses. It's like, yeah, we're not
Speaker 1: going to write about that anymore. I remember being really
Speaker 1: excited about that storyline and then it just sort of
Speaker 1: it got lost to something else, which happened. It was
Speaker 1: what do they call it, the Island of Lost storylines?
Speaker 1: That's funny. Did you take home many track suits? I did.
Speaker 1: I don't have any more now, though I took home
Speaker 1: about four. I gave them to yeah, and I gave
Speaker 1: them to like m Um charity things they would ask
Speaker 1: and they would raffle them all. And then I hooked
Speaker 1: up with something. Not hooked up, but I communicated with
Speaker 1: somebody on Twitter and she said that she was my
Speaker 1: height and she weighed about fifty pounds more than I did,
Speaker 1: and that she was going to lose that white so
Speaker 1: she could fit in the tracks it. I said, you
Speaker 1: lose that weight, I'll send you a track suit. So
Speaker 1: she sent me before and after a picture she lost it,
Speaker 1: and I sent her Oh my gosh, that's awesome, gorgeous store.
Speaker 1: Did you take anything from set from your office? I didn't,
Speaker 1: did you, guys? Yes? You remember Matt had brought that
Speaker 1: weener dog in the choir room. It was like a
Speaker 1: porcelain dog, and he brought it from his choir room,
Speaker 1: his choir teachers, um like room, classroom, and he put
Speaker 1: it in his classroom and then he took it home.
Speaker 1: I remember that. And then I took the clock off
Speaker 1: the wall because of the I just it made sense
Speaker 1: to me because I was like, well, if this would
Speaker 1: go up on my wall in my house so it
Speaker 1: wouldn't look out of the ordinary. No, yeah, that's an
Speaker 1: old school clock. It is pretty fun. Remember the soundproofing material,
Speaker 1: the squares, they're very expensive. Darren ripped them down and
Speaker 1: put him in his studio. That's right. Was very smart
Speaker 1: of him to do that. It is very affendship, to
Speaker 1: be honest. Yeah, you were going to say some are
Speaker 1: there any songs that you wish you could have sang?
Speaker 1: M hmm that there was? Oh I pitched this to Ryan.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that song? Is that All there is?
Speaker 1: Is that? All there is? My friend? Then let's keep dancing.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a book. It's from like the fifties
Speaker 1: or the sixties, and I wanted to do it like
Speaker 1: a German beer hall kin. Is that all there is?
Speaker 1: I want to be dancing with someone depressed when I
Speaker 1: lost Congress. Oh if I won, If I won Congress,
Speaker 1: which they didn't have me win, So wouldn't that be
Speaker 1: great if I win? And then the camera comes in
Speaker 1: kind of like the President's men, real close, and I go, well, now,
Speaker 1: what do we do want? I have to go work exactly,
Speaker 1: and then and and cut to me, like dancing with
Speaker 1: somebody maybe even like um, what's her name, coach beast? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: like dancing with her. I thought that would be so funny. Guys, numbers.
Speaker 1: We just watched the episode where you get to do
Speaker 1: your swing dancing in preparation for Rod Remington and you
Speaker 1: did that big number with Daddie. There's so much it's
Speaker 1: really it's fun when you got to actually do musical
Speaker 1: stuff with us. That was the hardest part. That was
Speaker 1: the dancing stuff. I hated it. Every time I got it,
Speaker 1: I was like, and they gave me a lot of dancing,
Speaker 1: Yeah they did. It was complicated dancing. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of it was really so beyond my skill, and I
Speaker 1: worked so hard. And there was a thing at the
Speaker 1: end where I did the ballroom dancing, the Astaire and
Speaker 1: um Ginger Rogers thing with Heaven I'm in Heaven and
Speaker 1: we shot it in black and white, Matt and I.
Speaker 1: It was fun. That's so good. Yeah, it's beautiful. I did.
Speaker 1: I got to do some really fun things. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of questions asking for um, like favorite memory
Speaker 1: of working with Naya, you guys got I got to
Speaker 1: tell her some hilarious things I called her. Remember when
Speaker 1: she had her boobs made bigger in real in real
Speaker 1: life and she came in and I was like, um,
Speaker 1: I called her boobs? What did I call? Someone out
Speaker 1: there knows what I called her something like that. But
Speaker 1: then I had this thing where I said to her,
Speaker 1: why would someone your age, with a perfect little body
Speaker 1: wanted into it? Why would you do that? And it
Speaker 1: was kind of James to asking Naya to why why?
