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On Larry King Now, the always funny Ana Gasteyer!
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The women's getaway weekend
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is actually really about dialing in
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because women are so incredibly busy with their families,
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with their jobs, with their household management
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that for us to find a weekend
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where we really can just connect to each other
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and not think about all of those other things
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is the satisfaction.
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Wine Country I don't think would've been made 10 years ago.
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I mean, even Bridesmaids, which was quite a while ago now
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where people couldn't believe all the women
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were in a movie at the same time,
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which really opened doors for movies later on.
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We couldn't help ourselves.
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We were in Napa.
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That's a fun group.
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Food capital of the United States of America,
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so it was extremely good time eating
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and drinking every night. (laughs)
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Plus.
He's a divisive president.
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I don't think that there's a sense
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of sort of jolly ribbing where he's concerned.
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I think it's just vitriol,
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and I think it's very hard to shed light on that
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in a light or comedic way.
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That's all next on Larry King Now.
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Welcome to Larry King Now.
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I'm Tom Green filling in for Larry.
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Today's guest is Ana Gasteyer.
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Ana got her start
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with the prestigious comedy group The Groundlings
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and later became a full-time cast member
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on Saturday Night Live.
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She impressed viewers every week
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with her uncanny impersonations
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including Celine Dion, Joan Rivers, and Hillary Clinton.
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She's made many guest star appearances
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in everything from Curb Your Enthusiasm to Family Guy.
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She's currently starring in the film Wine Country on Netflix
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with an A-list cast of comedians,
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and welcome to the show, thank you.
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Thank you, Tom.
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I loved Wine Country.
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I love that you loved it.
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That's fantastic.
I loved it.
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I watched it last night, and I just needed a good laugh.
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Good.
And I got to really enjoy
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watching you and your friends.
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Yes, it is definitely a group of friends.
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It's an SNL crew,
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a bunch of us that met coming up through the show.
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Amy Poehler directed the movie and performed in it.
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Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch,
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myself, and Paula Pell and Emily Spivey,
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both of whom were writers for long periods of time at SNL
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but are performers in their own right,
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and it was also co-authored
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with a former SNL writer Liz Cackowski,
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so it's a big collection of gals from the SNL--
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All real friends.
College.
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Yeah, yeah.
Still real friends, right?
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Is it like that?
Yeah, it was born of--
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You worked together in SNL.
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Do you stay friends after?
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That's what happened.
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I mean, it was definitely born of an actual trip.
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It was just kind of,
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Amy's a good businesswoman, and I think figured out,
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we talk via text every day.
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We have sort of a little coffee klatch,
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so we connect, and I think there was enough lamenting
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over the whatever 10 years
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that we've talked to each other almost every day (laughs)
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about wanting to work together.
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We're all active in every other aspect of show business,
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and Amy was like, "You know, that's not a bad idea.
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"We should actually just make a movie together."
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about going to Napa and drinking wine all day.
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but it was based around some trips that we've taken.
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for these big milestone birthdays,
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and we did go to Sonoma for Dratch's 50th.
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and I was getting ready to go to Dratch's birthday.
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It took a lot of work to coordinate
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a lot of busy moms and professional women,
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and so I was arranging to leave, and I had my bags,
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and I was waiting for the car
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and came to say bye to everybody eating breakfast,
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and my husband said to my children
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who were eight and like 13 at the time,
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"Have you guys ever seen the movie The Hangover?"
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and they said no, and he said,
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"Well, Mama's going to wine country with her girlfriends,
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"and she's gonna basically have
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"an all-female version of The Hangover."
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They'll make another movie--
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"It is a good idea for a movie.
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"It's a great idea for a movie,
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"but I don't wanna do The Hangover."
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that it is an all-female movie,
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so in many ways, sort of the male idea
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of checking out and getting out of town
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and getting a lost weekend is literally
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about blacking out and not remembering.
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The premise of The Hangover
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is not remembering what happened.
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about dialing in because women are so incredibly busy
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with their families, with their jobs,
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with their household management,
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with the elder care in their lives,
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the sort of sandwich generation,
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that for us to find a weekend
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where we really can just connect to each other
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and not think about all of those other things
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is the satisfaction.
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We don't wanna black out.
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We wanna dial in, if that makes any sense.
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It did feel like, for me,
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like I was getting to experience a little insight into--
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The ladies' room?
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You had a meeting in the ladies' room?
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Got to hang out with the ladies in Napa.
