Speaker 1: Hey, hall, are hi? Okay with speed dating, let's not
Speaker 1: do any foreplay. Okay. So you were just revealed to
Speaker 1: be on the Mask Singer as a starfish, absolutely, which
Speaker 1: is what I refer to the tush sometimes, so so
Speaker 1: the tush hole. So you were the starfish, which is
Speaker 1: so cute and fun. And I was actually going to
Speaker 1: be on the Mass Singer at one point and then
Speaker 1: I like we practiced a couple of times, backed out.
Speaker 1: It felt like overwhelming and a lot of work, and
Speaker 1: I just was like, I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: do this. And because I'm in New York, so where
Speaker 1: do you live in La So you were it was
Speaker 1: convenient for you to go yes, and how how was it?
Speaker 2: Uh? It was great until like I kicked off. I'm
Speaker 2: just kidding. It was great the whole time, you know what.
Speaker 2: I'm so like, I got to do three episodes, like
Speaker 2: I made it to the semifinals. I mean, I'm literally
Speaker 2: walking in a starfish costume that it's so hard to
Speaker 2: walk in and then i feel a little out of breath,
Speaker 2: but I'm singing and I'm like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 2: more of a jazz singer, you know, Like what am
Speaker 2: I doing? Am. I had my comfort zone. I had
Speaker 2: a blast. The audience is amazing. It was just it
Speaker 2: was a great time. I felt very taken care of.
Speaker 2: And I loved the costume.
Speaker 1: Love Starfish and I love I Love. That's so cute,
Speaker 1: and I love Jenny McCarthy. And that's like the highest
Speaker 1: rated show on Fox. I think it's like a big
Speaker 1: show for them.
Speaker 2: It is. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's great with our highest rated primetime I think, or
Speaker 1: it used to be. Are you a decent singer?
Speaker 2: I do? I sing with Jane Lynch. We did a
Speaker 2: Christmas album together about eight years Wow, Swinging a Little Christmas.
Speaker 2: We were actually number eight on the Billboard Top ten.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's more like a jazz album. So
Speaker 2: I so this, you know. And I never got to
Speaker 2: sing on the office because they literally said, what if
Speaker 2: Meredith sings, she doesn't sing because it's supposed to be
Speaker 2: a documentary and not everybody in Scranton, Pennsylvania knows how
Speaker 2: to sing. So yeah, I sort of had to like
Speaker 2: hide this little talent. But I also, you know, it
Speaker 2: was just really really fun to kind of be in
Speaker 2: a position where people may or may not know who
Speaker 2: I am, but they don't think of me as a singer.
Speaker 2: So even though I.
Speaker 1: Well did anyone guess you.
Speaker 2: Ken Jong did the last the last night, he's the
Speaker 2: only one. But you know, I mean, it was nice
Speaker 2: to be considered, you know, to be mistaken for Amy Poehler,
Speaker 2: Tina Fey, Katherine O'Hara, Meyer, Rudolph Kate McKinnon.
Speaker 1: Really all funny people, yes, right, I know.
Speaker 2: Really that's interesting, really funny women. So yeah, so I
Speaker 2: was it was the whole experience was fan damntastic.
Speaker 1: All right, So you're working a lot, right, I remember,
Speaker 1: like you've been working consistently since the office, right.
Speaker 2: No, I've been busy. It's it's been great. Yeah. No,
Speaker 2: I'm super lucky and I feel like I get to
Speaker 2: do a lot of different things, which makes life so
Speaker 2: much more fun because I used to do a comedy act,
Speaker 2: so I used to do a ton of clubs and
Speaker 2: comedy festivals and I just kept doing that two years
Speaker 2: ago because my comedy partner left the business. But I've
Speaker 2: been touring with Jane Lynch for the last eight years.