Speaker 1: But that's what that's what the kids do. And also
Speaker 1: what else? Um? Oh, she she ripped me a new
Speaker 1: one and pushed me again the wall. Do you remember
Speaker 1: that torn? It was after Died Together. It was the
Speaker 1: episode of the Corey episode, and she said you were
Speaker 1: never nice to him, you never liked him, and that
Speaker 1: no one's ever talked to Sue like that. And I
Speaker 1: was standing up and she threw me against the wall. Whoa?
Speaker 1: And she did? Nya? Threw me against the wall? Yeah? Right,
Speaker 1: she had some for sure. There was such inherent, inherent
Speaker 1: goodness and Tenaya and to so much of who you
Speaker 1: guys are was in those characters because Ryan smart and
Speaker 1: he would see things. He would see the things that
Speaker 1: you were, your achilles heels, the things that maybe you
Speaker 1: were ashamed of, and the things that made you wonderful,
Speaker 1: and he would highlight all of it. Yea, it's it's
Speaker 1: he saw right through us. What about the scene where
Speaker 1: was it Diana or was it Nya where you made
Speaker 1: them take out their fake boob cutlets and slap themselves
Speaker 1: in the face with them? Wasn't that right? Wasn't there
Speaker 1: was Heather or Brittany. It was Brittany, and my head
Speaker 1: it was Naya, and I don't think it was Diana,
Speaker 1: but it was definitely Heather and uh san fantana a
Speaker 1: Brittany sentence exactly exactly, And I slap yourselves in the
Speaker 1: face with themselves. And she was also that I want
Speaker 1: you to smell your armpits. That is the smell failure
Speaker 1: stinking up my office. And she runs out cry. She
Speaker 1: runs a crying because you take away her tanning privileges
Speaker 1: for the year. Oh yeah, it's so good. I remember
Speaker 1: I was taking their uniforms. I was having them sent
Speaker 1: to France to be dry clean. And it costs like
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand dollars a year. Oh my gosh, let's
Speaker 1: oh god. Ian's insane. Ian's absolutely insane. Someone wanted to
Speaker 1: know if you think Sue is a hero or a villain.
Speaker 1: She's a hero. She's not a villain. She's outwardly a villain.
Speaker 1: Um but uh, I mean she can She was mean.
Speaker 1: But the great thing about Glee is that no one
Speaker 1: really took it to heart. No like I would, you know,
Speaker 1: make fun of everybody Asian number one, frankin teen um wheels,
Speaker 1: kid in the wheelchair. But you guys will be like,
Speaker 1: but nobody got really got their feelings hurt. So she
Speaker 1: was She was benign in that way. And when she
Speaker 1: stood up for people, and she would never let it
Speaker 1: get too far. She would apologize, she would she would
Speaker 1: go to war take you know, take something to the
Speaker 1: mat for somebody. Um, she was a defender, a warrior
Speaker 1: who you know, she was flawed. She she went, she went.
Speaker 1: She was so protective that she of herself and people
Speaker 1: and of her tender heart. That she made some bad
Speaker 1: decisions sometimes and she was meaner than she needed to be.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, she's a hero. But that's
Speaker 1: a great question because she's both. But to me, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna play an out right villain anyway. Who's
Speaker 1: going to play an outright villain? You can't think that way.
Speaker 1: The actor has to think, what's what's going on in here?
Speaker 1: What's really going on that that I can understand and humanize.
Speaker 1: Someone wanted to know what was your favorite nickname for
Speaker 1: a character? For everyone? I did. I liked Frank and
Speaker 1: Team for Corey because he was so tall and so goofy.
Speaker 1: He didn't fit into his body. You know, it was weird, gangly.
Speaker 1: He was gangly, and even watching him walk sometimes it
Speaker 1: was like he never really inhabited his body because he
Speaker 1: was still so young. You know that maybe as he
Speaker 1: got older, but there was a part of him. It's
Speaker 1: like this ten year old kid who was five ft
Speaker 1: tall and now all of a sudden, he's six ft two.
Speaker 1: So I love that I called him Frank and Tea
Speaker 1: and yeah, puppies, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a big dope exactly. It's like a big dobermint pinture
Speaker 1: or a lab as a puppy. They're kind of big,
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're seventy pounds with her like two
Speaker 1: years old, but they're like, yeah. I try to think
Speaker 1: if there were any other I like, I love that
Speaker 1: you never called Emma Emma. You only I think I
Speaker 1: can tell you only called her Emma once. Ever, there
Speaker 1: was always some other version of that. Yeah, I will
Speaker 1: tell you one thing I did improvise. I was talking
Speaker 1: to her and I was telling her, what's what in
Speaker 1: the teacher's loaned, and then I looked down. You know,
Speaker 1: she always wore like big, like a big bow or
Speaker 1: something like that. She had a big bow in the
Speaker 1: middle of her blouse. And I said, and that bow
Speaker 1: is insane. You know, Jama was just on the show.