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I mean, Amy very intentionally wanted to make this movie
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that was very feminine in its value system
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because there are not a lot of movies with lots of girls.
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It wasn't like a feminist bra burner
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but more about just what motivates women
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and how we connect to one another
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and how we feel about aging as opposed to how other people
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think we should feel about aging,
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and I think the movie really addresses a lot of that,
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and in particular as a comedy and as a narrative,
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it is funny, and I'm really proud of it.
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and I think for as much sort of ridiculous dancing
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and singing and making noise
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as we do as a group, which we do,
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there's also a lot of deep talk and a lot of tears
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in a kind of meaningful way,
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and I think that that's really significant for women,
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and it's been really cool this weekend
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'cause the movie came out Friday night,
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and just even in my social media feed,
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the number of women who want connection
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even in viewing the movie,
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just viewing party after viewing party.
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I actually put it on my Instagram story,
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just photographs of these like groups of people
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coming together to watch it.
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the idea that it was like there were some like
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fellowship and comradery and not just about checking out.
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But it was important to Amy that in developing the piece
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that each of the characters obviously has characteristics
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of all of us.
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Not necessarily that Amy is the really organized one,
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or that Paula is the codependent one,
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although those are really significant features
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of those women, of those characters and of those actresses.
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I have some of that in me, but I wanted to represent
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the busy working women in our group and in the world.
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And I think that women are so pulled in so many directions,
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as I mentioned.
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All of this literature is coming out now
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about more women are working, obviously.
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Most women are working now
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and they are making more than they ever have.
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who are sharing the work,
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still 80 to 90% of household management
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and household work is falling on the shoulders of women.
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They're also expected to be incredible at their jobs,
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and they're expected to be, if they're mothers,
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really exceptional mothers.
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We don't just sort of open the back door
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and let our kids go play all afternoon like our parents did.
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We're expected to have the best birthday parties
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and have the most interesting afterschool activities,
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and be over-engaged
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in every single part of our child's lives.
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for the working piece of it that we feel like we have to be
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at the top of our game professionally all the time.
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I love the movie, it was hilarious.
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When we come back Ana reminisces about her time
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on Saturday Night Live and all her hilarious impersonations.
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So make sure you see her new comedy Wine Country.
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It's streaming now, and stay with us
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on this edition of Larry King Now.
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Okay, let's play path not taken.
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Oh.
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I would work at a bookstore, like a crunchy bookstore
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in Portland or Seattle, somewhere rainy and moody.
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Oh, I love it.
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Oh, that's so good.
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You go.
Okay, path not taken.
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Zamboni driver.
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Swear to god.
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It would be so peaceful.
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Clean slate every two hours, start over, nice and simple.
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Really cold, no hot flashes.
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Ooh!
Come on.
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Was there a lot of wine consumed making Wine Country?
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Not on set so much, although at the end of the day,
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we might have enjoyed a splash or two.
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They are long hours, as you know in film
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and so, you don't really wanna start day drinking
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when you've got six hours to go.
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The rap party must have been nice.
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Yeah.
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And I will say when we were filming, especially in Napa,
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one of the things I love about this group of women
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and their very close friends,
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they all are really great about eating and drinking.
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They're not actress-y at all about it,
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which is to say the traditional like
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I'm just gonna have a scallop, I've gotta shoot tomorrow.
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They're not like that at all.
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So we would go out to dinner.
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We couldn't help ourselves.
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We were in Napa.
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It's a fun group--
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Food capital of the United States of America,
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so it was extremely good time eating, for sure,
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and drinking every night. (laughs)
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When you were kid, were you funny?
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Not on purpose.
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I was a...
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Yeah, I mean, I had...
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My friends were funny.
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I mean, I hung out with funny people.
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I was never like class clown, though.
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I was more of the wise ass in the back row, for sure.
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So when you got into The Groundlings,
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at that point you must have known you were funny.
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I knew when I got,
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I went to Northwestern to be a voice major, a singer,
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which is the completely other half of my career
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is as a vocalist.
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So I went to college as a vocalist
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and I found the improv people.
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Chicago has a huge improv storied history
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and, as soon as I met the improv people,
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I thought oh, I found my tribe.
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Like it immediately made sense.
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My everything, everything I found entertaining about myself,
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I saw reflected in other people.
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I got a theater degree at Northwestern
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and then I came to LA and I did The Groundlings
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and it felt like a very comfortable fit,
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and I knew that that was what I wanted to do.
