Speaker 1: Is it about Hooker number two?
Speaker 2: No, that was my first job out of college. That
Speaker 2: was my first Yes, dang.
Speaker 1: It, everybody, it's Bobby on this Bobby Cast. I'm talking
Speaker 1: to Melissa Peterman. You may know her as Barbara Jean
Speaker 1: from Riba, which I think I've seen every episode at
Speaker 1: least twice. Maybe you know her as Brenda and Young Sheldon.
Speaker 1: Now she has reunited with one of her best friends,
Speaker 1: Raeven McIntyre on the NBC comedy Happiest Place, which is
Speaker 1: really cool. She's toured with the Country Legends, She's hosted
Speaker 1: game shows, She's done it all. She's so funny. Here's
Speaker 1: my conversation with Melissa Peterman. All right, Melissa Peterman's on
Speaker 1: and she's so funny, and so we almost started talking
Speaker 1: and then this started. So we haven't met, but we
Speaker 1: were at the same place at the same time. Do
Speaker 1: you know that place?
Speaker 2: We were at? The Kennedy Center Awards. Was it twenty seventeen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, my years are bad, but yeah, it was when
Speaker 1: Riva got the award and we were both part of
Speaker 1: the presentation for Riva.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was absolutely so out of my box
Speaker 2: and like zone, and I was so thrilled to be there.
Speaker 2: I was one of the That was one of the
Speaker 2: shows I would watch every every year because I just
Speaker 2: love learning more about like artists and watching other artists
Speaker 2: celebrate them. And it was the year that Share was there,
Speaker 2: Linn Manuel, Miranda. Who else was there that year? Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, was it? I not Ira Glass? What was it?
Speaker 1: I remember Linn Manuel, Miranda for sure, and Share because
Speaker 1: I looked. So what I remember from that show was
Speaker 1: I got a call from Riba going, hey, will you
Speaker 1: come out and do the very beginning of my intro?
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, sure, whatever he wants. I love
Speaker 1: Riva and so yes, I'm in. Whatever you want. It's like,
Speaker 1: go tell a couple jokes and do this lead in.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know she was first off and that
Speaker 1: and I do enough stand up that I'm not so
Speaker 1: intimidated by people in the crowd. But there were like
Speaker 1: Supreme Court judges Sharon Reeber were sitting right up there
Speaker 1: in front of that to me was a heavy room.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, and you know, I'll tell you another. On
Speaker 2: my way there. As I landed in Washington or in DC,
Speaker 2: I had an email that said, would you like to
Speaker 2: do the presentation at the state dinner the night before.
Speaker 2: You know, when they get when they get the necklace
Speaker 2: and you have to go up and speak. And I
Speaker 2: was I thought, oh, all right, and you know you're
Speaker 2: in you know you're in the room. It was it
Speaker 2: was like the Martha Washington bathroom was down the hall,
Speaker 2: you know, which I probably stole some paper towels from
Speaker 2: their share there. It's like, you know you're at you
Speaker 2: recognize the room you're in. And I had no notes.
Speaker 2: I just made it up and got up there. And
Speaker 2: it was so terrifying. I believe. I said something like,
Speaker 2: and Char's looking at me, and if I look at her,
Speaker 2: it'll be like looking into an eclipse. And you know,
Speaker 2: I just it was so much. It was just a
Speaker 2: different room. And you know what you're Yeah, we've been
Speaker 2: in rooms. I've been in front of a lot of people,
Speaker 2: but it's a different thing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: People are like, oh, it's just like it's just like
Speaker 2: the People's Choice. No it's not. It's not like the
Speaker 2: People's Choice, not at all. There's somebody who just got
Speaker 2: back from the G seven stummit. So no, it's not
Speaker 2: the same thing. So it was this very strange mix
Speaker 2: of just politics and entertainment. And then like, I was,
Speaker 2: do you remember being downstairs before the actual the televised event,
Speaker 2: were you down underneath it? I was there, and I
Speaker 2: heard all of the Shuler sisters that were coming to
Speaker 2: sing from the from Hamilton were warming up in like
Speaker 2: a room next to me, and I thought, how why
Speaker 2: am I here? How am I even in the same
Speaker 2: or room as these amazing voices. I feel like I
Speaker 2: should write them a check and just slip it under
Speaker 2: the door, because that was just the price of admission
Speaker 2: to hear them sing like that. It was just it
Speaker 2: was very intimidating. It was an intimidating audience. But of
Speaker 2: course you say yes because it's Reba, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to honor her because she deserved it. And it was
Speaker 2: a thrill. It was truly a thrill to be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a special night. And then I think
Speaker 1: if I were betting money, I think CBS piped in
Speaker 1: laughter for a couple of my jokes, because I don't
Speaker 1: remember getting the laughs that I got in the room.
Speaker 1: I really don't. And I thought, man, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be embarrassed because I went up and I told a
Speaker 1: couple jokes and I thought, eh, opening stiff room and
Speaker 1: also Supreme Court justices. And then they aired it back.
Speaker 1: I swear to god, they piped in laughter, and I
Speaker 1: was so thankful that they did that.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I was there, and you were funny,
Speaker 2: and you were great, and you were perfect, and you
Speaker 2: were very funny and you probably don't know if you
Speaker 2: got laughs because it was weird. It's just such an
Speaker 2: odd it's just a weird room. But you were great,
Speaker 2: you really were.
Speaker 1: So you Riba go back to Riba. Is that when
Speaker 1: you guys first started. Did you know each other pre
Speaker 1: Riba the show in like two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: No, we did not. The first time I met her
Speaker 2: in person was the first day of the table read
Speaker 2: for the show.
