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Unknown
When I was Mr. X, the Disney exhibit. What’s up guys? Is in for some supplies from. This is Ryan, sir. And this is Steve. Hi Patrick. Maybe this is over 20. This is Director X, everybody. I’m Forbes. Riley. Yo, this is gold. This is really long ago. This is Chris Voss. Michael Francis. You know, this is Charlie. I was up this Billie Jean, and you’re listening to the Run jpg podcast, so I’m going to go hang out and listen to David’s next podcast.
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Unknown
Something run deep into my ear, something you like, bass.
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Unknown
How are you?
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Unknown
I still have green nails. Yeah, I’m totally.
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Unknown
I am, the youngest of seven kids in an Irish Catholic family. My grandparents are from Ireland. My grandfather started a bar. My dad took it over. It was an Irish pub in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. And, we got to go on Sundays when the bar was closed. We were supposed to help clean, but we were really dancing to the jukebox.
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Unknown
Dancing, you know, in the windows. You know, drinking soda and eating Slim Jims and crap and just running around the bar. Literally. It was a big square bar, and, it was awesome. It was. It was great.
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Unknown
I dad was so funny behind the bar. He really. It was a big square bar. I just remember he would he would pour, drink, land a joke, and then just keep moving, you know? So it was, fantastic.
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Unknown
Oh, my. When I graduated college, I was, in a comedy group in Philadelphia for a little bit, and we were we were mostly doing sketch. We had a couple improv games, but my aunt, sent me a ticket to check out Second City and to stay with her, and that totally changed my life. I when I went, I figured this out years later, but the first time I ever went to Second City, Jane Lynch was understudying for Bonnie Hunt, who got married that day, who came back in her wedding gown and did the the improv set.
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Unknown
The next part of the late part of the night, in her wedding dress, which was insane. And her wedding party was like Mike Myers. Like, there was so many people that were there that night that informed so much of my, future. You know, it was just one of those crazy things, but I thought, I don’t know what’s going on, but I want to be a part of this.
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Unknown
So I studied there, and then I got hired by the touring company, and
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Unknown
I was also working another theater with, some crossover folks at the theater with people like Andy Richter and Jane Lynch. Yeah. So.
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Unknown
Well, the thing about doing improv is that you have to really commit to being a good partner first. It’s not about shining and showing off as much as it is forwarding the scene. Helping create a pattern, you know, just saying. Yes. You know, really just being, being a team player. And, you know, I’m the youngest of seven kids, so I grew up in an ensemble.
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Unknown
So ensemble life was, like, so much more. It just speaks to me louder than doing stand up. I’ve done a little of a stand up. I hosted a stand up show for TV Guide Network for women for two years called Stand Up in Stilettos, back in 2012, and it was fun, but I just feel like. And I and I had a comedy act for 20 years, with a guy named Scott Robinson from Chicago.
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Unknown
We were doing lounge act called The Lampshades, and we did that. We just did that up until Covid. But I was still doing my act while I was in the office doing a lot of comedy festivals and,
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Unknown
weekly or bi weekly, comedy show in Hollywood. So, you know, I just feel like I always have to be on stage with the live audience.
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Unknown
When you write something, you want to know if it works. The only way to know that it really works if you’re doing comedy is to hear a live audience. They’re your roadmap. Yeah. And they don’t lie. Don’t laugh.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Unknown
Right.
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Unknown
God, you know what I, I, I remember racing from doing a radio show to, touring company gig that was just in the suburbs, and, like, I was running out of gas. I’d borrowed the director’s car. It was like an old Volvo station wagon, so I, like, literally just made it. The show had already started without me and just made it into a sketch.
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Unknown
But I just remember, being so informed by, so much talent and like, that just brought me to Hollywood. People like Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell and the Dallas and and Amy Sedaris. There were so many just soon to be Giants, in my opinion, and people that really made me laugh and and people who just done really well, you know, it’s it’s but it’s it’s also but they their comedy is always spoken to me.
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Unknown
I will say, back in 1991, I was up for consideration for SNL. And had lunch with Lorne Michaels and did not get it. My friend got it. My friend was at the lunches while we were doing a show together, Melody hustle. And I just remember, I did not get that, and it just took 13 short years to get the office after that, which is a long time.
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Unknown
But, I was 40 when I got the office. I was still waiting tables. I was doing my comedy act. I had done, some Off-Broadway, with great reviews, but was still hustling, so I had to wait tables. Also, just because I couldn’t, I, I could never just wait for the phone to ring. I have to be busy.
