Speaker 1: Do we want to make a run across the street?
Speaker 2: I Chris, Hey, Chris, can you do it?
Speaker 3: What do we do?
Speaker 1: Don't get hit by a car?
Speaker 2: You're coming over there? It's worth it? Are you leaving?
Speaker 2: I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 4: Either way, we want to be there, doesn't matter how
Speaker 4: much baggage you claim. Give us time and they Turmano
Speaker 4: and Gage. We want to send you off instead, we
Speaker 4: want to welcome you back home. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 2: We scared or was it fine? Melbourn? Do you need
Speaker 2: to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need with Karen
Speaker 1: and Chris.
Speaker 5: Welcome to Do you need to ride? This is Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 5: I'm a little out of breath and uh, I just
Speaker 5: want to let you guys know it's happy to have
Speaker 5: I'm happy to see you and it's nice to have.
Speaker 2: Friends, isn't it.
Speaker 5: I'm having a falling down type bagh Uh everything planes,
Speaker 5: trains and automobiles, just the mishaps my uh yes, of course,
Speaker 5: if not for the chiming alone and then safety. Uh yeah,
Speaker 5: my my car didn't work, and I charged the battery
Speaker 5: and that, and then it died while I was driving,
Speaker 5: So I abandoned it and went with an almost dead
Speaker 5: phone to my audition, and I was with a difficult
Speaker 5: child actor that insisted on improving about Smucker's jam No,
Speaker 5: and he didn't have the talent, he just had confidence, predumption,
Speaker 5: and he took a.
Speaker 1: Half hour of my life. I'll never got it was
Speaker 1: stolen by a child.
Speaker 5: And then and then I was put in the car
Speaker 5: of a lift driver who was a total lunatic.
Speaker 1: It's all over now.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 6: And simultaneous to that, Stephen met me at my house,
Speaker 6: was waiting on the doorstep because my family's at my house.
Speaker 2: We went to the.
Speaker 6: Grocery store to get groceries for tonight's dinner with my cousin,
Speaker 6: and then I said, guys, I have to leave and
Speaker 6: go podcasts for about probably what we'll end up being
Speaker 6: four hours. And then we got on the freeway flew
Speaker 6: for so was like, this is golden, We're going to
Speaker 6: get there, this is the timing is perfect, and then
Speaker 6: of course the traffic stopped and it rolled for so long.
Speaker 6: Then we made the call, we're getting tigs she's waiting.
Speaker 2: She's been waiting for thirty minutes, probably already.
Speaker 5: I thought I was going to break the news that
Speaker 5: she wasn't unfortunately unavailable. I was waiting to reveal it
Speaker 5: once I got in the car. Oh, Tig is sitting
Speaker 5: behind me. If I'm not mistaken, No, it's true.
Speaker 2: Our guest today is comedian producer director Automaton. What's the
Speaker 2: word tour?
Speaker 1: Automatic tour lady, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: I do need a run.
Speaker 1: I wish there they need really did need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did need to rude kind of at this point.
Speaker 5: I'm so award and we're taking you to the Ace
Speaker 5: Theater or to your home.
Speaker 2: Well, I need to go home. Yes, I have little
Speaker 2: babies waiting to see me and to say good night.
Speaker 2: And then I was hoping to shower that maybe I
Speaker 2: can look at myself and make myself believe that I
Speaker 2: look clean. Head out to the Ace Theater downtown, drop
Speaker 2: off some jokes, head back home.
Speaker 1: You're just giving him an envelope with handwritten jokes.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I always do perfect.
Speaker 1: Perfect, and then just have a dictator dictate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: an actual.
Speaker 2: Dictator, an actual one, maybe Kadaffi.
Speaker 5: Yeah, He's my favorite when it comes to reading out
Speaker 5: my thoughts.
Speaker 1: Kadaffi really knows how to be one of.
Speaker 2: The best dictators around.
Speaker 1: He's the.
Speaker 2: He's the go to dictator.
Speaker 1: He really is the best.
Speaker 5: Last time we podcasted, I was so excited about the
Speaker 5: episode and it sounded like bumblebees on top of some
Speaker 5: sort of an electrical power box.
Speaker 1: Ye with moment of what sounded like episode.
Speaker 2: It was you.
Speaker 5: It was your episode, and it went. I remember how
Speaker 5: well it went.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful.
Speaker 5: We all said poignant things, or you two did, and
Speaker 5: tears where shed points were made and they were brought
Speaker 5: back to a wonderful, funny moment.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't believe we get the chance to
Speaker 1: do it again today.
Speaker 3: We're going to muffle this one too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah in the sound quality and.
Speaker 2: Whence should we let the bumblebees out? So that was you?
Speaker 2: I knew it was, Yeah, just bumbled being around back there.
Speaker 5: I I once again, I wish there was a word
Speaker 5: for thank you, and I'm sorry and I'm happy to
Speaker 5: see you. But I'm just going to say all those
Speaker 5: things individually. Thank you for picking me up and tig.
Speaker 2: Take it for being on, Thanks for picking me up,
Speaker 2: and where were you?
Speaker 1: You were in North Carolina?
Speaker 2: Why do you think I was in North Carolina?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I that's in my head.
Speaker 2: New York City.
Speaker 1: Oh you said y N y C. And I took
Speaker 1: out the Y and just made it North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was in NYC. I did Cobert last night.
Speaker 2: It was fun, and then I went to Days before that,
Speaker 2: I was in somewhere in Massachusetts and I was doing
Speaker 2: Live from here. It used to be Prairie Home Companion.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, sou And at no point were you in
Speaker 5: North Carolina.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have been in my life, not on
Speaker 2: this particular trip here. It's nice that it's beautiful. I
Speaker 2: love it, the apps, the apps. But yeah, I was
Speaker 2: out there. I have a silly online talk show and
Speaker 2: I was on I was in New York promoting.
Speaker 1: Have you shot any of these episodes yet? Yep?
Speaker 3: And they're uh trickling out there in the can.
Speaker 2: What's it called? They're out? They're out. They're called under
Speaker 2: a Rock with Tignotaro.
Speaker 5: Because Big doesn't know anything about the guests or they
Speaker 5: did they pick explain?
Speaker 2: Explain? Well, I don't follow pop culture. I know that's
Speaker 2: about you yeah, it's people really don't believe the extent
Speaker 2: that I'm talking about, and they think I'm trying to
Speaker 2: be one of those people. It's like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: watch TV. Yeah, yeah, I own a TV. It's just dusty.
Speaker 2: And there's a very famous quote that my wife repeats.
Speaker 2: When she had me turn the TV on to watch something.
Speaker 2: She said, now get the small one and press the
Speaker 2: whatever button, and then the medium one, and then press
Speaker 2: this button and then the other remote. Impress that button.
Speaker 2: And I said, I truly said three remotes for one show,
Speaker 2: I think in that exact inflection. And so anytime the
Speaker 2: TV is turned on, staff he re meats three remotes
Speaker 2: for one show?
Speaker 1: Can you do it a little more? Don knots?
Speaker 2: I naturally go into don knots? I surprise people. See,
Speaker 2: Chris knows me well. Because we almost lived together for
Speaker 2: a decade.
Speaker 1: We were almost recognized by the state.
Speaker 2: Everyone recognized it, but us, You guys are in denial.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone that at least worked for the city recognized
Speaker 5: us all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, so Chris and I live together for
Speaker 2: almost a decade, and he can sit here and tell
Speaker 2: you I really I follow music, I love documentaries, but
Speaker 2: I just really don't follow much else, and obviously I
Speaker 2: know who some famous people are.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course you got my pipul reference I
Speaker 3: were making.
Speaker 2: I actually like Pitbull great. I'm a music person. But anyway,
Speaker 2: there are just famous people I happen to know. There
Speaker 2: are people I've worked with, there's people I've socialized with.
