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Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Good Hang. This is our holiday episode. It's our Christmas episode, and we have an incredible guest today who's gonna celebrate Christmas with us. And you should know we are off next week, and then we are right back. So don't be scared.
We just have one week down to give everybody a genuine break and then we're back in the new year. But we are with Anna Gasthier today. And Anna Gasthier writer, singer, Broadway star, sketch comedian does so many things well, and a sweet dear friend who went through the same SNL sausage factory as we all did. And we talk about that. We talk about being on the show and how fun it was to bomb.
We talk about Christmas and our favorite Christmas songs. And we talk about Annie. Annie comes up. Thank God, as does Once Upon a Mattress. And Anna's story about being in the White House.
And we also, we talk about her record, Sugar and Booze, The Christmas Classic. So it's a great episode and we're starting this episode with another Titan, like a genius comedic legend. A woman who has written some of your favorite sketches at SNL. You know her from AP Bio, from the Maple Worth murders, from Wine Country, from Girls 5, Beva. She is the one, the only.
Paula, pala, Paula. I believe we're getting you in a car. This episode of Good Hang is presented by Walmart Express Delivery, getting gifts to your doorstep in as fast as an hour. Who needs elves when Walmart Express Delivery can make Nespresso machines magically appear on your doorstep? And if you do happen to forget something, no judgment, you can even order gifts up until 5 p.m.
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Paula, can you see me and hear me? Yes, I can see you and hear you. Oh, I need to. Can you hear me? I think I need.
I hear you, but I don't see you. I think I need to hit the camera. Hold on. Why isn't it working? Elaine.
Yeah. Can I get to Janine to see if she can. Hi, Janine. Janine, Brio, Paula's beautiful wife. I'm trying to.
There we go. There we go. My beautiful wife with a new haircut. Hi, Janine. How many do you mean?
It's so great that your beautiful wife is also your IT. For a person who just got off an airplane, you look beautiful. Well, I just did a, which Tina Fey is very familiar with in a car, a full face makeup in about two seconds, because I did that in the tabs on the way to work all the time. Yeah. We are all pretty good at, I mean, most women are, like, getting thrown it on.
Yeah, throwing it on. I got really good at just the feel. Like, I can almost, it's like, it's like, love is blind, but it's makeup is blind and you just have people do a full makeover by just feel. Well, it looks great. I'm also wearing my lesbian uniform in Los Angeles.
Hmm. I love having you in Los Angeles, Paula. It's so nice. It's so beautiful here. We love so much snow.
Well, you know, this episode with on guest hire is going to be technically our holiday episode. It's going to air before Christmas. Yay. And we are going to talk about it. You guys better.
Carol. You better sing a Carol. I was like, I wish we could have you in Stude. You love to Carol, though. I do.
I love to Carol. I love to harmonize more than anything on Earth. If I could, if someone said to me, this is your job for the rest of your life is just to throw in that alto line and just walk from group to group and throw in that alto line, lay down that base. I would do it and be the happiest human being on Earth. Although I have also heard you have a very fierce soprano.
You can also hit those high notes. Well, sometimes I do think lately in my 60s, I have had experiences where I thought I was nailing it and then I listened to it back on my video. It's very mortified, just a little sharp. And I like to sing a certain kind of sharp for Janine that really makes her put her face down in the cereal in the morning, because it's just a little bit. It's just a little overshoot.
Could you give us an example of it? It's just a new year. It's like, it's like finding it. It's like a level. And you're always just finding it.
And then you finally get it. Only as good of a singer as you, Paula Pell, can do good bad singing. That's like the thing in comedy. You're always like, don't try to sing bad. Don't try to sing bad.
It's funny. I want to talk to Anna about it. Like, what is the difference between good singing and comedy singing? It's a very fine line. So we're talking to Anna Gaster today.
What's great about Anna? Let's talk well behind her back. Anna is so many things at once speaking out. And she's such a multi multi-multi hyphenate. It's like every time you turn, she's doing a new job that's something where it's like, oh my god, just Broadway.
And writing and movies. And she and Rachel writing that hilarious Christmas movie. And then she's on really funny television shows as really funny characters. And then she's playing the violin in a video she sends us to crack us up. That's incredibly skilled violin.
So I admire that so much in her. But I also, she came and stayed with us to write this Bobby and already recently for the 50th. And we sat in our pajamas at my house at our house. And we just sat and just really broke it down. She's so good at sitting and just really asking questions.
She's a curious present friend. She's really such pure medicine to my soul to just really talk about everything. We should talk. We've been on many trips together. A bunch of the SNL ladies have gone together on Girl Trips, Maya, you, me, Dratch, Tina, Anna, Spivey, and.
The wine country gang. And the wine country gang. And we have been, we're kind of overdue for a trip. Very overdue. Yeah, we need to.
We're going to all bring our grandchildren. Next time, it's just going to be a play date. We'll all be there with our grandchildren. And I'll have, do you need an aisle, have our grand dogs? Because we cloned Barbara Streisand style.
How are all the doggies doing? Can you name all the doggies' names? Well, we have. Yes, we have Ernie, who used to have four buck teeth. And now he has nothing in no chin.
Ernie is a very obnoxious little chihuahua with a penis to the size of his legs. And then Gary is perfection. He's a poodle mix. He's perfect, perfect child. And then we have Dolly, who's like a shitsume mix, who looks like she's wearing a wig.
And she's very tender and gives a lot of side eye. And then we have our only young dogs. We always adopt old dogs. And now we've adopted a younger dog who makes us say about 30 fucks before 10 o'clock in the morning. Because she's so obnoxious, is Bonnie a beagle basset.
And she starts at about 5.30 and stares at you in the dark. And you see her silhouette. She goes, er, a lot of rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. And just does that until you just go, just get up and see. You get up and feed.
And then who's, who am I missing? And then Tallulah is in a wheelchair, a little wheel cart. And she's a eight pound, tiny, tiny little mix. She looks kind of like a smooth-haired pecanese a little bit. And she has no feeling in her back half of her body.
And is faster than any of the dogs, even without her wheels. She flies through the air, just running on her front two legs. And she used to despise me the first year. And then I left for four months to shoot something. And I came back and she lets me know.
OK, so any question you think we should ask on it today? I have a legit one. And then I have just one quick little funny one, if you want to ask her this. The funny one is her dog, Gloria, speaking of dogs, eats things all the time that she's not supposed to. I just wanted to know, I think we should all be updated on what the latest thing that she devoured.