Speaker 1: And so you didn't audition for her or with her.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I had auditioned. When I auditioned, the
Speaker 2: show was still called Sally, I believe because they didn't
Speaker 2: know she wasn't attached yet. So at that point I
Speaker 2: was auditioning for this show Sally, and I believe by
Speaker 2: the time I got to like that callback where you're
Speaker 2: in front of network, at that point she was attached
Speaker 2: to it. And I thought, oh, my gosh, please let
Speaker 2: her be attached to it, because I just feel like
Speaker 2: it will. She's she's sort of like everything she does
Speaker 2: sort of works and turns to golds, and like I
Speaker 2: just wanted her to do it and I just wanted
Speaker 2: to meet her. But I never auditioned with her. Nope,
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: What was your process like even auditioning for Sally? Because
Speaker 1: she's told that story before about how it wasn't about
Speaker 1: her until you know, she accepted it. So was that
Speaker 1: initially just a large casting where you went in with
Speaker 1: a bunch of other people that look like you and
Speaker 1: you know, had you had your characteristics?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you know I went in and to me,
Speaker 2: it's it sticks in my mind because it was one
Speaker 2: of those auditions where the script was really funny. I
Speaker 2: love the idea of this character that they were creating,
Speaker 2: of the other woman, the new wife, and I just
Speaker 2: but I didn't quite know how to attack it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I was like, gosh, I usually you know when you
Speaker 2: you know this, when you have when you get it,
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, I see who this person is. And
Speaker 2: it wasn't until I was I remember sitting in the
Speaker 2: parking lot about to go in and I just went, h,
Speaker 2: I got it, I got it. I have to play
Speaker 2: her that she has no idea that they are not
Speaker 2: best friends. I have to play that I have no
Speaker 2: idea that whatever insult or anything she throws, it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't, I wouldn't. I it doesn't register with her
Speaker 2: because I have to think that, of course we're going
Speaker 2: to be best friends. We have so much in common,
Speaker 2: you know, we like the same guys or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: But I just go, you she has to be she
Speaker 2: can't fight back. She has to just know, like, oh,
Speaker 2: she we're going to be best friends anyway. So I
Speaker 2: just remember having that click and go, oh, that's what
Speaker 2: it is, and then going into the audition. I leave
Speaker 2: and one of the producers followed came out after me,
Speaker 2: which never happens unless they're like, oh, you know, we
Speaker 2: don't validate. That's usually what it is. But he came
Speaker 2: out and said, you know, he knew I was going
Speaker 2: out of town, and I said, He's like, where are
Speaker 2: you going and said, just going out of town for
Speaker 2: the weekend and I'll be back in LA on Monday.
Speaker 2: And again that doesn't happen, and I when I by
Speaker 2: the time I landed in Seattle. I'd gotten a callback,
Speaker 2: so I go back to I think a network callback,
Speaker 2: and then it was studio. But if I'm remembering correctly,
Speaker 2: and I feel like again, it's clear to the people
Speaker 2: that we didn't, you know, research this before we talk,
Speaker 2: because otherwise we'd have better idea of when the Kennedy
Speaker 2: Center Honors was we were at, and I would remember this.
Speaker 2: But I believe that that the three at the final
Speaker 2: was Rachel Harris, who's a brilliant, funny comedian actress who's
Speaker 2: very successful, and I think Suki who's married to Kevin
Speaker 2: Neelan and I'm going to butcher her lasting Suki. It
Speaker 2: was the three of us. I think we were the
Speaker 2: three women that were last up for barbarageing and very
Speaker 2: very funny and sort of just different flavors of that character.
Speaker 2: And by the time I went in, I did the
Speaker 2: final test, which is nerve wracking, and when I was
Speaker 2: driving out, I got a call from my agent that
Speaker 2: I booked it, which I didn't think I would because
Speaker 2: I was standing next to two other actresses who I
Speaker 2: knew were hilarious and very funny.
Speaker 1: At what point can you fill a shift in a
Speaker 1: sitcom where you know it's being taken by the audience
Speaker 1: and that there's probably a good chance that it gets renewed.
Speaker 2: I don't think you. I don't. I don't think as
Speaker 2: an actor you really know that because you sort of
Speaker 2: do your thing and then you put it out there
Speaker 2: and it's sort of up to the the other things
Speaker 2: that you're out of your control. And also the time
Speaker 2: we did that show, there wasn't a ton of and
Speaker 2: like that initials feedback we can get now on social media.
Speaker 2: It was there, but it wasn't quite like it was today.
Speaker 2: So you know, you're doing this show and you kind
Speaker 2: of put it out there. It felt right while we
Speaker 2: were doing it, you know, it felt like there was
Speaker 2: this chemistry there, and specifically for season two, I remember
Speaker 2: there was this click with the cast and with the
Speaker 2: characters of the Barbaradini and Reeb were like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: this is the show. But for me anyway, I don't
Speaker 2: think I even understood what it was until we were
Speaker 2: off the air for how many years, And it was
Speaker 2: in being syndicated and the love that it got there
Speaker 2: that's when I sort of went, oh, you know, I
Speaker 2: truly sort of felt the the the audience loved for
Speaker 2: and how people were taking it. So I think during
Speaker 2: the actual shooting and running of it those first six seasons,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I ever really had a grasp
Speaker 2: of what it was going to be or what it
Speaker 2: was to audience. I mean, obviously people liked it, they
Speaker 2: loved meeting you in person and talking about reb I
Speaker 2: felt the chemistry of the cast, and it felt like
Speaker 2: we were doing really good work. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was also just sort of it was my first
Speaker 2: series regular, and I felt like my job was just
Speaker 2: to come in and do my work. And you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't know a lot either was I was really
Speaker 2: young and naive too.
Speaker 1: For me, I would watch the show, but I never
Speaker 1: watched every episode until it was syndicated, and that's when
Speaker 1: I really felt like I had a relationship with the show.
Speaker 1: It was on USA, it was on CMT because it
Speaker 1: was on a lot so you can catch all the episodes.
Speaker 1: Did you feel that when it went into syndication that
Speaker 1: you could feel the show's popularity and even your star
Speaker 1: rise because it was just so present.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean with somethings on every day and people
Speaker 2: are consuming it. Yes, I definitely felt that and it
Speaker 2: was it was you know, it was where you got
Speaker 2: recognized a lot more. I felt like in that syndication
Speaker 2: there was so much more love and consumption of the
Speaker 2: show just because it was it was there all the time,
Speaker 2: and then people really loved it. It was fun to
Speaker 2: see that. And then TikTok when when they now cut
Speaker 2: to you know, even years later, where there's this other
Speaker 2: resurgence of it. And ultimately, I do think that all
Speaker 2: of those things, if the writing wasn't great, if the
Speaker 2: if the if they hadn't created these characters that people
Speaker 2: wanted to be around, that wouldn't have mattered. But they did,
Speaker 2: and I can watch it. I hate watching things that
Speaker 2: I'm in unless I have distance from it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Distance is a lot easier for me, And I can
Speaker 2: watch those episodes now of that show and just think
Speaker 2: it's really funny and a lot it holds up, and
Speaker 2: it was. We did do some really fun and great things,
Speaker 2: and I love watching the chemistry between everybody. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's been, it's it's sort of it's it's I
Speaker 2: feel very grateful that, you know, I'm in one of
Speaker 2: those shows that people still kind of watch today.