Speaker 2: So it's not that I don't know who any famous
Speaker 2: people are, but there's a surprising amount.
Speaker 5: Well if it gets into like I did trivia when
Speaker 5: I was back home in Montana and there was a
Speaker 5: music round and I thought, oh, I'm going to know
Speaker 5: all of this, except it was current music and I
Speaker 5: don't know any pop music references or anyone's name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably not great at today's pop.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I found out who Ariana Grande was about six months ago.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna she's top one through ten.
Speaker 5: Songs are always Ariana Grande.
Speaker 2: If you played her for me, I know I wouldn't
Speaker 2: know who she was.
Speaker 1: Did you get the chance to interview her?
Speaker 2: No, but they tried to track her down. And what
Speaker 2: they do on my show is they put together what
Speaker 2: they call face sheets, and they just show me hundreds
Speaker 2: of famous faces and then they'll throw in like a
Speaker 2: few random people that aren't famous, and then I just
Speaker 2: go through and I say yes, no, yes, no, yes, no,
Speaker 2: And then anyone I don't recognize, then they reach out
Speaker 2: to their reps and then there's a list of reps
Speaker 2: that say, don't ever contact us again, how dare you?
Speaker 2: They get a call of tignes and know who your
Speaker 2: client is and it's gonna be so fun hear us out.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, the talk show is essentially me face
Speaker 2: to face with somebody and I interview them and try
Speaker 2: and figure out who they are beautiful, And then so
Speaker 2: if people come on the show, they clearly have a
Speaker 2: sense of humor about it. Yes, I was just gonna say,
Speaker 2: and so everybody's been really really nice and fun, and
Speaker 2: it's and I'm making it sound like it's an everyday
Speaker 2: talk show. It's it's six episodes right now, and.
Speaker 1: It's the funnier Dye people, is it?
Speaker 2: It's Funnier Die And then the money comes from Alexa.
Speaker 2: So Alexa is on the show and I have to
Speaker 2: mention her or talk to her once or twice in
Speaker 2: an episode.
Speaker 1: Is Alexa your sidekick?
Speaker 2: Kind of kind of but not really? I mean nobody. Really,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't go, oh, it's that show with Alexa, you
Speaker 2: know that's good. Like every now and then I might say, oh,
Speaker 2: let's get a timer, Alexa, can you count to ten
Speaker 2: for me? And then that kind of thing. It's a
Speaker 2: light integration. Yeah, it's a very light integration. Nice. And
Speaker 2: then and who have you had so far that you
Speaker 2: didn't know?
Speaker 1: Can you reveal?
Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, we've released three episodes so far. Okay, one
Speaker 2: of them I did figure out, and it's because he
Speaker 2: was a musician. But the first one was James Vanderbeek. Sure,
Speaker 2: Oh do you know who you is? Yeah? Friday Night
Speaker 2: from Dawson's Creek.
Speaker 1: Dawson's Creek and I think Friday Night Creek, Friday Night
Speaker 1: Lights Creek. There's some football thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then he's in the New Effect show Pose.
Speaker 2: Oh is he in that? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I just started watching the first episode. Okay, really good.
Speaker 2: Oh. What's fun is at the end of every episode,
Speaker 2: that's when I reveal who it is and I give
Speaker 2: all their credits kind of after I destroy their their egos.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, you're in that? Well, truly, I go.
Speaker 2: My guest today is a three time Emmy Award winner,
Speaker 2: two time Oscar nomine No, but you know, it's that
Speaker 2: kind of thing where I'm laughing at myself, going, I
Speaker 2: am that's the best. It's it's fun.
Speaker 5: It's such a perfect show for you because I can
Speaker 5: see you calmly working.
Speaker 2: Through that and well they give me clues, which is fun.
Speaker 2: And yeah, anyway, so I was in New York promoting that,
Speaker 2: and as someone who's worked on talk shows, so that's right,
Speaker 2: you have quite a history of talk show.
Speaker 6: And you know, I don't want to brag about how
Speaker 6: much I've worked on talk shows, but that the way
Speaker 6: you find out if someone's a bad talk show guest
Speaker 6: is at the end they produce it through and when
Speaker 6: you find out how seriously someone takes themselves and how
Speaker 6: much they won't do and won't play and won't and
Speaker 6: think that their image is who they are. So usually
Speaker 6: that bad news comes at the end, but you get it.
Speaker 6: You don't have to deal with those people because they
Speaker 6: would never be subjected to that, you know, idea of
Speaker 6: not being known. It's like the best sense of humor
Speaker 6: people you're getting that's what makes a good talk show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it didn't make people act more human knowing
Speaker 5: that they were going into this kind of joke scenario.
Speaker 2: I think so, I think they were. There were definitely
Speaker 2: a few moments where people said, gosh, every actor should
Speaker 2: come on this show, and also that it creates real
Speaker 2: conversations because I really am off guard.
Speaker 6: I don't know who I'm talking to and you're not
Speaker 6: like blowing smoke or doing any of the usual stuff
Speaker 6: that like, no, yeah, because you can't.
Speaker 2: I can't. I mean, I'm truly looking at this person
Speaker 2: because they could be a sports figure, they could be
Speaker 2: a newscaster, they could be a politician. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It could be anybody that's so good. It could be
Speaker 2: a musician. And one of them was why Clef and
Speaker 2: I figured out that. It was like, oh nice, Yeah, was.
Speaker 6: That now at that moment on the show? Does that
Speaker 6: feel like a victory for both of you? Did he
Speaker 6: like that you finally figured him out?
Speaker 2: I'm sure he liked it. I was kind of onto
Speaker 2: him pretty quickly because he said he was from Haiti
Speaker 2: and then he kind of sang a line and I
Speaker 2: was I said, oh, I'm Wandi.
Speaker 1: I know you are all gone till November.
Speaker 2: But so that was fun, and that's what we talked
Speaker 2: about with the show, the just having that openness of
Speaker 2: it'll be fun if I don't know them, or if
Speaker 2: I figure it out, if if they start to look
Speaker 2: familiar to me, and I'm like, oh, because a lot
Speaker 2: of times when I would look at a face sheet
Speaker 2: and I would say I don't know this person, the
Speaker 2: producers would be like, hold on a minute, look at
Speaker 2: this again, and I'd say, okay, and then they pull
Speaker 2: up other pictures in different angles and let's say, I
Speaker 2: don't know who.
Speaker 1: The person is, but what about in this lighting? Is
Speaker 1: it a lighting?
Speaker 2: What about if you look at them through my eyes?
Speaker 1: Have you tried squinting? Use my glasses?
Speaker 2: But yeah, so it's it's a fun moment. I think
Speaker 2: it only happened once. It was just with y Cloth.
Speaker 2: Her name is Julie Bowen. She's the most family Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: She's on the one of the biggest televisions. And that
Speaker 2: was the thing is when I was stating her third thing,
Speaker 2: it was like, they're going into their thirteenth and final
Speaker 2: scene and she has won three Emmys, and I was
Speaker 2: I thought, one of the clues, the guest gives me
Speaker 2: clues about themselves, And then I give them props or
Speaker 2: something for them to do. And one of the things
Speaker 2: I gave her was a dry erase board, and I said,
Speaker 2: draw yourself at work, and so she drew herself sitting
Speaker 2: on a couch, and so that made me think she
Speaker 2: was a talk show hook.
Speaker 3: Of course, so I was like, I was on that
Speaker 3: trail and this is.
Speaker 2: The best idea. This is the best idea of the show.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's so good. And then this is I
Speaker 2: think it's the clue that they used to promote this episode.