And then has it come out yet. Great. And when it came out, was it recognizable? Great. And then my real question is because she's such a multi-hyphenate, between writing when she's writing or when she's singing or when she's doing comedy, which one of those makes her feel the most free, just glorious untethered euphoria?
Which one gives her the biggest role that way? Perfect. Thank you so much. Paula, love you. I can't wait to talk to you in length one day.
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What do you mean? You got what do you wear? My tartan. Oh, it's about angle. There it is.
Charting chute. That look natural. I wear my holiday. Yeah, because I do try to think about what the yes is going to. It's tartan season.
This is our Christmas episode. I know. I got excited. So how many times do you ever think I can wear this? Yeah, those are cute.
Are they cute? Isn't it weird to wear it in sunny Los Angeles? Yeah, they're cute. It's a sweatery texture. It's a sweatery tartan.
I don't know if you can see the texture. So it's very holiday. Anyway. This is going to be your Christmas. And I have so many things I want to talk to you about today.
OK, yeah. Very excited to go here. Thank you for doing it. Never enough time. Always so much to talk about.
Never enough time. And but it's very exciting that you are the Christmas episode because I do associate you with Christmas in many ways. You have a Christmas album. You go into our Christmas. And you yourself love Christmas.
Yes, I do. What do you love about Christmas? Well, I call myself the Duchess of Christmas. Actually, a nice gay call me that. And I took it, obviously.
I love it. It's so weird. It's like, but it's a lot of the holidays. I mean, like the resume sort of leans in that direction. Because my legacy moments at SNL were Shui Balls and the Martha Stewart Thomas Christmas, which is my first thing that succeeded there.
And they run over here on the Christmas episode. Right. That's special. So it comes up for people. And then Dratch and I wrote that Christmas movie, which is a parody of the Hallmark films.
Tell everybody what it is called, a cluster phone Christmas. And it is a parody. It's a perfect parody. The goal was to make the perfect parody for the ultimate Hallmark lover. Right.
Of which you are. You are. I love Hallmark movies. I love a Hallmark movie. And I love the holidays.
I love the holidays. So what kind of decorations? Because we're in a text chain. We send each other like our prep. Yeah.
What decorations do you have up right now? What are you looking forward to in the levels of what's going on? Right. So there's all sort of contingent upon how much I'm traveling and how exhausted I am by visual clutter that year. So which is fair.
Right. So I'm actually going full tilt on Friday. The boxes are out. I'm going to do New York for the first time in a really long time. I haven't done it in a long, long time.
I've worked on Christmas a lot. Because during the Broadway shows. Because you're a pro babe. I mean, pros work on Christmas. Yeah.
So you end up a lot of my things are, which are so up your alley. I know like they're sort of hacks. They're like hacks to still be festive and still enjoy it and still be present in it. But maybe have it not be sort of enslaved by it. Do you know what I mean?
So I have, for example, I can go full tilt on the hump, which I'm going to do this year. And I'm going to, you know, what does that mean? That means like the trees and the lights and the garland and the swag and the, you know, all the tic-tac hacks, like with the curtain rod and the, you know, garland going across it. And let's load it. Woodland forest.
Let's load it down. I just heard my favorite tic-tac hacks. Tic-tac hacks. And the garland goes where? So you get yourself some like Walmart or, you know, the tension rod.
You can put it like in a doorway, like where you would hang mistletoe and you can basically go to Trader Joe's, Pro Cosco or whatever and get your garland. And you can make a really beautiful archway. If you use that tension rod. So you get, you would put curtains right. So you have to go buy that hardware.
But that's like $4. And wrap it in garland. Yeah. And then put it in the door. And then hang it down.
Put a little t cup hooks. You know, this little t cup hooks that people, you can buy them at the Five and I'm also at Walmart. You know, the Five and I. And you will wear them at the Walmart's. And you will wear them at the Walmart's.
Down at Walmart's when you're doing your studies. And you can put your garlands down at New York. You can do lights. IKEA has, or everybody now has, do an IKEA run every holiday. It's a real cute.
I'm a guest. I'm here. She's telling us about Christmas. You would take a little craft brown paper, just brown paper packages tied up in strings. That's the round paper packages tied up in strings.
That's how you wrap. That's how you wrap. That's how you wrap. I have a question about the brown paper. I find it a little heavy sometimes for tape.
Because of the gauge. You've got to get a thinner gauge. A thinner gauge paper. Craft paper. OK.
It's called Craft Paper. What are we talking? Tree. I have a feather table top, I have a tinsel, like sort of medium. And then I finally am just going to do live robust.
You know what I mean? Yeah. And the one thing I'll say about live, I do usually do a real Christmas tree. I like that we're calling it alive. Live from Christmas.
Live from Christmas. And I know there's ones where you can even have ones that they repot. In California. Yeah. You can't really find that on the East Coast.
I've tried. Well, the thing that I always bamboozled to me about a real Christmas tree, which I still do, is I think it's going to smell so good. And it never does anymore. Because they've been cut so long ago. Christmas trees used to smell better.
Now, they don't smell like they used to. Well, that's genetic modification right there. It's so true. And sometimes you just got to do, well, I use the do your do, like a rome therapy or a pine. I'll put it upon you.
Pinecane. Pinecane. You know it's got a nice pine candle this year. Cool. I love the California Trader Joseph.
I like it. He said it's in great. Trader Joe has invested. And it's at his, his, um, eponymous shop. Um, I, I love it.
I love it. I love it. I love my Trader Joe. I do love my Trader Joe's. But I like, I like, I do love Christmas, but again, I will not be overrun by it.
So I love, I like, this is why I made a holiday album. I love my holiday album. It's very old fashioned. It's a little winky. You've seen my show.
It's very like, you're Holliday album, sugar and booze. Yes. So great. Thank you. And your shows that you do to support it are so fun.
It's a holiday spectacular. Yes. Well, I like to perform with a horn section. So that's for starters, cause I have a loud voice. And I like to wear a tartan and get dressed up.
And I like, um, it feels very like, so my, how do we answer this? Sextinctly. Um, I. Do you have to? I don't know what to do.
Do we want to spend the whole hour on this? But I mean, this is a real, this is a real good question, which is like, talk where you want babe. Okay. You're right. It's called good hanging.
