LIVE BONUS EPISODE: 'The ’Burbs' Cast Spills Set Secrets

We’re live at 92NY in front of a NYC studio audience! Keke pulls up with the cast and creator of her new Peacock series, 'The ’Burbs,' for a laugh-out-loud conversation about what really goes down on the cul-de-sac. Part mystery, part comedy, the show flips a “perfect” neighborhood upside down with scandal, racial tension, and one very shady new neighbor. Jack Whitehall, Paula Pell, Julia Duffy, Kapil Talwalkar, and Celeste Hughey spill behind-the-scenes tea, reveal improvised moments, and swap their wildest real-life neighbor stories. This is one block party you don’t want to miss. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:02Keke Palmer?

  Hello!

• 0:08Keke Palmer?

  What is happening, New York? Welcome to Baby, this is Keke Palmer. We are live at 92NY, talking about my new show on Peacock, The Burbs, which is a modern take on the cult classic film that comes with some unexpected twists. So we've got an incredible group of comedy legends, sitcom icons, and brilliant writers here today. Well, a brilliant showrunner, writer, creator, lover down. Please welcome Jack Whitehall, Paula Pell, Julia Duffy, Kapil Talwalkar, and creator of The Burbs, Celeste Huey.

• 1:15Keke Palmer?

  You guys, it seems like we were just filming the show! I'm so happy to be here with you guys in New York. How you feeling?

• 1:23Speaker 01

  Oh my god, cold but great. So...

• 1:26Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, what's up with this weather, y'all?

• 1:29Speaker 01

  Cold, yes. Very cold. Cold but warm inside, because we're so glad to be here.

• 1:34Keke Palmer?

  Yes!

• 1:34Speaker 02

  I'm less warm inside because I turned up tonight thinking I had a really cool look and walked into the room and he's dressed the same as me. No! Just like, my worst nightmare. No! I genuinely would rather be naked right now. Each item is like, literally, just... Yours is like, yes, a homage.

• 1:55Speaker 03

  It's so you guys.

• 1:56Keke Palmer?

  It's so them. Well, let's dive into this, because I'm so excited. You guys, watch the show, what did you think?

• 2:03Keke Palmer?

  Okay. So I'm posing this to all of you. Like, obviously, this show builds a suburban world. It feels familiar, but it's slightly like, you know, something's off, you know, with some comedy and mystery. They live side by side, and everyone's hiding something, even if they don't really know it yet. So how did you guys kind of approach this world where everyone has a secret and no one really trusts their neighbors? You know?

• 2:28Speaker 01

  I particularly enjoyed it because we would get scripts kind of rolled out. We didn't read all of them at once, so none of us knew what our secrets were.

• 2:36Keke Palmer?

  Yes!

• 2:36Speaker 01

  And we would be like, I'd be laying in bed at night, reading the next episode and going, "Holy [bleep!] Are you kidding me?" Like, you know, finding out other people's secrets. And that's what I really enjoyed about having the secrets.

• 2:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, I couldn't wait for the scripts because I wasn't told everything, but it was great that way. I don't, I don't even know if you, I don't know. Did you introduce plot points after we started working?

• 2:59Speaker 03

  Some of them, yeah. Once we got to know you and what you guys were bringing to the table, we would start to weave a little, little bit of you guys in there.

• 3:07Speaker 01

  We would corner her and be like, "What's gonna happen?"

• 3:11Speaker 01

  "Am I bad?"

• 3:12Speaker 02

  I'm the worst viewer of television because I just fall for like every red herring going. I, I, I feel like I'm so thick. And when I read these scripts, I was like, every time I was like, "Oh, my God, they're the killer, they're the killer." And then suddenly reading a script like, "I think I might be the killer." I like, I fall for every single twist and turn. I'm still not 100% sure who the killer is, and we filmed it.

• 3:36Speaker 03

  I would love when you would run up to me at the beginning of a day and be like, "Is it us? Is it me? Did I die? What is going on?"