Speaker 2: But there's a moment where and I truly it seems
Speaker 2: like a joke, especially knowing who she is. But I
Speaker 2: thought I was so on this trail that I said
Speaker 2: wait because she said I'm she said something about being
Speaker 2: a mom. She's famous for being a mom. At first
Speaker 2: I said, oh, I think you're an actor. And then
Speaker 2: when she drew herself on the couch, I was like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, are you a talk show? Are you?
Speaker 2: Why don't I have to talk to you?
Speaker 1: I'm a couch potato mom.
Speaker 2: But then I was convinced she had her own podcast.
Speaker 2: That's what it was. I said, do you wait, do
Speaker 2: you have a podcast? And then that's a clip that's
Speaker 2: used to promote the episode, and it looks like I'm
Speaker 2: sure it looks like I'm full of it.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so fun.
Speaker 6: I will just say this, and I know that you
Speaker 6: know this about that show, but I wants t vowed
Speaker 6: Modern Family because my sister and my niece watch it constantly.
Speaker 6: So when I go home to visit my family, I
Speaker 6: start watching and then it's like this weird habit where
Speaker 6: then I kind of need it, like it's like, oh,
Speaker 6: it's seven o'clock, I need to get this because they
Speaker 6: have such good jokes.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a very very very.
Speaker 6: Well written show, so it's really satisfying, and they're such
Speaker 6: good actors on it.
Speaker 2: So when I came home from a trip at home.
Speaker 6: I dvr'd it so that I could watch it, and
Speaker 6: it filled up my DVR.
Speaker 2: That's how many times a day that show is on.
Speaker 6: Really, Yes, it's like it's almost like if you tape
Speaker 6: The Simpsons, where you just keep on getting it endlessly.
Speaker 6: It's been on that much and it's in reruns that much.
Speaker 2: That she's got some cash, she's not broke, she's not
Speaker 2: worried about anything. She didn't have a struggling mom podcast,
Speaker 2: and not at all. She's not trying to make ends meet.
Speaker 5: I love your children. I love you, and I love
Speaker 5: your two children. And any time I've been there, they
Speaker 5: just inherently know it's time to wrestle.
Speaker 1: Are they always wrestling? Is it?
Speaker 2: Well? Usually right around bedtime. I mean there's there's several
Speaker 2: wrestling matches that happened throughout the day, but about an
Speaker 2: hour before night night, it really starts to kick out.
Speaker 1: Always by the China.
Speaker 2: Yeah, truly, I love it.
Speaker 5: And they they like, we'll pin each other's heads on
Speaker 5: the ground and it sounds painful. It's the bonking noise
Speaker 5: of a head hitting a wooden floor and they just
Speaker 5: start giggling.
Speaker 1: They love it.
Speaker 2: Oh they're twins. Yeah, they're fraternal twins. And my son
Speaker 2: Finn the therougher, it gets the harder, he laughs, and
Speaker 2: he's the tinier one.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 5: That's what I've That's what I've experienced. It's so fun
Speaker 5: to watch. I could watch it all day.
Speaker 2: I know. Chris really does enjoy it. When they were
Speaker 2: just little blobby infants, they came over, Chris came over
Speaker 2: and they all three had a wrestling match on the or.
Speaker 2: It was really cute.
Speaker 5: They were just trying to figure out how to get
Speaker 5: my clothes off. It says a button, what is under here?
Speaker 2: Let's get this off?
Speaker 5: And maybe it's maybe it's a weird thing to mention,
Speaker 5: but I loved every minute.
Speaker 1: It was so cute.
Speaker 2: They're still not great at clothes. I mean, both legs
Speaker 2: will go in one pant hole.
Speaker 5: They wake up every morning like you and I and
Speaker 5: put both legs in one pant hole like the next guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Stephanie sent me a picture of Finn. He put
Speaker 2: on two different shoes and he came in and said,
Speaker 2: look at my funny shoes and laughed so hard. We're
Speaker 2: afraid that we might have been have raised terrible senses
Speaker 2: of humor.
Speaker 1: And are you done shooting Star Trek or is it still.
Speaker 2: I finished season two and then that aired, and then
Speaker 2: I go back and start filming season three end of July.
Speaker 1: And where do you shoot it?
Speaker 2: Toronto?
Speaker 1: Oh? Wow, that's great.
Speaker 2: I was lured back season three and was told that
Speaker 2: a chunk of the new season was going to be
Speaker 2: in Iceland. Oh, and I was like, oh, yes, so excited.
Speaker 2: And I haven't heard about Iceland ever again. Do you
Speaker 2: think they lied to your face.
Speaker 5: And I've said this before, but I be green in
Speaker 5: Greenland as yeah, yeah, that's I've said it before.
Speaker 1: There's only a handful of.
Speaker 2: Things I know, and that's one for sure.
Speaker 1: That's definitely one.
Speaker 6: I actually know about five things about Iceland because that
Speaker 6: was the country I had to do my sixth grade
Speaker 6: country report on because I picked I was picked last,
Speaker 6: second to last, and everybody the person that got picked
Speaker 6: first of course picked Italy, second person picked France, what
Speaker 6: have you.
Speaker 2: Ireland of course was way up there.
Speaker 6: Then it just kept going down down through all the
Speaker 6: countries and I was second to last. I picked Iceland,
Speaker 6: and my friend Holly was last, and she got Malta
Speaker 6: and we it was impossible to do reports on these
Speaker 6: countries because there was like, you know, one paragraph in
Speaker 6: the encyclopedia. And now my country that it's you know,
Speaker 6: recofects the capital.
Speaker 2: Sure, the main export is airing.
Speaker 1: I don't actually know that much, but.
Speaker 6: It's just so weird that I used to be the
Speaker 6: only one that gave a shit about Iceland and now
Speaker 6: it's the place, and now all of a sudden I do,
Speaker 6: And now all of a sudden, this one jumps on
Speaker 6: board the hell I.
Speaker 2: Have wanted to go. I've been there on a layover,
Speaker 2: which was pretty fun just knowing I was there. But
Speaker 2: I'm hoping to go back and have more fun than
Speaker 2: a layover.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and hopefully bump Intoork.
Speaker 2: She runs her own spa there in a swan suit.
Speaker 2: Everybody has to wear a bird suit of I'm kind
Speaker 2: that's their spot.
Speaker 5: It's relaxing that that role was written for you, right,
Speaker 5: You did an audition for that someone that loves you?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah. My friend created the new series and he
Speaker 2: created this role for me, and I thought I was
Speaker 2: just going out to do an episode, and then I
Speaker 2: really did a terrible job. And people think that I
Speaker 2: am being, you know, humble and.
Speaker 3: Hard on myself for whatever you want to say.
Speaker 2: But I'm I have a hard time memorizing lines in general,
Speaker 2: and to memorize Star Trek lines. It's it's truly nearly
Speaker 2: impossible for me.
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of made up words.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, it's about it's made up words about made
Speaker 2: up science, about made up outer space, and so I
Speaker 2: can't even picture what I'm talking about. Yeah, whereas in
Speaker 2: a movie or TV show, I can picture. Good to
Speaker 2: see you. We'll meet up with you at dinner tonight,
Speaker 2: like all of that makes sense. Yeah, and I can
Speaker 2: picture the little story I'm saying, but with Star Trek,
Speaker 2: it's so quirks it is really impossible. And I was
Speaker 2: in the middle of this scene and I just I
Speaker 2: was trying so hard. I was I was trying. I
Speaker 2: was trying. I couldn't get it. And then I finally went,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what are we doing? What am I talking about?
Speaker 2: I don't know any of these words. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: learn them. And I was just having this spiral, laughing
Speaker 2: so hard. I wasn't like really having a spiral, but
Speaker 2: I was truly like, Okay, I can't pretend any longer
Speaker 2: that this isn't the most ridiculous thing. I can't. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm ruining your show.
Speaker 1: And there's just a just straight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like do you have to wear a body suit? Basically,
Speaker 2: I'm just in I'm in a like a tight space suit.