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Unknown
So, you know, working in restaurants really spoke to me on many levels, but it just kept me sane. So when I auditioned for The Office, initially, I had auditioned for the part of Jan Michael Scott’s boss. I did not get it. I did not do the pilot. They decided to replace an actress that was on the ensemble.
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Unknown
They changed her name, and so I remember going in for the audition and they said, no makeup, no. No joke. Absolutely. Usually, like, no makeup meant, like, lip gloss and some mascara. There were like, absolutely no makeup. Like, wake up, wipe off whatever you’ve got. And I remember, I went in there, one of my second city friends, Rose Abdu, who’s, she’s a regular on the show hacks.
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Unknown
She was there, and I thought, oh, my God, she books everything because I think she was recurring on the Gilmore Girls at the time, and she just, I don’t I was like, oh, my God, I’m not going to get this rose up here. She brooks everything. I remember the, the, the, casting director said, just don’t do anything.
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Unknown
Just you’re in a documentary. Do not do anything. And I did it. And I got hot. By the time I got home, I got a call to go to, Sunset Gower Studios and do it again, without anybody else in the room. And then by the time I got home from that hour, which was probably 20 minutes later, or half an hour later, I found out I got the part,
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Unknown
and I wasn’t exactly sure what I was getting myself into, but I knew I’d replace somebody.
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Unknown
So I was sort of like, well, I hope it works. I hope I work out because when you replace somebody, there’s always the fear that you will be replaced. So my first, season was, I was very, happy to be there. And
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Unknown
I thought the process was so interesting. They literally asked us to bring paperwork. So we were at our desks for quite some time, like they were figuring out, like, so literally the camera came to you.
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Unknown
You were already working. So it’s really an interesting,
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Unknown
exercise and just being and that. Yeah. Yeah.
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Unknown
I will just be your be who you are. Be what I mean when I say do nothing, it just means like, don’t act like, just be. And that’s a hard, especially for funny people. So I will say the first season, first two seasons, I had many wonderful producers and directors who who kept reminding me to bring it down less, less.
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Unknown
Let’s take it down, because I have a very expressive face and I play to the back of the house. I played very big theaters, so I was grateful that they kept reminding me instead of just replacing me. So I learned a lot, my proximity to the camera and, you know, I also learned to just kind of make these choices for, you know, to be another person.
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Unknown
That was not me who was working in an office in Scranton, with an annoying boss and people she didn’t pick, to work with, but she stuck with. So, you know, I was so pleased to get to play someone who was such an interesting character, whether she was cool or not. Like I was not defined by gender.
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Unknown
I feel like Meredith was a fantastic, just a wonderful, full, fully fleshed out character. You know?
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Unknown
Physically, I did like and I and I also felt like wardrobe. I kept sort of leaning into more like dressing like a kindergarten teacher who happens to be a,
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Unknown
I had super comfortable shoes, and I just, like, every once in a while, I was like, no, this is too much like a and someone else on the show like, this looks too much like Phyllis or too much like, and like, whatever the pieces were, and I, I kind of, like, asked for,
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Unknown
a little quirkier.
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Unknown
I was a little, you know, I had these crazy denim skirts and these jumpers and earth shoes and so, so wonderful. But, yeah, I just loved the whole vibe of and I, I kind of like the barrettes. I leaned into that whole too, like, again, dressing kind of like a child, who’s a grown adult in her 40s.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Unknown
It’s cool.
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Unknown
It was the number one show during Covid. We were the number one show streamed. I mean, it’s crazy. Literally, like, people couldn’t go to their real office, so they came to ours. I mean, that was like a little article about it in the New York Times. I’m like, oh my God, that’s crazy. So we made people feel normal, which is hilarious.
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Unknown
You were the first documentary style. Like documentary style, regular comedy on TV. Like,
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Unknown
and that format obviously has been copied since. But, you know, our producers really had to fight, particularly season one, to get it, you know, to make sure that, like, they were true to the to the art form of what Ricky Gervais created, because I feel like NBC was like kind of scratching their heads initially.
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Unknown
And, you know, and you have to understand, this was back in we were shooting in 2004, and that was when friends was ending. And the show Joey, which was the spinoff, was on the air. So when we started airing in the march of, 20,
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Unknown
2005, Joey was on the air. So, it’s just a different it was a different kind of vibe.