Speaker 2: Like we get to play places like the Kennedy Center
Speaker 2: and like the Carlisle Hotel. I have a lot of
Speaker 2: different playgrounds. I still get the guest star a lot
Speaker 2: on TV. I've done a ton of game shows. I
Speaker 2: still do a lot of voiceover. I'm recurring on a
Speaker 2: Disney Channel animation show called Kiff right now. So you know,
Speaker 2: I have a great I mean, I have a really
Speaker 2: good life. I really do.
Speaker 1: It must be so fun to work with her. I
Speaker 1: saw her in Monacito and I was like sort of
Speaker 1: starstruck to I mean, I saw her at the cafe
Speaker 1: outside in Monacito and she was really nice. And she
Speaker 1: was actually really nice to my daughter too. And Room
Speaker 1: is a big fan of Glee, and I like her
Speaker 1: a lot. She's a great actress. I told you now.
Speaker 1: She's going to be fourteen and a couple of nights.
Speaker 2: I saw you on a plane from Newark Airport once
Speaker 2: when she was an infant.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so really, she.
Speaker 2: Was so little. I can't remember what time in your was.
Speaker 1: But she's so nice. I'm so she's such a good girl.
Speaker 2: She's fourteen, Oh my god, crazy, I love it.
Speaker 1: So you're in a new movie called The Prank Yes
Speaker 1: with Rita Marina And what's that like? What is it about?
Speaker 2: Horror comedy? And Rita Marino plays this really sadistic, evil
Speaker 2: physics teacher and I'm the lunch lady, and it's just
Speaker 2: like it's a it's a buddy movie about a male
Speaker 2: and female friends and seniors in high school and they
Speaker 2: sort of they hate their physics teachers, so they decide
Speaker 2: to pull a prank and it gets out of hand
Speaker 2: so fast because of the Internet and social is so intense.
Speaker 2: My whole thing, you know, my whole message is like
Speaker 2: watch this movie, but do not hit send. Like whatever
Speaker 2: you do, kids, no matter how mad you are at somebody,
Speaker 2: it could open. No.
Speaker 1: I totally always tell them. I mean I really am
Speaker 1: serious about that with my daughter, not just that it
Speaker 1: always lives forever, but I was just like in this
Speaker 1: the crazy divorce I went through, I learned, like take
Speaker 1: six hours before responding to an email that you know
Speaker 1: is in a situation where like just not normal every
Speaker 1: day email. Thenything's heated or there's anything charged. Wait six
Speaker 1: hours short, respond to something.
Speaker 2: Your trigger finger is that's that's a dangerous place. Like yeah,
Speaker 2: the faster you respond the worst, it.
Speaker 1: Is the worst. And emails better than text because email
Speaker 1: slows it all down. Text psych is like really dangerous.
Speaker 2: Totally, totally. Yeah, inflame situations very quickly, and it's so
Speaker 2: easy to misunderstand people's tone of voice, and so when
Speaker 2: they they text, it's like it's yeah, it's easy to
Speaker 2: misunderstand for sure.
Speaker 1: So how does the Office still play into your life now?
Speaker 1: Aside from that it's on, like are there reunions? Are
Speaker 1: They're like things that you guys do to monetize it
Speaker 1: on the road.
Speaker 2: You know, I do a lot of conventions, Like there's
Speaker 2: a there's a lot of fandom with the Office, and
Speaker 2: we do we get to do these fan expos in
Speaker 2: particular where it's like people from in Office, people from
Speaker 2: Star Trek. Sometimes there's people from like you know, Back
Speaker 2: to the Future. There. I kind of see the same
Speaker 2: people all the time. It's great, people from the Mandalorian
Speaker 2: like it's it's it's awesome.
Speaker 1: What about podcasts.
Speaker 2: I don't have a podcast, but I'm sometimes part of
Speaker 2: the Office Ladies podcast just a little bit. We I
Speaker 2: just did a commercial with a few people from the
Speaker 2: Office for AT and T. We're not we're not our characters,
Speaker 2: we're just ourselves. But it actually starts airing this week.
Speaker 2: So it was really fun to get to work with
Speaker 2: everybody again?