• 3:42Keke Palmer?

  That is scary, to wake up and be like, "And that's it? I made it to season one only."

• 3:48Keke Palmer?

  So, Celeste, I've gotta ask, why this remake? Why, I mean, obviously, it's a cult classic. So what made you say, "I should do this, I wanna do this," and how to make it your own?

• 3:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, there were so many things that immediately popped up when I was approached to work on this show. And the first was, you know, the movie, if you've seen it, which is a classic, incredible movie, is about, you know, the community picking on these outsiders. But I wanted to take a look at what the outsider felt like coming in, so I really wanted to center it around a black woman in a very white suburban neighborhood, being a new mother, being a new wife, and experiencing this world. Isolated and trying to figure out her way as she figured out her identity. And Kiki was very immediately the only person I wanted to be on this show.

• 4:33Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh!

• 4:34Speaker 03

  I wrote it with her voice in mind and I still can't believe that you did it. But also, like, it was coming out of COVID as well and we all sat at home looking at our neighbors and being suspicious and I think so. So I had, one of my neighbors shot one of my other neighbors at one point, which is crazy.

• 4:53Keke Palmer?

  You said they shot him?

• 4:54Speaker 03

  They shot him in the leg.

• 4:55Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh!

• 4:56Speaker 03

  Old Monty shot Crazy Alex in the leg.

• 4:58Keke Palmer?

  Old Monty, that's the name. Played by Jon Voight. Doesn't that sound like something he would do? Old Monty. Well, I mean, have you guys seen the original Tom Hanks movie, The Burbs? Okay, so you guys, so obviously built around paranoia, some boredom. What is the, what did you want the center of the modern version to be? Obviously, I know you mentioned some of it now, you know, with Samira, her being black. This is a fish out of water. There's some racial stuff going on. But what really, you know, did you have in mind for people to take in from the show?

• 5:31Speaker 03

  I think what we found, especially in working all with you guys, is found family and community can be found in the oddest of places. And I think it's something important very much now of take care of your neighbors and band together and be community. Yeah.

• 5:45Keke Palmer?

  So guys, this is for all of you. When you first read the script, you know, the pilot, what instantly clicked? Like, I know for me, when I read it, I just wanted to know what was gonna happen next. Like, I immediately felt this energy from the first page to the last where I was like, I think I kinda, this is good, I guess I gotta watch the next one. I had that kind of vibe about it. So what told you, like, okay, this isn't just a remake, it's its own thing?

• 6:11Speaker 05

  Well, I was just like you, I was dying to figure out what happened next. I was, you know, sitting in bed with my girlfriend and I was like, Avery! Oh my God! I need more pages! And I called my Asian and they're like, there are no more pages, you'll have to get cast. And so I worked really damn hard and it turned out great, so.

• 6:37Speaker 01

  I loved the feeling of how we are all in this mundane world and then we get really courageous in it in every episode and then we're kind of terrified also. Like we'll get in a place, "We can't go in there! We can't go in there!" And it's just such a specific kind of neighborhood where people are really very much cowards, but they also, when needed, and she's the most courageous one. She's like, "Let's go in there now."

• 7:03Keke Palmer?

  And she should know better. Samira's a lawyer, breaking all the laws.

• 7:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 7:08Keke Palmer?

  Crazy!

• 7:09Speaker 01

  But you also knew, Samira knows the legal, like, little way. She's like, "Yes, but we're doing it this way so we're not gonna get busted," you know, so.

• 7:18Speaker 04

  Well, the rest of us, we're all kind of bored, I think, in the cul-de-sac. I'm an empty nester and I'm always peeking out at things. You just want something to happen. And I thought that that was such a great thing, that we were very excited about anything that happened, no matter how bad it was.