Speaker 1: Can you educate me and us on especially that show,
Speaker 1: because there's an audience what a week is like of
Speaker 1: doing that show, and what would happen on a Monday
Speaker 1: versus a Saturday, and what day it actually was recorded.
Speaker 2: It's a multiicam, is a five day it's one episode
Speaker 2: is in five days. And what we're doing right now
Speaker 2: in Happiest Place is the exact same sort of schedule
Speaker 2: we did on the original Reabis show, which is we're
Speaker 2: Wednesday to Tuesday show, which means Wednesday is our table read.
Speaker 2: We come in, that's our day, one of our five days.
Speaker 2: So we come in and we do it our table
Speaker 2: read in front of the studio and network, and we
Speaker 2: read it out loud for everybody in the writers and
Speaker 2: then we would go away and maybe go to a
Speaker 2: costume fitting or hang out address room for a while
Speaker 2: while they get notes from the studio and network, and
Speaker 2: then we would come back in after they all give
Speaker 2: their notes, and our director would usually say, all right,
Speaker 2: this is going to change. This is going to change
Speaker 2: some changes here, but we're going to put it on
Speaker 2: its feet, and we'd have a light day of rehearsal
Speaker 2: on that first table read day, so you know, we
Speaker 2: got in there at ten o'clock for table read. We
Speaker 2: were probably done by two, so it's a great schedule
Speaker 2: for that way. And then the next day is come in.
Speaker 2: They probably got a new script overnight they addressed the
Speaker 2: changes from studio network. We get there at probably nine,
Speaker 2: and if we need to, we might read it again,
Speaker 2: just just for the writers, or maybe just for the
Speaker 2: cast if there was a lot of changes, and then
Speaker 2: we'd start rehearsing it. We'd start blocking it with our
Speaker 2: director and we'd rehearse the whole show, have a lunch
Speaker 2: and a break, maybe have fittings during that day, and
Speaker 2: then you do a studio or which is first networker studio.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I've been doing this how many years?
Speaker 2: I think it would be a studio run through that day.
Speaker 2: So then the writers come down the studio and we'd
Speaker 2: do the whole show as we rehearse it that day,
Speaker 2: and then we would get notes. And Kevin Abbott, who
Speaker 2: was our showrunner, him and Matt Barry were the two
Speaker 2: leaders in the first rib show, and Kevinabbitt's our showrunner
Speaker 2: this one, and Matt Barry's been there since the original
Speaker 2: River show. And what's great about Kevin, is that a
Speaker 2: lot of times you don't get to sit in with
Speaker 2: the producers or have an opportunity to ask questions. So
Speaker 2: after that first run through, we sit with the after
Speaker 2: this network would leave, we'd sit and Kevin would say,
Speaker 2: these are some of the changes, and maybe ask us
Speaker 2: if we had any ideas or anything that was bumping us,
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah, and then we would go home,
Speaker 2: get a new script that night coming on Friday, read it,
Speaker 2: rehearse it, and then do a network studio run through
Speaker 2: with the writers, and then they would give maybe even
Speaker 2: more notes, and then over the weekend the writers might
Speaker 2: address those. Coming on Monday, you camera block the whole
Speaker 2: show in front of the cameras so they know exactly
Speaker 2: what we're going to do, and then you might do
Speaker 2: some pre shoots. If there's a set that's way far
Speaker 2: away from the studio audience, or a set that's only
Speaker 2: there for a few days, or an outdoor scene, you
Speaker 2: would do a pre shoot that day that you would
Speaker 2: plug in in front of the studio audience. Is this boring?
Speaker 2: This is so long? Now this down?
Speaker 1: No? I won't cut it down it all. I'm super
Speaker 1: interested in like all the nuance of it, So I'm
Speaker 1: paying attention here, okay.
Speaker 2: And then so Mondays is camera blocking, maybe some pre
Speaker 2: shoot days, and then you go home. And then Tuesdays
Speaker 2: or show day, we tape. But we're on a Tuesday
Speaker 2: night show. You come in maybe later than the other days.
Speaker 2: You come in and camera block refresh they call it
Speaker 2: camera refreshed, so you refresh all the scenes that you're
Speaker 2: going to do that night in front of the audience
Speaker 2: with your camera guys, so you know where we're going
Speaker 2: to be, where you need to get for your camera,
Speaker 2: or how this is going to go. Then you would
Speaker 2: cast would be sent away to hair and makeup. We'd
Speaker 2: get ourselves glammed up and have dinner, and then we
Speaker 2: would meet in the makeup room for touchups and we'd
Speaker 2: usually do a quick spreed through of the script, which
Speaker 2: is we just quick do it as fast as we
Speaker 2: can off book and just do it as a cast.
Speaker 2: And then we have a little cast and our director.
Speaker 2: We have a little prayer, hands together, hands in pray,
Speaker 2: We go out, have cast intros, and we tape that
Speaker 2: show in front of a live studio audience. And usually
Speaker 2: for us, Kevin Abbot's pretty that he keeps things running.
Speaker 2: We usually do maybe two three takes per scene, sometimes
Speaker 2: more if there's just a different something we need to
Speaker 2: pick up, and we're usually we start at six o'clock
Speaker 2: in front of the audience and we're usually done. We're
Speaker 2: usually done by eight thirty or nine, and then maybe
Speaker 2: you have a little glass of wine with the cast,
Speaker 2: and then you go home and then you show up
Speaker 2: the next day for your table read of next week's episode.
Speaker 1: He just start all over again, start all over again.
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Speaker 1: Is there ever a moment where you're in front of
Speaker 1: the studio audience it's and a joke really doesn't hit
Speaker 1: and then you just you rewrite the joke or do
Speaker 1: you just repair it and like post.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you find out right away. That's the beauty
Speaker 2: of this medium, which is why I love multi caam
Speaker 2: so much. It's the closest thing to live theater you've got.