We don't have to get right. We have to be succinct. No, we don't. We can cut it. We can cut this shit out of it.
We can cut this shit out of it. We can make this podcast six minutes. We should do a clip show where we call it cut the shit. And so kind of in the 1959, early 60s entertainers era really spoke to me because it was a time when a gal, Rosemary Clooney would probably be like the idol. A gal who could tell a good story, could belt to the rafters, play in front of a big band, carry a band, an evening of entertainment.
So when we set out to make the holiday album, it was really to create a record that wasn't kitschy or like, you know, it's not a comedy record. It's not a campy record, it's not a campy record, but it's me, so it's fun to it. But really I wanted it. The goal was to have it play seamlessly with a Frank Sinatra Christmas record or a classic Christmas record while you're making cocktails and wrapping presents. It's a perfect record for that.
Treat trimming. Treat trimming. It is so good. Treat trimming a live tree. It's a treat trimming a live tree.
Or a bossing. I don't want to. It's such a good record. It's just the right amount of like whimsy combined with really, really good singing and a many original Christmas songs, which is hard to do to make an original Christmas song. Really hard.
And I love Christmas rec. I love Christmas songs, but they're really, really hard. What Christmas songs do you love? Well, I like a lot of the ones that are on the record. I love sleigh ride.
I love man with a bag, which I just think is a structurally. It's on your record. It's on your record. Yes. There's some bad Christmas songs that we listen to every year just because they're out there over and over again.
There's, I have to say, Decka Hall is not my fave. No. And we wish you Merry Christmas is not my fave. It's boring. It's boring.
There's a lot of them. Even rock around the Christmas tree is kind of a boring song. Yeah. It's a really great rhythm. We actually have a new arrangement of it this year, which we're doing.
Okay. God rest. He, Merry, Gentlemen, let nothing you dismayed. Remember Christ, I save you was born on Christmas Day. Bop, bop, bop.
You're gonna hear it, right? Yes. It's got a nice two-sail song from Saint's family. And it was Don't Stay. Oh.
Tidings of comfort and joy. It's a good song. It's a good tune. But also, I, so we tried to write a few songs that we fit into that. And so I wrote the title, Track Show, Groom Booze, with that in mind because I wanted it to feel like an old-fashioned song.
When you were growing up and now, what are your like Christmas albums that are on rotation? Well, you know, the shows are classical music, people remember. So there's a lot of Messiah jams. A lot of Messiah jams. You know, a lot of ceremony of the carols, you know, dum, dum, dum, dum.
Oh, wait, if you do that, I remember that apart from choir. If you do, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum. I want to say hi, Barnes. Singing-doll. Here come the bells so many bells.
Here come the bells. Here come the bells. Can you rock a desk cam? Oh, yeah, rock a desk cam. What's the hell are you in?
Oh, come all your faithful. Well, I was just doing. Oh, start singing. I'll do the kit. desperately.
Oh, come. Wow. Yay. Oh, come. Oh, come.
Oh, come. Oh, come all ye faithful. Joyful and joyful. Hey. OK.
Do that. OK. OK. Sorry. Do that.
OK. OK. Let us adore him. Oh, come. Let us adore him.
Oh, come. Oh, come. with him, hold come and has the door, give him cry, Lord. Aced it. You remember it.
It's all in there. It's like your movie, inside out. Those music things are all wrapped in your hair. No, they're all in there. They're in the deep gray matter.
And they're so nostalgic. They're so malenconable. They're so sad. They're so sad. Okay, so I find Christmas sad.
Yes, I know. I know. But by the way, I find it sad. I find it sad. And I get now, I've gotten into, now I get into the sadness of Christmas, like a cozy blanket, I used to fight it, because sad is not my favorite state.
No, no. It's often not where I want to, like I'm uncomfortable sometimes in sadness, but Christmas allows me to get, well, some people are just like a little bit more, they can just tolerate it. Yeah, they know what comes and goes a bit. You know, like it's like sadness and anger. I'd much rather be angry than sad.
Same. And mostly am. So I get into the sadness of Christmas, like I'm like, I'm just like looking, like you know when you're in your music video and you look in the window. You look in the window. I love, yeah.
That's your jam. I like that. But let's talk about your classical music parents and your little aunt is beginning into music, because I'm very interested in that very like early time. So thank you. So I played the violin very seriously.
It's so lonely. It's a funniest thing. And by the way, I'm grateful. I'm very grateful for obviously the sacrifice that, I mean, you know, we spend all this time resenting them and you realize that things that they've done as you get older and they get older and it's kind of a relief, but I mean, the schlepping alone, like just the amount of times to like practice, to lessons. Why did you choose the violin?
Do you remember? Was it chosen for you? I think it was probably chosen for me. I had an aunt that played and I like, I love her. So I think I thought it was cool.
And the violin I still played with this day was my aunt's violin that my grandfather was given in the depression, in lieu of a payment for legal services at some point. So it's like 150 year old violin, but it's not like fancy. It's not like a strata various. It's not a strata, but I have had it like looked at because it's kind of interesting. I still play that instrument to this day.
And I took the fiddle camp with me last summer. But yeah, Anna went to fiddle camp. I did. It's a real conversation starter. Yeah.
And by that I'm on an airplane. Everybody, everybody flees the area. Um, my, yes, anyway, I played violin as a little kid. I started and I played until I was about 17. And I was good and lazy.
I was a Gryffindor, which set up a lifetime of talented laziness and sort of landing on your feet. So I could fake it for a long, long time. And then there becomes a breakage point in classical music. It feels that way with music and athletics. Those two things especially where you were like loving it and you're good at it.
And then there's a moment where it's like, okay, now you have to decide, am I going to the next level? Am I playing in college? Am I going to join an orchestra? It's so solitary. And it's two things.
It's deeply solitary. And it is, I have, I am a perfectionist. And it is torture for perfectionists. Because even though I was lazy, I was a perfectionist. So it's a weird, I mean, I'm not lazy.
I'm going to read. Let's cut the shit. Yeah, let's cut the shit. Let's cut the shit. We'll be right back.
No, I'm not reframing. I'm not reframing. That's what I mean is that I wasn't passionate about violin. So I didn't want to lock myself in a room. Because truly like athletics, like you said, it's suddenly, it is eight hours and eight, six hours a day, like going to school, like, you know, it's not going to school late or leaving early in the afternoon to practice, practice, practice, practice, your hands wall off.