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Seems like there is like a, I don't know,
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a renaissance of female comedy right now--
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Well, it's just a naissance because there's never been a--
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I don't know if that's a word.
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There's just so many amazing--
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I mean, it was starting when I was at SNL for sure.
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Obviously, there's been a movement that's been opening up
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over the last 20 years and now I feel like, you know,
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Wine Country I don't think would have been made
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10 years ago, the idea.
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that were so revelatory, even Bridesmaids,
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which was quite a while ago now
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where people couldn't believe all the women
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were in the movie at the same time,
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which really opened doors for movies later on,
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like Wine Country and I think,
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as Amy's put it very eloquently,
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there's lots and lots and lots of stories
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we haven't heard yet.
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Women stories and diverse stories,
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that it's kinda cool to see that we're in this
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coincidence of people's ideas of culture expanding
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at the same time as streaming happening,
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so you just have more outlets
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for more different kinds of stories to be told.
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Who were your favorite comedians when you were--
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A kid?
A kid.
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Bob Newhart was probably my first favorite comedian,
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just in terms of wanting to watch a show
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in a really regular way.
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His sense of timing was impecable.
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Super musical and amazing.
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Carol Burnett, of course.
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Gilda an Jane Curtin, early influences.
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Andrew Martin and Lily Tomlin, for sure,
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just in terms of character and specificity.
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In a way, that was really satisfying.
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Okay, after the break, a round of if you only knew,
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the very funny Ana Gasteyer.
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If you only knew.
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Yeah, make sure to see her in the new comedy Wine Country
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it's currently streaming on Netflix.
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Stay right there.
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Welcome back to Larry King Now.
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Ana, thank you.
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Do you remember your first day on Saturday Night Live?
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Oh, yes, I do.
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I came in, there was a total turnover in the cast in 1995
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and they put in two new cast members.
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They tweaked slightly in 1996 and that was me
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and Tracy Morgan.
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So we weren't part of like a freshman class.
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We were just super awkward interlopers showed in
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and it was just abject terror for at least the first
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six years and then I left.
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(laughing)
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What's so terrifying about it?
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The sense of, well, you were there.
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I mean, the sense of--
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For one week, but--
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No, but the architectural phenomenon of, I don't know,
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it would be, I don't know what it would be akin to, like--
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It's live.
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Superman heading back to the, yeah, the crystal palace.
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There's something so in your DNA about that set
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and you audition on that set
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and you have tons and tons of sort of downloaded memory
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of that set, so it was Tom Hanks and Tom Petty
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my first show, and I have a vivid memory
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of seeing Tom Petty perform on the show
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when he sang from Damn the Torpedoes, Don't Do Me Like That.
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So to walk in to the set for the first time
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and to see this musical artist that I knew from this place
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and my deep childhood, the whole thing was so surreal.
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There are characters that come up more than others?
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There are ones that are your favorites?
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Lucky for me, those both,
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my most popular things are Christmas-related,
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so they do have an annual,
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they usually are given an airtime annually
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which is Schweddy Balls
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and the Martha Stewart Topless Christmas Show,
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so I do get asked about those a lot,
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and historically, yeah.
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Historically, I would get asked a lot
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about the Music Teachers that I did
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Will Ferrell, as well.
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Celine Dion brought you up on stage?
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By the way, you said it like a real Canadian.
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Celine Dion.
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You say with the respect.
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(speaking French)
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My parents live in Quebec.
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Of course, you are.
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(speaks French)
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Okay.
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Shout out.
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Shout out to Celine.
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She brought you up on stage though, right?
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To do her show.
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I performed at Madison Square Garden
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what we would call in comedy a sneaker upper
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where it was at the moment that the entire world
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was exploding over that Titanic song.
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Oh, yeah.
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That was one that we could not escape.
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So I did a faux entrance as her
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in her same costume with a wig playing her in her concert.
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(laughs)
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And like half the audience was really excited
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and half the audience didn't understand what was happening.
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Right, right.
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She has a good sense of humor, then.
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I mean, I think most people,
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at least in my experience, Martha and Celine,
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they're my friends, obviously.
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(laughs)
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And Hilary Clinton--
They are, right?
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They probably are now.
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Well, I would say friendly.
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They've all expressed extreme delight and understanding
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that imitation is a really high form of flattery
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and been really lovely about it.
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We do rapid fire questions.
Oh god, now I'm nervous.
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It's called If You Only Knew.
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What's your guilty pleasure?
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Dateline.