Speaker 2: So they'll tell you, oh, that didn't work, and our
Speaker 2: writers usually will have a line for you. Sometimes the
Speaker 2: actors will have a pitch. And that's again what's so
Speaker 2: great about Kevin is that he lets us pitch stuff
Speaker 2: or try stuff. I love it when that happens. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't love it when a joke doesn't land, but
Speaker 2: I do love it when you get to try five
Speaker 2: different jokes in front of that same audience and see
Speaker 2: which one lands. But yeah, they let you know if
Speaker 2: something works, and they'll let you know if it doesn't either,
Speaker 2: And I love that part. But yeah, the writers are
Speaker 2: usually there with another blow ready to.
Speaker 1: Go with threeven, with Happy's Place. Those are shot very similarly,
Speaker 1: But Young Sheldon was not. Is that just a different
Speaker 1: mindset going into a show like that? Are you prepared differently?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's a single camera, so that's shot like
Speaker 2: a movie, you know, so it's often you're not you know,
Speaker 2: if you don't have a scene with an actor that day,
Speaker 2: you might never see him, you know. Like the difference
Speaker 2: between multiicam is you're with your cast all day usually
Speaker 2: rehearsing and playing and playing around. So in single camp
Speaker 2: it's a completely different mindset where you know, you you
Speaker 2: know the writing is funny and there's a laugh there,
Speaker 2: but you're not going to get that feedback from the
Speaker 2: studio audience. I don't know my read is if you
Speaker 2: see one of the gaffers or a camera guy, if
Speaker 2: somebody maybe if you get a tiny little something, you're like,
Speaker 2: all right, that worked. But yeah, it's as much smaller.
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's everything's just a little bit smaller,
Speaker 2: a little quieter, and you don't have to it's just
Speaker 2: a different mind It is a different mindset.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with happiest place and with Riba coming back and
Speaker 1: you guys are all together again. How long ago did
Speaker 1: this bubble up as an idea and did you think
Speaker 1: it would manifest itself into like version two of you guys?
Speaker 2: You know, after the Rebu show ended, immediately, I feel
Speaker 2: like we knew we wanted to do something together again.
Speaker 2: You know. She I think she made up jobs for
Speaker 2: me sometimes just so we could hang out.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: She took me on the road and I didn't stand up.
Speaker 2: I opened for her and for her and Kelly Clarkson
Speaker 2: then her and George Straight when they were on the road,
Speaker 2: which was such a wonderful experience. But you know, we
Speaker 2: were sort of always looking. It was sort of out
Speaker 2: in the world and we'd love to, you know, some
Speaker 2: time would pass. We'd love to do a project together
Speaker 2: and some came and went. Some were like you know,
Speaker 2: and the reboot was always sort of in that world too,
Speaker 2: like could we get a reboot? And you know, that
Speaker 2: never seemed to come to fruition, whether it was like
Speaker 2: who owned the rights? Who was going to do this?
Speaker 2: So that didn't come. And you know, you know Reba
Speaker 2: and I always trust her because she's so great about
Speaker 2: this business and she has such a great perspective of
Speaker 2: you know, when the time is right, it'll happen when
Speaker 2: the project's right, it's yours, don't if you don't lose
Speaker 2: a job that wasn't yours to have, you know, So
Speaker 2: she was very I just sort of trusted her that,
Speaker 2: you know, it will come when it's supposed to. I mean,
Speaker 2: I had no idea it would be this many years later,
Speaker 2: but there were some ideas that were floated. They weren't
Speaker 2: the right ones anyways. So Julie Abbott, Kevin Abbot's wife,
Speaker 2: who is our original show runner the first show and
Speaker 2: this show runner on Happiest Place, came to Kevin with
Speaker 2: this idea about sisters, of someone finding out they didn't
Speaker 2: have a sister. So Kevin took that and ran and
Speaker 2: brought it to Reebe and I and we loved it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how much sway my love happened,
Speaker 2: but I loved it too. And and you know, we
Speaker 2: sort of that's where it was born. It was Julie Abbot,
Speaker 2: Kevin's Kevin's wife, who has been, you know, part of
Speaker 2: We've all known each other for since the original Reader show.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I had no idea. And even when that happens,
Speaker 2: you know, even when that happens, yes, Kevin's going to
Speaker 2: write this idea, Okay, great, Well that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2: Well he's going to go pitch it. Great, that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean anything. Tell someone buys it. Then someone does, and
Speaker 2: then you make the pilot and then you know, you
Speaker 2: don't know if that's going to get picked up. So
Speaker 2: you know, another good thing that re was great about
Speaker 2: is saying, you know, I'm excited, but I won't get excited. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll get I'll get it as excited as need be
Speaker 2: as every level is passed. So you sort of go, well,
Speaker 2: that was great. That's one hurdle, and now we have
Speaker 2: to get to that one. And here we are, you know,
Speaker 2: here we are just in the middle of season two airing,
Speaker 2: and and a pickup for season three, which is a
Speaker 2: crazy sentence to say in this in this day and
Speaker 2: age of you know where the industry's at and to
Speaker 2: be working, and we are very grateful to be working
Speaker 2: and doing what we love.
Speaker 1: Your background is an improv When did you start doing
Speaker 1: stand up? Like? What were you doing in high school?
Speaker 2: High school, I was doing theater and some improv. Then
Speaker 2: I went on to college and did got a theater degree,
Speaker 2: and improv was part of my life there. And when
Speaker 2: I graduated from college with a theater degree, I went
Speaker 2: to Minneapolis, which is great theater town, and I did
Speaker 2: improv at brand new workshop Dolly Riggs, which is very
Speaker 2: similar to Second City, where you write five five or
Speaker 2: five shows original shows a year and every night you
Speaker 2: do improv with your with your cast. And then I
Speaker 2: did Tony and Tina's wedding which was all improv, which
Speaker 2: I did for I don't know how many performances in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2: And then stand up where am I? I'm on a
Speaker 2: tangent so many after college was doing improv, doing theater, uh,
Speaker 2: and then it was a stand up really didn't come
Speaker 2: into place until Rebus sort of gave me that chance
Speaker 2: to do it. You know, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: I would MC a lot of stuff, and in improv,
Speaker 2: you know, you you learn to think on your feet.
Speaker 2: I was always writing stuff too. Part of what we
Speaker 2: did at where I was doing improv was you had
Speaker 2: to write stuff all the time. And so she sort
Speaker 2: of said after the Ribas show, said what you want
Speaker 2: to do it? And I'm like, I say yes, and
Speaker 2: you hang up and you go, oh my god, what did.