• 7:37Speaker 01

  It's like when you move to the country and you've always wanted to be quiet and be away from the city. I did it myself. And then you move somewhere where it's really quiet and you turn into Jack Nicholson. You're just like, finding yourself staring off, like, wanting some excitement.

• 7:53Speaker 02

  Would someone please just shoot Monty already?

• 7:56Keke Palmer?

  I love a callback. So what real-life suburban quirks did you exaggerate in some of the characters to make the neighborhood feel like its own character? Celeste?

• 8:10Speaker 03

  That's a really great question. I always think about the image of Todd Mann, who is not here, Mark, Mark Prost, who is, as you saw, incredible in the show. I was filling out the group and I needed a man, so it was Todd Mann. One D, two N's. And I just wanted everyone to have, be an oddball and we're all weirdos and bringing our own quirks to the show and everyone having a secret and being, we all have a nosy neighbor, we all have a Lynn. Mine's Betty, who is the best and she knows every gardener's name and every, everything that's happening on the street. But yeah, we all have these neighbors and I feel like it's universal but also specific.

• 8:49Speaker 02

  Mark isn't here because he said he'd come by a recumbent bicycle and he's only made it to Arizona so far. He will be here eventually, but it may take some time.

• 8:58Keke Palmer?

  What a Dutch thing to do!

• 9:01Keke Palmer?

  Biking everywhere. So, Jack, give me one thing that surprised you on the discovery of your character during the filming of this show. Like, what, and also, let's just ask the real thing. What was it like being married to me?

• 9:16Speaker 02

  Absolutely delightful. It was delightful. I'm about to get married myself, and it was like a wonderful trial run.

• 9:23Keke Palmer?

  And we have to talk about that.

• 9:24Speaker 02

  I put on a wedding ring for the first time. And we, yeah, we were nesting together, but it was great. You were a wonderful TV wife.

• 9:31Keke Palmer?

  Thank you.

• 9:32Speaker 02

  I enjoyed our TV marriage.

• 9:33Keke Palmer?

  Thank you so much, Disney.

• 9:34Speaker 02

  We made it three months together. That's good going in L.A.

• 9:38Keke Palmer?

  Okay. Heavy on the L.A.

• 9:43Keke Palmer?

  So, yeah, what were things about your character did you find out? I mean, I love that you stayed British.

• 9:48Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 9:49Keke Palmer?

  That gave me life.

• 9:50Speaker 02

  So did I.

• 9:51Keke Palmer?

  Isn't that accent so cute?

• 9:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:53Keke Palmer?

  Somebody said, "Yes." They like you out there.

• 9:56Speaker 02

  Well, no, it was, I thought, also felt it was quite good for everyone else, because it gave everyone else a bit of fodder. Like, what, like, no one could stop doing my accent on set. And then that started as just like, you know, in between the scenes, and I would be talking, and then all of a sudden, you'd start doing your Bridgerton accent.

• 10:13Keke Palmer?

  And it goes Jamaican.

• 10:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, always.

• 10:16Keke Palmer?

  I don't know why the, it's like, I'll be talking, and it's like, at the end of the day, like, it goes to the, like, I don't know why it does that, but there are a lot of Jamaicans in London, so maybe I know something.

• 10:26Speaker 02

  You were sort of covering all bases. But, yeah, it started off as just in, in real life, and then by the end of the series, it was in every other scene. You were doing my accent. Capil was doing my accent.

• 10:38Keke Palmer?

  Oh, my gosh, speaking of Capil, I mean, just all of us, I'm saying Capil because you'll know when I say the rest of what I'm about to ask, but, guys, we were up to, like, 2:00 a.m. together, drinking coffee, tea, to make sure we were alert. We had so many moments together. What? Are the funniest moments you can think of. And this is why I'm going into what I'm saying about you, Capil. It was me, you, Randy, and Jack at that table scene. We almost didn't make it.

• 11:03Speaker 05

  We did not make it.

• 11:04Keke Palmer?

