WEBVTT - Bridget Everett ... this generation's Bette Midler? 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.120 I love it because there are no rules. You know. 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:09.200 It's low necklines, yeah, high notes and trem ankles, and 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.600 we're all going for it all three of the same times. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:18.480 Great. Welcome to Off the Cup my personal anti anxiety antidote. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.560 This week's guest is one of the funniest and most 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.200 unique talents out there today. She says she actually produces, 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.560 she's on TV, she's in film, she's on stage, she's 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:33.680 in cabaret. Okay, you know her from Inside Amy Schumer, 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.479 the hit HBO show Somebody somewhere. She might just be 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.839 this generation's Bette Midler. I'm going I'm going with that. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.720 I am going with that, and she's hilarious. It's Bridget Everett. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:47.800 Welcome to Off the Cup. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:49.440 Hi, thank you for having me. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.360 I'm so glad you're here. I'm a fan. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.360 Thank you for that intro. Thank you it was so nice. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.000 I love what you do, I love the energy you 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.640 bring to everything that you do. It's just how do 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.959 you feel about being this generation's Bette Midller? Does that 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:05.520 sound right to you? 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.080 I mean that would that's Bette Miller is like a 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.400 She's like the person I kind of idolized the most 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.399 when I was growing up. So you know, you look 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.319 at that, you hit a good one for me, A 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:18.839 good one. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.560 Okay, Well it feels like you're really one of those 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:27.280 like old school performers we don't see enough of these days, 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.280 like a vaudeville, like a throwback. Do you do you 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:31.520 see yourself in that way? 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.280 Well, I think that I don't see a lot of 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.400 people around me that do the same thing. So and 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.920 that way, I feel like making something my own feels 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.640 very of that generation and just kind of carving my 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.600 own path. So yeah, I think a little bit. I mean, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.360 you know, I got started with in the cabaret scene, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.320 which is not as like a hip as everybody thinks 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:55.120 of it. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:57.920 Well I love it. I'm a fan of theater, so 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.240 I mean, I just love it. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.680 But you know, people that were around me, you know, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.880 are doing really well. Now there's like Cola Scola of 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.920 doing overy on Broadway and like doing crazy things and 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.520 justin Vivian Bonds is one that MacArthur Grant. So you 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.000 know what it's like, all those people that were shaping 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.360 me when I was in my start, my start of 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.440 years are doing great things and they've always been their 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.320 own person. So it's been pretty cool. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.000 I love it. I want to talk about your whole career, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.560 but can we start with a sweet spot for me? 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.160 The Real Housewives. I'm a Bravo holic. I know I 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.440 know every franchise, every every housewife and seeing you with 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.680 Luanne and Sonya doing Cabret, it just made my heart happy. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:39.320 What was that like? 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.240 Look, I I love the Housewives. You know, I'm actually 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.960 filming watch it Happens live tonight Salt Lake City with Mary. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.400 I'm very I'm excited and I'm nervous. But you know, 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.840 they're like their own sort of subset of celebrity and 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.360 kind of yes, their whole their whole world is is 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.640 just wild. It's like once you sort of get like 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.720 an inner a glimpse of the inside, it's just it's 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.120 so huge, it's so colorful, it's so full on. And 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:11.160 Sonya and Luanne and all of them are they're real characters, 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:12.880 but I think it's genuinely who they are. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.600 Yes, I mean, Luanne's really special. I've worked with her 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:23.239 a little. I've had the job of trying to interview 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.000 a number of housewives at like Bravo Khan and stuff 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.720 like that, And when she's in one of those panels. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.000 I'll just say it's tough because she's really I mean, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.960 she just does her own thing and she wants to 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.720 kind of be the you know, the spotlight. She loves 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.640 being on stage, as she says she does. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.600 And you know, you have to give it to Luan. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.840 Is was she gifted with the textbook version of the 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:46.760 voice of an angel? 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:47.520 No? 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.360 No, no, but she sells it. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.320 She's the voice of Marlborough is what she is. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.360 But what I said, I mean, I'm like, more power 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.360 to her because people want to come see her and 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.600 she has fun doing it. Good for her. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.720 Yes, And you gave a very diplomatic answer to Andy 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.880 on another watch What Happens Live when he asked you 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.960 to rate her singing. You just said what you just said, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.640 which was I give her credit. She's a ten out 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.480 of ten, you said, because anyone who gets up there, 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.599 I get it. But between us girls, she's got a 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.320 great act. A girl cannot sing. And when I say that, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:20.880 I mean like hit notes. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.520 Well, she's got a good you know, four or five 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.360 that she can dance around and that does it. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.679 You know, her act is great. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.479 I mean she looks incredible. She like she really like 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.400 What I love about her is that she is aware 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.880 of who she is and she has fun with it, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.920 and like she celebrates it. I think it's pretty pretty cool. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.920 It's incredible because she's been through some shit, and like, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.440 had I gone through one of the things she had 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.880 gone through, be in a hole, yes, I would not 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.560 be on television and I certainly wouldn't be putting it 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.360 all in an act for everyone to enjoy. I mean, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.680 that's so ballsy and body and all all the things. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.960 Yeah, totally, I love it. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:04.719 I love it for her maybe. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.080 Yeah, okay, go ahead. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.560 You grew up in Manhattan, Kansas. It's funny because for 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.160 you know, I do like politics, and sometimes to make 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.680 a point when I'm trying to make a point about 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.599 like the rest of the country as opposed to the coasts, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.280 I'll say something like, you know, what matters to people 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.640 in Manhattan isn't what matters to people, and I'll say Manhattan, Kansas. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:31.600 That is. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.720 It's sort of like, yeah, yeah, so that's you. You 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.320 but you grew up in a political family, right sort. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.599 Of, well sort of, yeah, my dad was a state senator, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.240 state representative, and you know, my dad and my brother 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.839 were both mayor of my hometown. So yeah, you know, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.560 it's sort of a we're sort of a small town 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.000 political royalty. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.479 Are you like if you go back and people know 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:54.480 your family from that? 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.719 No, No, I think I just I just laugh at 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.640 it because you know, being a politician in a small 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.159 town in Kansas, it certainly doesn't have the same you know, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.359 we're not the Kennedy's. Let's just put it out and 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.360 nobody cared. Like when I started, nobody cared. Yeah, exactly, exactly, 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:12.920 thank god. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.680 Yeah, you were very popular in high school. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.240 I mean, you're not supposed to admit that, but I 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.120 guess I was. I mean I was homecoming queen, So 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:23.400 you know, what are you gonna do? 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.600 You were most likely to be Ruler of the World 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.480 and most likely to win an Academy award. Yes, you 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.240 were in the Pops Choir, the Chamber Choir, the Fellowship 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.359 of Christian Athletes, SAD Student Council, Vice President, Tribe Council, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.480 MC of MHS, Live Winter Homecoming Queen and Maggie Jones 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.640 in forty second Street. Did you ever go to class bridget? 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.400 How did you find this out? This is that is 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:52.480 like such a deep diveh. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.760 This is bridget For people who can't see, this is Bridgete. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.920 She's homecoming queen. Who's your gentleman, who's your squire? 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.200 Uh? That's Jason Kastner, it is. I saw. It's the crown, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.200 by the way, it's in my bastomook. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:05.640 Amazing. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.040 Oh my god. Yeah, my mom made me get that real. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.440 You know, everybody had the claw like the bangs, but 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.360 you know I had a bob and like you know, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:18.120 I was trying to like real timeless in my senior picture. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.520 Class in nineteen ninety man. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.400 Yeah, yeah, there you go. Oh my god, I. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.160 Got your yearbook? Is how I know all this? I 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:24.960 got your yearbook? 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.240 That is incredible. I don't I'd like a copy of 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:28.480 my yearbook done that thing. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.320 Speaking of Amy, Jones said of your performance in forty 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.119 second Street, I liked bridget ever at the best because 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.320 she was funny and acted crazy. Was that your first review? 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.840 That's my first pull club, my first poll quote, and 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.960 probably still the best one. It's so good because I 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.239 was so pissed that I didn't have a bigger part, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.480 and I had my friend Rachel. My friend Rachel, and 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.240 if you go to the cast photo, we're like because 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:54.600 we thought we should have the two leads, and we 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.360 were sitting in the in the group photo just with 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.720 a scowling on our face. So when I got the 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.400 pull quote in the yearbook, I was like, okay, okay, right. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.320 See I told you Sol you were wrong. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:07.960 That's so funny. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.440 No, but really you did a lot. What what was 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.160 tribe council bridget Oh. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.640 Tribe council got It's so this has been like, you know, 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:20.520 thirty blah blah blah years ago before. I can't remember 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.440 what I mean. I remember tribe council, but I can't 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.000 remember what it was. I've just just too many years 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.000 of shardonnay to washed it away. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.280 Well, it looked like you had like I hated high school. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.520 I was not popular in high school. Looked like you 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.960 had a great high school experience, at least according to 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.600 your senior year photos. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.719 Yeah. I mean, you know, I had, you know, the 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.360 issues that linger with you through life, you know, But 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.880 but as far as like friends and activities, and I 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.760 enjoyed it. I you know, growing up in Kansas is 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.800 a good place to be, you know, you can it 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.960 was pretty safe, you could walk places, we had keg 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.880 parties by the lake. You know, there's still still all 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.440 the drama that goes with high school, but it was 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.600 in general, it was it was fun. Oh my god, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.199 I can't believe I said that it looked. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.880 Like it looked like you killed it. Like it looked 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.160 like like my husband always talks about how great high 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.840 school was, and I'm like, I don't know what planet 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.160 you were on. High school was torturous for me, but 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.040 like he killed it. He was like in all the 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.240 sports and had all the friends, and I just always 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:20.280 wondered what that must be like. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.679 Well, you know my brother who was the I mean, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.160 I guess a six with my brother Brock, who was 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.120 number five out of six. He was very popular. And 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.400 it wasn't because he was like he just was. He 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.640 He was curious about other people. He was nice to 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.720 other people, and he was very funny and and I 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.880 like that too. I mean, I'm not like that anymore 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:41.400 at all. But I was used to be very curious 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.120 about people. I like to talk to all different groups. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.240 You know. I thought it was sit by different people 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.160 in class. I liked it. Yeah, Now I'm not like 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.480 that at all. I mean, I'm like, just leave me 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:55.000 in my apartment. I'll be I'm a fine leave me alone, right. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:56.679 If you're not one of my people, I don't want 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:57.480 anything to do with you. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:09:59.880 Well, it just takes so much energy to get in 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.120 people at this age. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:07.000 You know. So we're you go to ask you on 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.680 a full scholarship for music and opera. You were you 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.280 were set on being a performer. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:13.520 Yeah, well I wanted to be a singer. And I 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.240 also just wanted to get out of Kansas, even though 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.400 I loved it, I wanted to see other things. And 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.000 and my one of my best friends at the time, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.319 her older brother was like, oh, Arizona States of party school, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.640 and I was like, oh, it is turned out he 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.319 was right, and I had a real good time, and I. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.400 Had a fake I d take in there once by too. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.600 I think it's a rite of passage. No did you 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.280 did you get put in the back of the car? 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:40.240 Do they just know? 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.240 He just let me walk away, which was very kind. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.640 That's good. I got because I got put in the 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.000 back of a car at a high school keg party. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.080 And it was because I had this like this like 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.160 squeezy refillable thing that used to take my you know, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.480 my like I'd stop at quick shop and get SODA's 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.200 every day and before school and then anyway, I took 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:00.760 it to this keg party because I loved it so much. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.240 You could just like squeeze. It was like sort of 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.160 like a boxer thing, you know, had boxes on the 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.000 corny squeze shoots in your mouth. And I took it 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.560 to a keg party. I filled up with beer and 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.520 the cops came, and I didn't want to lose my 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.640 little squeeze thing, so I held onto it and I 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.320 emptied it out. But they came and they could still 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.200 smell the beer. So they put me in the back 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:17.640 of the car and my mom had to come pick 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.600 me up at the police station, and she was not happy. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.839 Yeah, and they took your squeeze thing. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.240 They took my squeeze thing. I sucked on a penny 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:26.839 because I'd heard that that would like get rid of 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.240 the smell of alcohol. Mom. Yeah. And then but my 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.599 mom when my mom picked me up, she had so 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:40.360 much booze on her breast she couldn't tell. It's perfect 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:42.560 small town living. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.400 So how how did you did you enjoy college? 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.000 Yeah? I mean it was college was like a little 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.640 you know, I sort of got lost because it's such 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.720 a big place. Arizona State is so huge, and I 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.320 have fun because I could be by the pool, I 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.160 could get a tan. I was on the swim team 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.480 for a little bit. And like I said, I was 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.320 a party school. But I wasn't like getting any parts. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.880 I wasn't you know. And then shows really it just 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.320 but I did find karaoke at the end of my 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.920 and I started singing it like a professional at spring 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.480 training baseball games, which was fun. So I met a 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.640 lot of athletes because I used to work at PF 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.280 Chang's in Scottsdale, the original PF Changs. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:24.800 That is my favorite PF Changs. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.400 Oh yeah, that's the one that was the original. And 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.839 I used to wait on like Charles Barkley and and 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.080 he came in a lot, and I waited on a 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.560 lot of the baseball players so they'd be there for 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.880 spring training, like I said, and Mark McGuire and Dusty 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.480 Baker the old and they like would have me come 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.439 and sing at their spring training games. I was singing 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.640 the national anthem, so I don't know. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:52.120 I was like, that's right. I uh, well, I covered 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.920 sports for a long time. And then also I was 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.720 a kid. As a kid, I grew up in Arizona, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.040 in Scottsdale, and so when that PF Schangs. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:04.360 Came, you know what, I might have been your waitress 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:05.800 at some point. You have been. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.840 Yeah, that's such a that's the o GP of Chang's 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.160 is the best pe of Chang's. And yeah, yeah. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:13.240 I wonder if it's still there. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:14.800 It's still there? 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:16.880 Oh wow, amazing, it's still there. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.920 I was just there in April because we went for 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.959 spring break to visit family. And it's a must. It's 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:24.480 a must every time I'm in Scottsdale. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.679 Gotta go. You gotta get up the chicken letus wraps 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.800 and a glass of arden. That's got right there? 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.880 Got it? That is it. My very close friend Megan McCain, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.960 daughter daughter of Arizona. Obviously, the lettuce wraps a p 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.040 of Changs are her all time favorite. I love it 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:46.480 all she wants on a special occasion, I love it. Yeah. Okay, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.640 So where do you go from college? After college? Do 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:49.440 you go to New York? 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.760 Yeah? I was spending my summers in Maine at this 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.840 place called quist Asana, which is sort of like a 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.040 dirty dancing kind of resort. And and so you would 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.240 you know, wait, tables during the day and you do 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.360 shows at night. And so they would bring people from 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.480 performing art schools all over the country that would go there. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:10.760 So that's where I met some of my friends from 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.360 New York. And I was like, you know what, I'm 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.680 just gonna I'm just gonna go. So the last summer 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.120 I worked there, I worked there seven summers. I just 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.480 packed up my car, my Nissan CenTra, and I drove 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.920 to New York and I found a place to live 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.480 and I just was like, I think this is where 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.080 I want to be and I haven't left. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.320 Was it scary? 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.920 Not so scary because I knew all these people and 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.520 they were all singers and yah and performers, and I 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.440 think there's no way I could have done it without 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.960 meeting all those people first. And they and they were 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.080 like just so confident in themselves, like, no, I'm gonna 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:45.760 go to New York. I'm gonna be on Broadway and 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.040 uh then I'm gonna do TV, some film and you know, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.080 maybe maybe a little time in LA but mostly New 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.960 York because I'm more about theater, and you know, just 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.480 like I was like, and then I came here and 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.440 I got my equity card, right away. I did like 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:03.160 a traveling show off off Broadway and that's it's I 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.720 And it was like, you know those little bus and 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.040 track things. We were all like in a little van 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.200 together essentially, and there was five five of us driving 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.680 around and it was absolute hell. I hated it. I 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.720 was like, oh, this is what And so I was 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.600 like when I ended up waiting tables for years, I 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:24.080 was like, well, at least I'm not doing theater right right? Yeah, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:24.880 where'd you work? 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.360 What restaurants did you work in New York? 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.760 I worked at Rain, which was on the Upper west Side, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.840 and then I worked at PF Chang's for not p Changs, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.680 I'm sorry, we got a Ruby Foos. I worked at 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.400 Ruby Foo's on the Upper west Side from the day 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:39.720 it open until the date closed. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.360 I love Ruby Foos. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.800 Yeah, that was and I got hired there because I 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.880 saw PF Chang's on my resume and they're like there. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.560 They were like, oh, we have a star and I. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:16:02.880 Was like yes, So what's your first break? 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:03.680 What's your big break? 