Speaker 4: I I know I have to have twenty five minutes
Speaker 4: and i'd have, you know, be ready to go and
Speaker 4: sort of cut the luxury of a learning curve on
Speaker 4: the road with her and Frankly and I know, you're
Speaker 4: you're so good at it and you do it and
Speaker 4: you have to do it all the time.
Speaker 2: But there's nothing scarier to me. Improv does not terrify me.
Speaker 2: Stand Up is to me the most terrifying of all
Speaker 2: I'll wait all mediums at all, any sort of form
Speaker 2: of The most terrifying form of entertaining ever is stand up.
Speaker 1: When did you decide then from Minneapolis to move to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles? What was it that triggered that I.
Speaker 2: Always knew I was going to do it? I mean,
Speaker 2: I felt I needed to try. I wanted to I
Speaker 2: knew I was going to do. I sort of had
Speaker 2: a New York or LA, but ultimately was LA. I
Speaker 2: love TV. I wanted to be on a stickcom. I
Speaker 2: wanted to make people laugh, and I thought LA was
Speaker 2: a place to do it. So I knew as I
Speaker 2: was doing improv and theater in Minneapolis, I was trying
Speaker 2: to save money to move to LA. And within the
Speaker 2: form of that improv troop, we came out to Los
Speaker 2: Angeles to do a showcase at the HBO workspace, and
Speaker 2: our improv troop did this showcase and I got some
Speaker 2: interest in me there and some meetings were set up
Speaker 2: and I was like, great, I have to go back
Speaker 2: to Minnesota. I'm getting married. So I did that, married
Speaker 2: John Brady, who was I did was doing improv with
Speaker 2: Who's the Funniest Human, and got married to him and
Speaker 2: put off those meetings, went to do Tony and Tina's
Speaker 2: wedding in Baltimore to save up more money so I
Speaker 2: could go we could go to LA. So we saved
Speaker 2: up money, then went to LA and then followed up
Speaker 2: on the people that wanted to have some meetings with
Speaker 2: me there and then just started hitting the ground and
Speaker 2: auditioning and trying to become an actor.
Speaker 1: What was your first yes in La? Or in yeah?
Speaker 1: In La? When you get to La, what is your
Speaker 1: first yes?
Speaker 2: I think it was a sketch show for Oxygen that
Speaker 2: I don't think it ever aired, but it was really
Speaker 2: funny and really funny people Maya, Rudolph Seth Rogan. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to remember all of these. It was a sketch show,
Speaker 2: and I maybe confusing two sketch shows that I was
Speaker 2: casting called Running with Scissors, and that was my first yes,
Speaker 2: and I knew that it was. It was really funny
Speaker 2: people that are all working now, and that was my
Speaker 2: first yes. And then it never aired. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what happened to it, but I
Speaker 2: know that it was really fun and yeah, that was
Speaker 2: I guess. And then I got a keya commercial that
Speaker 2: was another first yes. Oh my gosh, out guest spot
Speaker 2: on just shoot me?
Speaker 1: Oh nice? I love that show.
Speaker 2: And I was living. I was sub letting at an
Speaker 2: apartment right across the street called the Starlet And if
Speaker 2: you're ever in La, you'll see it. It's still there.
Speaker 2: And I was at we were where we still sub
Speaker 2: wedding at this tiny apartment right across was Warner Brothers studio,
Speaker 2: and you know, you could look out your little window
Speaker 2: and you'd see, like, you know, like that's where they're
Speaker 2: shooting friends. And I booked this guest spot on Just
Speaker 2: Shoot Me and it was like one funny scene. I
Speaker 2: think it was like the check and girl for somebody's
Speaker 2: high school reunion. And I was terrified. I was so
Speaker 2: excited to drive onto that lot and George Siegel, who
Speaker 2: was so kind to me, and he was kind to
Speaker 2: me twice in my career and in such a way
Speaker 2: that I will never forget, and I hope it's what
Speaker 2: I bring. I bring to every show I'm on. I
Speaker 2: didn't even have a scene with him. I didn't have
Speaker 2: a scene with him. I'm trying to remember who my
Speaker 2: scene was with. I don't think it was David Spade.
Speaker 2: Who was it. Anyway, everyone was very lovely. But he
Speaker 2: made a point of walking up to me. He said,
Speaker 2: is this your first like thing in la like front
Speaker 2: of an audience, And they said yes, And he says,
Speaker 2: you're really funny. Go out there and have fun tonight.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be fun. And he shook money and
Speaker 2: he was so and I'll never forget that. And then
Speaker 2: years later I did another show called Retired at thirty
Speaker 2: five and he was on that show and I went
Speaker 2: up to thank him, and I said, I was so terrified,
Speaker 2: I was so nervous, and you were so nice to me,
Speaker 2: and you and you reminded me that what we do
Speaker 2: is really fun. And I was doing what I dreamed
Speaker 2: of doing as a kid in Minnesota and it was
Speaker 2: happening tonight. And it may have been a couple of lines,
Speaker 2: but to have fun. And so I went up and
Speaker 2: thanked him and he couldn't and I just said, I'll
Speaker 2: never forget it. You just made that such a wonderful experience.
Speaker 2: And he did the same thing for me on this show.
Speaker 2: He just said, you were so funny, You're just and
Speaker 2: he I don't know it. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 5: The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Speaker 5: Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1: When you were a kid, who did you look at
Speaker 1: and either mimic or think I want to do something
Speaker 1: like they do because they do it so well.
Speaker 2: Carol Burnette, Gilda Radner, Catherine O'Hara, Andrew Martin. Those were
Speaker 2: my kid ones. That I would watch Second SCTV. I
Speaker 2: would watch that. I believe it was on PBS is
Speaker 2: when that aired for me, and i'd watch it on
Speaker 2: the phone with my friend Jenny Howell because we both
Speaker 2: would laugh together watching se our Second City TV SETV,
Speaker 2: which is where I saw Katherine O'Hara and Andrew Martin.
Speaker 2: And then I would stay over at my aunt's house
Speaker 2: on Saturday nights when my parents were like gone, and
Speaker 2: they would let me stayup and watch Saturday Aight Live.
Speaker 2: And I loved Gilda Radner. I loved Jane Curtin, I
Speaker 2: just knew. But Carol Burnette was one that I could
Speaker 2: watch all the time and just knew that I wanted.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what. I just wanted to do that
Speaker 2: I wanted to do that.