  That was the funniest day.

• 11:06Speaker 05

  We could not get through that scene.

• 11:08Keke Palmer?

  Any of our three scenes together, we would never make it.

• 11:10Speaker 05

  We were just like, was constantly breaking. And I was like, I would just have to say a line, and then I could not look at Jack.

• 11:17Speaker 02

  No.

• 11:18Speaker 05

  I was like, if I look at him, this whole take is ruined. And, um, or at you, and you would just say something off the cuff. And I'm like, hold it together, stay in character.

• 11:28Keke Palmer?

  We improvised a lot on this show, all of us. Oh, yeah. You would.

• 11:32Speaker 03

  The writing was so good, but it.

• 11:35Speaker 01

  You guys were better.

• 11:37Speaker 03

  It had little breathing areas where they would let us really just. And the more we learned who we were as characters.

• 11:44Speaker 04

  And Mark playing Todd.

• 11:45Speaker 03

  Oh, my God.

• 11:46Speaker 04

  I mean, he was in character, which meant saying something really odd sometimes.

• 11:52Speaker 03

  I would love you, Paula, and Todd, um, and Mark would. People would run back to Video Village to hear what you guys were ad-libbing. We'd always let it roll to see what you. I remember you sprinting back once.

• 12:03Speaker 05

  I was sprinting because I'm like, right? Because I was in the scene, and then I leave the scene, right? And then they have like some sort of ad-lib. And I'm like running to Video Village. Someone give me a headphone.

• 12:14Speaker 02

  When the trailer came out, I texted Celeste with just, "The white ladies love salad." Because I had never seen that line. And then she sent me back all of the alts that you'd done. And then months later, we were having a text conversation. And then I used one of your alts, but realized that with no context at all, just out of the blue, me sending you a message saying, "Do lesbians like utility belts?" Maybe needed to be housed in a little bit of context.

• 12:39Speaker 03

  The answer is many do. Many do. Gear.

• 12:45Keke Palmer?

  You know what I think is so randomly funny is that our hometowns, Paula, are like 27 minutes from each other. In Illinois, we both Midwestern girls. So what kind of suburb, like, did you grow up in like a cul-de-sac-type suburb?

• 12:58Speaker 01

  I don't know if I was in an actual cul-de-sac. I feel like that was the little bit fancier houses. We lived in a little, very cute, Midwestern house. We had one dog. It was very the little basement with the shag carpeting. I used to watch SNL on my shag carpeting and audiotape it with a big Panasonic tape recorder, and then I'd memorize all the sketches. And I was just a little comedy geek. And I had a memory the other day about, we were talking about neighborhoods, and I had a memory of when I was in my twenties in Florida. I looked out of my window, I was probably deathly hungover, it was some morning, Saturday

• 13:38Speaker 01

  morning, and I looked out of my apartment in Orlando after I'd moved there, and there was a guy in a car. And I just sat there and I just started getting, when you feel like you're in, I mean, maybe it was pot, I don't know. But you know when you're really paranoid and hungry, and, oh, yeah, that's right, I was completely blasted on some weed. But I was looking out and everything he was doing was suspicious. It was like every single thing this guy did was insanely suspicious. And then it kept getting bigger and bigger. And I was like, am I being pranked? Like, he started taking those antibacterial wipes

• 14:19Speaker 01

  and wiping all the seat belts and all the seat, and just like, and doing all this and cleaning stuff out. And then he took a leather jacket out and walked down the street and threw it in a dumpster. And so I called 911 and I was just shaking. And I'm just like, there's this guy? And he's down here. And no one was in the neighborhood. Everyone was at work. It was terrifying. And then they said, okay, we're gonna, and I'm like, he walked away from the car. And then I'm like, he's walking back. And then I'm like, he's a traffic cop. No, he wasn't a traffic cop. And then they said, okay. We're gonna come down the street real quietly, you stay in your house. And I watched this whole thing, and this show always reminds me of that because I was watching

• 15:03Speaker 01

  it, and then they came and got him and it was a stolen car.