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Unknown
So we were totally the unicorn. But people really leaned in, and, you know, Steve Carell did the four year old Virgin movie, between the pilot and became, season one. And then it came out at the beginning of season two, and it just like we we had him. So I feel like his popularity really changed our trajectory because he was the star of our show.
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Unknown
And he did trust me in the first couple seasons like he does most of the heavy lifting. I mean, you know.
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Unknown
He’s just a really awesome guy. He’s he’s very,
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Unknown
shy, but also, like, he he’s his ego is not wrapped up in, in making it all about him. The show is he made sure that the show was the star, not him in the process. So I feel like no one really could act out if he wasn’t acting out, but no one else could, you know, because the problem with giving actors a job is that they start believing that they are like, somehow bigger or more important than they should be.
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Unknown
But, you know, that’s I also I’m sort of the attitude police. I’m sort of the attitude of gratitude. And when that’s not the environment can really be troublesome because you sort of fall victim to a little tyranny from the start,
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Unknown
you know, so, so never tired of never, never,
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Unknown
never the best, the best, the best.
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Unknown
Thing happens, you know.
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Unknown
I think rain is so wonderful. You are such a wonderful actor. I will say, I think he’s more like Dwight than, anybody else is like their character, because he knows so much about Battlestar Galactica already. Like, he kind of came in, and he’s he’s he’s a nerd.
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Unknown
Obviously he’s not Dwight Schrute, but,
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Unknown
you know, he just embodied this wonderful, wonderful oddball.
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Unknown
And, I loved doing scenes with them the best.
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Unknown
Jack Ryan.
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Unknown
Oh, he’s an amazing actor. And he really grew up on the office. He was so young when he. When he booked the show, in his 20s. And I feel like he’s just really. He’s done so much in the business. I mean, he’s an amazing director. I mean, quiet place, quiet place to are insanely creative and wonderful
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Unknown
and and spine tingling and like, have you on the edge of.
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Unknown
He’s he’s really amazing. What I feel like whatever he wants to do, he he’s smart enough to know he can really do it.
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Unknown
I don’t know so many things I need to say. Like, I just remember.
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Unknown
I remember being at the Emmys when we were first nominated, and, we won, and I had worked the governor’s Ball at the same space. I think it was
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Unknown
like 12 years before or 11 years before. And I was like.
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Unknown
And I remember I dropped my silverware in my napkin and I went to pick it up, and Oscar looked at me and goes, Craig, it’s not your job. And I was like, oh my God, this is nuts. This is that’s because I’d been a waiter for so long. But but also just like, I mean, there’s so many moments.
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Unknown
Literally on set where even if I didn’t speak, I just felt like I was a part of something so important and so special. And and you know, you just don’t laugh, like, just don’t ruin it. Don’t ruin it. Don’t particularly like the, Michael Scott’s last, you know, his his last couple episodes when Steve was leaving the show, there were so many, you know, bittersweet moments.
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Unknown
I mean, Michael’s last dundies was so, just so moving and wonderful and funny, and, you know, he proposes to Holly, and he lights so many candles that the sprinkler system goes off and we all get wet because we’re all watching the kitchen. I going, but, and I also remember, you know, singing to to, Michael Scott, at the last dundies.
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Unknown
And I mean, it was just, you know, and Steve just, he made the choice for Michael Scott to cry at that moment. It’s crazy. It’s crazy. But also remember, we did office Olympics. They’re playing the theme to the Olympics, and he comes Michael Scott comes back in from from, buying a condo. So he missed all the antics that we had all day.
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Unknown
We were like basically playing because he wasn’t there playing on his office games, office Olympics and he started to cry when they played the the Olympic theme, which I thought was so hilarious. I didn’t know he was going to do it. It just did. At one take, I thought, oh my God, this is so funny. Just these crazy choices he would make that were just so right on and so, like, so real and so insane and so wonderful.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Unknown
Right. Because. Because. Yeah. Because Michael Scott hit Meredith with his car. So he was running. Yeah. It’s a yeah.
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Unknown
Absolutely. I see that that was one of my favorite moments to was to get to do my own stunt when Michael Scott hits Meredith, I literally got to roll on the on the car, hit the glass, roll off front, the giant pad below. And I was like, oh my God, that was so fun. It was crazy. I thought it was funny.
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Unknown
Or when, you know, it’s the person. I mean, you can see me. It’s I’m my face is against the glass. You can see it’s me.