Speaker 2: But I'm not like a monster or anything. But but
Speaker 2: you do see I'm not even it's monster. But I
Speaker 2: the director came out of video village and you know
Speaker 2: where they are behind the scenes watching everything, and she
Speaker 2: was so nice and she just said, not a problem,
Speaker 2: and pulled up an Apple box, sat down and just
Speaker 2: started feeding me all of my lines. Really yeah, And
Speaker 2: all of the cast if they hated me, they didn't
Speaker 2: show it.
Speaker 3: They were all very kind and patient.
Speaker 2: And I kept saying thank you. I'm so sorry. I
Speaker 2: truly tried, and I tried to learn my words, and
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. And so I wrote my friend Alex Kurtzman.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's so gigantic. He's written Star Trek movies,
Speaker 2: he's written Mission Impossible movies. Wow, he's written, you know,
Speaker 2: everything gigantic. And I just wrote him and I said,
Speaker 2: I just did a terrible job on your show. And
Speaker 2: I want you to know that the meeting that we
Speaker 2: had in your office in Santa Monica where you said
Speaker 2: we want to use you as much as you're available,
Speaker 2: I don't want you to feel like you need to
Speaker 2: stick to that just because you said that to me.
Speaker 2: And I really really don't want to ruin your show.
Speaker 2: And I'm so sorry. And he wrote me saying he
Speaker 2: was telling me that the show essentially edits right there
Speaker 2: on the set. Oh, they do a rough like line
Speaker 2: cut right there, and he said, I've seen the footage.
Speaker 2: He goes it all cut together well, and nobody would know.
Speaker 2: You're being fed all your lives. And he said, and
Speaker 2: you're not getting out of this and and he said,
Speaker 2: and from here on out, I'm going to make your
Speaker 2: dialogue even harder because it amuses me to know that
Speaker 2: you're struggling so hard. Now I'm stuck on Star Trek.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, basically playing yourself right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's tigging space in tight tight clothes, in.
Speaker 2: Skin tight clothes. But when I say I'm stuck on
Speaker 2: Star Trek, I really love it and I feel lucky
Speaker 2: and thankful, and it's it's it's just when you can
Speaker 2: work with nice people, it's never a bad time. Well.
Speaker 6: And also if you can get your mind around lines
Speaker 6: like this, then you can do anything after that if.
Speaker 2: You can make you think.
Speaker 6: The things were well because I did a show in
Speaker 6: England and I'd never had like a big part before,
Speaker 6: so this was like my first big thing and it
Speaker 6: was this ensemble and it had these unbelievable British actors.
Speaker 6: So it was the Hound from Game of Thrones, Rory
Speaker 6: McCann and this woman Michelle Gomez.
Speaker 1: People that you wouldn't finger in a lineup.
Speaker 6: They were they all went to like the Royal Shakespeare
Speaker 6: Academy for acting this guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody was an incredible actor. And by the way,
Speaker 2: that's like Star Trek, They're they're all what is it, Julliard,
Speaker 2: They're Broadway, right, They're all that, And I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be in this scene too.
Speaker 6: I know where like, lines aren't an issue in any
Speaker 6: Lines don't come into it at all.
Speaker 2: It's not even about that.
Speaker 6: And I had the same thing with the first rehearsal
Speaker 6: we had. The director. I was saying my line. She goes,
Speaker 6: I need to stop you, Karen, you're making that noise.
Speaker 6: And I go, what's this?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 6: She goes, you're doing that American actress exhale. So I
Speaker 6: would say a line because of course my character was
Speaker 6: like Vichy, and so I go like, that's not even
Speaker 6: And I was doing this exhale that I didn't know
Speaker 6: I was doing.
Speaker 2: So then that's all I could think about. And then
Speaker 2: when I would.
Speaker 6: Go to do the lines, I couldn't memorize my lines
Speaker 6: because all I was ever doing was going, I shouldn't
Speaker 6: have this part. I shouldn't I make noises, I do
Speaker 6: American things.
Speaker 2: And it was every time.
Speaker 6: Every time we'd be on set, it would be my turn,
Speaker 6: and that I'd just be like, it was so much serious.
Speaker 1: Yes, your American patriotism takes over.
Speaker 2: It was fucking horrible. It was awful.
Speaker 1: I can't. Yeah, that brings me anxiety just hearing about it.
Speaker 2: Was it was.
Speaker 6: I love acting, but that part, the technical aspect of it,
Speaker 6: is so much harder, I think than so many people understand.
Speaker 5: And it makes me think of when Martha when Zach
Speaker 5: first asked Martha to be on Baskets, but she said,
Speaker 5: I don't want to be the jar Jar Banks.
Speaker 1: Of your show.
Speaker 7: She was so scared to ruin it. And it was
Speaker 7: the same thing, Ma char Jar. Oh, yeah, very proud
Speaker 7: of you, Tig, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: Christopher. Oh, thank you, Karen, I thank you too for
Speaker 2: that matter. Credit around. I'm not ashamed of anyone in
Speaker 2: this old car.
Speaker 1: I'm not embarrassed to be seen right now.
Speaker 2: Can you think of one of your lines? Give us
Speaker 2: an example, Well, yeah, the one that I really remember
Speaker 2: it and it's not even that crazy, but it was
Speaker 2: one of the first things I had to memorize. And
Speaker 2: I was also talking to myself in my bedroom and
Speaker 2: when Stephanie walked in, she was kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: quietly coming in and out of the room doing things,
Speaker 2: and I was in there doing my Star Trek stuff,
Speaker 2: and she started laughing so hard because I was like,
Speaker 2: what happens is my character? I'm an engineer, but I'm
Speaker 2: I'm kind of I'm really smart and I can I'm
Speaker 2: doing medical stuff and trying to keep all these people alive,
Speaker 2: and I don't realize that the war has ended, and
Speaker 2: I'm stranded with all.
Speaker 3: These you know, creatures and people.
Speaker 2: And and then the Star Trek actual stars of the
Speaker 2: show come upon me in this moment and and I
Speaker 2: have like creatures plugged into things and you know, just
Speaker 2: keeping everyone alive after the crash. And and so somebody
Speaker 2: tells me that the war is over. And I turned
Speaker 2: to one of the creatures who's plugged into a blood
Speaker 2: pump of some sort, and I say here that Valentine,
Speaker 2: the war's over. We're going home. And then I turned
Speaker 2: back to the cast and I go Valentine took a
Speaker 2: piece of shrapnel to the left, ording Valve had to
Speaker 2: I can't remember I remember.
Speaker 1: Rings a bell, though I think I saw that clip.
Speaker 1: Was it one of the first episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the first episode.
Speaker 1: I think they used that in promo.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because I watched a lot of it.
Speaker 1: I went down a YouTube.
Speaker 2: Are you a Star Trek fan?
Speaker 1: I mean more so than Star Wars.
Speaker 5: I think, even though I spent more time with Spark,
Speaker 5: it was easier to have access to Star Wars.
Speaker 1: I think when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: Because well, you know it's funny, and I told you it.
Speaker 1: Was on BHS in my collection.
Speaker 2: Chris, one of the episodes I did on Star Trek,
Speaker 2: there was a huge cocoon. Chris had made a joke online.
Speaker 1: I think, or how do you remember that?
Speaker 2: Well, I think your tweets went through Facebook because I'm
Speaker 2: on Twitter, but the tweet I think went through your
Speaker 2: Facebook account. I saw it and I thought it was
Speaker 2: the funniest thing I ever read in my life. Chris
Speaker 2: said that no matter what, I can't remember how you
Speaker 2: said it. Essentially, no matter what, on any science fiction
Speaker 2: movie or TV show, there's always a cocoon, and that
Speaker 2: somebody always says when they see it or come upon it,
Speaker 2: they always say, I don't know, it.