• 15:07Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh, you were right!

• 15:09Speaker 01

  It was so justified, like, in this show, we have so many times where we each have a theory, you know, as this series goes on.

• 15:16Keke Palmer?

  Now that's when Karen goes right. Yeah. She got that guy.

• 15:21Speaker 01

  But that's what I remember in a neighborhood where it was like creepy and weird, and of course, growing up when you're in those suburbs, that they are creepy. Everyone's got the perfect yard and the perfect... I hope this guy doesn't listen to this podcast, because...

• 15:34Keke Palmer?

  Could you imagine?

• 15:35Speaker 01

  ...people know who busted him. I married him.

• 15:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, growing up, we had this guy in our, on our street that didn't like leave his house.

• 15:43Keke Palmer?

  At all?

• 15:44Speaker 05

  At all, and my dad was like convinced he was a murderer. Turns out, he just like worked from home. And he came out one day like putting like the artificial turf on his lawn, and then, and then my dad, Indian dad going, "How much am I gonna save if I put in artificial turf?" And then he's like, "Son, I'm gonna go talk to him." And then it was a long, animated, heated conversation, and he goes, "We're, we're buying artificial turf, uh, and this man knows where to source it."

• 16:16Speaker 01

  See? You never know who's gonna be your friend.

• 16:21Keke Palmer?

  You know what I mean? I mean, Celeste, this show doesn't shy away from racial tensions. You know, especially with my character. Was it intentional to just let that exist and trust the audience? And then also, like, how did you balance the, I don't wanna say cliche, but the, the obvious turn of expectations?

• 16:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, it was important for me to put that on the show. I, I grew up as a mixed kid in a very white neighborhood. Shout out to Brookline. I have some, have some, have some childhood friends here.

• 16:48Keke Palmer?

  I'm about to say, I've never heard of Brookline. The way they screamed, it was like, "Queens!" Hey, y'all.

• 17:00Speaker 03

  But that's the, it's the authentic experience. You don't know who to trust. You don't know who is looking at you with suspicious eye and whether or not you belong and whether you are choosing to belong or people are letting you belong. But there are elements of the show that I wanted to include, like for example, the bonnet. We have you very early on wearing a bonnet in the show.

• 17:20Keke Palmer?

  Crucial.

• 17:21Speaker 03

  It was crucial. It was important for me to put that in. And yeah, those were little details, like the Howard sweatshirt, all that stuff I wanted to make sure were included and the story telling was authentic.

• 17:32Keke Palmer?

  I love it. I mean, I think it's important, obviously, a big part of the show is like, everybody is different from a different world, but it's not this thing where we are superficially beating on that as a gimmick for the show. It's just the reality that these characters are different and we play into it with humor of, this is what you think and this is where it could be going, but then also it unravels in a really great way where it's like, I want to be in this town. I don't want the murders, though, but I kind of want to be in the town with these, with this group of people, you know?

• 17:59Speaker 03

  I want to hang out with everybody and I think, you know, I mostly write comedy and I don't ever want to treat, I love hitting dramatic themes, but always there's a little levity, there's a little laugh, there's a wink with everything.

• 18:10Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 18:11Speaker 03

  We never go too, too hard into it.

• 18:13Keke Palmer?

  I mean, and you also, I mean, you've done this really well with Dead to Me, right? Another show that you worked on that has big, heavy topics. Great show. I don't know if you guys, it's so good.

• 18:21Speaker 06

  So good.

• 18:22Keke Palmer?

  You know, where you've done the same thing, where you talk about heavy topics, but you find a way to make them, I guess, able to be metabolized? I don't know if that's the right word, but...

