WEBVTT - One on One: Arden Myrin 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.040 I Am all In. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:18.480 All I Kiss you, I Am all in with Scott 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.840 Patterson an iHeartRadio podcast, He. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.880 Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one on 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:28.680 one interview with Arden Marine. A few facts about Arden. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.000 She portrayed Claude for one episode of Gilmore Girls. Claude 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:36.400 was one of honors of Bride'smaids. She's an actress and comedian. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.800 She was cast as a member of Mad TV for 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.600 eighty two episodes and was featured on Chelsea Lately for 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.839 over one hundred episodes. She was on a Netflix series Insatiable, 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.559 playing the role of Regina Sinclaarenen starred in the twenty 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.680 sixteen production of Steve Martin's play Meteor Shower at the 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:59.360 Long Wharf Theater. Her television credits include Insecure, grais It, Oatomy, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.680 Conan Arne, Just a New Black, Hung Key and Peel Inside, 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:07.399 Amy Schumer, Psyched Bones, Fresh off the Boat, Subpurgatory two, Two, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.600 Broke Girls, Reno nine one one, Shameless, Gilmore Girls, and 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:18.160 Secret Chef. Let's bring Arden in, Hi, How are you hi? Arden? 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.760 Thanks for joining us? How'd you get the role on 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:21.920 Gilmore Girls? 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:26.279 You know I remember I went I had just booked 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.520 Mad TV. And I got the audition for Gilmore Girls, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.840 and I remember it was for that day and as 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.119 you know, like it's a wordy show, and usually most 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:41.400 auditions are not like same day. And I remember driving 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.000 to Warner Brothers and going into like that cute the 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.959 casting offices that are like all the cute Victorian houses 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.520 and Jess, I remember I'd gone to my friend Steve 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.800 Heidner that played Kenny Banya on Seinfeld, the guy that's 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.440 like dear Gold, and I there's sort of a fun part, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.600 and I wanted to but you know, I liked the 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.040 show and I wanted to book it, and so I 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.560 drove over to Bania's house and then Bania like he 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.080 like ran it with me by wrote like you know 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.600 ten or fifteen times. I mean, I had just gotten 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.880 it and before the days of zoom, et cetera. And 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.120 I ran over to Banier. We ran in a bunch 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.840 uh Mad TV. Let me come in a little bit later, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.840 and I drove over and I was just so concerned 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.480 about being word and grammar. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:32.519 Profit when you realize that the audition is the job. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.000 There's a there's a great video going around Michael Keaton's 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.359 talking about it, and he says, you know what changed, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.119 what changed everything for him was he realized the auditions 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.120 were not auditions, but you got to treat him like 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.240 you got the job and this is your first day 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.040 on the set, so be right. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:47.760 I like that. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.080 Yeah, I like that, isn't that cool? 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.920 Well it also feel like that almost gives me more confidence, 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.080 like if I actually picturing it, because I do think 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.040 the job of the job is getting the job, like 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.160 as an actor, like that that's the job. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.800 Like the rest of the stuff is like the bells 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:02.639 and whistle some time. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.440 Right right, it's the job. It's like how do you 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.200 flip the psychology in the room. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.560 Yeah, I like the idea of first take, like that's 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.239 basically Also, when you're a guest star, you know, you 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.760 really you don't have time to mess around, like you 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.280 got to come in hit it. Like I think guest 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.000 starring is like such a hard Like I've done both. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:23.720 I've been a regular and I've been a guest star 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.239 and I and I remember seeing you know, on a 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.040 lot of show it's particularly multicamps. I did like they 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.040 would just see people at the table reader at the 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:32.480 run through and then they just be gone. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:33.280 Wednesday. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.600 You know, it's like you got to come in and 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.000 do it. Like there's like eighteen people in a jet 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.320 pack covering over the backlock, like happy to come in 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:42.120 and do your job. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.520 And so yeah, I definitely wanted to come do a 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:45.040 good job. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.120 You know. Once I tried because I heard some advice. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.720 I got some advice. I tried this thing where you 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.200 come in the room, you put your finger up and say, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.800 just give me a minute, and you turn your back 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:59.920 on them. Oh, and you just focus. You just demand 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.920 that attention and that moment that's interesting, and then you 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.000 flip around and go, okay, let's go. So now now 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:08.400 they're locked on you, and it will. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:09.320 Do you do that? 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:10.800 I only did it once. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.120 Did you get the job I did? 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.640 I did? But I was feeling so nervy that day, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.159 I know, you know what I mean. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:19.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.760 It was also now everything's like a self tape too, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.920 so it's like, okay. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.200 Girl, give me a minute. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.520 Like actually, the second time I tried it, nobody was 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.599 in the room, so I was like, jokes on, oh, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:30.800 it was. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:31.440 My cat there. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.320 Everything quiet there. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.560 It's October twenty twenty, so you know, me and my 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:37.280 me and. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.680 My Tiger King has pulled to the other room. Give 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:41.320 me a minute. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.320 So what was it like shooting those scenes? Because they 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.719 were really fun scenes. I thought they were some of 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.520 the funnest stuff i've and the best acted stuff that 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:49.000 i'd seen. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.240 Well, thank you, you know, I had it. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.279 It's funny again when you go in and do your 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:54.919 guest spot and then it's like like we were a 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.760 pack of bridesmaids and it was fun to be in 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.920 like the you know, the early adds, juicy couture sweatsuit 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.760 and the giants like thug boots and like I was 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.960 me and Abigail Spencer, who I just ran into on 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.360 the like running the reservoir, and we had an like 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.640 I felt like a few of us kind. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.560 Of bonded, you know. And it was Marley Shelton's sister Sam. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.159 And it's sort of usually you're when you are a 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.279 guest star, you're kind of a lone wolf, you know, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.040 you kind of it's like party of one. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.200 You're not quite sure who to sit with that time. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.599 You know, I'm always like, I guess I'll sit with 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:29.960 like hair and makeup. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.520 You don't know, you know. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.279 When I did Friends, I was like I'm gonna sit 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.160 with Monica like I don't think I did. 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:41.320 Seinfeld and and and uh and Jason Alexander actually sat 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.039 with me at lunch. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.800 Did kicked What season was it? Like how early on? 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.800 I mean it was they were they were at least 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:49.799 six or seven season. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.760 I mean that says a lot about a person. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.839 That season seven, you know, and it's like the biggest 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.000 show in the. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.000 World, in the history of the world. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.240 In the history of the world. And he's up with you. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.200 That's because you know what, that's not always. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.359 I had lunch with George Costanza that I did. He 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:07.920 was great. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:09.400 That's fun. That's fun. 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.800 I think they realized as a cast, it's like they 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:17.000 probably take turns like we know they're going to be 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.960 so nervous. We gotta calm them down, yes, because they're 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.919 always trying too hard or they're too nervous. That too 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.840 much energy and the comedy suffers. So George, take this 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.680 high string guy who's too happy to be here. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.920 And because your thunderblanket is your way to blanket. It 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.520 was your thunderblanket that's got sent to you. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.640 You know. I feel like Michael Richards gave me a 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:45.360 box of really nice Cuban cigars. Oh yes, they were fantastic. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:46.480 To me, they were great. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.600 Stay Julia Louis Dreyfus and like a galling comedy. Not 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:56.919 only is she a chiller comedian, she is so stunningly beautiful, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.080 always hasband, always will be. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.680 To be such a smart babe. And the podcast is great, 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.200 like it is like. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:08.320 When you you forget what a knockout you're like every 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.120 role she's never done, like she is such a star. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.160 Just shout out Julia Louis drips. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.119 It was very distracting. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.200 I'm sure I was. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.120 I don't think I've ever been that nervous, you know, 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.120 in my life to do a couple of scenes with her, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.680 and I was just like, wow, what am I doing here? 