Speaker 1: How crazy? Really is the gift that keeps on giving? Right,
Speaker 1: Like when you get on something like that. Absolutely, I mean,
Speaker 1: did you think it was going to be so big?
Speaker 1: What we thought it was? You on a stupid show?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so before it was before streaming, and
Speaker 2: I knew it was going to be a good show.
Speaker 2: I actually thought it was going to be too good
Speaker 2: for network. So I'm really glad we lasted. I thought
Speaker 2: it was too smart for network.
Speaker 1: Like Arrested Development type of thing, totally meaning it's like
Speaker 1: people can't wow interesting, that's interesting? And so you wanted SNL?
Speaker 2: I did. I was up for SNL in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2: Only took thirteen short years to get the office. Long
Speaker 2: time in between a lot of waiting tables, a lot
Speaker 2: of different cities, a lot of you know, crazy crazy
Speaker 2: gigs and off Broadway and comedy clubs, oh my god,
Speaker 2: you name it.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done SNL?
Speaker 2: No, I'm not. I did a voice in one of
Speaker 2: Robert Speigel's cartoons he used to do Saturday Evening Saturday
Speaker 2: TV fun House, and I remember they did like a
Speaker 2: parody of Charlie Brown Christmas and I was Lucy.
Speaker 1: And wasn't that like, was that oddly like the pinnacle
Speaker 1: of your whole life just even being on SNL for
Speaker 1: a second or now totally and actually even being.
Speaker 2: Up for it. But I had two friends that were
Speaker 2: up for it and actually got it the year that
Speaker 2: I was up for it, So I was like sad
Speaker 2: for me, happy for my friends, Like thank God for
Speaker 2: therapy because it's a lot to navigate, you know.
Speaker 1: That reminded me years ago. I went and I brought
Speaker 1: a girl with me to come with me on an
Speaker 1: audition that I went on, and she ended up getting
Speaker 1: the thing, but she wasn't even an actress. That was
Speaker 1: really hard because I sucked. But I forgot to tell
Speaker 1: you I'm an actress because I was just in a
Speaker 1: Lifetime movie. So I'll tell anyone else I'm My dream
Speaker 1: is to be on SNL. And my only thing that
Speaker 1: I ever regretted in my life was the internship for
Speaker 1: SNL that I was granted, but NYU would not give
Speaker 1: me credit for it for whatever reason at that time,
Speaker 1: they would not give credit for that internship and SNL
Speaker 1: wouldn't let me take it because I wasn't getting credit.
Speaker 1: And I would have if this. If this Bethany, with
Speaker 1: this personality and this fight, I would have pushed my
Speaker 1: way through. It's always been a massive regret that I've
Speaker 1: never gotten to do Saturday Night Live. But shout out
Speaker 1: to that writer's room because I've been in many skits
Speaker 1: without being there, like I've been. I've had Maya Rudolph
Speaker 1: talk about me. They've talked about the why and the skit.
Speaker 1: Like I've been on SNL without being there like three times.
Speaker 1: But it's my it's my dream. I'm you watch it now?
Speaker 1: You still obsessed with it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm not obsessed, but I do watch it.
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with this guy, Marcelo. I think he's going
Speaker 1: all the way. I think he's that good. I really do.
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with him. I message him, we like have
Speaker 1: messaged on social media, like I just and not a
Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about him, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I want to be his like spoke person.
Speaker 1: I just I tell anyone who will listen about him too.
Speaker 1: I live for him. I just think he's great.
Speaker 2: I'm not a pretty sure I can't cast him, but
Speaker 2: you know, maybe I'll get to work with him someday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to if you do something it suggests
Speaker 1: him in a role. I live for him. I want
Speaker 1: to be his manager, but I don't even think he
Speaker 1: has to pay makes I don't want to do all
Speaker 1: the work. So you were told no makeup a very
Speaker 1: little for the office, and you said you were representing
Speaker 1: the unpretty people.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean the office. I mean especially when we
Speaker 2: first started, there was not a show like that on television,
Speaker 2: with like the horrible lighting and you know, I mean
Speaker 2: first season Steve Carl's hair was terrible. It's like this
Speaker 2: horrible slick. You know. We were supposed to look like
Speaker 2: normal people in Scranton, right from Pennsylvania. So I can
Speaker 2: tell you Scranton is not the beauty.