• 18:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, what I learned in the, I call it the Liz Feldman, who's the amazing showrunner of the show, the school, the Dead to Me school of twists and turns, you can get away with doing all the heightened fun stuff if you ground it in real emotion and real characters who have absolute, real drives towards something and that, I think, all of these characters have that heart, have that drive and are people you want to hang out with and know. And then we can do all the hijinks around it because of that.

• 18:57Speaker 01

  It's my favorite kind of show that has both. I just love there to be the depths of all those moments of despair where everyone is in despair in this at some moment. And then the other people around them are like, I got you, I'm going to pull you up, you know? It's just like a real connected, about connection, which I love. Found family.

• 19:17Speaker 04

  I love that even, like every character, characters you haven't seen yet, but you will, they all have... Something that they aren't comfortable with. Officer Danny Daniels is underneath so insecure and his mother-in-law is Agnes, my mortal enemy, who runs the HOA and the terror in the neighborhood.

• 19:41Speaker 01

  Should be HOW, hell on wheels, if that's what she is.

• 19:44Speaker 04

  And she's so funny. And it's just great that everybody has this. They have this thing that they don't want people to really see. Officer Daniels wants to be in charge. It's very embarrassing that his mother-in-law is the one everybody hates. And it's that with every single character and characters that you will see coming up. Every single one is, I don't know, just really different and funny. And they all have a problem of some sort.

• 20:12Speaker 02

  We were doing an interview earlier and we were talking about a scene that we couldn't get through because there was a line that we kept fluffing every single time. And it just came back to me in that moment. You had to say the line, "Officer Danny Daniels's dad is dead."

• 20:25Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 20:27Speaker 02

  Take a hundred, "Officer Danny Daniels's dad is dead." That was the line.

• 20:32Keke Palmer?

  Officer Danny Daniels's dad is dead?

• 20:33Speaker 03

  Dan Daniels, Sr. is Danny Daniels's dad?

• 20:37Keke Palmer?

  I love, and you love putting that stuff in there like you Jay-Z. Like she was always writing the lines like a rap. She loves that stuff. I'm like, girl, here we go again. Put, put, put, put my beatbox hat on. Um, I love what you just said, Julie. I want to take a moment because obviously, I mean, you're an icon. You, and I do need... Icon. Icon. And I have to bring up the fact that I did get to work with you once. I think if you remember True Jackson VP.

• 21:08Speaker 04

  She was 15 years old and more poised and a professional than almost any adult I had ever worked with. It was intimidating that she was that far along at 15 years old.

• 21:23Keke Palmer?

  Oh, my God, Julia, thank you so much. I never knew you felt that way.

• 21:26Speaker 04

  Oh, God, yes.

• 21:27Keke Palmer?

  I'm so glad you said it in front of all these people.

• 21:31Keke Palmer?

  Remember that, guys. But I want to ask you, because you have done so much work. You know, you've seen so many things. So what made you say yes to this project? And what do you look at, you know, when you're deciding to do something?

• 21:44Speaker 04

  Well, I would say to work with Celeste again. We'd worked together on Palm Royale. And this was a... Thank you. I didn't write it or anything, but it was so different from that. And also, I'd had to be glamorous all the time on Palm Royale, which is really a drag. And I got to be a whole different person who was just normal and wore normal clothes. Well, she's not that normal, as you find out. But I just, I absolutely loved it. I loved the whole idea of it and that it was so different from that. And I wouldn't have to try to wear all of those fancy outfits that never really worked on me in Palm Royale.

• 22:28Speaker 04

  That I can dress normally. And I can work with Celeste, who was, of course, working with and influenced by the showrunner of Palm Royale, who was, I mean...

• 22:40Speaker 03

  Abe was amazing.

• 22:41Speaker 04

  You can't get any better than that. Except, I think, I now have.

• 22:46Keke Palmer?

  I just love your timing, your delivery. I always think about that scene when she comes up to the window. She's like, "Oh, yeah, they told me, you guys. They told me you were back." I love, every time, like, it's just so perfect.