Speaker 3: Looks like some sort of cocoon.
Speaker 2: That made me laugh so hard and then here I
Speaker 2: was on Star Trek on a sci fi show and
Speaker 2: day one there's a cocoon there, and I told everyone
Speaker 2: in the cast, and they were laughing so hard.
Speaker 5: Does that mean that somebody on the ship had to
Speaker 5: have come from the cocoon?
Speaker 2: Somebody ended up in a cocoon? And when she clawed
Speaker 2: her way out and she's from Juilliard. Yeah, And when
Speaker 2: the whole cocoon class I bat crawled out of that cocoon.
Speaker 2: I was so impressed my hair because I was laughing
Speaker 2: that I was having to act with a cocoon. And
Speaker 2: because there's a point where we ripped the cocoon open
Speaker 2: and me and this guy Anthony have to scream into
Speaker 2: the empty cocoon and yell. And I kept kind of
Speaker 2: laughing because you know, I don't really identify as an actor,
Speaker 2: so to me, I'm just like, why are we yelling
Speaker 2: into this empty cocoon? And he's over there. You know,
Speaker 2: he's from the original cast of Rent, and he's a
Speaker 2: real talent, a redheaded guy. It's blonde, it's white little glass.
Speaker 2: Anthony rap yes, yes, yes, so yeah, he's this really
Speaker 2: great actor, very very experienced talented man, and he's really
Speaker 2: yelling no, and I what we're supposed to do? Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course that's what I was hired to do. It
Speaker 2: turns out we ripped he and I ripped this cocoon open,
Speaker 2: and I'm trying desperately to not lap because the cameras
Speaker 2: in the cocoon in my face, and so we rip
Speaker 2: it open. I'm like, okay, can we take that again?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, And then so we finally got it out,
Speaker 2: and then there's another moment where she really does come
Speaker 2: out of the cocoon. You have to see the episode,
Speaker 2: but when she claws her way out of that disgusting cocoon,
Speaker 2: I told her. I was like, I didn't know what
Speaker 2: it looked like when somebody clawsed their way out of
Speaker 2: a cocoon, and somehow, by god, I know that's what
Speaker 2: it must look like. I was, and she was like good,
Speaker 2: Like it was so good, so good Mary Wiseman, and
Speaker 2: she's very funny.
Speaker 6: That makes me think, wait, does Mary Reisman have red
Speaker 6: curly hairs.
Speaker 2: She's on Baskets.
Speaker 6: She's one of the best people, but she's one of
Speaker 6: my favorite characters on Baskets.
Speaker 2: She's so good. Oh, then you might like Star Trek.
Speaker 2: I will absolutely these people are on Star Trek fan
Speaker 2: owns almost everybody on Star Trek.
Speaker 6: But that makes me think of at the JC taking
Speaker 6: you know, in taking drama classes or theater classes, and
Speaker 6: there was I was in a movement for theater class
Speaker 6: and one day they were like, and now everybody has
Speaker 6: to act like a praying mantis, and I was like,
Speaker 6: I won't do it, and I just left because that
Speaker 6: I feel like that's the difference between acting and doing
Speaker 6: stand up comedies, Like I want to perform but only
Speaker 6: on my own terms, and like I won't do anything
Speaker 6: that I find shaming or like that affects my pride
Speaker 6: in any way, which is all of acting. I think
Speaker 6: it's a lot. It's a lot of cocoon based stuff.
Speaker 2: I know it's interesting because when I had my own
Speaker 2: show on Amazon, I didn't I was so disconnected from
Speaker 2: acting that when I was the scripts, I forgot that
Speaker 2: I was gonna have to do that stuff so I
Speaker 2: would get you know, in the moment, it was all
Speaker 2: about writing the best show in the best scripts, and
Speaker 2: then when I got on set, I have to cry.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have experiences.
Speaker 6: That.
Speaker 5: Yeah, did you ever ask Stephanie because Stephanie is a
Speaker 5: strained good actor.
Speaker 1: Do you read lines with her and does she help
Speaker 1: you with that?
Speaker 2: I do. I mainly just need help learning the words,
Speaker 2: and then once I get those down, I can kind
Speaker 2: of just pull something together. I don't have range, and
Speaker 2: usually whenever a director starts heading over to me, I
Speaker 2: always say, before you say anything, I have no range,
Speaker 2: and this is the bad news. There's no range here.
Speaker 2: There's no range here. But what were you going to
Speaker 2: ask me?
Speaker 1: It was range based?
Speaker 6: I wait, was there an ending to your anecdote where
Speaker 6: you were saying the thing about the aortic valve in
Speaker 6: the bedroom by yourself. Did Stephanie when she found you
Speaker 6: where you were like.
Speaker 2: I was mid aortic galve and she just was like,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about? And I was like, this
Speaker 2: is my career because I'm doing this. And so you know,
Speaker 2: whenever I get my new script, she always wants to hear.
Speaker 2: She wants me to run through my lines quickly, just
Speaker 2: so she can have a little cackle knowing that I'm
Speaker 2: going to have to try and remember that.
Speaker 3: I'm always blown away by the length.
Speaker 6: When it's the technical stuff like that, like playing a
Speaker 6: doctor or engineer, they do go into things where they're explained.
Speaker 2: It's obviously like the way you get out the when
Speaker 2: you call it words the plot, Yeah, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 6: Like you're the one that has to explain why the
Speaker 6: machine isn't going to go right, but it's this long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's horrifying. Yeah, that's my nightmare. It's
Speaker 2: but am I really going to walk away from this
Speaker 2: and be like, no, I don't want to be on
Speaker 2: Star Trek. No, it's so fun. And it's like, how
Speaker 2: often do you get to be on an iconic series?
Speaker 2: You know, not very often. Maybe there's people out there
Speaker 2: in the world that are like, yes, I'm on another
Speaker 2: iconic series, and then good for you.
Speaker 6: I'm gene smart and I don't relate to what you're
Speaker 6: saying at all because I'm on every iconic series.
Speaker 5: So funny to think that I just came from a
Speaker 5: Smucker's audition where I had to talk about real strawberries
Speaker 5: to a child.
Speaker 6: What now, can you give us an example of how
Speaker 6: that child was improving?
Speaker 5: Well, he was supposed to just pretend to be playing
Speaker 5: a video game as I was listing off healthy things
Speaker 5: like legoomes and broccoli in the fridge, and then I
Speaker 5: finally mentioned the strawberries, and he was pretending to play
Speaker 5: a video game, but he was looking at me. And
Speaker 5: then I, in my little moment of improv, was keep
Speaker 5: your eye on the game, and he wouldn't. And then
Speaker 5: he started just talking about stuff and asking me questions.
Speaker 5: This kid was so comfortable in the room. He just
Speaker 5: was like, I'm just going to be myself. I was
Speaker 5: raised to be unshakably confident. I don't believe in this
Speaker 5: script six.
Speaker 1: He was a.
Speaker 5: Sweet little boy, but he just didn't his mom brought
Speaker 5: him there.
Speaker 1: He didn't even want to be there. I don't think he.
Speaker 3: Showed in the business for five years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was the Gerber baby at one point.
Speaker 2: And he is an agent and a manager.
Speaker 1: It's just so funny.
Speaker 2: He's gone through several agents and managers, just firing. I'm
Speaker 2: left and right.
Speaker 1: She went to Juilliard daycare.
Speaker 3: Julliard Juilliard preschool.
Speaker 5: He was a sweet little kid, and so I just
Speaker 5: ended up talking to him, and I was so I
Speaker 5: was so late because of it, but I had to
Speaker 5: pretend like I was relaxed and a cool dad. I
Speaker 5: gotta shave this mustache. And then I'll quit going out
Speaker 5: for dads, but I think I'd be a good dad
Speaker 5: for it. Just mustache, Well, thank you.