Speaker 1: G by the way, I've been to the outskirts of Scranton.
Speaker 1: If you could imagine that there are outskirts of Scranton,
Speaker 1: there are Hazelton, Hazelton, Pennsylvania. It's a sexy place. It's
Speaker 1: a really sexy place, like the normal.
Speaker 2: People in the world. It's like, you know, you come
Speaker 2: to l New York, you feel like you see beautiful people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, let's just represent the whole world, can.
Speaker 1: We Yeah, I got it. So you did you've done
Speaker 1: everything you did Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: I did season at four years ago, season twenty eight,
Speaker 2: and I actually did four too. I did like forty
Speaker 2: five of the live tour shows on tour with those guys.
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: You like these You like being part of a group,
Speaker 1: like you like being part of a whole, like camaraderie, group,
Speaker 1: like theater production type of thing.
Speaker 2: I'm an ensemble person. I was. I'm the youngest of
Speaker 2: seven kids. I was born into an ensemble.
Speaker 1: Yes, you had an ensemble cast at your house. That's
Speaker 1: so true.
Speaker 2: So you like total ensemble yes?
Speaker 1: And I are you in a relationship?
Speaker 2: I am. I met my boyfriend on the office. He's
Speaker 2: an NBC photographer. He's a TV photography just all the
Speaker 2: big photoshoots for every big show like Seinfeld Friends, Will
Speaker 2: and Gray's Frasier.
Speaker 1: I think I remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but we met the show. So I actually
Speaker 2: got a I got a show at four and a guy.
Speaker 2: So we've been together for eighteen years.
Speaker 1: Wait, so forty Okay, So you don't have children.
Speaker 2: No, he's got three kids.
Speaker 1: And do you feel like they're like your step kids?
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, yeah, during my life and I love
Speaker 2: them and you know, of course their mom's still around,
Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, it's it's been really fun to watch
Speaker 2: them grow up and and you know, and to have
Speaker 2: a small part in their lives.
Speaker 1: Did you want to have children or that was a
Speaker 1: choice at what age that you said this is not
Speaker 1: my path, you know what.
Speaker 2: I was still waiting tables when I got the office.
Speaker 2: I was forty when I got the office, So I
Speaker 2: was like, I remember there was a woman I worked
Speaker 2: with who got pregnant, and I was like, I don't
Speaker 2: think I could be pregnant waitress. I don't think that's
Speaker 2: I don't think that's what. I don't think I want
Speaker 2: kids that better. I also feel like being one of
Speaker 2: seven kids, I felt like it was hard enough to just
Speaker 2: take care of myself. I didn't know if I had
Speaker 2: the equipment to actually mother someone else.
Speaker 1: So got it, I understand, I got it. I've been
Speaker 1: talking a lot about like the different choices and the
Speaker 1: constructs that society puts on people and it gets them
Speaker 1: on this path. And like this other podcast that I've
Speaker 1: been doing about divorce has all these people talking about
Speaker 1: their truths about having kids and thinking they had to
Speaker 1: do everything early and thinking they had to check all
Speaker 1: these boxes and thinking about what their families want and
Speaker 1: thinking about what they needed to do, and not being honest.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I just think young girls are
Speaker 1: being marketed so many different things and it's irresponsible because
Speaker 1: it's not that it's bad, it's just not everything is
Speaker 1: what it's cracked up to be, and not everybody wants
Speaker 1: to be, you know, in every single telephone commercial, like
Speaker 1: meaning every like what it's supposed to look like. It's
Speaker 1: just it's very interesting. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Speaker 1: So you also are attached to the Alzheimer's charity, the
Speaker 1: Magic of Music Gala, So this is.