• 22:59Speaker 04

  I did some takes where I got into the "B" part of the word, but I didn't want to... I wanted to let the audience, you know...

• 23:06Speaker 03

  There was one time where you said, "I heard you were black." And it was amazing.

• 23:12Speaker 03

  And the way you say "Samara" is just genius.

• 23:15Speaker 04

  "Samara," I couldn't pronounce it. But it's so exciting, of course, to have anything different in the cul-de-sac. I mean, it was... I think it was more that than racism. At least, that's how I played it in my head.

• 23:28Keke Palmer?

  Genius choices, genius choices. I mean, guys, back in the day, it was watching your neighbors out the window. Obviously, people still do that, you know? But now, we can get even more technology-driven with it. Where it's like, you got the Ring camera, you could stalk somebody on socials, we got group chats. I mean, how does suspicion and nosiness play out in your own lives? I do stalk online.

• 23:49Speaker 03

  Um, my friend, literally last night, was like, here's a first name, here's where he went to college, and the general area where he lives. And within three minutes, I had his LinkedIn profile. And, uh, yeah, should go on a date with him next week.

• 24:04Keke Palmer?

  Oh my, you see what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? What about you, Jack?

• 24:09Speaker 02

  I'm not, I'm not that into online snooping.

• 24:12Keke Palmer?

  Oh, so you just don't snooze?

• 24:13Speaker 02

  No, I don't snooze.

• 24:14Keke Palmer?

  Oh, you're just morally dignified?

• 24:18Speaker 02

  No, just incompetent. I don't know.

• 24:22Speaker 02

  Maybe, yeah, now I haven't, I mean, I've done much online snooping. Not for a while, anyway.

• 24:27Keke Palmer?

  Okay, alright, alright.

• 24:29Speaker 01

  I'm good at old-timey snooping. Like, if somebody's had a boyfriend do them wrong, I'll go on Facebook. Like, I know how to get onto social media in a way that's very old-school of like, finding out what their last name is in their family. Then I look at all, do they have siblings? Then I look at the siblings, who did they follow? Oh, they followed, and they posted something with him. Perhaps with a girl.

• 24:52Speaker 04

  Now I know why.

• 24:53Speaker 01

  You can go down that hole, and you can just find so much [BLEEP] out.

• 24:58Speaker 04

  If I mention anyone who's even close to the world of show business, she has the whole story, and now I see why.

• 25:08Keke Palmer?

  Kapil, I feel like you, you would be good at snooping.

• 25:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm doing a digital detox right now. But when I was on the digital, that was, that was like 99% of what I would be doing. So, I think I was just like, I need to like, just breathe a little bit. You know what I'm saying?

• 25:25Keke Palmer?

  Let me go touch grass.

• 25:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 25:26Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, it's good to do that from time to time.

• 25:28Speaker 02

  I think I will start snooping now. I think I'm gonna go online, and I'm gonna try and find Kapil's stylist and snoop him, so that I know what look he's putting you in for the premiere on Thursday.

• 25:40Speaker 05

  Oh, okay, wait.

• 25:41Speaker 01

  I kinda want a Simon and Garfunkel musical group here. My favorite thing that's ever happened.

• 25:45Speaker 02

  Stop sitting like me as well! Uncross your legs!

• 25:49Speaker 01

  These guys became besties. They played pickleball like three to four times a week.

• 25:53Speaker 05

  We played pickleball like three to four times a week, even though Jack was like, "No, we play tennis. Can you tell people we play tennis?"

• 25:58Speaker 02

  Don't tell people we play pickleball. That's more embarrassing than dressing the same.

• 26:01Speaker 05

  Jack had a coach.

• 26:02Speaker 01

  Kiki, do you need to, on this podcast, I know we have a visual element, but do you need to tell people listening what these two are wearing right now?

• 26:10Keke Palmer?