And it's lonely. It's really lonely. And unbelievably sad. It is a sad instrument. Violin is the saddest instrument ever.
And that's, I do kind of love that about it. I mean, it's beautiful. I'm realizing now that Christmas and violins are both the way I get into my sad state. I love that. Well, that's funny because I'm writing a song called Sad Violin on Christmas.
Really? Yeah, I mean, you just made me kind of excited. But that is, I've been thinking about about sad violin. Yes. Because it's sad.
It's a lonely and wistful melancholic instrument. And there's something incredibly powerful about it, obviously. But so then what I, in seventh grade, don't laugh. I had my first star turn. I was legally blind also as a kid.
So I mean, I still am legally blind. So I also had an eye patch a lot of my childhood and I had a violin. So just put all that together. Yeah. And put it through the comedy, Plato machine.
That's why. And were we wearing the patch during the day? We're rocking the patch. Not at the patch. So right.
Around, I did what I can for the violin. But around seventh grade, I got cast. Wait for it. As Helen Keller in the Miracle Worker. So I was able to pull a lot of my story into the part.
And that's what I was like, I mean, by the way. And you put that on your Tinder profile. Yes. Yes, I do. Yes, I do.
Yeah. You're very unsuccessful. I'm very unsuccessful. I'm very unsuccessful. I'm very unsuccessful.
I'm very unsuccessful. I'm very unsuccessful. I'm very unsuccessful. I'm very unsuccessful. I'm so far.
I'm so far. I'm not sure today. So hilariously, Helen Keller in the Miracle Worker was like, my a-ha. I think this is really fun. Right.
You got to perform. You found a passion there. Yes. And so then I became clear. And I saw I did all the parts in everything in high school.
I'm sure you did too. But as a kid, you know, because you're an exuberant kind of upregulated kid. Like you're more extroverted than the patch in violin would make me think. But were you an introverted kid? I don't think of myself as an outgoing kid at all.
Or even as an outgoing person, to be honest or unregulated or exuberant. Interesting. And with you, maybe I am. Interesting. But I don't want to be that wrong.
But I don't know. You feel how you feel about your show? I mean, I was, everyone in my high school was super, super funny. Yes. And I was always friends with funny people.
Yes. But I always like, you know, like in the class clown, like I was a class clown. Did you get us in the back row? Yeah. Snickered.
And then you've told this on many podcasts and things. But I still think it's just fascinating that you were among many people that were your friends during that time. You were friends with Amy Carter. Crazy. And Amy Carter, who, for people who are not our age, Jimmy Carter was president.
Yeah. The best ex-president we've ever had. Yeah. For sure. And Amy was so exciting as a, as the presidential kid, she was like our Sasha and Malia.
Yes. Because he had young kids, Chip and Amy. And she was much younger. And she was younger. I mean, my name was Amy.
So I was like blown away. I know. And she was just like this girl in the White House. It was very exciting. And she was normal, probably for you too.
I mean, I know you are a reader. Now you're probably a childhood reader. I was too. She was a violinist. Boom.
And she, yeah, we were in an after school like GT program together. And we came front and it was just an instant, like whatever, books, books, glasses and violins. And I write. Come on guys. Come on.
Let's party. And everybody would get invited to these, you know, group events at the White House. Many of which were in the beautiful East Ballroom, which has now been leveled by her. Or made more beautiful, depending on your return. It's going to be gorgeous, Anna.
I say I'm corrected. Let's wait and see how it comes out. I have a feeling it's going to be gorgeous. And I just thought it was just gorgeous. And you're right.
It is gorgeous. It's gorgeous. It's always so warm and inviting. I wonder if it smells like French onion soup. Or wassel.
When you walk in. Okay. So, but you're going to go through multiple parties and things. And one of my early memories, this was such an extra double brain blow of like early synaptic development. The cast, the original Broadway cast of Annie was performing at the White House Christmas party.
Exactly. Exactly. Like the whole thing was doing me things. I don't think I knew that. Like four feet away from us.
It was like her little friends from her gift and talents program and her friends from school and various White House of people's children. Yeah. And then like Andrew McCartill and actual Sandy right over there. I did Annie at the Hollywood Bowl like five or six years ago. What?
It was either. I was right after one country. I think you were probably buried in anything. Who you Miss Annie in? Match.
What a party. I was Annie. I was Annie. I thought why not? Well, there is that other part.
We've got it. You know, this is an ranking part. Oh yeah. Really? No, but the.
Mine blowing wise when I did Annie at the bowl, the same animal. There's one animal trainer on Broadway who does all of all animal training. And we've probably done played her or him on SNL. He's the most delightful person. Okay.
He's Bill Berloney and he adopted the original Sandy from animal control and he trained her for the good speed production and then traveled with every anti-production ever. And then it was become like sort of the Broadway. He does all Broadway animals. But he's a wonderful person. And he's a big advocate for animal rights and whatever.
He's not the type that we had in SNL that would be like, I gotta get going to Van if you need it. You know, like, I gotta end it with a stick till I have him let you go. I mean, can Alama do that? I know she's got 17 out of Van in her. So I don't know what's gonna happen today.
We just got to buy two of the only the wrong way. That's the right way. Hell if I know. There was a donkey's sketch either for the doggies. No, I wasn't there yet.
It was, you know, like, these donkeys going down those doors, like, just some worse. Oh my God. And then they doped them. And then like, by live, they're like, they're not moving out. It was nightmare.
They're like, Bill Berloney has these beautifully trained show dogs. Thank you. It's funny. Even like, show these children who I'm afraid of and we all should be are wonderful on Broadway because again, it's all work ethic on Broadway. Everything is routine and work ethic.
And so a lot of the sort of like, yeah, crazy, there's different kind of crazy, but it's different. It's more like a proper OCD crazy, which I'm comfortable with. So, but just getting better. You're in the White House and he's performing. So Bill Berloney had a picture.
That's why I brought Bill Berloney up because he had a picture from the 1977 White House Christmas party with me. All these people, it's mind blowing. You're in the picture? Oh, do you have a copy of it? No.
But he shouldn't have even taken it with you. No, I shouldn't have brought it up. Now that I think about it. I also got a picture once with Paul McCartney and then lost my phone and don't have it. Oh, well.
Oh, so, but any card of it. Yes. Okay, here's the Amy Carter story. Yes. Okay, that's the most mime.