Speaker 2: The most lynch. Yeah, this is my second year with them.
Speaker 2: I hosted last year and last year we gave know
Speaker 2: we're to see you because he was as he's given
Speaker 2: a lot of money and you know, we're just trying
Speaker 2: to we're trying to get a cure. We're trying to
Speaker 2: raise enough money to make a difference. Uh, this this
Speaker 2: disease is this. I just feel like it's rampant and
Speaker 2: I just feel like it just affects everybody in the
Speaker 2: families that I mean, my Rosemary, who was my godmother.
Speaker 2: She was so smart. She had she had a law degree,
Speaker 2: she was a sports writer in the fifties, and a mom,
Speaker 2: you know, and and a wife like you know, and
Speaker 2: and I when she got it, I thought, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: this is like the smartest. It doesn't matter, it just
Speaker 2: it can affect anyone. But to watch someone you love
Speaker 2: become less of who they are, it's just it's just tragic, devastating.
Speaker 2: It's devastating.
Speaker 1: And this is you and Jane do this together. Does
Speaker 1: she have a connection to Alzheimer's too?
Speaker 2: I think we all do. Yeah, I know there's I
Speaker 2: think she has a friend. Yeah, there's there's you know,
Speaker 2: I won't speak for her, but I know, like we like, again,
Speaker 2: this is a really this is this is a really
Speaker 2: important victory that we have to win. Like we've got
Speaker 2: to figure this out. So I always feeling like what
Speaker 2: I want to say is like, if you can make
Speaker 2: it to the gala, it's it's May ninth at Sony Pictures,
Speaker 2: you know, on the lot. But whatever, if you can
Speaker 2: just give any amount to the Awesomer's Association, like anything helps,
Speaker 2: Like that's really what why I'm even mentioning it, because
Speaker 2: we I just hope we get closer. I mean, I
Speaker 2: hope we actually in our lifetime to see at least
Speaker 2: figure out how to prevent it something.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: Great, such a crazy mystery right now.
Speaker 1: And it's sad. It's sad. It's like, yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: a loss of who you were, you get yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's sad. Yeah, it is. It's tragic. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think about it that much and now I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about it. Is she one of your closest friends, Jane?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah. We known each other for oh my god,
Speaker 2: since like nineteen eighty eight. She was understudying at Second City.
Speaker 2: The first time I went to see a show there
Speaker 2: and I went to study there, and then a couple
Speaker 2: of years later I became her understudy. It's like, life
Speaker 2: is so so so crazy. And then when we were
Speaker 2: both in Hollywood, we would sing It Benefits together. And
Speaker 2: then Lee ended the same year that the Office ended,
Speaker 2: and uh, she just she got asked to do a
Speaker 2: cabaret act and she's like, I want to bring it,
Speaker 2: so we ended up doing it together.
Speaker 1: We had It's so much better if you think about it.
Speaker 1: You guys have had parallel lives and now that I
Speaker 1: think about two massive shows, right that, Yeah, that are
Speaker 1: like complete your career.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'll tell you, with that bigger career,
Speaker 2: it goes more responsibility. So I probably had more fun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't have big shoes to fill out On our
Speaker 2: regular basis.
Speaker 1: Do you have like a social life or you like,
Speaker 1: do you have the right level of work, Like you
Speaker 1: get to have a lot of free time also, I
Speaker 1: mean sometimes yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like I have a lot, a
Speaker 2: lot of flexibility, which is fun. And you know, my
Speaker 2: boyfriend I we don't live together. That's another secret to
Speaker 2: our success.
Speaker 1: Because he has his kids in his house and you
Speaker 1: just and that's all not because it's.
Speaker 2: Not even not so much of that, but it's it's
Speaker 2: because for a while the kids weren't there. Uh, they
Speaker 2: came back in their twenties. But I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: he never he got married to his high school sweetheart
Speaker 2: years ago and then never lived alone before. So I
Speaker 2: feel like he really enjoys having a space to himself,
Speaker 2: and I enjoyed my space. And I don't want to
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, it's not broken. I'm in the city.