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.080 God, it's such a it's interesting to think of like 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.720 things in terms of a big break. I guess like 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.240 in two thousand and six, I met Michael Patrick King, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.120 who is behind Sex and the City, and just like that, 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.400 they come back and everything, and we did a show 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.560 at Ours Nova called at Least It's Pink and the 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.480 and that was and I thought that was gonna be 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.680 my big break. But in a way, it was like 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.520 an off off Broadway show that got great reviews, but 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.240 just kind of came and went and I was back 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.240 at Ruby Foo's. But the good part about that was 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.040 that I met Michael and he sort of set things 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.080 in motion for me because he gave me a part 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.400 in the original Sex in the City movie and it 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:45.800 was just a. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:50.400 It is a very memorable short but memorable scene. Gassi. Okay, okay, Kasi. 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.160 I mean, yeah, it is a great scene. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.280 Are you drunk a little bit? In fact, like their 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.080 their rap gift I think for the Sex and the 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.520 City movie was like things said a little bit on it. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:07.720 I was like, oh my god, oh my god. But yeah, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.520 I just I uh, that was kind of just started 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.800 things because I met Michael and you know, we did 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.040 a pilot together, and then you know, Amy Schumer took 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.439 me on their road with her and that was a 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.119 really big thing. But you know, god, I didn't start 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.440 stop waiting tables until like ten years ago. I think 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.760 it was almost just ten years ago, so it was 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.520 maybe someday somewhere has been my big break. I don't 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:33.760 know all it's hard to say. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:35.880 Well, and how did you meet Amy? 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.119 At the Montreal Comedy Festival? Have you ever been to that? 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.479 Like this is the just for last Montreal Comedy Festival, 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.200 and it's it's you know, hundreds of comedians, all comedians, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.080 you know, TV and film executives, and everybody goes down. 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.440 They stay at the Hyatt and they all party every 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.920 night at the big in this big Hyatt lobby bar. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.760 And I was like, no, thank you, I will be 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.800 in my room and that's where you can find me. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.119 But Amy, I think knew me from Ours Nova and 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.000 you know, at Lisa's Pink and some of this stuff. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.439 So you know, she was like, why do you come 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.000 down and meet me, you know, down at the bar 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.560 for a glass of chardenay? And I was like, I'm not, 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.560 I'm not going down there. She's like, what's you know, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.840 what's the worst that can happen? And so I went 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.760 down and we just became like sharp. We'd have the 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.359 same kind of you know, similar sense of humor. Yeah, 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:28.360 and we both love chardonnay and yeah, and she's very confident. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.359 She'll talk to anyone, you know, she's all you know. 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:31.960 And I'll just I'll just sort of sit back and 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.960 watch her and be like, oh, yeah, I'm Bridget and 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.240 you know, I've met people, and she she helped get 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:37.880 me out of my shell, you know, bring me back 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.119 to nineteen nineties Tribe council. Bridget Ever, the one that 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.200 you know, you know, like the high school girl. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:48.080 Right MHS MC of MHS Live, Yes, exactly. Amy found 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.520 that that Bridget in you did you guys ever like 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:52.760 write material for each other? 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.560 Well, she she Yeah, she's put me in stuff, you know. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.080 She put me in train wrecks. She rode a little 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.119 part from me. She wrote apart from me in another 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.320 movie and I didn't end up getting it. I ended 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.040 up reading with uh to play the part of Bridget Everett, 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.600 and I read with Jedd Apatow and I didn't get. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.720 Apart Wait, someone else got the part of Bridget Everett. 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.480 Yeah, but it was I can't I can't remember which 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.680 movie it was, but it got the whole storyline got 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.800 cut out. It might have it might have been trained Wrek, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.119 it might have been. There was like originally going to 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.800 be like she was doing a story on like a 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.200 you know, a killer, and I was going to play 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.399 the killer and and I think when I when I 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.480 read with him, he you know, he ultimately said to Amy, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:39.760 He's like, Bridget doesn't seem like she would kill anyone. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:41.520 So I didn't get the part, but I got another 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.080 part to stay in the movie, so it worked out. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:47.720 Okay, how do you come to cabaret at this point 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:48.320 in your career? 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:54.280 Well, because I was doing a lot of when I 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.879 was waiting tables, I was just singing in karaoke bars 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.879 and like going wild, like getting on top of the bar, 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.560 are ripping my shirt off, like you know, taking flaming 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:05.600 zambuka shots while I'm singing a piece of my Heart 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.879 and like, you know, you know, just absolutely out of 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.399 my skin crazy. And my friend Jason Egan who's now 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.960 my friend, saw me performing performing a karaoke bar, singing 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.920 at a karaoke bar, yes, and he was like, I 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.840 think you should do a show, and so he he 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.800 was the one that got me to perform it Ours 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:29.439 Nova his show and this is theater and yeah, and 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:34.760 I've just it's honestly, it's so such a huge part 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.200 of who I am. I love singing. It's the love 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.359 of my life. There's nothing that makes me happier, and 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:43.200 it makes me connect to people. But in a way 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.280 that I can be in charge. I had the microphone, 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:46.960 I sort of control the temperature. 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:47.800 Of the room totally. 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.360 But I love it because there's there are no rules, 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:57.840 you know, it's just it's low necklines, yeah, high notes 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.119 and trim ankles and we're all going for it, all 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:01.879 three at the same time. Great. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:04.800 How does one like if I want I don't, But 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.320 if I wanted to go into cabret, how does one 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:10.840 because you're just like seeing at a karaoke bar. I 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.159 know how this happens to luwan? How does one? Are 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:14.560 there agents for cabaret? 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.359 No? No, it's not. 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.600 Like it's not like a I don't know how one 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.480 gets to cabaret if one wanted to, I would one 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:24.639 go about trying to get to cal I don't know. 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:26.000 I just fell into it, you know. 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:26.639 Yeah. 