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