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Unknown
Wow. I did a bunch of my own stunts. I didn’t set my hair on fire or shaved my head, but I pretty much everything else. And we had stunt doubles, but I. I always wanted to try it. I was like, why not? What the hell?
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Unknown
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, part of the culture people, you know, it’s people. It’s it’s fine. I’m we have really great fans. I if I want to be a TV bad guy, on a as popular show is the office. I think it’s for.
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Unknown
Fun. I mean, my, father’s daughter. I’m kind of an alcoholic. Napa baby. Really good amount of. Wow.
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Unknown
I just did an episode of Night Court. The new night court. The.
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Unknown
I do, yeah, of course. Oh, yeah. No, totally. And I actually. And I got to do an episode of the new, Magnum, P.I.. So I got to go to Hawaii, which was really fun. So that was a blast.
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Unknown
Right. But it was so wonderful. And what a great time. I mean, it was also like, I think worked three days, but I was there for ten days because of the schedule. Mike. Thank you, thank you. That was really fun. But yeah, I had a great time. I did quarter it was I got to work with John Larroquette and I was kind of his, love interest, sort of, or his fake love interest.
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Unknown
And it’s very last minute. I actually had a great time. Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Playing me. Marge, that was really fun. And it had, like, a plaque of my character. They dedicated the their break room to me. Marge, the head of the sanitation department. And so, like that, that plaque was up the whole rest of the series.
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Unknown
So, so funny. I was like, I’m still there. I still but, yeah, so, so fun.
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Unknown
Yeah. So.
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Unknown
I’ve done dozens of indie films. So yeah, I have a there’s a couple streaming right now that I just did that just came out. There’s one with Jon Heder, who played, Napoleon Dynamite. And it’s on I think it’s on Amazon and it’s on a bunch of platforms. And actually Tom Berenger is in the movie, and I got to tell Tom that I was an extra, a featured extra in the movie I did in the cruisers when I was in high school.
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Unknown
You can actually see me at one point that I told you that were in the movie. I was like, hey, guys, this could be you. In 40 short years. I shot that movie in 82 and here it was 20, 22. And I’m like, this is nuts. Yeah. Yeah, I. Hilarious, right?
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Unknown
Yeah. It’s such a funny movie if you get a chance to see it. Oh my God, it’s a it’s a lady arm wrestling movie. The arm wrestling. Those are those words. I’m like, I don’t know. But yeah, it’s it’s really hilarious. And, it’s it’s it’s a, it’s a buddy movie. It’s a road trip movie. It’s hilarious.
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Unknown
Really. You will not be sorry if you watch it. I don’t even think it’s two hours. Just find it. Fine. Golden arm and you’ll. You’ll be happy.
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Unknown
I was.
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Unknown
It’s huge. And I was 55 when I got it. So I was, like, out of shape at the time and, you know, and, family member then passed away right before that. And I was like, I, I’m so I can’t believe they’re I mean, I literally was driving home from my sister’s funeral. It was so like I was like, I don’t know if I could do this.
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Unknown
And I it was actually a wonderful experience. Despite, you know, despite my grief, I felt like it was it was really great to be physical. And I had the best partner passion project for season. And, I it was just really great. And I got to do a big part of the tour that year. I got to do I supposed to do 54 of their 80 shows?
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Unknown
I did 45, and the show ended up the tour ended up shutting down early because of Covid, but I, I was like, it was kind of a religious exercise. I had, you know, we had played huge houses. I don’t think we played anything smaller than 2500. And I got to do a comedy monologue at the beginning of the show, like, the touring show, and then, do some of the dances for the show.
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Unknown
And, I got to host at Radio City and the Grand Ole Opry and the Fox Theater. And like it was, it was a really big bucket list for me. It was great.
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Unknown
Well, dancing with the stars as a whole thing, because you are. As my boyfriend said, I feel like you’re gone. But you’re right here because I was so committed. I just. And it’s tough to be judged. It’s the part I’m like, oh my God, it gets a little in your head. I was the oldest female for most of the season, so all the other women were in their 20s and I was 55.
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Unknown
So a couple times I got a high score and I think sort of give me a little side eye of the ladies. And I’m like, work hard. You’re like half my age, get to work. But it was validating because I felt like if anybody thinks I don’t have another chapter in them, they really. You got to give yourself a chance.
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Unknown
You know? Everybody’s taking them. Don’t take yourself out. I mean, the world might take you out, you know, or somebody else might take you out. And so you can’t do that. But don’t tell yourself you can’t do it. At least give it a shot.