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I like watching those really disturbing DNA murder shows
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alone in a hotel with a generous hotel splash.
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Mm-hm, absolutely.
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Okay.
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Did you have a celebrity crush?
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Oh, yeah.
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I think Rami Malek is super cute.
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Okay.
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And it's inappropriate on a lot of levels, I know.
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But you asked.
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What is your secret talent?
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I play the violin.
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Not well, but it is a talent and it's a secret.
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Not really that big of a secret, either.
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I just interviewed Tony Hawk.
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He also plays violin.
Stop it!
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Oh my god, I'm going on the road with Tony Hawk.
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You guys have to have a violin showdown.
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Oh my god, I just want him to skateboard by
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while I do this.
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Yeah, it'd be amazing.
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Okay, something that you think we should all
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be paying more attention to in the world.
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I mean, in the world, I think we need to be paying
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more attention to reproductive rights.
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I think it's a huge crisis of our time.
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Yeah.
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Right now, that's something people
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should be paying attention to right now.
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It's happening under our noses.
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A luxury that you can't live without.
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Nespresso.
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I love my Nespresso maker.
Absolutely.
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I love coffee.
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I really love coffee.
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Like I think about it a lot.
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How many coffees a day are you drinking these days?
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I drink a solid four cups a day, always have.
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I have actually had the thought,
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and this is not a good though.
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I've actually thought I could never live
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like on a desert island or be imprisoned,
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'cause I'd be super sad about the coffee sitch.
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Yeah.
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I know that misses the point of everything else, but--
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There sometimes is a question in this segment
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called what would you bring to the deserted island,
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so it's be a Nespresso machine.
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Well, no, you can't plug it in.
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Ah.
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You gotta think these things through.
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And I would not wanna spend time MacGyvering that.
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(laughs)
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It would make me so sad.
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Best compliment you've ever received.
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The best compliment I've ever received
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when I was in the cast of Wicked with my for a long time
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the producer spoke very highly about how we set the tone
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for a really happy crew and cast
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just by modeling pretty ethical and kind behavior.
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That's why I think Wine Country, you can feel that.
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And I will say, like that was my greatest concern going in
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because we were very close friends,
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we rely upon one another in a million ways,
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not just comedically, but professionally as mothers
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and partners for advice and to have sort of a sense
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of historical friendship where people know your past
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and they know what you've been through,
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that's incredible about this group.
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Amy is a natural born leader.
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She's a naturally empowering leader.
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She's incredibly, Amy Poehler, incredibly positive,
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focused and we're all old enough and mature enough
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to want to bring our best to the process.
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And as a result, the movie brought us even closer,
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which was just a total surprise and delight.
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Have your kids seen it?
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Yeah, my kids were at the premiere.
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It's one of the cutest things.
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It's not as edgy as The Hangover in that way
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in that kids can, it's--
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Yeah, it's definitely not a family movie
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and I definitely had to about four beats after the scene,
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my son really loudly turned to me and said,
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"Were those dildos?"
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Really loudly in the theater.
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So, I was like, "We'll explain it later."
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(laughs) In the premiere.
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But, yeah, they were definitely there.
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My daughter's almost 17, and she was, I think,
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really excited to be there and I was excited for her
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to see this show that was written by women,
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directed by women, a lot of the crew were female,
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entirely acted, as you pointed out, there's no scene
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in which two men are actually talking to each other.
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It's wasn't even deliberate.
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Jason Schwartzman's in the movie.
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He's fantastic.
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Okay, a few more rapid fire questions.
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Strangest job you've ever had.
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Oh, I worked and I got fired the same day
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on the paddle boats on the Tidal Basin in D.C.
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Okay.
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Why?
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Why did you get fired?
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I think I may have fallen in.
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I'm trying to remember.
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It was a long time ago.
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I wasn't good at the job, obviously, and I just remember
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a lot of polluted Potomac River water and splashing.
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Something you wish you were better at.
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Maybe paddle boat operator.
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Oh, I wish I had straight up could produce something.
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I'd like to produce something.
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Do you have a favorite vice?
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Yes, I enjoy alcohol tremendously.
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And I enjoy...
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I really like eating and drinking.
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(laughs)
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I like eating as much, easily.
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What's your funniest fan encounter?
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Well, my favorite is when people dress
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as either the Music Teachers or as the NPR hosts
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for Halloween, 'cause that's hilarious to me.
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That makes me happy.
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Amazing.
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In our final moments, Ana Gasteyer
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will be back to answer all your social media questions.