Speaker 1: Here, no, no, no, no, it's I love this. You wait
Speaker 1: to say it again. You're in the city, he's aware.
Speaker 2: He's by the beach. He's literally a block for the beach.
Speaker 2: So it's it's been toad. It's no nice.
Speaker 1: So how do you organize it? Like over there? You're
Speaker 1: on the weekends.
Speaker 2: Because he's he's because I'm no dummy. It's nice to
Speaker 2: be at the beach on the.
Speaker 1: Way, Yeah, exactly. And what about the stuff, because all
Speaker 1: I ever care about is this stuff. Where's all the stuff?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we kind of it's I have some
Speaker 2: stuff at his house, he has some stuff at mine.
Speaker 2: But basically we just kind of keep it stepparate, you know,
Speaker 2: because there wasn't there was It's not like we lived
Speaker 2: together and that we had to find another place. You know.
Speaker 2: It's kind of it worked out perfectly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now you don't want to have kids, he has
Speaker 1: three kids. There's no chance you want to get married
Speaker 1: legally married?
Speaker 2: True, I think so, I don't think so. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't. I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 2: maybe for insurance purposes, but I don't even think. I know.
Speaker 1: You think it's weird, like you're gonna wear a big
Speaker 1: puffy dress for what you don't want to have kids,
Speaker 1: and I you have to sign a legal contract. I'm
Speaker 1: shoving my narrative on you right now, and I.
Speaker 2: Just want to find it with you. I mean, because
Speaker 2: I feel like it's and also we don't want to
Speaker 2: ruin a perfectly good relationship. There's an archetype that you
Speaker 2: step into when you do those kind of ceremonies, and
Speaker 2: sometimes your expectations change, like it's, oh my god, just
Speaker 2: that messes it up.
Speaker 1: By the way, But but no, there are different expectations
Speaker 1: and other people's expectations on you too, the society's expectations,
Speaker 1: and it's just a different shape and there are kids
Speaker 1: and all that. I totally totally get it. Where do
Speaker 1: you have to go today?
Speaker 2: I'm actually going to the Turner Classic Movie Festival tonight.
Speaker 2: They're showing up Pulp Fiction tonight with Josh volt uber
Speaker 2: Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson. And then I'm presenting this
Speaker 2: weekend one of the MGM musicals with Jidigar. Like I
Speaker 2: get to write, like do a little history lesson and
Speaker 2: write about I used to wait on so many old
Speaker 2: stars when I worked in Beverly Hills before I got
Speaker 2: the office.
Speaker 1: So yeah, where did you Where did you work? Because
Speaker 1: I was a waitress.
Speaker 2: I worked at Kate Madelini, but I also.
Speaker 1: Worked in Oh. I loved Kate Madeleine and Losianaga. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they were always opened, like really late or twenty
Speaker 1: four hour. Didn't used to be open twenty four hours
Speaker 1: a day.
Speaker 2: You're really late. They were open till four am on
Speaker 2: the weekend. That's still there, No, it's the building still there.
Speaker 2: It's been empty for probably nine years. I think.
Speaker 1: Wait, that was so yes, that was so iconic. I
Speaker 1: was not a waitress. I totally just I was a waitress,
Speaker 1: but not in La I was a hostess at La Scala. Oh,
Speaker 1: of course for years, slinging chop salads. I was. I was.