00;27;38;26 – 00;28;00;21
Unknown
Oh, God. You’re insane. Talk about a lens. I’m like, are you going to go? I actually tour with Jane Lynch as well right now I have, we toured for years. We did a Christmas album called A swing, A Little Christmas. So every December, like, actually usually it’s November, late November, just through. We go out for at least three weeks and we do Icon Christmas show that we do as well.
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Unknown
That I think we’re going to do some dates this fall. But yeah, we do like, you know, you know, a bunch of, I mean, a bunch of different cities. I know we’ll be in Philly this this year. We usually do New York last year we did, six shows at Steppenwolf in Chicago. We played Joe’s Pub.
00;28;17;04 – 00;28;39;26
Unknown
We played a lot of. We’ve been at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, too, and and yeah, it’s really a blast. And it’s really fun because it’s our own creation. Like, we write our jokes and, you know, it’s it’s I would say it’s like the Rat Pack, but with a couple of broads that are from Glee. I’m a little narrative from The Office, and I would say that she’s like the nun cracking me on the knuckles, and I’m sort of like the sheep dog.
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Unknown
And it’s a blast. It’s really fun. Us.
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Unknown
With a couple of broads. Yeah. I, I did, I met.
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Unknown
She’s so awesome. Yeah. The was this wonderful horror movie comedy. Dark comedy. And that is also on a bunch of different platforms if you get a chance to see it. But we got to go to South by Southwest, which was so fun. And, I got to do some press with, with Rita. And, I mean, she’s an inspiration.
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Unknown
She’s like, going to be 94. I mean, she’s, she’s unbelievable. I’ll have what she’s like. She’s unbelievable. Just. And also, like, didn’t complain, didn’t, you know, didn’t ask for a chair. And, you know, just like did every, you know. And she had a great time. She played a, she played a bad guy and she usually never dies.
00;29;33;23 – 00;29;49;03
Unknown
And she was wonderful. She’s a great. Yeah. She wrote more slurs.
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Unknown
Baskets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you can just get the album on iTunes or if you want like a CD, you can get it on Amazon. If you’re, if you have to get a new car. But if you have a CD player, you have to. But, I’m also recurring on a, new cartoon. It’s on Sunday nights.
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Unknown
I think it’s on right after The Simpsons. It’s called, universal Basic guys. It’s about Philly. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a I got a few things, few things in the pipeline, a few things I can’t talk about, but, but, yeah, everything’s good. And then I’m, you know, I still have a commercial with a bunch of people from the office or AT&T, so that’s really fun.
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Unknown
Yeah, yeah, it was really fun. There was there are six of us, and we had a blast. Like, it was like no time had passed at all. So.
00;30;56;09 – 00;31;13;16
Unknown
Well, I mean, I think the The Office is such an achievement on so many levels. And also just, I just feel like you know, the thing about being a woman in comedy, we don’t get as many. There aren’t as many jobs. Women. And I don’t know if there ever will be. I hope so, but I don’t see it.
00;31;13;16 – 00;31;38;11
Unknown
It’s it just it just feels like they still write more parts for men. So the thing is, is that to be still in the game and to still be positive and enjoy it, but, you know, I like I said, I feel really proud of The Office because even though Meredith didn’t have a lot to say every episode, I feel like when I showed up, it was strong and memorable and they did a really great stuff to do.
00;31;38;11 – 00;31;55;22
Unknown
So to me like that, I feel like less is more in a way. So in some ways you can have a bigger impact. If as long as you go for it, you know. So, yeah, I mean, of course, you know, I’m, I’m, I’m doing some writing now and I’ve, you know, I’ve written for, with Jane and I and my comedy sheets.
00;31;55;23 – 00;32;17;18
Unknown
And I’m always proud, like, when you actually create something that yourself. Yeah. Which is awesome, but, but I’m also like, you know, I, I, I feel like, I’m always looking for the low douchebag factor in everything I do, so I’m just trying to have some fun. And, I’m not trying to step over anybody’s dying corpse to get ahead and, you know, and whatever.
00;32;17;18 – 00;32;25;23
Unknown
It’s like if next thing, if that creates less opportunities and so be it. But but I, I feel very lucky. I met my boyfriend on the office.
00;32;25;23 – 00;32;38;18
Unknown
He’s a photographer, TV photographer. He used to shoot Seinfeld. He’s shoot the Golden Girls. Used to shoot everything. Friends? Yeah. Now he’s Jennifer Hudson’s photographer now. And, he’s been working on some sitcoms as well.