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Don't go away.
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Welcome back to Larry King Now.
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I'm Tom Green filling in for Larry.
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My guest is Ana Gasteyer.
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Ana, thank you for doing this today.
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Tom, I've gotta tell you, you said my name beautifully.
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Thank you.
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And your voice is very resonant.
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Thank you.
And rich.
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Oh.
As my mother would say.
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Canadian accent.
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You should be a Canadian announcer.
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Okay, yes.
And make some calls.
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We're doing our social media questions for you now, Ana.
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That's nice.
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Axe_grrl on Twitter "Have you ever met Martha Stewart
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"and what did Stewart think of your impersonation?"
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I've met Martha a number of times,
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even while I was still on the show.
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She was early in that imitation
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is the best form of flattery.
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She had me come and do a Christmas special
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which was incredibly surreal,
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where I played her next to her
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and like trussed a chicken or something.
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It was incredibly uncomfortable and it was a very,
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you may know this about impressions,
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but I don't consider myself an impressionist exactly.
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I don't channel a person, but I perform
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kind of in the voice and the tone.
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So, they're better short and sweet than they are elongated.
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And it was very, very long period of time
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where I had to play her.
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Since then, she over the years, invited me here and there
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and then I interacted with her when my album came on.
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I happened to be on Seth Meyers the same night,
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and as a bid, I did an apology to her,
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public apology for having mocking her,
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having mocked her, and she was on the show and rib me.
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So I sent her flowers with the album when it came out,
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and then I really enjoyed this
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because she is the queen of protocol.
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She emailed me a thank you note, like of all people.
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She seems like a good sport.
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You would have thought
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she would have put pen to paper, though.
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Oh!
It's Martha Stewart.
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Yeah.
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Yes, right?
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Like I wouldn't email a thank you
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because I would be afraid that Martha Stewart
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would judge me for emailing a thank you.
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Well, Martha Stewart stationary.
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Anyway, it taught me that we're all human.
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(laughs)
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Njshivers on Twitter.
Oh, yes?
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"Would you come back to host SNL?"
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Well, of course, I would!
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Yes!
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Who wouldn't?
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Well, I mean, you can't ever really leave.
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It's part of your DNA.
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@Wutsupnews on Twitter, "Is Trump good or bad for comedy?"
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That's a good question.
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I mean...
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I'm not a person who writes political comedy,
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so I would just say he's bad for it. (laughs)
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Because he puts me in a bad mood sometimes.
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So, obviously, so many comedians now on SNL off SNL
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are talking about the political situation.
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We were talking about this in the break.
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You say something about it on social media
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and it's just so divisive, polarized.
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Yeah, that's why I think it's not good.
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I don't think that there's a sense of sort of jolly ribbing
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where he's concerned, I think it's just vitriol.
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And I think it's very hard to shed light on that
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in a light or comedic way because I think it's a very,
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he's a divisive president, think what you will.
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And he doesn't have a sense of humor about himself,
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which makes it pretty tough to have a dialog about.
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Daniel Christopher Thomas on Facebook asks,
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Name an SNL cast member you didn't work with
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but that you would have love to have worked with.
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Oh, I wish I'd worked with Jan Hooks
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and Nora Dunn, for sure.
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And Dana Carvey who I've come to know later
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who I deeply admire, as well.
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I really wish I'd worked with all of those guys.
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And I would say now, actually moving forward to,
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I always was very sad that I left when I did.
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I was glad, I was ready to go,
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but then I was very sad not to be a part of the company
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of women that kind of hung out.
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Like I'm really sad that I wasn't
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in the Mom Jeans commercial, for example.
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(laughs)
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And I love Aidy Bryant.
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I think she's super super funny.
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People from past, does everyone get together at parties,
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the SNL parties?
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There's a sense of fraternity, for sure, yeah.
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I've worked with Jorma Taccone from The Lonely Island,
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directed my music video.
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Fred Armisen and I have worked together.
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I mean, there's definitely...
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There's overlap.
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There's a sense of shorthand when you meet people
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who have already...
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Like I met Adam Sandler years after he was off the show
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and we were both at an opening, out at a play
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and he just kinda leaned over and was like.
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It's a common bond without a question.
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That's cool.
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A big thanks to my guest Ana Gasteyer.
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You can see Ana in the new Netflix comedy Wine Country.
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Hilarious, it's currently streaming on Netflix
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and special thanks to Larry
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for having me fill in for him today.
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We'll see you next time.
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