And then we got to the other end of this kind of crazy, like there was a movie theater in the White House and you would go and be like, please join us, you know, on the president for a viewing of Pete's Dragon with Helen Reddy. You know, like, yeah, there's a cat that would be like, no, we didn't have the H.S. or anything event. It was like the olden times. Yeah, it was.
And then that's the crazy, crazy stories that I went to the camp David for the camp David Awards with the Carter's and we played the violin, which was crazy. And for the very first United States Middle East Treaty. So you played violin for... On Morcedot and in the Macombay and Jimmy Carter. Wow.
And Amy and it was all in just one room and we played Suzuki violin. Do you remember what you played? She... Cottonado. And it was literally like, yeah, lightly row or something, you know, mini-wet and G or something.
Oh, that must have been so tender. Maybe, as I've said before, maybe that was a little harder to make Middle East peace. Yeah, it didn't work. And then you, am I right that you watched Star Wars there too? Yeah, we watched it with the sedats.
True story. Star Wars with the sedats. Yep. And then you also watched SNL in the White House. That is the most interesting of all of the stories because, so President Carter was the president.
He rarely saw him. There were, you know, a little bit, but we were there a lot though. Kids were at the house a lot, you know, her very friend. So I have a very, very... That's my first memory of Saturday Night Live because we went to get a snack in the middle of the night and it felt like middle night.
It was probably 11.45. Yeah. And we went to... We walked by the president who hadn't seen very much was sitting in a chair with a... I remember he had like a snack and a beer and acroid was playing him on TV live on Saturday night and he was laughing hysterically at the impression of him.
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Great. Followed by a gay line. Wherever you tell me about my friend Peter, was like, you're going to, so I knew, I went to go see the second city and there were two women in that cast and they both played girlfriends at the time. And I remember being like, I want to see the girls do something fun. And then I came out here to LA and I went to a grounding show and it was like literally a Coolidge.
Jennifer Coolidge. Jennifer Coolidge. Kathy Griffin. Lisa Koudreau. Heather Morgan.
She's a really funny woman wearing wigs and glasses. And I was in the improv scene in Chicago and Northwestern it was the same as it ever is, which is just a bunch of smart, quick wits guys that were like, I remember the main big improv guy was, you know, a star guy was like, you're more character. That's what he said to me. You're more like characters. And I knew that that was an insult.
Like that they thought about as an insult. And then I came out here and I saw these wigs and glasses. That seems really fun. And what did you meet in your early years at the Crownings? We had an insanely talented group.
It was, so I was right behind Will and Sherry. Will Ferrell, Sherry Oterry. Yeah. And I was like, I'm going to suggest to me for SNL. And I had in my group, I had Steven Craig, Chris Parnell, Scott Wainio, a lot of writers that came from our era as well.
And then right behind me was Maya Forte. Will Forte, like, yeah. I mean, it was, you know, and then I befriended a bigger collective, you know, Tim Bagley, and my kid, and then we always love to talk about SNL audition stories on the show. I know, we like to. I know, we don't have to.
But it is interesting, like, you know, with the 50th anniversary and like us looking back and all of it. Do you feel any differently about that, like, the story that you tell yourself about your audition? Like, do you feel badly about your audition? You know why I didn't even ever feel bad about it. I'll tell you why, because there have been a couple of times in my life, and we could with one of them and Saturday Night Live was not there.
They were both incredibly challenging jobs in their difficult workplaces, in their own ways, both just in terms of physical demand and artistic demand and just complicated creative workplaces, as you know. Both times, SNL being one of them, I left no stone unturned because I felt, and I really believe this to this day, if you sort of totally double back on the lazy thing. Like, if you give everything you're all, if you give something you're all, you don't have regret. And if you don't have regret, you can face any consequence for me. So I knew that if I did the best audition I could, I would feel fine if I didn't get the job, because I wouldn't have left something on the table.
You know? And so Will Ferrell had told me famously that they don't laugh, and people were that to one another in advance. Did you know that? Yeah, I knew that it would be absolutely silent, which it was. Which it was, yeah.
Me too. And I told Parnell, and so Charlie and my husband and I were engaged at the time and got the job, and I wrote the whole thing out as a monologue, and I would just run it relentlessly. And he would sit like Mount Rushmore. Oh, and practice not laughing? Repeatedly.
Because it was all stuff I had been doing at the ground link. So I needed to know what it felt like. The cadence is so different if you have a character that you're used to landing in a certain way. Yeah, that's actually a really good point. I think a lot of people don't know a lot of stand-ups and sketch performers when they come in audition, they're doing stuff that has succeeded somewhere else, and there's a rhythm to it and laughs that you're used to.
Correct. Yeah. Exactly right. So I just rehearsed it in front of him, and I knew it, you know, six different directions as well. What characters and or people did you do in your audition, do you remember?
Yes, I did. I did the NPR lady who I ended up doing on the show, and I did kind of a ridiculous pantyhose wearing woman, and I did who did not end up on the show. She was at, she ended up on cut the shit. She ended up on cut the shit. She was on cut the shit.
Did you do any impressions? Well, so some of you of course was like, they're going to ask you in the 11th hour to do impressions, but I didn't do impressions, right? Yes. But I kind of knew that it might come because I'd heard that the people that were involved were never particularly organized around the advanced prep, shall we say? Yeah.
So I just had it up my sleeve. So I went and I knew that I liked Martha Stewart, I thought she was funny and interesting, even though the ground links doesn't really do impression based comedy. And so I wrote an introduction as Martha Stewart, and I got a Martha Stewart wig, and this was so funny to me. I did Koki Roberts. Oh, yeah.
I remember her. But I was like an NPR reference. That's literally, but she was on ABC News, and so I did Koki Roberts. Lauren is a good French with Koki. I had dinner with her last night, and it sounds just like...
I didn't even Koki like the impression. Dr. Koki. Dr. Koki.
Dr. Koki was a little mean. Martha, your Martha impression is so good. Thank you. What do you do vocally to get into Martha?
How do we do a Martha? So much of Martha. It still is. She's so rehearsed in front of the camera. You'll never have her do this.
Martha Stewart does stuff with Miss Piggy, and she's a little thrown by Miss Piggy because Miss Piggy is improvising. Yes. Martha doesn't love to improvise. No. And I've had a few situations with her.
In fact, where I've had to dress up as her and be with her. Yeah. That's a very unique thing about SNL. I had that with Hillary Clinton really fun, where you are dressed exactly like them standing next to them. So I have had a few events with Martha, and recently I did the Drew Barrymore show and showed up as her.