Speaker 1: I controlled who got seated, and everybody wanted to sit there,
Speaker 1: all the celebrities and all the writers. I met so
Speaker 1: many people in the entertainment industry that I still know
Speaker 1: today from sitting at the front of La Scala. And
Speaker 1: I was meeting paid eight an hour. I was driving
Speaker 1: there with my Ford probe. But I got a free salad,
Speaker 1: which they don't do anymore. But I also would add,
Speaker 1: you've had the scholar chop salad, right, that's delicious. It
Speaker 1: only it's the best scam in the world because it's
Speaker 1: literally iceberg, a lot iceberg, which costs zero cents, iceberg, lettuce, salami, provolone, chickpeas,
Speaker 1: the vinaigrette that I can make. But I would order,
Speaker 1: I would add tomatoes, I would add turkey, I would
Speaker 1: add avocado. I made that a twenty was a twenty
Speaker 1: one dollar salad. I was so proud that I got
Speaker 1: it for free every day.
Speaker 2: I also worked in New York at a restaurant across
Speaker 2: from Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 1: The Red Eye Grill, and I know the Red Eye Grin.
Speaker 2: I did the private parties both of those places.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what you're reminding me that, like when
Speaker 1: my daughter's older, Like, that's a rite of passage. You
Speaker 1: must wait tables. I waited tables.
Speaker 2: It's a long islid man, you really. And it's funny
Speaker 2: because after I got the Office, I found myself on
Speaker 2: like some people. I remember JJ Abrams saw me at
Speaker 2: the Emmys the year that the Office won, and he's like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, you were our waitress. We love you,
Speaker 2: We're so happy for you. And then there are other
Speaker 2: people who wanted to talk to me, who did not
Speaker 2: remember that I was their waitress who were really mean,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, I'm going to keep it
Speaker 2: moving because I mean, I would never spit in their food.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, I'm not going to hang out and
Speaker 2: talk to you.
Speaker 1: No, And I remembered I was a waitress too, because
Speaker 1: actually La Scala, on the days that they were short,
Speaker 1: I would wait the tables, and the same thing at
Speaker 1: claw Foutee, the restaurant at Sunset Plaza. I've had every job,
Speaker 1: and I that's probably why I'm the way, and I
Speaker 1: loved it. I always loved working. I loved waitressing, I
Speaker 1: loved hostessing. I love to work. What I didn't like
Speaker 1: was when I was in pr in La and I
Speaker 1: it was before there was even like a thing to
Speaker 1: do the envelos and we still lick envelopes for invitations
Speaker 1: and close them. And I remember I'd have the phone
Speaker 1: on my shoulder making phone calls, and the owner of
Speaker 1: the place that the head publicists would say that we
Speaker 1: weren't allowed to make personal phone calls, like why fucking
Speaker 1: licking in, why can't I make I hate stupid shit
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: I used to sneak on the phone because it was
Speaker 2: like back when I had a page or this is
Speaker 2: like get on the nineties, Yes, trying to get your messages.
Speaker 2: And I was always sneaking. I always had the code
Speaker 2: they had, like a secret code to the phone, and
Speaker 2: I always got it, and I would make really short
Speaker 2: calls and just check my voicemail and like for you know,
Speaker 2: because otherwise you're out of business. Forget.
Speaker 1: That was another stupid thing about the nineties and the eighties,
Speaker 1: like not being able to use the phone. Like why
Speaker 1: right now everybody could text all day at work? No
Speaker 1: one's I'm not like going to my assistant. Oh are
Speaker 1: you texting at work? Who cares to call? Whoever? You want?
Speaker 1: Just get your job done.
Speaker 2: Right, as long as you get your job done. I
Speaker 2: know as a long did you get susation?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's well, that's that's very very archaic. That's funny.
Speaker 1: All right. Well you're the best, and I love talking
Speaker 1: to you. I just think you're so great.
Speaker 2: You could talk to you. Yeah, and you know, my
Speaker 2: dad owned a bar, so I feel like I'm a
Speaker 2: bar owner's daughter. Anyway, It's all good. I love tables.
Speaker 2: I wish I wish we got to work together at
Speaker 2: a restaurant. That would be so crazy fun.
Speaker 1: We would be friends and we would laugh. We would
Speaker 1: but maybe else you and we're in l A a.
Speaker 2: Rise of the same. People love you. Thank you so much,
Speaker 2: Thanks Bathony.
Speaker 1: Bye,