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.040 And Murray Hill was another person who plays Frederick Coco 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:30.600 on My show. He's, you know, a big legend in 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.680 New York City. And he asked me to you know, anytime, 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.480 anytime anybody ever asked me to sing or perform anywhere, 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.080 I'd be like, yes, yes, even if it was in 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.520 the back room and a sex club, you know, Like 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.720 I was always honestly like I've seen it all and 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:51.560 I've done it all, and I performed at weddings, birthdays, clubs, 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.520 you know, everything I could get my hands on. Yeah, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:56.560 And and I think that's kind of the way that 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.479 you do it. You just you keep singing until someone listens. 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:01.399 That's what it seems. Yeah, that's what it seems like. 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.560 There's not like a direct route from A to B 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:07.240 if someone wanted, you just have to be like talented, hungry, lucky, 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.480 we'll be places, be seen kind of thing and not. 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.800 Care about you know, having health insurance or money or. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.159 Success retirement account yeah. 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:20.119 Yeah, or acceptance by your family for us. 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:26.360 Right, tell me about the tender moments and how did 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.159 you meet Adam Well? 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.359 I so I had been doing this show at Joe's 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:35.160 Pub called Our Hit Parade, which is we we would 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.919 cover downtown performance artists in cabaret people. That's where I 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:41.359 met Cole School and some other folks. And like you 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:43.359 would take a pop song and you would do your 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.040 own spin on it. And it was a wild, really 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:48.560 fun show and we did it for a number of years. 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:52.200 And then so he Adam I think you're talking about 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:54.800 ad Rock, the King ad Rock from Dacy Boys. Yeah, 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.520 he and his wife Kathleen Hannah were big fans of 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:02.800 the show and they they would come and and eventually I, 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:05.080 you know, and we became friends. I joined his softball team. 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:08.360 My friend Murray took me to be on the softball 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:11.080 team Team Pressure, because I was depressed and Murray's like, 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:13.399 you gotta get some vitamin D, kid, So he went 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.520 outside to play and that's when I found out Adam 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:19.159 was a fan, and we became friends. He's so funny. 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:22.359 He's such a great guy. And at one point I 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:23.359 was just like, you know, I think I'm going to 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:25.680 start a band, and he's like, well, can I be 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:28.320 in it? And I was like, you want to be 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.320 And you want to be in my cabaret act ad 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:36.160 Rock King ad Rock of the Easy Boys, right, He's 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.639 like he's like yeah. And so he was the you know, 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:41.919 the first person that signed up to be in my band, 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:45.879 and then everybody, you know, I got Mike, Mike Jackson, 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:48.400 Carmen Covelli and Matt Ray and then we all and 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.080 we we decided to call it the Tender Moments because 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:53.160 that's when I when I used to hang out with 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:55.360 my nieces and nephews, I'd be like, come, come sit 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:57.200 with me, Let's have a tender moment, and we would 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:59.479 just sit there very quietly. And I don't know, I've 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:00.639 always kind of love that. 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:04.640 So that is cute. That is cute. What is your 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:08.280 what's your connection to Janice Joplin? You you famously sung 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:12.240 a number of her songs, Yeah, on Jimmy Fallon and. 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:14.160 Because she's like one of the you know, the way 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:17.720 I connect with anybody is when they're their their own thing, 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:23.160 like she her voice is very unique sounding. She seemed 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:26.560 like she just was her own and her own special 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:29.800 little planet. But her voice to me is like just 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:34.240 ripped from the heart, just so raw, so like full. 0:24:34.440 --> 0:24:37.040 It's a full force. It's like it's a it's a 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:42.280 punch of energy, emotion and vitality. And I just she 0:24:42.400 --> 0:24:43.679 lights me up. Man, I can't help it. 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:47.760 Oh she's great, and you're so great, you know singing 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:52.760 her songs? You've made you did Me and Bobby McGee 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:56.520 with Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall. How does that happen? 0:24:57.320 --> 0:24:59.920 She saw me at a show that I was doing downtown, 0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:04.199 and I remember her. She was she's good friends with 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:07.359 my friend Scott Whitman, songwriter with Mark Seaman for like 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:10.240 Hairspray and Smash and and all these other great shows. 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:14.919 And anyway, they called me while I was at my 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:18.640 bank depositing tips from the shift of my shift from 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:22.240 the night before at us at Ruby Fuz or something, 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:26.120 and and Patty was like, I was wondering if you'd 0:25:26.119 --> 0:25:28.119 want to sing with me at Carnegie Hall. And I 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:30.360 was just like putting in my two hundred dollars into 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:33.080 the things like beep, beep beep, and I was like, 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:38.920 let me think about it. I'm like yeah. And because 0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:41.480 Connie Call is a place I never thought that I 0:25:41.480 --> 0:25:45.040 would ever get to walk across that stage. And and 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:47.919 so she you know, so they had me on the 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:50.399 show and I was, you know, to me, Patty is 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:53.560 like the great broad living diva for me, you know, 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:56.280 I mean, there's so many great Broadway performers and stuff, 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:59.520 but to me, she's like a diva. But she's also 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:02.320 like a and really cool and just does not give 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:06.239 a shit about any Yes, she's and I just love that. 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.160 You would think that somebody like her, with her Tony's 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:11.639 and her you know, and her Julliard background and all this, 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:13.879 that she would just be kind of buttoned up, her 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:16.679 stuffy or something. That is absolutely not true. She is 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:22.360 like throw down, lay down fun. She's so fun. She's 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:27.720 very funny, and she really cares about, like, you know, 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:30.439 she's taught me a lot about like performance because she 0:26:30.480 --> 0:26:33.440 cares about every little detail after all these years of performing, 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:36.159 it's important to her. And I don't know, I just 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:38.360 think that I think she's pretty magical. 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:40.440 She's incredible, And it was. 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:42.800 Incredibly jenous of her to bring me like this sort 0:26:42.800 --> 0:26:46.160 of whatever cabaret singer at the time and and bring 0:26:46.160 --> 0:26:48.280 me on to the stage. And she basically stopped the 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:52.359 show and gave me such an effusive introduction, like she 0:26:52.520 --> 0:26:55.000 was like sort of anointing me in a way or something. 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:58.359 She's like, get down at Joe's Pub. You have to 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:01.560 see Bridget everythre's oh my god, there's nobody else like her. 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:04.439 And people did like I was doing shows and I 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:06.560 was like, my audience looks a little different tonight. 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:09.080 Oh my god, that's so cool. 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:11.040 I'm like, I'm like, what are you doing here? Because 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:12.439 I talked to the audience a lot, and like Patty 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:14.760 sent me, I was like, oh, okay, well welcome shit. 0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:19.280 Yeah, I have goosebumps. Oh my god. Listening to her 0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:24.879 talk about Andrelaid Webber gives me life, Like the way 0:27:25.040 --> 0:27:29.840 she shits on Andreloyd Webber with reckless abandon like, well. 