And it's just the worst. And you're just sitting there fully dressed like a person. Listen, this is why I love our people. This is why I love sketch comedy. Sketch comedy is embarrassing.
So embarrassing. Stand up is cool. Yes. You go outside, you wear leather jacket, you put it out, you go and do your set. Yeah.
Sketch you have a friggin wig and you're schlep in a box with a weird bow tie. Yeah. And it never ends. And it never ends. Don't think that I'm not still doing that.
Like there are days where I'm like, I still have a wig area in my house. Yeah. I went and got pulled over for speeding and had a wig in my glove compartment. That could be considered dangerous. It could be.
It could be. Do you remember what the wig was? Was it? No, it's like during growing stays. Yeah.
But just to have one around. It's just the schleping. It's so uncorrupt. It's so uncorrupt. And that's why I love people who do it because they're to me the coolest people because they sit in the embarrassment and the commitment of it.
You have to be really committed. Which is why the bombing is the funniest thing in the whole world. Which is why Will Ferrell is sitting into a bomb. Yeah. It's one of my favorite things I've ever seen in the world.
It is at SNL we used to watch old sketches that bombed. Yes. And just like love it in a way. It's what the kids would call cringe, but it's even post cringe. Yeah.
What would you call? It's a tonibust. It's like a, I don't know, it's the closest you feel to. It's like a community therapy experience. It's really where it is.
Yeah. It's like a primal scream. For sketch, sketch performers. What are some fun sketches that you used to watch that you loved watching a bomb or. We did a zoo crew sketch once.
Which is like a DJ. Morning DJs. And we wrote, it was the loudest sketch ever. I mean it was just literally like. Every single thing.
It was just like every like. Don't get a rock. Don't get a rock. Like nonstop. Everybody.
It was me and Parnel. Oh my God. I mean this is just like somebody and the host. I can't remember. And will and it was a basic premise, really loud zoo crew, and then the weather chop goes down, like crashes.
Okay, really basic. And then everyone's like, we lost, we'll have a ch 24 or five. I mean, yes, because it was so embarrassing. And it was also just hilarious, because it was like, the whole time you're like, they don't think this was funny. They listen to morning zoos.
But there's nothing, this is what it sounds like. If you like driving to work and listening to that, then that's just kind of a pleasant thing for you. That was embarrassing. Do you remember the stuff that we called shit can, Allie? Yes.
There's all these little areas at SNL where you get to perform home bases, like right in the middle, and it's kind of a prime spot where the date is. And then there's some areas that like, where sketches go to die. Right, because you have the audience, and you have the balcony. So the main three sets, you know, where the musical guest plays, and you usually are going to play things OK. There's one that's like way in the back that has no immediate audience in front of it, and really sketches go there to die.
I mean, nothing ever comes out of that order. It's also a little vote of no confidence. When you're sketch is put there, you're like, I see, I see. This isn't going to make the show. It's just required.
And I was like, it's a chicken. I was like, we're not going to go. We're not going to go. I'm going to call my parents. It's not going to make it.
But you had so many hits. And Empy, that sketch remains. There was no confidence in that sketch. That sketch was supposed to bomb. That was the comedy of it.
Yeah, it's so funny. And I should circle back just quickly to Martha. When we're doing Martha, what are we doing with our lips? And how do we talk? Well, one of the things she does, so many of what the things that she says and does are things that she has learned to do on camera.
And she is very aware of how the camera is going to look on her. It's a very barely moving mouth. Almost nothing moves. Why should it? And nor should it.
We're going to make a Christmas meal and barely nothing. Nothing is going to move. I'm obsessed with her. Me too. I'm obsessed with her.
I mean, Martha is. Martha, I'm not going to buy you all because I'm scared. But please listen and know that you're something else. She also says, I love you. No, Amy, her rules are so comforting.
Her rules are so comforting when you talk to her. Her rules? She's just like, I don't take alcohol alone. I don't take drinks if I'm alone. That's what she told me.
I don't take. Do you remember when she briefly took over the apprentice? She would zoom at the end, but she was always handwriting a termination note. That's a little touch of class. You're fired.
I so enjoyed your contributions to the apprentice. But I'm here to tell you. I sent her flowers. I sent her flowers. What were the birthdays?
Many years. Got it. We'll cut the ship. I want to talk about Bobby and Marty for a second. The cops.
Because those two characters that you and Will did, I think are a perfect example of combining all of your talents. I'm going to get into them. What is the difference between good singing and comedy singing? Ooh. It is their one, I guess.
Well, it is interesting. It's an interesting question. I definitely think that training informs what's fun about the characters. Meaning, they're quintessential choir teachers. Her technique is very important to her.
So I probably lean more into that quality of this voice. I've met people over the years that are music people. I hit notes as her that I would be very worried about trying to hit as me. I know this is true because my friend Seth Ridesky, who has the Sirius X and Radio Broadway show, who I met because he wrote for the Rosie O'Donnell show at the same time as I was in AG. A lot of people don't know when we were doing SNL, Rosie was in her studio right next to the next one.
Right next door. So we met in the NBC gym. He was a certain part of my life. I instantly recognized him as a person who understood what that music part of me that I didn't even talk about was. He said he was like, oh, I love how consistently you go from a B flat to a C. Again, I wouldn't
have thought about it and I wouldn't have thought about it and thought that Bobby sings that hi, but she does all the time. Which is kind of wild. If you want to tell me to hit a C, I would get my butt hole and tighten up and I'm probably going to do it. And I think there's for me, I can't speak for other people. I would never, there's a freedom around it and a chance taking that I will play in character any day of the week till very recently I wouldn't have done it as a vocalist.
So cool. Absolutely. And that is what you guys do as those characters. Also, I just love Bobby and Marty's look. They're a little bit of fun.
Excellent. They're look so fantastic. And we knew early on. Oh, so they were disparaged by some of the men by the cool guys. People thought it was a medley bit.
I thought it was dumb and hacky. But we had so much fun writing their passive aggression as characters. Like the dynamic of the two of them, the people given the finger all the time and just the inherent bummer of having those people perform at your prom or whatever. Like we always loved, that's what was so joyful about it. The music was fine.
