WEBVTT - Kristen Wiig 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.760 This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to here's the thing? 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:10.360 Are we rolling? Hi? Welcome, Welcome to confession. I'm father 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.280 al What saw your mind? Kristen? I've done a lot 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:17.080 of things. Kristen Wigg has indeed done a lot of things. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.120 She was a caterer, a waiter, the lady who gave 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:24.239 out peach samples at a farmer's market. She's done floral design. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.440 She's answered phones at a law firm that lasted a day. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.360 But one thing she has done with astounding consistency for 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.400 much of the past seven years is make me laugh 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.240 until tears are streaming down my face. What was your name? 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:44.760 Kristin Wiggs? Characters on Saturday Night Live are exercises in juxtaposition. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:51.760 The repulsively friendly target cashier, let's see soundscreen, nose plugs. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.840 I wear nose plugs around the house when my neighbor 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:58.080 cooks bractoli, the revolting sexpot. One time, when I got 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.560 really scute, I just read my shirt open and did 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.080 tons of two any little bounces in a row. Judy 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.560 the pathologically nervous travel expert. I'm not nervous. I just 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.200 changed my mind about doing this. Just getting. I didn't 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:11.720 change my mind. I changed my clothes, just getting my clothes, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.720 and change my addressed and I live it. Twenty one street, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.560 just getting job, one two street, just getting. I didn't 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.120 move and I can move my body. Look just kidding. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.399 Lorne Michael's called Wig one of the top three or 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.560 four performers in his show's history. Kristen inhabits her characters 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.880 with the fierce commitment of a veteran film actor. It's 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.360 no wonder her transition into movies was so smooth. Well 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:37.800 you're kid, and you'll be my maid of honor. God, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.320 of course, of course I will. Perhaps Wig is best 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.080 known for her starring role in Bridesmaids, which she also 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.360 co wrote, earning her an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.200 This spring, she's appearing in Jennifer Westfeld's new movie Friends 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.120 with Kids. With all this success, it's hard to believe 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.880 Whigg's career in comedy almost didn't happen. She grew up 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.320 in upstate New York and Pennsylvania, never dreaming of making 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.360 a living in the entertainment industry. When it was time 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.720 for college, performing didn't even cross her mind. I was 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.240 an art major. It wasn't really for me. I was 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:20.200 kind of in my I hate the word party phase. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.160 I hate that word. I was having fun, I guess 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.080 at that time, and I taking it easy. I was 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.680 taking it easy, and then I didn't really know what 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.160 I was having, Like what am I going to do 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.720 with my life? You're in your ring ding ding peg. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.480 I've never used that term, but I'm going to And 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.320 then I went back to Rochester because I wasn't sure 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.200 what I wanted to do. And then I just started 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.680 like taking classes at the local community college. And then 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.639 I was like, I want to travel art art classes 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.600 and there's no performance element of you're doing and more 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.160 people saying to you, God, you're funny. I don't think 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.959 people wake up when they're you know what. I never 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.360 really did plays. I mean, if I had to give 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.560 a speech in class, I would try anything to get 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.239 out of it. I hated talking in front of people. 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.760 I still actually don't really like doing that. If I 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.680 myself and it's a group of people, it still makes 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.800 me nervous. Anyway, after I was back in Rochester, I 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.800 did a Knolls semester. Do you know what that is? 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.919 It's like outward bound where you like live outside and learned. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:21.959 Is it like meaningful or is it ring ding ding? No, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.960 it's meaningful, yeah, soul searching and yes, oh yes, of 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.960 course for three months there was a little bit of that. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.560 It's called what knowles National Outdoor Leadership School. You're laughing 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.560 in me, it's like outward outdoor Leadership. Yeah. It was 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.840 like you learn how to live outside and like just 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.320 incase apocalypse and if you get lost in the woods, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.840 like I wouldn't know what to do. And if I 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.120 was with you, I would bring up this conversation and say, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.040 you're on your own, you go get lost in I'm 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.760 gonna be in the hotel watching Bridesmaids on pay per view. Anyway, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:55.440 long story short after that, went back to Rochester and 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.360 then applied to the University of Arizona. Went there for 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.160 a year. Why they're um, it was a boyfriend thing. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.760 And then you're pretty normal up until now, pretty normal. Yeah, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.040 And then then I took an acting class. Where at 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.400 University of Arizona, my major was studio art and you 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.040 could pick three different types of art for that major, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.880 and it was like sculpture, painting, and I just tried 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.479 this class called performance Art, which was very like writing 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:29.039 poems and doing kind of yes, like very weird light 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.799 changes and things like that, which was like my first 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.680 experience of being on a stage. Even though it was 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.520 like this tiny little box in front of a class. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.720 It was literally acting one on one that was one 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:44.680 class one class, and I was terrified to take it 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.200 because I, like I said, I hate standing up in 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.480 front of people and performing. But something about this class 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.599 we learned about improv and my teacher was really supportive, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.360 and at the end of the class he was just like, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.520 have you ever considered doing this? And I was like, no, yeah, right, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:05.200 was my teacher. Yeah. I just kept thinking about it, 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.159 and I wasn't really happy there. I didn't really like 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.600 the art program wasn't really for me. I don't want 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.760 to say I had an epiphany, but I did have 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.200 one of those moments where I was like looking at 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.960 myself in the mirror and I was like, what are 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.240 you doing? What do you want to do? If you 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.279 could do anything in this world, what would it be? 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.760 And I was like, I want to move to l 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:29.320 A and try to be an actor, which was crazy, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.200 but I didn't stop myself. I packed my car like 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.760 the next day and my roommate at the time in 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.200 Arizona lived in Beverly Hills, and she said I could 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.520 come stay with her. Started flowing in that direction. I 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.599 didn't tell my parents that I was leaving arit office, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.960 and I just kept saying, God, it's really hot here. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:57.039 There's much sand everywhere, exactly West Hollywood, Arizona. Um. And 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.760 when you got there, how quickly did you get into 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.760 the down things thing? Not quickly because I moved there 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.160 and I was like, kind of paste, don't you kind 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.440 of you're kind of creeping up on this. I got 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.120 there and I was like, what a slow motion epiphany? 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.320 It was in a pivo. I got there and I 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.360 was like, what am I doing? Because l A is 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.800 a city of actors and performers and writers and filmmakers 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.680 for the most part, I mean, that's where they all go. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:30.880 And I had zero experience. I wasn't, you know, nineteen 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.800 and I just got a job and like, wasn't really 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.280 doing anything job doing what I worked at anthropology? Did 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.839 your story? You're so close an anthropology? Yeah? And I 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.839 did like, were you security? I wasn't security, No, But 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.440 I did a lot of like visual stuff because of 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.279 my art background. I had help with like the displays 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.520 and stuff. But when you say you you weren't sure 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.600 what you were doing, there's something about you. In the 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.400 time I've known you have been around, you were You're 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.200 still kind of that way. Oh yeah, I don't think 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.240 I'm ever going to figure it out. I don't know, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.240 do you ever? I don't know. I mean I think 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.240 that there's two types of people in the business and 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.960 I've met. That is the ones that have that very 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.480 Mickey Rooney kind of I'm going to be in show business. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.080 You know, they're kids and they just wanted to eat, sleep, 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.480 and drink it. Then there's people who are, if not accidental, 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.440 they certainly have a sense that they're visiting. I'll do 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.480 this for now. You know. Yeah, I love performing, but 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.880 there's such a big part of me that's like, don't 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.600 look at me, do you know what I mean? It's 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.160 hard to find that balance. I think also, like people 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.040 assume if you're an actor, that you just like walk 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.120 into a room and you're like, hello, listen to this story. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:48.360 I want everyone to gather out. The exact opposite. If 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.760 I'm in a room full of people and someone says like, hey, Kristen, 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.760 what happened at that thing. I'll just be like, oh, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.160 I'll start sweating and your dreaming going to dinner and 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.160 someone else does all the talking. Yeah, that's why I 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.000 like going to dinner with you. So when you're there 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.520 and you get into the Groundlings, Groundlings opened everything up. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.320 How so because for you you're thinking acting and it 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.040 was a performing on class. You said I'm gonna go 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:11.920 to l to be an actress. And do you feel 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.680 that you crossed the line and it was I'm a 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.200 comedian or I'm a comedy actress. You never felt that way. No, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.360 I think it was it was improv. It was watching 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:26.160 people be on stage acting without a script. There was 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.560 something in me that was like, I want to do that. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.600 I know that I can do that. For some reason, 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:35.000 it was less scary to me than having words in 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.360 front of me, because I think when you're handed a script, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.440 you know that you're supposed to do it in a 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.439 certain way, and people will think like, how is she 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.760 reading this? But when you're improvising, there's nothing to compare 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:50.240 it to and you can do whatever. Yeah. But when 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.600 I started taking classes at the Groundlings and taking improv, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:57.280 it was like something just like clicked and I felt like, all, 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.200 this is what I want to do. And but at 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:00.840 the same time, did you get a sense of what 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.160 you're doing? It was working. You were pretty good at it. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:10.520 I mean, yeah, I think so, but you were good no, 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.640 I mean it was something. It was nice to have 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.400 that thing that I knew that I was good at. Finally, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:21.840 besides art, which is very personal and quiet, and you know, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.320 that was just sort of something I did by myself. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.040 You don't talk to anybody when you're drawing or painting. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:34.000 It's very um isolating. And for me, doing the Groundings 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.480 was the exact opposite of that, because it's such a 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.400 community and you're you improvise with other people and you 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.439 have to connect with other people to make it work. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.959 Audition to get in it's like a school. I mean 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.760 you have to go and take the first class, and 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.880 then after the first class, your teacher tells you if 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.760 you can move on or if you should repeat it, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.440 or if this isn't for you, and then you just 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:02.280 keep going. And then the third level is like it's 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.920 writing intensive. So that's that's like where I learned how 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.480 to write was at the Groundlings. And the Groundlings was 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:14.040 how long probably like four or five years. I guess 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.720 a few years. Yeah, I mean there's time in between 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.400 some of the levels because there's such a long waiting list. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.600 And then once I got into the main company, I 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.480 was only in it for a handful of months before 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:30.319 I got Now, when SNL comes knocking, for those we knocked, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.600 I don't know if they not, well, we sent it im. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.320 My manager sent a tape in. So you had an 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.880 agent and a manager. I had playing the whole thing 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.480 out there. I had a manager working. I've done a 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.520 few pilots, I guess, and a few commercials. She weren't 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.000 cloistered over there on the groundlings. You were, you were working, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.800 I was, yeah, I mean I still was had odd jobs. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.560 And when you connected with the SNL people, you sent 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.600 material to them. Naomi sent a tape in. And then 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.000 your manager, Yes, sorry, my manager, Naomi Odenkirk, whose I 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.320 wouldn't have any of my career if it wasn't for her. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.160 I used to babysit for her, and then I asked 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:10.679 her to come see my groundling show and she was 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:15.640 like okay, um, yeah anyway, So that's how she signed 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.080 me was from seeing me there. But she just kind 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.800 of set my tape in and then you know, you 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.000 don't hear anything, and then you just get a call. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:30.000 We'd liked her to audition this summer. Five characters, three impressions, 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.000 five minutes, and I was like, Okay, I don't really 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.320 have any impressions, so I'm gonna have to Like I'd 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.640 never done impressions on stage at the groundings, it was 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.680 just kind of like joking around with my friends. Flew 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:47.520 out there. It was the most terrifying experience. Who are 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.560 you doing it for? I don't even remember deceived darkness. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.080 I don't even I just remember Lauren was there, and 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:59.360 and Seth and Marcy Tina, you know friends I had 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.360 met it. No. I went to New York once when 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:06.240 I was in eighth grade and like went to to 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.920 like hard rock cafe or something. When I was in 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.040 the eighth grade. No, I came to New York and 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.280 I was like what. I bought a stopwatch because I 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:15.960 really thought they were going to just turn the lights 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.040 off at five minutes, because they said, like it's five minutes, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.000 please don't go over. So I was like electric. Yeah, 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.640 So I practiced in the with like a stopwatch, trying 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.440 to get it under five minutes, exactly five minutes, and 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.400 I don't do stand up, so the idea of performing 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:40.199 by myself, I felt okay, I felt pretty good. They 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.439 laughed a little bit. I was warned, you know, like 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.480 it's going to be quiet, just do it. It's a 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.200 tough crowd, just do it and go. If anything, I 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.680 just felt happy that I did it because I was 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.760 so terrified and shaking. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.800 and it was over. I didn't hear anything, and I 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:03.480 was like, okay, well that was an experience. And then 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.240 like a month and a half later, we got a 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.440 call saying can she come back, you know, and if 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.760 she has new stuff or other stuff that would be 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.600 great too. And I was like, I've crammed everything I've 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.960 ever done in that five minutes. But then I just 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.800 I came up with some new stuff, went back and 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.000 did it again. Then they asked me to stay and 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.560 meet with Lauren. I don't remember what I said, I 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.200 do you have kind of an Alzheimer's problem now because 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.400 you don't remember a lot. I don't remember because I 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.160 was I was I do have a horrible memory. But 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.479 also I was so nervous and probably didn't say much anyway, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:38.800 and then he was like, you know, well we don't 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.840 really have room for you right now, but you know, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.800 your audition was great. I mean he was so sweet, 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.960 and I was like okay, and then I left. I 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.120 was so confused, and then I went home and then 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.320 the season started, and I remember watching the first show 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.240 and being like, well, I didn't get it. And then 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.320 after the fourth show, we got a call saying can 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.800 she come? So then I started, like fifth show in 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:07.679 I started, which was even more nerve wracking because you 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.320 feel a call you when they said get out here. Yeah, 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.319 had you watched the show prior to yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.679 I'd grown up watching oh yeah, especially high school. I 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.800 remember it was like people would watch it and then 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.880 remember of high school. Yeah, I don't really remember. So 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.880 you you you had an awareness of the show when 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.080 you were a fan of the show, so when they 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.680 called you and asked you to come, you felt nervous. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:36.240 Other than nervous, I I don't know if there was 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.200 even much more than nervous. I was happy. I was 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.520 so happy. I was like, this is too good to 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.280 be true. And in my mind I'm thinking I'm moving 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.960 to New York City? Where do I live? How do 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.320 I get around? How do I move my stuff? What 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.160 if I get there and none of my stuff works? 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.040 You know it's getting us And I was a huge 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.520 It's a huge deal. I mean I jumped up and down. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.160 I was I couldn't believe it. And I think the 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.400 difference with SNL's if I had gotten my big break 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.240 whatever you want to call it, if it was a 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.960 pilot or a TV show got picked up or a movie, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.480 you kind of know what to expect, And with SNL 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:20.920 you have no ideas written yet hasn't been written, Like 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.960 what am I going to do on the show? How 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.080 how does it's live? It's an hour and a half. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.880 But for you, in terms of that open field running, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.360 so to speak, in terms of there being a blank canvas, 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.080 you went in there and you've created all these this 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.800 incredible range of characters. You have a woman that's your 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.280 writing partner, yes, Annie Mamolo and Annie Mamola. Where did 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.640 you meet her at the ground when you went? Did 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.480 they bring her along with you? When did she come along? Well? 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.160 I mean I wrote Brides Means with her, but she's 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.920 not she's not understand Who do you write with on SNL. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.840 I write a lot with James Anderson and Kent Sublet, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.520 who came from Groundling, to describe how that works, because 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.120 people who don't know Wes and L don't know that 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.440 there are these pairings. People kind of find something they 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.680 dig right for you. Just find the people that you 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.040 have they want to write for you. Yeah, and it's 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:14.080 a similar sense of humor. It's easy, and people just 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.040 naturally gravitate towards to give me a character that one 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.760 of them wrote for you. The secret word sketch, I'm 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.080 thrilled to be here. Look at me. Mindy Grayson is 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.360 her name that like old Hollywood. They write that I 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.560 have nothing to do with that, and it's such a gift, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.160 no secret words to an actress. I see the word 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.479 and I explore it. And the movie reviewer Linda she 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.280 was the Groundlings. I hated one and love the other. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:44.120 Gas so that you brought in your baggage with you. Yeah, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.920 and then I write that with Paula. Yeah. Yeah. My 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:51.800 next film is Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.600 or what I like to call it, Alice and wonder 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:59.160 if someone put LSD in my crystal like she originally was. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.200 I was doing her I think in the show maybe 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.119 that that I was in when I got SNL and 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.680 the most distracting thing along Helen Obama Carter, how would 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.800 it Linda review Bridesmans would in Linda Sex, She'd probably like, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.560 there's too many women in it. When when I originally 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.120 did that character, it was a sketch at the Groundlings 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:22.720 and it was a woman who was on the plane 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.119 who was watching the in flight movie, which was the Matrix, 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.879 and she was so confused by it and she didn't 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.000 understand anything, and she just kept talking to the people 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.359 and like what is going on? And I tried it 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.040 as a sketch at SNL like five times. It went 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.600 to dress maybe three times, and finally someone was like, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.439 why don't you just try or an update, and so 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.280 that's how she eventually got on the show. Recently, you 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.480 did the news segment with Seth. We were that blonde 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.840 bimbo who had her legs. Who is that woman? Rebecca LaRue? 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.000 I think is her name? Here to tell us how 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.880 we can meet a significant other by New Year's Flirting Expert, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.800 Rebecca LaRue. I want to tell you that I've never 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.359 laughed so hard in my life, and like the last 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.000 year then when I watched you do that, if you 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.919 want to explain what you're doing right now, just like 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.760 body language stuff you know that people can do. There's 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.560 these women you play who have that kind of it 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.879 doesn't mean to do with femininity or sexuality, it's just 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.879 more of their psychological jaggedness, if you will. And Linda, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.760 that could be Uncle Bob. You take a character that 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.080 it has there's no really no gender specifics to it. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.560 Then you turn around you play a woman who was 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.240 very gender specific. It looks like, you know, you started 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:41.440 flirting already. I'm just listening to you. I'm just really 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.359 hearing you. You play the super hot, horny actress and 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.520 you were so funny. I mean, there are some people 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.800 in comedy who can't do both that. I have to say. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.280 One of the greatest gifts that I've gotten from SNL 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.919 is getting out of my comfort zone. I realized, I 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.800 think Lauren realized probably the first handful of years that 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:08.560 I was there. Most of my characters were ladies in 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:13.320 their forties with like short hair and weird sweaters that 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.639 nobody Barbara Bush, no one wanted at the dinner party 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.960 and The good thing about being at S n L 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.640 for me creatively is to think, Okay, I'm comfortable enough, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.439 I really want to try something that's not some you know, 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.600 something that I normally do. And that's when I actually 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.840 first came up with the character, Um Shannah. One time, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.400 I need a bunch of peanuts and I had a pain. 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.320 You're made billy button. So the doctor to me he 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.280 needed to still simple and I need to poop when 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.000 the dainty's cutest little void cup, the one that's like 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.080 sexy but then does like gross things. Because I was like, 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.720 I really want to write a character that looks kind 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.679 of good but blank. And that's kind of where the 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.080 Flirting Lady came from too. I was like, I just 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.919 want to try, you know, i'd really know what that 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:02.240 was going to be. I mean, none of it was 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.600 really on the page when we wrote it. But for you, 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.240 do you feel like, when there's a quotient of a 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:13.840 character which is a sensuous quotient and you're sending it up, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.120 do you realize that you could walk out the door 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.760 tomorrow and probably play that character for real in a 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.479 straight film. I mean, have you ever wanted to do 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:26.760 play a leading lady in a dramatic film a love story. Yeah, 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.960 period film. I would love to do that straight film. Yes, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.400 I hope, I hope I get the opportunity to do that. 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.080 I was just actually talking to someone about this the 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.960 other day that the audience very quickly puts you in 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.679 uh folder, like they know you how they first knew you. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.919 I'm Kristen from SNL or comedic actress, and people are 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:55.679 always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff. Really, like, 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:56.920 you really want to do that? Have you had any 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.679 offers for that? Um? I mean there's a couple of 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.480 things that I'm looking at doing next that aren't comedies 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.000 at all. One of them is really not at all, 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.000 and I'm horrible movie. I just want to be in 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.080 a town. Do you ever want to do a harm 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.840 movie with me? Are you kick a paranormal Blair? Which thing? 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.119 We're just completely Lucy Goosey, just cameras and we improve 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.640 we could shoot it in here. We're on the radio 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.760 and then we just hear voice a dad announcer who's 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.160 in here, in lacks in here, you know, let's talk 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.920 about that later on. Okay, I love that. Talk about 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:32.399 Jennifer Westfeld's film. It was it like for you acting 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.639 in the film, Um, it was amazing. It's it was 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:39.119 a much more dramatic part than I've had the opportunity 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:42.359 to do that. I loved it. I loved it. It 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.200 was so part of it was satisfying to me. Yeah, 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:46.960