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:31.840 Don't don't shit on Patty because you're gonna get shit 0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:33.240 on right back exactly. 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:34.800 Oh I would. I would never. 0:27:36.400 --> 0:27:37.840 No, I know, not you. I'm just saying in the 0:27:37.880 --> 0:27:40.200 and the you know, that's what happens. Like she does 0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:43.080 not care, Like she's like, I don't care if it's andre. 0:27:42.920 --> 0:27:47.320 Lloyd Webber, Like I don't like Andrelaid Webber's musicals for 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:50.600 the most part either. Yeah I'm a little overrated. But 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:55.960 I interviewed fran Leebowitz once, who also is not a fan, 0:27:56.600 --> 0:27:58.840 and the way she talks about Andrelaid Webber is very 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:01.240 similar to the way the Paddle Up talks about Angelaid Webber, 0:28:01.280 --> 0:28:06.000 which is just I just want one day to have 0:28:06.200 --> 0:28:10.240 so few fucks to give that I can talk about legends, 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:15.640 living legends, the way that she talks about Madonna and 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:18.800 Angelaid Webb with like no cares. 0:28:18.280 --> 0:28:22.639 In the world, does not care her. I mean, Patty 0:28:22.640 --> 0:28:25.680 and I are developing something right now for for Broadway. 0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:27.960 I hope it because it is along road where we're 0:28:27.960 --> 0:28:30.639 you know, it's been ruin for us, and we're developing, 0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:32.120 and we've had a little we just had a workshop 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:35.960 and and you know, I told them like day one, 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:38.640 I was like, like, is there anything anything wants to 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:40.280 say to sort of, you know, kick things off. And 0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:42.720 I was like, I'll start. I'm scared to work with 0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:47.440 Patty because because first of all, she she brings her 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:50.760 a game to everything, Like she's not resting on anything. 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:54.200 She is always showing up and and I can, I 0:28:54.200 --> 0:28:56.160 can be a little lazy, but I'm also just like 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:58.720 I don't want to. I don't want to disappoint her 0:28:58.760 --> 0:29:02.160 because I don't want to. You know, she'll tell you right, 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:03.680 And I just want to have to be able to. 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:05.600 I want to be able to show up, do a 0:29:05.640 --> 0:29:09.240 good job, and uh so Patty can be proud of me. 0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:10.520 I'm not disappointed. 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:16.959 Oh yeah, she's very she's very intimidating. And when she 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:20.600 she did this whole thing years ago where she talked 0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:24.400 about how like the standing ovation at theaters has become 0:29:24.640 --> 0:29:28.960 so overdone and like very few people actually deserve a 0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:32.520 standing ovation in the theater, and like they're just handing 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:33.760 them out. Now. 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:37.600 She won't stand up. She won't stand up, and I'm like, 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:39.920 and I I love it. Like that's another thing, like 0:29:40.400 --> 0:29:43.680 that's Patty's like she's I love it. She does not 0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:46.840 care And I want to be like Patty me too, 0:29:47.360 --> 0:29:49.800 because I stand up. I'm like, oh god, I got it. 0:29:49.920 --> 0:29:52.080 You know, your body's all tight. After two hours, it's 0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:53.120 like all right, here we go. 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:54.400 All right, we're doing this. 0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:57.240 And then you know whoever's up there, who's just phoned 0:29:57.240 --> 0:30:00.280 in their performances, like oh thank you, thank you. They've 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:02.200 they've never been awake for the two hours they've been 0:30:02.280 --> 0:30:03.880 up on stage. But when they get through their bow 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:06.880 and receive all the love there, they're finally there's there's 0:30:06.920 --> 0:30:09.600 a twinkle in their eyes. It's like, no, if you 0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:11.800 don't give it to me. From the moment, it's like action, 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:14.000 like get off the stage. 0:30:14.320 --> 0:30:18.200 Yes, yes, uh okay, Well when you when you see her, 0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:21.960 just tell her, tell her, don't don't I love her. 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:25.320 I'll never say anything bad about her. I don't ever 0:30:25.360 --> 0:30:29.240 want to be on Patty's outside. I love her so much, none. 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:31.280 Of us do. But you know there's I don't. I 0:30:31.280 --> 0:30:34.120 don't think you know she If you're great, she loves you, 0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:36.160 and that's that's that's good enough for me. 0:30:36.320 --> 0:30:38.560 Well, then you better be great, you better are great. 0:30:38.640 --> 0:30:40.240 Exactly, you are great. 0:30:40.240 --> 0:30:42.680 You're lucky, you're great. You're great. She loves you, but 0:30:42.720 --> 0:30:47.480 not everyone's great, Bridget, but Donna's not great, according to 0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:51.120 Paddle the Pone and Pattle the Pone is right about 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:53.480 about the way she talks about Madonna. But I mean, yeah, 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:58.720 you gotta be great, talk about somebody somewhere, talk about 0:30:59.000 --> 0:31:03.560 how that came to be and how how how autobiographical 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:05.400 it is, because it's sort of well. 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:08.320 I got a deal with HBO a number of years ago, 0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:12.120 and and I I remember when that happened, because that 0:31:12.200 --> 0:31:14.520 did feel like this feels like it's a big deal. 0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:18.560 That feels like a big deal. And so I called 0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:22.560 up Carolyn Strauss, who is who i'd met through Michael 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:25.320 Patrick King. So all the you know, everything sort of 0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:27.600 leads to what it's supposed to lead to. But I 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:29.479 was like, I just got the seal with HBO, and 0:31:29.520 --> 0:31:31.800 I'm I was wondering if you would want to work 0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:33.680 with me, and like, and if you don't know who 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:39.320 Carolyn is, she is behind some shows like Game of Thrones, 0:31:39.560 --> 0:31:43.880 Last of Us, she was, you know, running HBO. It's 0:31:43.920 --> 0:31:46.840 you know, during the Sex and the City in Soprano days, 0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:51.320 you know, so she's she's the the the the deal, 0:31:51.600 --> 0:31:55.520 not just a big deal, she is the big deal. 0:31:56.120 --> 0:31:58.920 And so she was like because she'd see my cabaret 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:01.720 show and and she's like, yeah, I'd love to work 0:32:01.720 --> 0:32:03.200 with you. And I was like, oh, the look, my 0:32:03.320 --> 0:32:07.760 job is like smacking on the floor. And anyway, she 0:32:07.840 --> 0:32:09.560 was like, I think we should, you know, talk to 0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:13.000 Paul and Hannah. Paul three and Hannah bus who she 0:32:13.520 --> 0:32:16.280 you know, they're they're sort of from the similar community 0:32:16.600 --> 0:32:19.320 as I am in the city and in New York, 0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:22.320 and they came up with this idea for somebody somewhere 0:32:22.440 --> 0:32:26.600 and we have you know, it's been a very collaborative 0:32:26.640 --> 0:32:30.360 process over the three seasons, and but as we've gone 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:32.320 into it more and more I've put more and more 0:32:32.360 --> 0:32:34.720 of myself into it, more of my own story, more 0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:40.600 of like my feelings and my feelings about grief and 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:44.640 about the love of singing and music and about and 0:32:44.640 --> 0:32:48.080 and about self worth and all these things, and and 0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:50.840 we we all sort of had the same way that 0:32:50.880 --> 0:32:53.040 we wanted to tell a story that felt not like 0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:57.640 document not documentary document documentary style, but like that felt 0:32:57.760 --> 0:33:00.840 that felt natural, that felt lived in and that felt 0:33:01.800 --> 0:33:05.560 slice a life. E and I remember watching the pilot 0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:08.440 and I cried first because I was like, I was 0:33:08.960 --> 0:33:12.280 moved that we did it. And then I cried because 0:33:12.320 --> 0:33:14.240 it's like, nobody is going to like this, because this 0:33:14.320 --> 0:33:17.920 is not a cool show, and Carol and Carolyn was like, no, 0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:21.400 this is there's something special about this. And then we 0:33:21.720 --> 0:33:24.240 and our probably got picked up. We shot our first season, 0:33:24.320 --> 0:33:27.479 second season, and now third season which is wrapping up. 0:33:27.520 --> 0:33:31.560 But you know, it's if you know me from the 0:33:31.600 --> 0:33:34.160 cabaret world, you know you've it's I'm sort of like 0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:36.960 a wilder beast or something like a real wild like 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:39.840 sort of unhinged. But this is a different side of me. 0:33:40.640 --> 0:33:42.680 And I mean I do saying and stuff in the show, 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:46.240 but it's more about like the human side of me, 0:33:46.480 --> 0:33:48.240 like the things that make me me laugh and that 0:33:48.360 --> 0:33:50.520 make me cry and the and the I've learned through 0:33:50.560 --> 0:33:53.200 the experience of doing the show that other people see 0:33:53.200 --> 0:33:57.400 themselves in it, and that's been great. You know, it's 0:33:57.440 --> 0:33:58.760 been really rewarding. 