00;32;38;18 – 00;32;56;05
Unknown
He’s shot the SNL 50th. So we were there, which was. It was so fun. I actually got a concert at Radio City, which was awesome. And actually, it’s the first time I’ve been back in Radio City since I hosted there, with Dancing With the Stars. So that was really cool. But we had a blast. Like, we were really enjoying every moment.
00;32;56;05 – 00;33;06;22
Unknown
And, luckily we were with, so I saw a lot of old friends and some comedy friends. And it was, it was great.
00;33;06;25 – 00;33;23;23
Unknown
I, I don’t know him personally, but I love Jake more now. He’s so tall. That’s you?
00;33;23;25 – 00;33;25;28
Unknown
Yeah.
00;33;36;17 – 00;33;58;09
Unknown
I remember, I was doing a show. I was at work in Second City, but I also worked at The Annoyance, and it was the first time Lorne Michaels had come to the annoyance Theater look for talent. And he came with Quincy Jones, and they watched our show and crazy, you know, folding chairs. And it’s like, really super, you know, basic theater.
00;33;58;11 – 00;34;20;25
Unknown
You know, it was it was it’s awesome. I mean, I feel like we all have to be proud of.
00;34;31;24 – 00;34;58;12
Unknown
Do whatever you can to get in front of people. And I think live is. I mean, I know people are creating content and putting it online, which is awesome, but I feel like you also have to be in front of a live audience, because that’s really how you’ll find out how to find new depths and heights and how to heighten things and feel the audience like supporting you, you know, because it’s, yeah, I just think it’s an important piece.
00;34;58;14 – 00;35;04;24
Unknown
And don’t worry about the things you don’t get. Do not, like, go to therapy. Whatever you have to do to take care of yourself,
00;35;04;24 – 00;35;17;26
Unknown
but care of yourself and your life and just realize that your what you’re doing is sacred. Following your dreams is sacred. So if you have people who are super judgy in your family, don’t text them or pick up the phone right before you have to do something.
00;35;17;26 – 00;35;28;28
Unknown
It’s really difficult. Like keep yourself safe, like and and keep the criticism to at bay. You know, I, I just feel like you have to take care of yourself, because if you don’t, nobody else will.
00;35;43;22 – 00;35;55;20
Unknown
Or. Burnett, you know, Rosalind Russell.
00;35;55;22 – 00;36;07;19
Unknown
Yes. CEO ball and Rosalind Russell.
00;36;07;21 – 00;36;32;00
Unknown
What kind of read redhead? I you know, I, I get it out of a bottle because I also feel like sometimes in casting, if you have red hair, people go, okay, okay, okay, it’s like a category I put myself in happily.
00;36;32;03 – 00;36;42;14
Unknown
Let’s.
00;36;42;17 – 00;37;07;17
Unknown
I think it’s going to be that I finished my book because I’m working. Yeah. I it’s it’s an intense process. I’m not really talking about it that much because I’m a I was I was afraid to talk about it for a few first few months and I’m like, oh my God, I have to. I got to come clean because it’s the self-examination part is I, it’s it’s it’s intense sometimes, like I’m my own worst critic, you know?
00;37;07;17 – 00;37;17;19
Unknown
So I got to set that critic up, you know.
00;37;17;21 – 00;37;39;09
Unknown
It is hard. It’s really hard. And everybody in this book is like, oh, boy. Yeah. Because I’m it’s not a money grab. I’m not. I’m not writing about that. You know. I’m not I don’t have a ghostwriter. I want to do it myself.
00;37;39;11 – 00;37;56;00
Unknown
Instagram at The real Kate Flannery I’m on Facebook, but I’m not great on Facebook. I’m not great at responding. But yeah, but yeah, those are the main things. And then, you know, always look for Jane Lynch and I if you go to Jane Lynch official.com, that was she’ll always have the tour info first for our tours.
00;37;56;02 – 00;38;15;07
Unknown
But yeah. Yeah, that’s kind of the, you know, that’s how I go to your local bar. I might be there, a bunch of, like, I’m doing a bunch of comic cons, and, sometimes I even do these office nights in the summer. There’s a few of us that do these, minor league events where we throw out the first pitch and, you know, nobody’s throwing garbage at me.
00;38;15;07 – 00;38;18;23
Unknown
I had some good.
00;38;18;23 – 00;38;23;24
Unknown
You’re the best. So much take a can. Take.