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.080 A multi caam too, and again I called I started 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.760 a multicams. But I remember when I did Friends, I 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.960 booked it day of. It was another day of and 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.480 and the other guest star was Sean Penn and it 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:41.400 was like season seven and you're like the panic of 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.960 like there was a lot of props and like they 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.000 don't they didn't need. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:46.960 To run it, you know what I mean? 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.680 Well, they are the Friends. They're a well oiled machine 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.840 and like just the terror of like having to be 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:57.720 a self content like your own energy, right of nervous, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.160 like you have to go in not only pretend like 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.880 these are the other characters, but be cool and then 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.440 pretend to be somebody else interacting with someone that's not 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.520 an iconic character. I mean, did you see people come 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.520 in and just panic on Gilmore Girls because I thought 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.600 there a raditat tat they did. 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.160 They would they would lock up due to the speed. Yeah, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.480 you know, like we're talking experienced Broadway veterans. Yeah, and 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.960 then it was like, what is happening here? This is 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.440 I can't do this? And really, now you can do it, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.200 we can do it, you can do it, and then 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:27.640 they do it. 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:28.680 Yeah, and then they do it. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.080 Yeah, it relax into it a little bit. Yeah. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.280 No, I just did MAZ the last season, and I 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.360 remember like I was thankful that I knew in advance, 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.440 like you better run, you better run and run like 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.840 like so that you so that that's the machine of 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.280 these like that's how they write, and that's the machine 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.400 and that's what makes them great and that's what's fun 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:48.960 to watch. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:50.920 And it's like what instrument are you in there? Like 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:52.319 this is what the orchestra. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.640 Is this is what the music is like, just just run, 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.160 run your stuff, get ready so you can go be 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.600 the best piccolo or whatever. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:00.320 Mm hm. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:01.480 So I had a good time. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.600 So point being normally your one man band, and I 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.239 got to go in and be part of A Briesmay's 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.520 team and it was fun, like it was it was 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.839 comforting to be part of a little squad. I had 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.480 a really I remember sitting having lunch out by like 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.320 the band, like that little outdoor band area that they 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.320 have in the back lot of Warner Brothers, like right, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.920 and and it was it was exciting just to see 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.000 the sets. And I love that lot, like it's always 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:25.240 you know, I grew up in a tiny town in 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.000 Rhode Island. It kind of looks like small town New England. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.839 But it's also the magic that it's like, oh, this 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.000 is Hollywood like these this is not like it's it's 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.600 a it feels like you're making a. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.880 Movie doing working on the back lot of Warner Brothers. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.520 Oh yeah, we had the whole back lot. I don't 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.320 think people realized we had the largest block of real 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.800 estate of any show or film that was for those 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.600 seven years that was filming there. I mean, we even 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.520 had more space than Tom Cruise because he did that, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.520 he did that last Samurai movie. There they really Yeah, 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.560 they took over one of the streets and it was 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.960 it was it's like you know, medieval. Uh. Yeah, it 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.559 was wild. Because we were on the sound stages that 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.080 day and we were in the back. We still had 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.800 so much real estate. We didn't notice the Tom Cruise film. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:11.760 You know what I'm saying. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.400 Yeah, that's so cool. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:15.200 That's fun. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.440 There's so much history on that line. So that's my 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:18.080 favorite lite. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.600 Yeah, and if and if you know, the Batman people 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.719 filming the movie were making too much noise that night. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.000 We calm them down because. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.040 That's so cool. It is so cool. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:29.480 It was. It was wild. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.680 Do you get stopped every day still? Like do when 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.520 you go out? Because because when people are super fans 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.840 of something, like when you're like, do you just like, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.400 I bet it's a very loving, loyal person that wants 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.480 to come tell you what something meant to you. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:11:00.079 Yeah, it's always the heartfelt, emotional encounter. It means so 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.720 much to them. It's always a very very nice and 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.840 tender Yeah. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:06.680 It's so sweet. 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.000 Yeah, I mean once you leave, I mean it happens 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.640 every day I go out in la where I live now. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.120 I moved out of l A. But but once you 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.959 leave the state of California, get it. You get into America, 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.160 you know, proper or whatever. Then it's just like. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.559 The chart, do you live in America proper? 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.400 I do live in America proper. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.200 That's so cool. I'm so happy for you. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:33.880 I got it. We got out of the bubble. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.800 That's nice. Congratulations, it's so cool. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.800 It was time to La is a young city, you know, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.960 that is a young city. So yeah, it just sort 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.640 of wasn't for us. We're raising a child, and it's like, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.199 you know, we we let's let's get into a little 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.280 more of a normal place. You know. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.960 It sounds really really that l. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.040 A isn't great and exciting a lot that's. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.199 Really happy Like that sounds like you picked happy. That's great. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:03.440 Yep, we did. Anyway, You've got a lot of experience 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.960 in comedy comedy. Is just like, did you know early 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.520 on in your training or in your life that you 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.200 were going to end up doing this comedy? Being like 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:16.240 comedy comedy comedy? Yeah, why tell us? Why? You know? 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.680 I just flew out that way, you know, and I 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.240 was like I was the only redhead. I'man now mad 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.760 TV made me blonde, but I was like the only redhead. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.280 School, you know what I mean. It's just like I 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.960 just came out like that. And and I remember we didn't. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.200 I grew up in such a rural area that. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.720 It was really like I my education was like they 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.200 would play these old movies, so it was like Madeline 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.240 Cohn and Terry garr and like you know, or like 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.960 a young Shirley MacLean. And then my mom like would 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.360 show me like old SNL things. She'd show me like 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.960 Builder Radner, and then my brother would show me like 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.120 Steve Martin movies. So I definitely had the right family, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.200 the right programming, the engineers of like really a like 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.640 things I shouldn't have seen at like. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.600 Six, about that right, right, But like it was just. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.760 Classic like literally like Molly Pi like all this stuff 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.560 at six. The programming was and like looking at those 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.200 those goalths in like you know, Madeline Connor or Terry 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.400 got like like they were the most juice, like they 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.120 were great actresses or even like a young Goldie like 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.520 there was just they just never played anything current. So 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.439 my version of what it was was either going to 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.240 be like a busby Berkeley, like nineteen thirties cigarette girl 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.400 at like the Rainbow Room like it was. It was 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.000 a very it was not a present day vision of it. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.199 And and it was sort of the best of and 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.440 I'm thankful to my mom for And I grew up 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.040 in like a town with a general store and to 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.520 stop light, so like who and she was from New York, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:45.920 so she'd bring us down to New York and I 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.120 had an awareness like. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:48.640 That there was to dream big. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:54.160 But like there was something about the the lack of 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.840 structure and the lack of proper like classes or whatever, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.520 like just making my own thing and having this sort 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.560 of education in my brain that I was like, I 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:03.080 can do that. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:04.280 I want to I can do I. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.280 Want to do what they're doing and I'm absolutely going 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:07.720 to Wow wow. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:12.520 Yeah, So those were so those were your big influences matter, Yeah, Like. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:16.000 Yeah, Malican Molly Shannon who I now know and like 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.000 Molly Shannon when I saw and again she's such a 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.680 good actress, Like you forget that, like her characters have 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.960 so much empathy and like and there're these flawed people 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.440 like Mary Catherine Gallagher. She just wants to be loved 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.560 and sometimes can't. She can't get out of her own way. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:35.560 Like but like that was I saw these great human, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.360 flawed with like characters, and I was like, that's what 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.600 I wanted to do, and I wanted to like show 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.120 humanity and make people laugh. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:50.720 Wow. Yeah, fascinating, fascinating. And so what was your first 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.280 tell us about the experience on Mad TV? Because wasn't 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:56.600 was it Alex Borstein? 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.720 Yes, she was, so she she was on I think 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.880 like the first five years and then I was on 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.200 the last four years. So it was the hardest job 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.600 I ever had because I didn't come from like growlings. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.040 I didn't like I'd made a tape in my living room, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.040 you know, like I'd come from like sitcoms and stuff. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:13.680 So when I was on, it. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.200 Was like Key and Peel and Bobby Lee and like 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:22.960 Baron Holt, and like the best parts were incredibly it 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.200 was sort of the butt was like as tough as 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:31.360 SNL with none of the vanity fair conson. So it 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.000 was like it like made you officially like a comedian, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.760 like it like it put me from character actress to 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.960 like character asher's slash like comedian, which I appreciated, but 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.280 it was hard because you know, on a if we 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.240 were on a job together, like you might play Billy 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.320 and I play Sarah, and we almost have no hand 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.680 in our fates, like the you know, the writer's hand 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.480 on your script to the script mad TV, Like every 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.840 week there's like two slots open that aren't for a 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.880 recurring character or the celebrity, and like it's like forty 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.640 sketches that everybody's reading to try to get those two slots. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:07.120 And the competition of that was just something I'd never 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.440 experienced before and was wild. It was wild, but the 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:12.600 fun parts were amazing. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.040 Wow, what's the favorite thing? What's your favorite thing you've 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:17.680 ever done? 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.760 You know, I think I had the most fun. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.680 I was on a Netflix show for two years right 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.800 before the pandemic called Insatiable, and I got to play 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.600 like a villain and a pageant mom and it was 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.680 a comedy, but also it was like a one hour 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.000 and the experience of filming at the people that were 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.640 on it. We filmed in Atlanta and it was like 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.360 again this big, flawed Southern nightmare. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.720 I think that was my favorite part I ever played 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.000 with Connan Tatable. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.560 Really, so you do a lot of stand. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.560 Up I do, I do do stand up? 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:49.840 Yeah? 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.400 Do you tour the country? 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.880 And you know, I just started touring again, like I 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.800 had it towards this before the pandemic and so like 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.720 this fall I did, I did an East Coast tour. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:01.560 But it was interesting. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.920 I you know, I think it's different now, but I 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.760 remember for a while. Sometimes it's like a weird balance 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.680 when it's not your main thing. Now you can self 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.920 tape auditions anywhere, but I felt like when you're not 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.240 trying to your main thing isn't trying to be the 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.600 biggest stand up, Like like I felt like I had 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.879 my ladder wasn't quite on the right wall because I 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.199 felt like I was gone a lot. So like like 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.560 you go on lea fly on like Thursday, maybe you 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.679 come back Monday. More like I felt like I was 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.080 starting to miss auditions and stuff like that, which I 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.480 think that self tapes have changed that. But it was 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.400 one of those things where I think people to start 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.880 so I had to like but it was interesting touring 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.439 because you really get to like meet the country and 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.359 like how well, like people want to show you a 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.480 good time, people want you to experience their city. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.040 Like it was a. You know, when I've done. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.880 It, it's like so nice to meet, as you were saying, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.800 when you meet people that come to your shows or 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.720 come up to like, I'm proud that I've done it 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:00.720 and that I do it, and I am enjoy getting 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:01.399 to meet people. 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:06.760 Yeah yeah, So what kind of who writes your material? 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.679 You write your own my material? Yeah, uff, yeah, you 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:11.120 got to write. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.840 And when when did you start writing your own comedy? 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:16.560 When did you start writing your own jokes? 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:17.080 Oh? 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:18.920 Well, I wrote the book behind me too. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.000 Ah yeah, let me see the book. 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:24.400 This is my book. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.119 Let me see this book. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:32.280