Speaker 2: Can you grow a beard?
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 5: No, there's patches of baldness on the sides of my face.
Speaker 2: Me too, I have patches. You can grow a full beard.
Speaker 2: I think I can't.
Speaker 6: And these days there's lots of white whisker situations where
Speaker 6: I'm just like, this is they're They're a welcome surprise.
Speaker 2: This is a dream comes.
Speaker 3: I've got to get back to English.
Speaker 6: You know how you pull a whisk out of your
Speaker 6: chin and actually it makes you stick to your stomach
Speaker 6: because of it's so large.
Speaker 2: A little bit it pulls you forwards there.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, that's never happened.
Speaker 2: Right now, unfamiliar.
Speaker 1: I like this guy in the shorts.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the guy in the shorts is just guarding
Speaker 5: a porta potty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe there's pants.
Speaker 5: Are are your pants in that port Excuse me?
Speaker 2: What are you doing in that porta potty?
Speaker 1: I wish I had legs like him. Why, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They were just muscular.
Speaker 5: Mine are just literal walking sticks, little to no muscle tone.
Speaker 1: How's your hip feels great?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think it's one hundred percent when it comes to
Speaker 5: things like climbing stairs or bicycling.
Speaker 2: And what sort of problems are you having?
Speaker 5: Well, it's when it needs to be more technical, like
Speaker 5: with skateboarding, or if I were a soccer player, which
Speaker 5: I'm not, but I am skateboarding, so I don't know
Speaker 5: why I mentioned soccer. The sidekick and the little quick
Speaker 5: twitch muscle things. It's like my leg is possessed and
Speaker 5: I don't have full control over it like I used to.
Speaker 2: But like, you're not one hundred percent, obviously you got
Speaker 2: the little twitch problems. Yes, where are you percentage wise?
Speaker 1: It depends on what I'm doing.
Speaker 5: If I bet your worst, at my best, I could
Speaker 5: run and probably still run as fast as I could
Speaker 5: two years before surgery. But if it came to like
Speaker 5: any technical finesse like foot movements, where I know, like
Speaker 5: with skateboarding, you have to be able to kick a
Speaker 5: certain direction to make the board do a certain trick,
Speaker 5: and my my.
Speaker 1: Legs forgot how to do that.
Speaker 5: My brain is sending the message, but it's like someone
Speaker 5: else is controlling my leg from a remote control hidden
Speaker 5: somewhere behind the bush.
Speaker 6: Do you think could this be a message from God
Speaker 6: saying stop skateboard.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe, and it's it is. There's been plenty of
Speaker 5: messages from the Lord telling.
Speaker 2: Me he's got a lot to say to you, Yes,
Speaker 2: about your whole body.
Speaker 5: He's always talking to me about my tour. So mostly
Speaker 5: there's always a message from God.
Speaker 2: Let's focus right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is God again. Why do your tits giggle
Speaker 1: when you drive? Leave me alone? God? I love that,
Speaker 1: But no, it's I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Ignore God on this one. I want to skateboard mistakes.
Speaker 5: It's what I've always wanted to do. And I know
Speaker 5: other people that do it, and they're older than me.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean to make you defensively.
Speaker 1: It's okay. I'm sorry. I'm raising my voice.
Speaker 2: Stop hitting me, cabinting me, stop hitting. How did you
Speaker 2: to meet you?
Speaker 1: Don't think it's working.
Speaker 6: We've been married for over eighteen years. I think it
Speaker 6: was through Greg Barren. Yes, at a party.
Speaker 2: At my house, right, Yes?
Speaker 1: And then I also worked with your ex husband.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: He was a camera guy at Fuel.
Speaker 3: Right, and I kind of knew Chris Through's stand up.
Speaker 5: And then yeah, when I first moved here and stayed
Speaker 5: on Howard Kramer's couch and didn't bring anything except for
Speaker 5: a pair of underwear and a skateboard. He and I
Speaker 5: just thought he would drive me around, like I came
Speaker 5: to Los Angeles, not realizing what a huge city it
Speaker 5: was and what a burden I was going to be. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm just staying for a week on your couch, and
Speaker 5: I assume you'll take me to all the shows.
Speaker 1: But we did some show in a laundromat, and that's where.
Speaker 3: I first got Oh, right, how did I meet you, Karen?
Speaker 2: I wonder, huh was it like at a Largo show?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I'm trying to remember now. Oh,
Speaker 2: I know we were at Bumber shoot. Really, Yeah, we
Speaker 2: were in the lobby of the hotel where we were staying.
Speaker 2: Is that where we took our prom picture? I don't
Speaker 2: remember our prom picture.
Speaker 3: Remember when we took a picture in front of the fireplace?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the fireplace in the lobby.
Speaker 6: That's how much fun we were having because we had
Speaker 6: just met at that festival, and at one point we
Speaker 6: took a prom picture in front of the fire boy
Speaker 6: fell in love, Yes, we were truly in love prom
Speaker 6: style and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just going to say, you beat me
Speaker 1: to That's how I know it's true. I fell in
Speaker 1: love in.
Speaker 2: Boise, Yeah, I felt with Karen, and I fell in
Speaker 2: love in Seattle. That's right.
Speaker 6: This is I feel like, this is how it is
Speaker 6: for all comics. This is what comics like our best friends.
Speaker 6: And then they'll be like fall in love with all comics.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, definitely not like oh wait is this right? Wonderful?
Speaker 2: Eventually it'll all be right, Okay, cool if I get home.
Speaker 2: So comics fall in love.
Speaker 6: And then I think it's like it's that thing where
Speaker 6: you know, for me, it's like I spent my life
Speaker 6: being the weird one that had weird ideas and said
Speaker 6: weird things, and all of a sudden, meeting people that
Speaker 6: did the exact same thing and better was.
Speaker 2: Like, I need, don't leave me. I need. I've been
Speaker 2: alone for so long. It's always that feeling.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always been in a constant search for people
Speaker 5: that said you're funny, not you're weird. When I was
Speaker 5: a kid, I would try so hard to make people
Speaker 5: laugh and they would laugh and then they'd say.
Speaker 1: You're so weird. Yeah, And I'm like, don't you.
Speaker 2: Realize that conversation stopper insults.
Speaker 6: Yes, such an insult, but also it's like that person
Speaker 6: is saying I'm stupid to me.
Speaker 2: I always interpret that as like, don't bother with me.
Speaker 6: I don't get it, because it's just like if you don't,
Speaker 6: if you're not loving this, you've got to be out
Speaker 6: of your mind.
Speaker 1: Then you will. Then you'll you won't love me at
Speaker 1: my best.
Speaker 2: It is. It is a bizarre thing because I'm I'm
Speaker 2: sure you've probably gathered I'm a gay person. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: But before I when I realized that about myself, it
Speaker 2: was like, oh, well that there you go. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: wasn't quite as oh as when I joined the comedy world. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was more where I was like, oh, okay, all right,
Speaker 2: and like your tribe that feeling. Yeah, I mean not
Speaker 2: to say gay people aren't my tribe, but it was.
Speaker 2: I was, for sure more in the comedy clubs more
Speaker 2: than I was in the gay clubs.
Speaker 6: Well, I feel like the gay thing is like a
Speaker 6: much larger sect, and then the comedy group is just
Speaker 6: a subset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wouldn't you say? Yeah, and then you find your
Speaker 2: gay people in there, and you find your your Chris
Speaker 2: Fairbanks mustaches running around and you find your your prom date.
Speaker 2: Your prom date's in front of the fireplace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did. We knew each other two days before
Speaker 1: we decided we were going to live in live together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this has to happen. I was getting this house
Speaker 2: in Venice and Chris was going through a breakup yep.