Speaker 1: She's talking about all of her bows. Yeah. She was
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah, and she and Matt would have been
Speaker 1: Sir Chuster would have been such a cute little couple.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite episode or a favorite season.
Speaker 1: I think the first season is my favorite. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I think all my favorite shows are probably in the
Speaker 1: first season. Yeah. It seems to be the unanimous answer
Speaker 1: for whenever we ask people if Ryan Murphy wanted to
Speaker 1: do a sus In Vester spinoff, would you do it
Speaker 1: in a second? In a hot minute? Alright, should we
Speaker 1: fit in like one or two more? Yeah, let's do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll pick one. You pick one so we can release Jane.
Speaker 1: That's right from this from our grip are typo oh.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked, like, what was your reaction to the scene
Speaker 1: where Santana yelled and pushed Sue in season five? Okay, good, good, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're into it. She played it beautifully. We had a
Speaker 1: whole monologue. You know. She was one of those people
Speaker 1: who could look at the script in the morning and
Speaker 1: she had some monologues like I did, and not only
Speaker 1: be off book, but perfect, played it perfect that picture photographers.
Speaker 1: I never could understand how she did that. It was
Speaker 1: always so impressive. Sharp mind. Do you think your portrayal
Speaker 1: of Sue evolved or changed over the series as the
Speaker 1: character became so iconic. I think even when I started,
Speaker 1: like season one, I knew there had to be a
Speaker 1: reason why she was who she was, Um and why
Speaker 1: she was so mean, And that's when I came up with.
Speaker 1: I came up with for myself that she had been
Speaker 1: bullied in high school and she was getting her revenge
Speaker 1: by going back to teach high school. And then they
Speaker 1: gave me the down syndrome sister. I think it was
Speaker 1: like either the first season, at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: second season, and then from there Becky Um became my
Speaker 1: best friend in my Luke Tenant in crime and evilness,
Speaker 1: evil during and um, so that deepened it for me. Um.
Speaker 1: I think her, you know, they always kept her pretty
Speaker 1: mean because her, but they gave me more redemptive moments.
Speaker 1: They gave me more heroic moments and more courageous moments,
Speaker 1: and more honest moments as time went on, like when
Speaker 1: my sister died, when Horrid died and um uh, you know,
Speaker 1: towards the end, when I was vice president and then
Speaker 1: we did that. That was the hardest thing to shoot
Speaker 1: that day in the auditorium last It was hard. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Is there a Glee character that you were? You were
Speaker 1: like in high school. Oh my god, that's such a
Speaker 1: good question. No, not really. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: maybe one of the boys, because the girls aren't no,
Speaker 1: I know, m hm m hmm. How about you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would. I mean, it's Rachel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really you were and musical, very driven, very type a
Speaker 1: very known like made myself known in school. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the popular girl who did everything and did everything right. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. And I flew under the radar um I
Speaker 1: wanted and I was like the class but I really
Speaker 1: kept myself safe. You know. I was everybody's friend, but
Speaker 1: not their best friend exactly. And a lot of it
Speaker 1: for me was like, yeah, I belonged to a bunch
Speaker 1: of them, like I was with the popular girls, and
Speaker 1: then I was with like the kind of the choir
Speaker 1: nerds and the theater nerds. But a lot of it,
Speaker 1: too was that I knew I was coming to the
Speaker 1: uh awareness that I was gay. I learned what it
Speaker 1: was when I was in high school, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I think I have that. And I
Speaker 1: didn't know anybody else. I had one friend and he
Speaker 1: was my best friend, Chris, and he was like completely
Speaker 1: open with himself. Certainly not in our little high school.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he caught the gay and now what happens.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it happens sometimes. All right, well, Jane, we're gonna
Speaker 1: let you go. Thank you a lot. It's my pleasure.
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing this. I'm glad you're doing this
Speaker 1: show too. It's really great. Thanks. Well, we love you, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. Two guys love you. Thanks for writing in
Speaker 1: all of your questions. We um we'll hopefully have her
Speaker 1: back and ask more. But you guys wrote in, and
Speaker 1: we had too many questions to ask, which is always
Speaker 1: a good problem. So thank you so much, and thanks
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