0:33:59.440 --> 0:34:02.880 Yeah, you love being on stage so much. Did this 0:34:03.040 --> 0:34:05.520 like scratch a part of your brain you didn't know 0:34:06.160 --> 0:34:07.440 you would love so much? 0:34:08.440 --> 0:34:10.120 Yeah? I mean I just didn't think I could do it. 0:34:10.160 --> 0:34:12.640 I'm not a trained actor. I've never written a TV 0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:16.640 show before, I've never produced. But you learned very quickly, 0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:20.440 and luckily because Paul and Hanna and I had Caroline 0:34:20.520 --> 0:34:22.399 is like a reference, Like she was such a great 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:24.920 sort of like a coach and a mentor and a 0:34:25.040 --> 0:34:29.560 champion and like never treated us like she was above us. 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:32.480 She just kind of lifted us up, helped us grow. 0:34:32.880 --> 0:34:35.200 And we all learned so much during the filming of 0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:37.399 the show. And now I know I can I can 0:34:37.400 --> 0:34:37.680 do a. 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:39.800 TV show, you know, I do it all. Yeah. 0:34:40.040 --> 0:34:43.279 Yeah, you just for people like me. I'm not somebody 0:34:43.320 --> 0:34:45.920 who's like and I'm going to do this one day 0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:47.640 and I'm going to do that one day. It's like 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:51.000 I sort of fall into it and I try to 0:34:51.120 --> 0:34:54.319 rise to the occasion and for the best. Yeah, and 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:57.239 that's and this time it just happened to be a 0:34:57.280 --> 0:35:02.560 TV show for HBO's to be right, yeah, if you know, 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:04.000 just say it out loud, like when I want to 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:05.560 sit down and watch the show, I'll usually watch it 0:35:05.560 --> 0:35:07.680 by myself. And I turned on the TV and it's 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:10.680 got that HBO logo, the you know that goes that. 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:17.759 I know, yeah, yeah. 0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:21.759 Every time, I'm like and I'll continue to be you know, 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:23.560 for a long time as long as I keep running it, 0:35:23.640 --> 0:35:25.399 you know somewhere I'm deep on the. 0:35:25.400 --> 0:35:30.120 Channel or what yeah, I should say for honesty full disclosure. 0:35:30.239 --> 0:35:34.200 HBO is also my parent company. I'm at CNN, but 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:38.120 uh I pitched a pilot to HBO and years ago 0:35:38.920 --> 0:35:41.760 and it was coming right out. They had just stopped 0:35:41.840 --> 0:35:47.719 FEEP and the pilot I pitched was for a sitcom 0:35:47.840 --> 0:35:51.280 set in a newsroom, like deep in a newsroom, and 0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:53.240 and I had a great meeting, and I was so excited. 0:35:53.239 --> 0:35:55.600 I couldn't believe I was in like HBO offices and 0:35:55.680 --> 0:35:58.080 like that this was happening. And I had a great 0:35:58.120 --> 0:36:00.799 meeting and there was some interest, and then someone said 0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:02.200 it was a little too close to BEEP and they 0:36:02.239 --> 0:36:04.720 were moving to a new direction, and that new direction 0:36:04.880 --> 0:36:08.840 was eventually Game of Thrones, and they wanted that was 0:36:08.880 --> 0:36:13.520 not what I was very different, so they were becoming 0:36:13.520 --> 0:36:15.640 something a little different, kind of getting away from the 0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:21.000 sort of the sitcom y content. But it was even 0:36:21.120 --> 0:36:23.279 just getting close, Like even just having a meeting at 0:36:23.400 --> 0:36:27.360 HBO was thrilling for me. So I can only imagine, 0:36:28.320 --> 0:36:30.439 just like life changing, that you have a show there, 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:32.120 and a successful one. 0:36:32.280 --> 0:36:34.560 It's still exciting to go on to their offices and 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:38.799 to feel like, yeah, you're like a part of even 0:36:38.840 --> 0:36:41.400 though our show is very small and our audience is small, 0:36:42.160 --> 0:36:45.839 loving and loyal, but small, Like yeah, I'm a part 0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:49.440 of the fabric of HBO. Now, Like there's no, you can't. 0:36:49.480 --> 0:36:51.960 You can't take that. I cannot take that away from myself. 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:52.840 Like that, this can't. 0:36:53.320 --> 0:36:57.040 Yeah, this happened, and and and it's not the first 0:36:57.040 --> 0:36:58.759 time I've been on HBO, and I hope to be 0:36:58.800 --> 0:37:02.840 on HBO again. And it's yeah, it's to me, it's Mecca. 0:37:02.920 --> 0:37:05.200 Is that where it's like yeah, to me, HBO was 0:37:05.320 --> 0:37:09.200 like the yes, the Pinnacle, Yes it is. I'm not 0:37:09.239 --> 0:37:11.000 saying I wouldn't work for other networks Sti't get me wrong. 0:37:11.080 --> 0:37:13.000 Of course, of course in Netflix, we love you too. 0:37:13.080 --> 0:37:14.360 But but you. 0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:16.200 Know, as far as it's like television goes. 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:18.319 Yeah, but you didn't just make up a pilot, which 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:21.960 in and of itself incredible. You got picked up season 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:25.600 and another season like, yeah, you made it, you made it. 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:28.480 Yeah, I guess, so I guess when you put it 0:37:28.520 --> 0:37:30.160 that way. Yeah. 0:37:30.560 --> 0:37:33.160 After the break, it's the Lightning Round with Bridget Everett. 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:46.520 I make her choose her favorite musical before we get 0:37:46.520 --> 0:37:48.279 to like a little lightning round. I just want to 0:37:48.280 --> 0:37:53.200 talk to you about isms I'll explain and the isms 0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:55.200 you might have faced in your career, because for me, 0:37:56.760 --> 0:38:01.360 I love talking to two women in this business. For me, 0:38:01.400 --> 0:38:04.000 there was a lot of sexism early in my career 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:07.080 in the news, of course, men not taking you seriously 0:38:07.320 --> 0:38:10.040 or of course hitting on you or even sexually assaulting 0:38:10.040 --> 0:38:13.240 you like on camera. But now as I get older, 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:17.800 it's agism and it is so wild, Bridget. For women 0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:23.239 in my business, it is like you hit forties and 0:38:23.360 --> 0:38:26.520 it's suddenly you are no longer good at your job, 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:30.200 and you're like, I've done nothing differently. I'm doing the 0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:32.799 same thing. But I have so many friends and colleagues 0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:35.600 who are no longer in work. Suddenly their contract is 0:38:35.640 --> 0:38:38.399 not renewed. They are shown the door and hung out 0:38:38.400 --> 0:38:42.160 to dry. And it's crazy and it's such a mind 0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:45.080 fuck because you're like, I'm still me. I'm doing the 0:38:45.160 --> 0:38:48.959 same work, if not better work than I've ever done. 0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:51.959 And thanks to modern skincare, I look better at forty 0:38:52.000 --> 0:38:54.520 six than Barbara Walters did it twenty. What the fuck 0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:55.080 is going on? 0:38:56.200 --> 0:38:58.879 But what are you using? I want to know that 0:38:59.120 --> 0:39:00.120 is a oh. 0:39:00.120 --> 0:39:05.319 Yeah, ialuronic acid and retinal but no, that ism, the 0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:11.080 ageism is such a mind fuck and I obviously hate it. 0:39:11.320 --> 0:39:14.400 I'm wondering what isms you have faced as a woman 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:15.280 in your career. 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:21.759 Well, I think like my size. You know, I'm a 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:24.560 I'm a what I like to call a post athletic build, 0:39:24.600 --> 0:39:26.759 but you know, I'm a plus sized woman. I'm like, 0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:32.200 you know, I'm I'm in middle aged, which is wild 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:36.400 to say, but like, you know, like people would, people 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:41.920 were flocking television executives, you know, people were flocking to 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:45.279 my show, like my live show, but they're like, we 0:39:45.400 --> 0:39:48.160 just can't see her on television. And I do, ultimately 0:39:48.200 --> 0:39:50.600 feel like it had a lot to do with my 0:39:50.719 --> 0:39:53.600 body in the way that I looked. I'm not conventionally 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:56.960 like cutie little girl, you know, I'm not like attractive 0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.760 in that way, and like, how can you make that person? 0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:01.959 Can you put them on the poster of a TV show? 0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:04.600 And I have to give HBO a lot of credit 0:40:04.640 --> 0:40:08.600 that they they wanted me to be me. But I'm 0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:10.759 telling I can't tell you how many meetings I went 0:40:10.840 --> 0:40:15.120 into and people were just like nothing, like just checked out. 0:40:15.239 --> 0:40:20.480 And then and also like there's the stuff online, like 0:40:20.560 --> 0:40:23.960 I did a talk show and I wore this dress 0:40:24.000 --> 0:40:25.960 and like, you know, I can't find a bra for 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:29.120 my boobs, you know, because I'm, as I said, I'm 0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:32.000 a plusize woman and I think boobs, and so I 0:40:32.080 --> 0:40:34.280 tape them and anyway, I sat down on the couch 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:36.799 for the thing, and my dress sort of flipped open 0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:38.719 in a certain way, and the way I taped them 0:40:38.760 --> 0:40:41.200 was very sloppy, and so you know, it's so it 0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:44.480 just sort of have its like weird look at whatever. Anyway, 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:47.920 the clip is on the internet and it's like been 0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:52.680 viewed by you know, thirteen million people or something, and 0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:56.400 there's thousands of comments about my body and I'm like, 0:40:56.680 --> 0:41:00.400 I'm like, you are missing the point. I'm I'm wearing 0:41:00.400 --> 0:41:03.279 this dress. I'm if you came seeing my show, like 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:05.560 I try to make everybody feel good about who they 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:08.480 are in their own skin, and like people just they 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:13.720 can't see past my what my what I'm walking around 0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:16.480 in the skin I'm walking around in. Yeah, and that's 0:41:16.560 --> 0:41:19.840 you know, that's that obviously is you know, can be 0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:23.600 different for different people. You know, however that looks about 0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:26.920 how you look. But my point is just like I 0:41:26.960 --> 0:41:29.200 had to kind of whatever I've done, I've always had 0:41:29.239 --> 0:41:31.440 to force myself in the room. I've always had to 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:34.720 thrust myself upon people. I've had to make it happen 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:38.239 for myself because people can see it because it didn't 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:40.799 look like what they thought it should be. So I 0:41:40.800 --> 0:41:43.480 don't know if that's the right, Yeah, if that's sort 0:41:43.480 --> 0:41:45.480 of what you're talking about, but yeah, that's for me, 0:41:45.640 --> 0:41:46.480 that's what it's been. 