Speaker 2: And it was a one bedroom house, but there was
Speaker 2: this extra room that had a.
Speaker 1: Door that I loved that room. Thank you for letting
Speaker 1: me have that room, sir.
Speaker 5: I had my own little French doors where I could
Speaker 5: just let in cats and check monk.
Speaker 2: And he did.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was like, oh you broke up.
Speaker 2: Well, because we'd been laughing till we were crying the
Speaker 2: whole time we were together. And then I was like,
Speaker 2: why at you just move in with me? I just
Speaker 2: got a house.
Speaker 5: I was trying to get an invite to live with
Speaker 5: you when I squatted over that dog poo that was
Speaker 5: on the sidewalk and pretended it came out of me
Speaker 5: because I knew you'd like it.
Speaker 2: After the show, and he was like, well, waight up.
Speaker 2: And I turned around and he was squatting over fresh
Speaker 2: dog cope and I was like, all right, that's it.
Speaker 2: You've got to move in.
Speaker 5: And we moved into this tiny house and put a
Speaker 5: flower in a vase and just stared at.
Speaker 1: It in the corner of the room.
Speaker 5: We're home, Remember, we just this' is all we need
Speaker 5: right here is this face and this flower and this
Speaker 5: porch swing.
Speaker 6: I have told this story. That story I've told on
Speaker 6: this podcast several times.
Speaker 2: Tigg is.
Speaker 6: Remember there was the one year at Sarah's roof party,
Speaker 6: and which is an uncomfortable party because everyone's freaking out
Speaker 6: that famous people are there, and the famous people.
Speaker 1: And everyone just had an edible yes.
Speaker 6: And so I went. But I did not want to go,
Speaker 6: and I didn't want to be in. I didn't want
Speaker 6: to subject myself to the pain I knew was coming.
Speaker 6: And instead I found the two of you and we
Speaker 6: stood next to the edge of the roof and pretended
Speaker 6: all different ways that we were going to conversationally jump.
Speaker 2: Off the roof in front of each other.
Speaker 6: It was like how we were leaving the conversation good
Speaker 6: story to then turn and commit suicide.
Speaker 1: Gotta get out of here.
Speaker 2: We did it for like a half an hour. I
Speaker 2: don't even remember. It was time. It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: The three of us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you remember that?
Speaker 2: And do you do pot drugs? Oh? Yeah, Oh?
Speaker 5: And I didn't at the time, but I remembered the
Speaker 5: peer pressure of some nice truffles being presented in a
Speaker 5: plate and Jimmy Kimmel being like, yeah, just be sure to.
Speaker 1: Eat half of that. Of course, I'm going to eat
Speaker 1: half of it.
Speaker 5: And then I look around this party and everyone's face
Speaker 5: is sweaty and they're rubbing their face and no one
Speaker 5: can talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Everyone was so high because the potency of these edibles. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and it just you realize everyone's just human once they're high,
Speaker 5: that they're all uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Everybody's very well. It's funny because I had gone to
Speaker 2: some sort of event and I came home and Stephanie
Speaker 2: asked how it went, and I said it was good.
Speaker 2: I said, you know, I had a couple of drinks.
Speaker 1: And you don't drink very much.
Speaker 2: You never did, no, But I had never, and I
Speaker 2: promise you I had. It had never dawned on me
Speaker 2: that people drink to feel comfortable at a party. And
Speaker 2: I told Stephanie.
Speaker 3: Like it was this this secret.
Speaker 2: I had figured out. I said, I'd had a couple
Speaker 2: of drinks and I could deal with the small talk,
Speaker 2: and I could. I mean, it was like I was
Speaker 2: in the middle of small talk.
Speaker 1: And just describing liquid courage you.
Speaker 2: And she she said, you didn't. And she's fifteen years
Speaker 2: younger than I am. She's like, you didn't know that.
Speaker 2: That's what people do. What's the only reason people do?
Speaker 2: I never put that together. I never put that together.
Speaker 2: And so there are certain places where I'll show up
Speaker 2: and I'm like, all right, I'm gonna have two drinks
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna start asking people, where are you from?
Speaker 2: Was it rain and earlier.
Speaker 6: It's the reason that it's so hard for me now
Speaker 6: to go to parties like I get invited places I
Speaker 6: want to go so bad, and because I don't drink anymore,
Speaker 6: I just sit there, going I can't do this cold.
Speaker 6: I can't walk into this place and stand around with
Speaker 6: that feeling. Even though I know people and that I
Speaker 6: have friends and all, it doesn't matter. It's like, I
Speaker 6: think I was such a drunk for so long. It
Speaker 6: was always just like slipping into the pool was so easy.
Speaker 5: I just remember being There's that scene from Dumb and
Speaker 5: Dumber where Jim Carrey is pretend he's fantasizing about what
Speaker 5: a hit he'll be at the party, and he's lighting
Speaker 5: his farts and everyone's laughing, and all he's doing is
Speaker 5: lighting farts and crossing his eyes. And at Sarah's party,
Speaker 5: I looked over at Tig and she's just surrounded by
Speaker 5: John Hamm and all these beautiful people laughing at and
Speaker 5: she was dancing.
Speaker 1: And farting and throwing her arms in the air and
Speaker 1: everyone was laughing.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's not that was exactly why you were making
Speaker 2: Everyone was like, come on, I've never so her around here. Well,
Speaker 2: I probably had a couple of drinks right, started asking
Speaker 2: some small questions.
Speaker 5: And then it turned into the far dancer. Uh man
Speaker 5: takes a hit at this party. I'm going to keep
Speaker 5: sitting in the corner uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: You know what I am? I can say about myself
Speaker 2: I am, and then say something about me. Third, I'm
Speaker 2: really good to invite to a wedding. Oh, I will
Speaker 2: get out and dance my sweaty face off all night.
Speaker 2: And I'm not somebody that goes out dancing, but if
Speaker 2: you're getting married, you'll do it. I'm here to dance,
Speaker 2: I'm here to have a great time, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to celebrate you. Yeah, will you talk to some old
Speaker 2: great ants and stuff? No, that's my cut off.
Speaker 5: I'm so mad that I that I didn't go to
Speaker 5: your wedding, Tig.
Speaker 1: I think about it all the time that I should
Speaker 1: have been there.
Speaker 2: It was a fun time.
Speaker 1: I wish I was there.
Speaker 2: A job in Colorado, Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 1: Be in Denver.
Speaker 5: I had to do comedy, and after each show I
Speaker 5: was thinking about how I should have been at your wedding,
Speaker 5: and I regret not going.
Speaker 2: But and this is the point where I say, Karen,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I didn't invite you to my wedding. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't I wouldn't have gone. I couldn't have gone.
Speaker 1: It was a destination wedding.
Speaker 2: What would you have thought if I sent you an
Speaker 2: invitation of my wedding? Would you have been like? I
Speaker 2: would have been very touched. Okay, because because we it's
Speaker 2: not how it is with us, Yeah, because you Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I'm actually jealous and angry. We text every
Speaker 2: now and then we do and we're good at the year.
Speaker 6: I think we should do it more because texting is
Speaker 6: a great kind of relationship continuer where you don't have
Speaker 6: to do bullshit, like eat dinner together, but you can
Speaker 6: still be like because I when when we're on our way,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, the timing of this is getting weird.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to text Tig and I was going
Speaker 3: to text, which.
Speaker 2: Was hilariously a second after Chris texted me saying that
Speaker 2: he's going to be at the audition another thirty and
Speaker 2: then I said, I'm not going to be able to
Speaker 2: do this, and the text and You're like, well, we're
Speaker 2: on our way to get you, and I was like,
Speaker 2: thank god, but I.
Speaker 6: Well, I was I didn't realize that exchange had happened,
Speaker 6: and I just was like, I just need her to
Speaker 6: know someone's I've been the person's standing outside going well,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure what's going to happen now.