Speaker 1: You know, so much of what we turn into is
Speaker 1: because of things that works bose to and I think
Speaker 1: I grew up in the South, so I didn't get
Speaker 1: to watch any Canadian and there were so many funny
Speaker 1: things that as I got older, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I really missed out because I had no influence on
Speaker 1: me was Canadian. However, you lived in Minnesota, where you
Speaker 1: actually got the best of America. And you got the
Speaker 1: Canadian like the SETV like that feels pretty fortunate looking back, right.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. And by the way, how many people,
Speaker 2: how most of the funny people we know are Canadian? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Martin Short, John Candy, I think about that entire our
Speaker 2: SETV cast was just geniusly funny. And then Mike Myers, like,
Speaker 2: I think about it. But I feel very grateful that
Speaker 2: I got that. And I don't even know how I
Speaker 2: found it. I just I just remember finding even this
Speaker 2: is the funniest thing I've ever seen, and I love
Speaker 2: it so much, and I'm really grateful that I saw it.
Speaker 2: And I'm grateful that my parents let me sleep over
Speaker 2: at my aunt EXCUSEI and Kathy's and be unsupervised and
Speaker 2: watch stay up way too late to watch and listen.
Speaker 2: And my aunts too. By the way, we're very instrumental
Speaker 2: because they had Steve Martin comedy album and I would
Speaker 2: listen to that, and I they exposed me to a
Speaker 2: lot of things that I would probably not have found
Speaker 2: on my own, you know. And yeah, we are a
Speaker 2: product of that. So I feel really lucky about that.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have dreams or did you ever audition
Speaker 1: for USNL?
Speaker 2: No, but I will say that when I was doing
Speaker 2: this sketch show that we were shooting and Maya Rudolph,
Speaker 2: I remember we were doing a sketch and I think
Speaker 2: this was at the time that she was maybe about
Speaker 2: to fly out for her an audition, or maybe it
Speaker 2: was there a call, but I'm not sure, but I
Speaker 2: remember that that was in the process. I remember sitting
Speaker 2: across from her and just thinking how funny she was,
Speaker 2: and she had said something like, well, you're going to
Speaker 2: be auditioning soon, aren't you. And I was just like,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought who knew? And so no,
Speaker 2: I never did. And then I remember about the time
Speaker 2: that I had gotten maybe a few I believe, my
Speaker 2: manager had said, you should get a tape together for
Speaker 2: SNL that we can start sending in. And at that
Speaker 2: point where we started thinking about that, I was maybe
Speaker 2: in that sort of that window of time that that
Speaker 2: would have been appropriate. I booked the sitcom, and once
Speaker 2: you book a sitcom, you're no longer really they don't
Speaker 2: really want to see you, I guess at that time.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was one of those who knows, and
Speaker 2: I ended up where I was supposed to. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I dreamed of SNL is. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you can see behind me, that's still like I, oh,
Speaker 2: that didn't turn off. I still have that the album,
Speaker 2: and I still listen to my guilda Radner like Live
Speaker 2: in New York album. But you know, I'm not dead.
Speaker 2: Maybe someday they let me do a walk on. I
Speaker 2: work for NBC Universal. I mean, I'd be happy if
Speaker 2: they let me just sit, you know, I'd be I
Speaker 2: do anything. I just that show is huge to me.
Speaker 2: And I still fight with people who go, oh, it's
Speaker 2: not good anymore, or this wasn't good, or now this cast.
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, no, no, no, it is always it's
Speaker 2: always good because what they are doing. Yes, there's ebbs
Speaker 2: and flows, there's casts that you might connect with more,
Speaker 2: and there's maybe years that there was more sketches that
Speaker 2: you remember. But the reality is it's always good because
Speaker 2: what they're doing is they're doing a live show and
Speaker 2: they're creating like this amazing, this amazing variety show every week.
Speaker 2: And you real fans, don't. You don't leave them in
Speaker 2: any year. You watch it every year all the time,
Speaker 2: and I love it because I love watching just how
Speaker 2: things change. But yet they stay the same, and I'm
Speaker 2: loving like Ashley Padilla in newcast I think is brilliant.
Speaker 2: So I still dream of SNL even though I realize
Speaker 2: that train has probably left the building.
Speaker 1: I often will do a thing where I'll go through
Speaker 1: and try to try to guess what the most asked
Speaker 1: question is to the people that I talk to, and
Speaker 1: I never really want to jump into the most asked questions?
Speaker 1: But can I try to predict your most asked question?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is it a hook? Her number two?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: It is it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So then I don't feel guilty asking it. So
Speaker 1: I love Fargo I too.
Speaker 2: I mean again, that was my first job out of college.
Speaker 2: That was my first Yes, dang it. I need to
Speaker 2: walk around with my mom or dad behind me, who
Speaker 2: actually keep track of my career, Like, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I'm so bad at it. Tell me, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: that's I was a kid. I was working at TJA Fridays.
Speaker 2: I finished, I got my theater degree, and the Jane Brody,
Speaker 2: an amazing casting casting agent who I believe is still
Speaker 2: based in Chicago, came and taught a semester at my
Speaker 2: college and I took her class. I think she was
Speaker 2: teaching auditioning for film or maybe cold readings she took.
Speaker 2: She was amazing. I took her classes. She liked me.
Speaker 2: I graduate. She's in town in Minneapolis casting for Fargo,
Speaker 2: and at first she hired me to run camera for
Speaker 2: her too to earn some extra money, which was a
Speaker 2: lovely skill to learn. I run camera for a few days,
Speaker 2: but then she calls me into audition for the Coen
Speaker 2: Brothers True story. I'm in the lobby. I want to
Speaker 2: get a mountain dew before my audition. I don't have change.
Speaker 2: I ask who I think is I don't know somebody
Speaker 2: who works there. I asked for change for a dollar
Speaker 2: so I can get a mountain dew. By the way,
Speaker 2: all of those are poor decisions before an audition, drinking
Speaker 2: a mountain dew. I don't know all of it. And
Speaker 2: I get in the room and I had asked Joel
Speaker 2: Cohen for change for the vending machine to get a
Speaker 2: mountain two because I again this is pre social media.