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:51.040 I mean, I don't know a woman who hasn't dealt 0:41:51.040 --> 0:41:53.640 with an ism somewhere over the course of her life 0:41:53.680 --> 0:41:57.880 or career. And yeah, I mean it's just sort of 0:41:57.920 --> 0:41:59.080 how you move through them. 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:01.720 Yeah. And also, you know another thing is like, because 0:42:02.120 --> 0:42:05.120 some of my stuff I got me night, let me up. 0:42:05.440 --> 0:42:09.719 I don't know. Another thing is like, I I want 0:42:09.760 --> 0:42:12.279 to Arizona State, but I'm not like a scholar, you know, 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:16.840 I'm not like a smarty pants person. But I so 0:42:16.920 --> 0:42:20.600 I've worked with people who have looked down on some 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:22.839 of my blue humor, like that it's not smart, so 0:42:22.880 --> 0:42:26.040 it's not valid and like and I think if something 0:42:26.080 --> 0:42:28.080 makes people laugh and it makes them feel good, and 0:42:28.160 --> 0:42:31.440 you're and you're not hurting anybody. But I've I've literally 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:33.279 worked with somebody who was like, you know, that's you know, 0:42:33.320 --> 0:42:36.000 your your lyrics aren't smart, you're whatever. And I'm like, 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:39.279 but I go out to you know, now thousands of 0:42:39.360 --> 0:42:42.799 people come to see me sing and I may saying 0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:45.640 a very simple lyric, but it's but what's everything that 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:49.120 I am? Body that it works? It works for them, 0:42:49.160 --> 0:42:52.200 it works for me. Yeah, but you know, maybe I'm 0:42:52.239 --> 0:42:55.040 just not smart enough for some people. And to them, 0:42:55.080 --> 0:42:56.400 I say, I don't know if I can say this, 0:42:56.600 --> 0:42:57.480 just bleeve it fuck off? 0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:03.720 Yeah you can say it, Yeah, glad I did. People 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:09.880 are the worst. Yeah, people are. It's really hard to 0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:14.840 become and remain a confident woman and in this in 0:43:14.880 --> 0:43:21.719 this world, there's always something coming at you, well, what 0:43:21.800 --> 0:43:22.560 is next for you? 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:26.920 I don't know. I'm just like taking a look at 0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:28.560 my phone to see and to be called, and they 0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:33.600 have not, so I don't know. See I truly, I mean, 0:43:33.640 --> 0:43:35.560 I hope the same with Patty comes together. I have 0:43:35.600 --> 0:43:39.680 a lot of faith that well, because that'll be cool. I'll, 0:43:39.719 --> 0:43:42.239 you know, I'll keep I'll keep performing live and I'll 0:43:42.280 --> 0:43:44.799 and I hope to dream up a new un show 0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:46.680 because I've loved doing it so much. I don't want 0:43:46.680 --> 0:43:48.000 it to end, so I gotta figure out a new 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:48.480 way to do it. 0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:50.840 You will, you will, all right, let's get to a 0:43:50.920 --> 0:44:02.440 lightning round. Okay, what's your favorite musical? I know I 0:44:02.520 --> 0:44:03.920 know a. 0:44:03.960 --> 0:44:05.680 Sound of music because it's got a lot of good 0:44:05.880 --> 0:44:06.719 memories as a kid. 0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:10.160 Okay, that's a good one. What musical role would you 0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:11.160 most like to play? 0:44:12.160 --> 0:44:14.800 I really wanted to when they did The Little Mermaid, 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:17.239 I really wanted to play Ursula in some shape or form. 0:44:17.520 --> 0:44:18.600 That would have been so good. 0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:21.440 I know they really missed the mark. I mean, Mlissa 0:44:21.480 --> 0:44:23.719 McCarthy is incredible, But you know what, I think I 0:44:23.719 --> 0:44:25.799 could have had something wonderful to offer as well, So 0:44:25.920 --> 0:44:27.080 keep that in mind for the future. 0:44:27.440 --> 0:44:29.920 And that's that is a role for a singer. I 0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:34.240 mean that song. Her song is really good and big, 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:36.560 and it's a big it's a big song. 0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:38.840 But when I say I like to sing, I like 0:44:38.880 --> 0:44:42.160 to sing from my tits up through my toes, me white, 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:46.120 my toes up tits. Yes, And I think that I could. 0:44:46.160 --> 0:44:49.360 I could give Ursula something, something real, meaty, something real special. 0:44:49.800 --> 0:44:52.319 I love that. I hope that happens someday me too, 0:44:53.360 --> 0:44:54.640 Sonya or Luanne. 0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:59.120 Oh man. You know it's different every day. But today 0:44:59.120 --> 0:45:01.239 I'm gonna give it to Louis because I just saw. 0:45:01.400 --> 0:45:04.000 I know she's been on that cabaret life and you 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:06.640 know I got I love them both. I love them both, 0:45:06.840 --> 0:45:08.640 but today Loui Anne. 0:45:08.480 --> 0:45:11.120 I love it. If you were a real housewife, what 0:45:11.160 --> 0:45:12.080 would your tagline be? 0:45:16.640 --> 0:45:24.200 Big, tiss trem ankles, come at me? What would yours be? 0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:29.040 I don't know. I've thought about this obviously, but probably 0:45:29.080 --> 0:45:32.800 something some pun on the news, like you know, I 0:45:32.960 --> 0:45:35.200 read the news, but I'll read you or something. I 0:45:35.200 --> 0:45:38.200 don't have something something like that. But I could never 0:45:38.200 --> 0:45:40.759 be a housewife. I am so boring, Bridgett. I'm so 0:45:41.719 --> 0:45:46.080 like a verse to to conflict I mean I thought 0:45:46.120 --> 0:45:47.920 with a friend, like ever. 0:45:48.560 --> 0:45:51.759 Yeah, I'm like I've been watching you know, Salt Lake City, 0:45:51.880 --> 0:45:54.279 just getting up to speed on what's going on. I'm 0:45:54.320 --> 0:45:58.000 like this, this is I mean, I always feel like 0:45:58.000 --> 0:45:59.440 I have to lay down after I watch a lot 0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:01.960 because it's yeah, so much just back and forth, and 0:46:02.000 --> 0:46:04.760 I'm conflicted versus well, so yeah. 0:46:04.440 --> 0:46:06.480 Yeah it is for when they do that, it's for 0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:09.719 a certain kind of person, and yeah, God bless them 0:46:09.760 --> 0:46:12.000 because that's given me so much entertainment. But I could 0:46:12.040 --> 0:46:14.760 never what's your favorite movie? 0:46:15.680 --> 0:46:18.920 I love Ordinary People, I love Rudy. Those are probably 0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:23.239 my two favorites. So good, Yeah, I love my friend 0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:28.640 got me an autographed Rudy Rudiger jersey when I started 0:46:28.640 --> 0:46:29.240 doing the show. 0:46:29.440 --> 0:46:32.560 So that's amazing. I cry every time I see that movie, 0:46:32.600 --> 0:46:34.840 like every time, and I know what's gonna happen, and. 0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:37.560 More than once, by the way, I. 0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:38.920 Like, yes, when he finally gets in on like the 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:43.120 fourth time, I am ale so good. That movie is great. Yeah, 0:46:43.200 --> 0:46:44.280 do you have a favorite opera? 0:46:47.920 --> 0:46:51.359 You know I used to sing this are two Katie 0:46:51.440 --> 0:46:54.520 Jel from Turn Dot and so I love that Katie 0:46:55.960 --> 0:47:00.200 got it. Just cut that out. But like that that's 0:47:00.200 --> 0:47:02.279 probably it's just because it's like you know, it's a 0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:03.720 lot of power, a lot of power. 0:47:04.080 --> 0:47:07.680 Yes, okay, this is the last question. It's very important 0:47:07.719 --> 0:47:10.280 to me. When is iced coffee season. 0:47:11.680 --> 0:47:13.479 Well, I feel like I'm gonna get this answer wrong, 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:17.680 but for me, I think it's always ice coffee season. 0:47:17.920 --> 0:47:19.120 That is the correct answer. 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:22.839 Yeah, because look, I like to you know, you can't 0:47:22.840 --> 0:47:24.520 have your hot coffee in the morning, but in the afternoon, 0:47:24.520 --> 0:47:25.200 I would have that. 0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:29.440 One year round is the right answer, Bridget, It's the 0:47:29.520 --> 0:47:35.959 right answer. You survived. 0:47:36.800 --> 0:47:39.360 Oh my god, that's a lot of pressure. God, I 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:41.640 didn't know that was gonna happen. Oh my god. I'm 0:47:41.640 --> 0:47:42.439 glad I got it right. 0:47:42.600 --> 0:47:43.719 It's why we end with it. 0:47:44.239 --> 0:47:46.399 Oh how many people get it right? 0:47:46.960 --> 0:47:49.239 You'd be surprised how many people get that question wrong, 0:47:49.600 --> 0:47:51.799 either by saying I don't drink coffee, which is like 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:55.160 get the fuck out of my podcast, yes, or or 0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:59.520 like well it's from like June to shut the fuck up. No, No, 0:47:59.680 --> 0:48:02.279 it is this. It is one hundred percent year round. 0:48:03.440 --> 0:48:05.640 But a lot of people have gotten it right. We 0:48:05.680 --> 0:48:07.920 have lots of friends. We have lots of friends, all right, 0:48:08.040 --> 0:48:12.399 as coffee family. Thank you so much, Bridget This will 0:48:12.400 --> 0:48:13.479 be really great and fun. 0:48:13.640 --> 0:48:14.920 Thank you so much. 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