Speaker 2: So just like we're we're on the way.
Speaker 1: It's clearly why we don't usually is there a turn?
Speaker 5: Okay, right, we don't usually do the airport pickups anymore
Speaker 5: because it's just so it's all impossibles.
Speaker 1: It's so we it's just a mission.
Speaker 2: And I really appreciate I am that's.
Speaker 1: All I'm wanting.
Speaker 5: In the episode that we lost, you talked about at
Speaker 5: your wedding the people stop traffic so you can run
Speaker 5: across the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We got married in my hometown in Mississippi on.
Speaker 1: The beach past Christian Past Christian.
Speaker 2: And then the local police shut down the street for
Speaker 2: our family and friends to cross over to go to
Speaker 2: my cousin's house to celebrate. And you could see cars lined.
Speaker 5: Up and you thought they'd be upset because you're blocking traffic.
Speaker 2: Basically, Yeah, but everybody was cheering us on and we
Speaker 2: were walking over to all of our friends were like, gosh,
Speaker 2: what what is a a a gay wedding in small
Speaker 2: town Mississippi? And it was so beautiful. Yeah, but people
Speaker 2: were coming out of their houses. It was three hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty people were at our wedding and they're coming
Speaker 2: out of their houses cheering and uh. And then I
Speaker 2: I turned to Stephanie and I said, they probably think
Speaker 2: I'm a manatch down.
Speaker 6: There's something to cheer for a mantading touching.
Speaker 2: They were really coming out of their homes going this
Speaker 2: is so wonderful. Stephanie just sent a text, what is
Speaker 2: your eta now? Just curious if I should take them
Speaker 2: upstairs and start getting ready.
Speaker 1: For bed pajama time? What are you gonna say.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say who is Oh wow, what do we
Speaker 2: are doing? You?
Speaker 1: I like this aggressive side of your right.
Speaker 2: I mean, just look, no one has time. None of
Speaker 2: us have time. No, you have family waiting for you.
Speaker 2: I have family waiting for me. Steven's trying to start
Speaker 2: a family right now. You can't because he's write this second.
Speaker 2: Damn car. Yeah when does this episode come out?
Speaker 1: Monday?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so quick turnaround.
Speaker 2: So people will hopefully watch Under a Rock with Signatara.
Speaker 2: How do I will?
Speaker 1: How do you watch it again?
Speaker 2: You can watch it on Funnier Die or on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: I like your interview style. I've seen you interview before.
Speaker 1: Didn't you have another interview.
Speaker 2: With Thing where you had many Yeah, where you were.
Speaker 1: Like interviewing Zach at a piano or something. What was that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah that was you have.
Speaker 1: A long history of interviewing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then I have a talk show every month
Speaker 2: at Largo called Tell Me Everything, and we really get
Speaker 2: into nothing. I want to do it.
Speaker 1: I want to watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a it's a good hour hour and
Speaker 2: a half chit chat. And that's just very different from
Speaker 2: Under a Rock because you know who you're talking to. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can recognize the person.
Speaker 1: I've seen pictures of you.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: One of my favorite memories to date is is when
Speaker 6: we were at the Benson Ball that year and your
Speaker 6: brother came and his dance team performed.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that for the before the last? Now
Speaker 2: I have two brothers. One does not have a dance team,
Speaker 2: okay at all. It's not a family wide thing.
Speaker 5: Now does not have any I add a French accent
Speaker 5: to it. I hope he doesn't mind. No, I just
Speaker 5: realized I've said it wrong to his face.
Speaker 2: I think my brother's in love with Chris.
Speaker 1: I get the I feel love from him, and it's mute.
Speaker 1: I think he's the best.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I have another brother that is a breakdancer.
Speaker 2: And I remember what you said to me made me
Speaker 2: laugh so hard, Karen. We were watching my brother and
Speaker 2: his dance crew breakdance their faces off. And I had
Speaker 2: just met my brother for the first time a few
Speaker 2: months before, and I had he lives in the DC area,
Speaker 2: and I invited him to bring his dance crew and
Speaker 2: open for me. And then I said, when I was
Speaker 2: on stage, I said, you know, when you're forty whatever
Speaker 2: years old and you meet your brother for the first time,
Speaker 2: and then you find out he's a breakdancer, you know,
Speaker 2: and then you find out he's really good. Well, I
Speaker 2: said something like the tonight, the first time you're meeting
Speaker 2: him is the second time I've ever met him in
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: I haven't met him.
Speaker 5: Then, No, I didn't see the break dancing.
Speaker 2: So it was amazing. And we were standing backstage crying yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: And Karen turned to me and she goes, I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm watching one of those movies where the dance
Speaker 2: crew is trying to get to the stand up show
Speaker 2: by the end of the movie, but it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: And it was. It was so confusing, but everybody was
Speaker 2: like crying. It was because it was the best and
Speaker 2: they were great. They were so good, and it was
Speaker 2: just emotional in that I had just met my brother
Speaker 2: and there was a feeling I think when you were
Speaker 2: introducing it, which is.
Speaker 6: The funny part where it kind of no one was
Speaker 6: sure how it was going to go. It truly could
Speaker 6: have been like your brother and his four loser friends
Speaker 6: that have been practicing in the garage, Like I think,
Speaker 6: there is the extra tension.
Speaker 2: This could be bad and we have to clap no
Speaker 2: matter what. I had not seen them dance. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was just like it was.
Speaker 6: A total X factory and then boom, it was like
Speaker 6: they were like spinning each other on their heads.
Speaker 1: It was beyond.
Speaker 2: It was beyond. It was the best.
Speaker 1: There's nothing cooler than break dancing.
Speaker 2: I at our wedding, Stephanie and I didn't want to do.
Speaker 3: The whole first dance thing, and so we.
Speaker 2: Had my brother dance with Stephanie's friend, Angela Trimber. They're
Speaker 2: both incredible dance and so they didn't plan anything. They
Speaker 2: just happened to be, you know. She represented Stephanie's world
Speaker 2: and my brother represented my world, and then they both
Speaker 2: just danced together and that was our first dance and
Speaker 2: that's what got everyone going, and it was really fun.
Speaker 2: It's so good. We're rolling up to my house.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being late for us, Tig.
Speaker 2: This was great. Thank you, yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5: I was in such a panic and then you were
Speaker 5: all in the car picking me up and it felt great.
Speaker 2: Chris, I brought this to you from my airplane.
Speaker 5: Oh nice, beautiful, so many grooming kit, so lovely.
Speaker 1: Thank you in a bulletproof container.
Speaker 6: So watch under a rock with tig Natara and Star
Speaker 6: Trek and Star Trek, the Track, Star Trek.
Speaker 1: I always say track.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're treking through space?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, you're not tracking anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And swing by Largo. I'm always there, yeah, once
Speaker 2: or twice a month.
Speaker 1: It's a great place to see comedy.
Speaker 5: It's the best place in Los Angeles for comedy in
Speaker 5: my opinion.
Speaker 2: It was a joy to see you. Nice to meet you, sir.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you so much. Ti. It's
Speaker 2: good as you this has been Do you need a
Speaker 2: ride in ar? Are you leaving? I you want your
Speaker 2: way back home? Either way, we.
Speaker 4: Want to be there, doesn't matter how much baggage you claim.
Speaker 3: And give us time.
Speaker 4: And a terminol and gay. We want to send you
Speaker 4: off InStyle. You wanna welcome you back home. Tell us
Speaker 4: all about ity scared her?
Speaker 2: Was it fine? Melbourne? Do you need to ride? Do
Speaker 2: you need to ride?
Speaker 4: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Right? Do you mean.
Speaker 1: With Karen and chriss
Speaker 2: Mhm hm