Speaker 2: I had seen, you know, raising Arizona. I knew who
Speaker 2: the Coen Brothers were, but it wasn't like they had
Speaker 2: like this, you know, hot instant like you know, I
Speaker 2: didn't know what they actually looked like. So I go in,
Speaker 2: I audition. I don't hear anything for quite some time,
Speaker 2: and I think it's done and it's over. Because it's
Speaker 2: a small town. You hear people that have been going
Speaker 2: in for this big Cohen Brothers movie. I get called
Speaker 2: back in maybe like I feel like it was a
Speaker 2: month later. But again, don't trust me in any timeline,
Speaker 2: because clearly I have no idea what I've done in
Speaker 2: my life. I go back in, and this is for
Speaker 2: hooker number. This is for the pair of hookers. And
Speaker 2: when they start to match us up with other girls,
Speaker 2: so I go in and read and I read with
Speaker 2: a couple of different people, and then when they put
Speaker 2: Larissa and I together, I felt like, oh this works.
Speaker 2: It's that thing you know where like, oh, where this
Speaker 2: is supposed to be. So once they paired us together
Speaker 2: and we read this scene, I felt like, oh that
Speaker 2: felt pretty good. That felt right. And then I leave
Speaker 2: and I think I still don't think. I hear from
Speaker 2: maybe another week that I got it. And then I
Speaker 2: got it and I went in and my first day,
Speaker 2: the first scene we shot was I believe this scene
Speaker 2: where it's the oh yeah, we're at the scene with
Speaker 2: France McDermott, which she's so was so even only in
Speaker 2: hindsight when I realized how generous she was as an actor.
Speaker 2: I just remember she treated Larissa and I both like
Speaker 2: we were peers, which she we were. But in my head
Speaker 2: I was just I was going I had to shift
Speaker 2: at TJ. Friday's the next day, you know. And this
Speaker 2: was Francis McDermott, who was well into her career but
Speaker 2: also just such a brilliant actress. But she was so
Speaker 2: kind and just I remember she I felt like we
Speaker 2: were we were equals. We were equals in a scene,
Speaker 2: which was just, in hindsight, a lovely gift to give
Speaker 2: a really young new person who had no idea what
Speaker 2: she was doing and who at the rat party at
Speaker 2: the Bowling Alley asked William H. Macy what party was
Speaker 2: in the movie because I hadn't I didn't know the
Speaker 2: whole script. I mean, I just I asked. I asked
Speaker 2: so many questions, and that in hindsight, I never would
Speaker 2: have asked. I would have been too nervous to, Like
Speaker 2: if I was doing a Coen Brothers movie today, I
Speaker 2: would be nervous for I. But back then I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: Steve Bushmi, do you remember when you were mister pink?
Speaker 2: I was like Chris Farley in that sketch. I was like,
Speaker 2: remember when you were a goal? Like I was such
Speaker 2: an idiot and Ethan Cohen people heard this story, but
Speaker 2: true story. I just graduated. So I was living with
Speaker 2: my parents while I saved money for my apartment and
Speaker 2: Ethan Cohen called my house to talk about a scene
Speaker 2: or something, and my mother answered and was screaming upstairs,
Speaker 2: going Missy calling me Missy by the way, which I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm Melissa, I'm an actress, and Missy the phones for you,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, who is it? And she said Ethan Cohen?
Speaker 2: And I was mortified. Mortified.
Speaker 1: So that was your first yes?
Speaker 2: That was my first yes?
Speaker 1: What was your last yes?
Speaker 2: My last yes? Well, getting a saying yes to a
Speaker 2: third season of Happiest Place, I guess that's that's a
Speaker 2: giant yes in today's world where you know TV's changing
Speaker 2: and I know so many people not working. That's it
Speaker 2: feels like a really really big yes that we get
Speaker 2: to do a season three.
Speaker 1: Do you still cook?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh? So you with your reaction, you must still cook
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm just my reaction is, why do
Speaker 2: you think I have someone cooked for me?
Speaker 1: Well, I know you from cooking on television a bit,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know if you really did that a lot,
Speaker 1: or if you're just good at it and you kind
Speaker 1: of break it down occasionally for on camera.
Speaker 2: No, I like to cook. I mean I don't cook
Speaker 2: as I mean, my husband actually cooks a lot of
Speaker 2: the stuff. But I do like to cook. I love
Speaker 2: to like be able and our my son is twenty
Speaker 2: and so he's moved out of the house. He's actually
Speaker 2: in going to culinary school, so hopefully he'll cook for me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I love to cook. I like to I'd rather,
Speaker 2: you know, stay in and eat at home. Then I
Speaker 2: don't want. I guess it's I like both. But I
Speaker 2: do like to cook. Yeah, I like I like it
Speaker 2: when I don't have to. I like it when I
Speaker 2: can putter around and go, oh, I'm gonna make soup.
Speaker 2: I love making things where I can just throw whatever
Speaker 2: I have and see if it works, and it usually does.
Speaker 1: Actually, what is your signature dish?
Speaker 2: Hmmm? Oh wow, I make really good. This sounds like
Speaker 2: a dumb one, but I make really good like I
Speaker 2: can do like I make really good homemade like black
Speaker 2: bean dip. I make really good soups. I make a
Speaker 2: really good garden vegetable soup. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: have a signature anymore. Oh, you know what this is
Speaker 2: gonna make me very Midwestern. I can do a really
Speaker 2: good hot dish. I can do a really good tater
Speaker 2: tot hot dish. I'm really good at it. But as
Speaker 2: far as like this, I don't know if I have
Speaker 2: a signature. I mean, roast chicken, that's easy, But no,
Speaker 2: I don't have a signature.
Speaker 1: You got to talk me through a tater tot hot dish.
Speaker 1: I'm from the South. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: I know what tater tots are, but what's a hot dish?
Speaker 1: Tater tot?
Speaker 2: You'd call it casserole, right, yeah, you know it's the
Speaker 2: same thing. It's where you take ground meat of any kind,
Speaker 2: maybe a creama mushroom, soup, some green beans, some onions, whatever.
Speaker 2: You mix that up. Maybe you put some cheese in it.
Speaker 2: There's a debate between the cheese and it hot dish sometimes,
Speaker 2: and then you would layer tater tots on top, so
Speaker 2: ours would be ground beef, brown ground beef cream and
Speaker 2: mushroom soup green beans. I like to go. I like
Speaker 2: to sass it up with some onions, maybe some real
Speaker 2: mushrooms in it. Then you put that line tatertops on time,
Speaker 2: build it, bake it, and you've got a hot dish.