The music was a super fun component of it but it wasn't the point ever. The point was why are these people performing at my sobriety birthday? It was always like finding the premise. That's what made it so fun. I have to say honestly, at the 50th, which was so special because that was always my favorite thing to do at SMO.
It was the most fun writing it with Will and with Paula. We were infamous, infamous the term because we would, as you know, not start writing until four o'clock in the morning and we would finish at 10am. It was always like a laugh fest that was so heavily featured procrastination. It was extraordinary. Well, it's very, very funny that you say that because we do a thing on the show where we talk to people who know our guests, we talk well behind their back and we get a question to ask them.
And so I spoke to Paula Pell. And for people that didn't see the SNL 50th music special, which was amazing, there was like sketches in between apps and a lot of musical sketches and Bobby and Marty came out and crushed. That was not an easy audience. It was an audience of truly every single person was either performing or a performer or like it was a cynical audience. Yeah.
You guys crushed. What was that feeling to do that that night? It was so fun. For lack of a better word, like it was so, there was something, you know, as you go back to these reunions and you bring all of your kind of history and baggage and whatever with you, again, kind of speaking to your point of the fact that this is all just so embarrassing, because first of all, like it's radio city music hall. It's 6,000 seats.
I mean, it's a huge epic space. Yeah. We followed Warren Hill. Sure. That's who you want to follow.
So you have to understand that in the wings, there are like thousands of cool music people. I mean, like my dressing room was next to Jack White and his band and I'm dressed as Bobby Mohan-Khalp. I've got the giant glasses and my like striped dress and Will's got his ball paint and his, you know, we were rehearsing the keyboard. So already we're like the losers and the wings. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah. I mean, the wings are for me, but it was fantastic. I mean, actually you're like, you got the violin and you got the iPad. 100%. And so we're already just like, what is happening?
What is happening? Why are we here? And who invited us? You know, and then we just started to giggle because we, we, it was so cute because we, doing those sketch and doing that because we just, it was very easy to imagine how excited Bobby and Marty would have been the people who would have been to be at Radio City. And what was it like, what was it like that you see Jack White?
Who else made him? I mean, they have like posses and people with like, you know, music people. So they got like, they're so cool. They're so cool. They're so cool.
And glasses and for like, more nails, a fur coat and an afro and like everybody's got like floral pants that come up to here and there's posses and, you know, weed everywhere. You know, Chris Martins in the corner are like cool people, actual cool people who just looked right past us. Like they did not know that we used to be on Saturday. They were just like, who brought granny and gramps? Like just, that actually probably was fun.
It was so fun. And then going and then we like, you know, going out there and all that stuff just suddenly worked. So right now that I remember Lauren Hill had a surprise in incredible performance. And then it was like like, smoke and then it was like, and then it was like, and then it was like, and then it was like, and test, test test. And you guys, and that's what I mean, I knew it was streaming and I also knew, I mean, it was really funny because we were like, just, and all of their stuff was about how they come to New York for an ophthalmology appointment, you know, I did say we're just like a slip in and just everything about it was so fun.
And so we're sitting here and yeah, and I did have the thing. Because one thing about this, and I'll for me, again, I don't know if you ever had this, but it's a little bit of an a student, you know, nerd girl thing. I was always, my greatest regret about this show, not that you go back in time is that I couldn't, I never like settled into it and enjoyed it. Cause I was always so aware of the time and of running, somebody running down the clock, somebody else's sketch is gonna get cut. Like I was always, and when we were there it was such a, you know, like explosive, surveyed of talent that there were always three sketches and I might not make it, you know.
So I always felt like I had to like, keep it moving, keep it moving. So I was suddenly very aware that it was streaming and that I was not gonna be rushed. And I was like, I'm gonna be bobbing out the funniest thing in the world to me is this woman and this man these these choir teachers getting people to settle There's just nothing funnier. So that's what they did is just kept telling people to settle. I need you to settle I need quiet in the back hand goes up mouth goes shut hand goes up mouth goes shut. Just that's I was gonna keep going until they settle
I'm not gonna worry about it. And if I had been at 8-H, we never done that right very good But we just we took a full probably 45 seconds to you know get people to pipe it David's made pipe down That's right. You guys called them out. I don't want to hear it. Here's frozen. Ah
So stupid. Okay, we so much more talk about I'm sorry, but we don't Paula Paula had two great questions No one was a A funny one which was your dog. Gloria loves to eat things. Yes, and you often keep us updated as to what she eats What does she eat lately and has it come out already and was it intact when it came out? It never comes out I don't know where it goes It's upsetting like you're like it was a full hairbrush where did it go and honestly because she's also like many dogs like it's the more personal It the better, you know, it's a retainer or I can't under wear my ID if she Yeah, yeah, sorry It's gross it's gross bras all that kind of most recently to answer the question It was a massive thing of cheese for me. It was a man. She goes a Costco man. She go which you know those are big ones for a party and
Charlie Charlie sent us we I was out here and he sent he's taken out the cheese I'm gonna have a little snack came back that she's gone. He felt crazy That's always part of the story I'm like, I swear about it But the cheese I was it and then hours later there was like this much left which also I find upsetting because it means that she has eaten To the point of physical discomfort which were a dog is a long time. Yeah, I just I want to know what happens in her dog Or maybe there's some kind of evolutionary thing where they show you just a little to be like Just be like and I and just just a nice Yeah, just a tiny bit of like a trophy like she's what I did such an asshole Okay, and then Paula's on real question was and it's kind of what the theme of our interview today, which is basically like That's such a sweet Paula question, which is you know between writing and singing and acting which one makes you feel the most free It's an interesting way. It's a great question Um, I think that inherently I'm the most natural singer I mean, I think that's like my first gift meaning like that it's just sort of beyond me and as I've gotten older and more into it like
Even in the last couple of years I feel I feel more comfortable just Accepting that it's something that came from somewhere besides me and I got lucky to have a career that kind of nurtured the muscles of it All literally writing is the most in the flow. I probably feel but I hate writing and I hate having to write I love having written Yes, having had written is the best feeling in the world. I feel like you're more confident right than I know No, that's not true. You're very good. Okay. I've got a um, no, I've got a