Speaker 1: So hot dishes is Midwestern? Do people often think you're
Speaker 1: from the South?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did. It's funny until I started researching you.
Speaker 2: I just met somebody actually yesterday somewhere that was like, so, wait,
Speaker 2: you weren't from Texas. I'm like, no, I just I
Speaker 2: did my barber Gane. I just did it. So I
Speaker 2: think there's something like vibe wise that's very similar. I
Speaker 2: think Midwest and South has a similar vibe that I
Speaker 2: think connects people in a way where we like to
Speaker 2: hang out with our friends and family, we like to eat,
Speaker 2: we like to you know, we like our neighbors, we
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. I think there's a little
Speaker 2: more of a laid back vibe that I connect with
Speaker 2: people from the South. Maybe.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on getting renewed for a third season again,
Speaker 1: that is such a big deal. I bet it's so
Speaker 1: fun to do Happy's Place because it's new.
Speaker 2: People don't come out to a lot, you need to
Speaker 2: come to a taping or be on it. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess that was not the reaction I was hoping for.
Speaker 1: Well, I just been Hollywood is so and I'm not
Speaker 1: comparing you to this, but everybody in anytime I do
Speaker 1: any meetings And I was talking to someone about this recently.
Speaker 1: O they're still going Tom bergeron, who I love as
Speaker 1: a host, right, and he's the greatest guy. And I
Speaker 1: was like, every day, might come and do any meeting
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They promised me the world. They tell
Speaker 1: me they're going to make me the biggest thing ever.
Speaker 1: They're going to give me millions of dollars right there
Speaker 1: in the room. And I walk out and I never
Speaker 1: hear from anybody, And so, you know, I just have
Speaker 1: that association with anyone in Hollywood that's like you should
Speaker 1: do this, and I just should react like this, Oh
Speaker 1: thank you, that's so nice of you. But I have
Speaker 1: this react get it? Yeah, you know right, it's.
Speaker 2: I get it. I mean, I remember there's so many
Speaker 2: times like oh my gosh, you are you are you
Speaker 2: are the funniest, you know, the funniest person we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Today for this, and I'm like, great, we'll hire me
Speaker 2: because that doesn't pay my rent? Or I get it.
Speaker 2: I hear that all the time. People say that all
Speaker 2: the time. They say, I get it. I believe in it.
Speaker 2: That was you know what, that was a proper reaction.
Speaker 2: But no, but no bullshit aside. You are beloved by Reeba.
Speaker 2: I would I would like us to like I think
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know, you know what, don't believe me,
Speaker 2: but you should fair enough. But I get it. I
Speaker 2: know you know what. I bet you hear that all
Speaker 2: the time. Because you are so good at what you do.
Speaker 2: You have this massive following. You can do many things.
Speaker 2: You wear a lot of different hats. People say things
Speaker 2: and it never comes true.
Speaker 1: I should have reacted better, had that thing too.
Speaker 2: Of like when people that all of these things don't
Speaker 2: pay my rent, I.
Speaker 1: Should have reacted to that better. I apologize.
Speaker 2: I might, No, I no, I love that. This is
Speaker 2: the best, most perfect reaction you should get to anybody
Speaker 2: in Hollywood who says you should or you know what,
Speaker 2: come out here. I've got something for you. Don't don't
Speaker 2: believe them, because you know what, I didn't come till
Speaker 2: i'd saved up a lot of money on my own
Speaker 2: to pay my own rent, and I knew I could
Speaker 2: try to make it here.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations again. I really love it for you guys.
Speaker 1: I love it Forrieba. I love Reba obviously. She She's
Speaker 1: been so kind to me over the years. And it's
Speaker 1: so cool that you guys are real life friends. I
Speaker 1: think that's cool because a lot of people are work
Speaker 1: friends or we've done stuff together, but you guys are
Speaker 1: like real life friends. And I love to work with
Speaker 1: my real life friends, So that's got to be super
Speaker 1: cool to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: It is and people can tell it translates into the
Speaker 2: final product. You know. People they maybe don't know what
Speaker 2: it is or put the able to put their finger
Speaker 2: on it, but they can tell when there's chemistry and
Speaker 2: there's real friendship there. And yeah, and we have a
Speaker 2: shorthand we don't have to explain stuff to each other
Speaker 2: because we already know what.
Speaker 1: Does Reba like to work with professionally?
Speaker 2: She's a great example. You know, she is prepared, She
Speaker 2: treats everybody with respect, and she likes to have fun.
Speaker 2: You know, she doesn't need to do this right now,
Speaker 2: and she wants to do it because she really she
Speaker 2: loves it. She has so much fun, you know, Reeba,
Speaker 2: She's lovely and she makes sure like my favorite. The
Speaker 2: goal is that anybody who leaves that set, they walks away,
Speaker 2: they walk away saying I had a great time, people
Speaker 2: treated me great and I want to come back. And
Speaker 2: she does that, and it's you know, it's really fun
Speaker 2: watching her and Rex together. You would think that you
Speaker 2: would get tired of, you know, seeing how much in
Speaker 2: love they are and how cute they are, but I'm
Speaker 2: not yet. And they really are quite fun together. And
Speaker 2: he's great because I don't know how much time you've
Speaker 2: spent with rexlnd, but he is such an actor's actor,
Speaker 2: and he loves what he does so much, and he
Speaker 2: loves to rehearse and he makes us all better, I think,
Speaker 2: because he really respects that process so and he's he's
Speaker 2: got stories you need. He's fun to talk to. He's
Speaker 2: been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 1: Melissa. Thank you so much for the time and thanks
Speaker 1: for the generosity with your stories. I really appreciate it
Speaker 1: and much much success. And hopefully someday we'll be in
Speaker 1: the same room and we'll actually talk to each other.
Speaker 1: That was a busy day we were together. We were
Speaker 1: running all over the place, I know, and I was.
Speaker 2: Really hoping to do this in person. So I hope
Speaker 2: that you'll let me do it and listen. I like
Speaker 2: to come out there and my folks are around there,
Speaker 2: so I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Please do next time you're in town. Please, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: come on bye, next time you're in town. I hit
Speaker 1: her with that. Can't wait to see him. We got
Speaker 1: something for you. I got a show.
Speaker 2: Here's my reaction. Okay, we bet I'll be there.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Hey, great to see you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Hope you have a great rest of the day.
Speaker 2: Thanks you too.
Speaker 3: By Melissa, Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production.