What you're rivers here? First of all, you are a member of the wicked verse you you opened wicked in Chicago Yeah, I was the you know fourth overall alphabet So you know so now when you go like last year two years ago was the 20th and um again I have people in my wicked life. They're like I'm not going back. It was torture because it is trauma bonding It's a really really really really really hard job. It's a hard role to play It's a physically demanding heart and it's incredibly hard to sing So I'm actually in retrospect. I was so I was actually take a minute to tell a story
Yes, please that's okay, of course, um because I actually think it's so life less than important. I Am so hard on myself and again. I've realized this about myself recently. I'm not competitive I'm a perfectionist. Mm-hmm. So I actually hate competition, but I want to be really good at things
So it's a weird mix but when you do a Broadway show everybody comes at the end because all your friends or whatever people want to see Before it closes or you leave or whatever and you know, whatever Here's a Dean of Enzel the most incredible vocalist originated this incredibly demanding vocal score Yeah, you're when you take over in a role you're thrown into their tracks So there's a lot of things that were designed around adenas instrument that other people have a harder time with for phrasing her lung capacity things like that So I was sort of merciless mercilessly hard on myself and I also just didn't have the Broadway cut it so that other people did So I felt like I was proving myself and especially then on Broadway I think people felt like who's this TV bitch? You just thought she could show up and sing alpha You know, there was not like a I didn't feel like warmly welcomed into the Broadway community. I felt like I was proving it, you know Sure. So every day. Yeah, and I you know that role is Very very challenging so my last like three weeks because I did Chicago and then I came and I did the three penny opera I'm Broadway and then I did wicked up on Broadway So my last like two three weeks wicked All these people you know come out of the woodworks composers. I admire people
I admire people who want to see me in the world before I left and I was so mercilessly cruel to myself every day I would come backstage and I messed up the bridge on the fine gravity or oh my god. I hate it But I you know, I didn't I didn't like that my upper register here there. I was screaming in this part It was such an interesting experience because the sound engineer gave me Like snuck me. I hope I'm not getting fired Recordings of my last 12 shows. He just like stuck in a thing and recorded them I didn't listen to them for 15 years because I was so mortified I was like I don't hear myself And then I cracked one open one day and I started I wanted to find gravity to see like if I could like Frankenstein the perfect version together whatever and it was so Chilling how similar they were. Oh wow Ana. That's wild to listen to them in a row
It was like it took my breath away because I tell my kids this all the time now because you know you lisies my son is such a perfectionist I'm like the difference yeah between 98 and 100 is imperceptible to anyone but you Yeah, and if you're hitting the general ballpark. Yeah of being able to oh, I don't know sing alpha But you're probably cool. Yeah, you know, so you are not a reliable witness about yourself Oh, never and that's why I give 75 percent I don't need to get mostly most of it can apply to anything Absolutely and making that decision of being like did you show up? Were you nice to people? You know, did you know your lines? Okay the way that and also the way the lovely way in which you circled back
And you were able to kind of like go back to that younger version of yourself and be like oh my god I can't believe how unnecessarily relentless amina was to myself. Yes, I mean I'm able to take it now in everyday life, but it's such an important I don't know it felt like such an important lesson and um Obviously that's a SNL wisdom pearl. I wish I'd enjoyed it. Just enjoyed it. It was a great experience You know, yeah, I mean the fact that you had physical evidence that they weren't that different. It was mind blowing is something else isn't it?
Yeah, the mind is a terrible place to stick. Um, it's a terrible terrible place. Yeah, the mind is a dick on the mind is a raging dick Okay, me and girls. What are your memories about us doing together? I remember being on the plane with you. Yep. We do on the plane about
I'm really saying that yeah, you got a fight with the guy um and the baby with baby Francis's early empowering baby Francis was on the plane with us You remember that your baby Francis was 23. Yeah, she was on the plane and I still got a fight with the baby around Yeah, I hope so because the guy got mad that you were swearing in front of the baby. Yeah, right? I was yeah It's a long story, but what happened was a very a guy who like a first-class guy. Yeah, what we were in first class too He was like excuse me. I'm trying to you're being too loud in first class and I my Boston came out
Let's just say that okay, but but the shooting of mean girls. What do you remember of it? I remember hanging out with you in that hotel one night having drinks. I remember I remember when Tina I have a memory of her sitting at the table on 17 and saying I think I'm gonna try to option this book Me too, I have an image of her sitting at her computer and being like oh and having the book yeah near her and and just like working on it Being like I'm writing this movie incredible and I was like good luck with that I'm gonna go write a sketch about a lady was a snake around her neck. I heard a fart mouse And last question is what are you listening to watching where do you go to laugh these days?
I am like I am not very for all my quiet comedy like I I am like Mel Brooks is what makes me laugh like big okay? What's your favorite Mel Brooks? I mean let's google it is it? I'm going to go to the producers young Frankenstein Producers when dratch and I write together. It feels like Mel Brooks's you know that the dratch is has you yeah dratch is of the Mel Brooks world Yeah, so writing with her is a very goofy and very fun. You know what I love and I know it's underrated
I love me a space balls. Oh, no deeply underrated. Yeah, God's balls made me laugh my friend Philip Tarotula is doing does this character called? official Pam Goldberg on Instagram He plays a member of actors equity since 1968. I know my uber is here, but I have to see this yeah you do official Pam Goldberg. Yeah
I'm going to ask you What to bring to tech? Bananagrams are short and cordial also Pam has got a real severe haircut real severe and a real squinty eye She's been a real actress for one time, but anyway Mary Christmas Thank you friend. Thank you for Mary Christmas to you Anagastair. Thank you so much. That was so fun and that time went by so fast and I love talking to you And you know this is our holiday episode and for those of you celebrating the holiday in all different ways I just want to say thank you for giving us the gift of listening to this show It's meant a lot to us and this is the this has been an amazing year that we've launched it So thank you. We cannot wait to make more which we will be doing for you and it has been a real gift to do it
So I'm gonna do end end of this episode and dive into the polar plunge by sharing my favorite Christmas movie with you And that is a little known classic and it otters jug band Christmas I don't know a lot of people that know it but it's um, it was um Look, I don't love puppets all the time, but this one has the muppet puppet family Jim Henson's workshop made it and it is the cutest most tender best music movie and the otters job in Christmas Check it out. It is basically the gift of the magi There is an incredible bunch of villains called the river bottom nightmare band that is basically a snake and a weasel and they are incredible So do yourself a favor and I don't even know where to find it. I think I have it on bhs but um, but Merry Christmas happy Hanukkah Whatever you celebrate. Thank you for listening and we can't wait to see you in the new year. Bye You've been listening to good hang the executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman and me Amy Poehler
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