  Guys, she made the most iconic idea right now. You guys have to understand, they're wearing the exact same outfit, so they got slacks on. One is light gray, the other is like dark gray. They've got these little boots on.

• 26:20Speaker 01

  Same shape.

• 26:21Keke Palmer?

  Same shape. The same cut. Tapered down, the exact vibe.

• 26:25Speaker 01

  One's a little butterscotch suede, the other one's shiny black.

• 26:28Speaker 02

  Paula and Kiki are both wearing the Chapel Rowan dress from the Grammys. If you're listening, they both turned up in the same outfit.

• 26:36Speaker 01

  Except mine is pulling the other way to pull the nipples up.

• 26:40Speaker 02

  They're both onto each other's nipples.

• 26:42Speaker 01

  Mine's lifting back. There's a weights on my back on a string.

• 26:46Keke Palmer?

  Weights on my back is crazy.

• 26:54Keke Palmer?

  Paula, you are so insanely funny. I have to go back to you talking about you watching SNL as a kid on the shag carpet.

• 27:01Speaker 02

  What is a shag carpet?

• 27:03Speaker 01

  Shag carpet?

• 27:03Speaker 02

  That means something very different in England.

• 27:06Keke Palmer?

  Carpet you shag on.

• 27:08Speaker 02

  Surely it's not that.

• 27:09Speaker 01

  Have you seen me in low cut jeans? That's a shag carpet. No, I'm kidding. Well, that did happen in basements. Basements that had shag carpets? Shag carpet is just like very long pile, as they call it here in the United States. And it just like, it gets disgusting after a while. It's not, and you'd have a rake. You had a rake that you would rake all the shag carpet. Yeah.

• 27:30Keke Palmer?

  So I want to know what it was like for you working on SNL, how that came into your life. I mean, you being a fan since being a kid, and then being one of the most iconic people to have ever worked on the show.

• 27:41Speaker 01

  Thank you. I don't know about that, but thank you.

• 27:44Keke Palmer?

  Yes, absolutely.

• 27:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, I just, I was always an actor and a comedy person and everything and I got my degree in theater and then after college, I went home to Orlando and I worked at the theme parks and I met all these people that did this improv group and I never did improv, but I would go to their theater in Orlando and do nights of like sketch comedy and I would just come on as a character. They'd say, "Can you write five minutes as a character?" And I'd come on with a wig and I'd do some bad [BLEEP] character each time and they decided to do a pilot and they did this pilot and then that pilot found its way to SNL and then I got a call in the green room of the theme park and my agent at the time, it was all corded phones, that's how old I am, and they were like, "Are you sitting

• 28:32Speaker 01

  down?" They said, "Lauren Michaels saw this, they saw this pilot and they want you to come meet them." And it was 1995 and I flew up there absolutely like diarrhea terrified and they didn't say it was an audition, they said, "It's not an audition," but just in case, I put like funny glasses in my purse. And I got there and he said, "We're completely rebooting the whole show." You know, it's when they re, like got rid of almost everyone and they started anew and he said, "We want, we need one more writer and a female writer and we want you to write." And I said, "I don't know how to use a computer, I don't know how to write for other people, I've never," because I'd never called myself a writer, even though I wrote short stories and different things my whole life. And he was like, "You'll

• 29:16Speaker 01

  learn because that's the way that place is. If they want you to do it, they'll teach you the other parts, but they just want, you're funny." And so I had five days to give my mom my dogs and, and fly up and be terrified and then I never left and it was almost 20 years of my life. It was incredible.

• 29:35Keke Palmer?

  I mean, it's really not easy there. It's not. I, I hosted and it was hard as a host, but like to see how the writers have, you're constantly having to come up with this material and it's like you wanted to get, you gotta do four or five and then maybe one of them get picked for the show. It's a big thing. I know you created Debbie Downer.

• 29:53Speaker 01

  Yep. With Rachel Dratch.

• 29:55Keke Palmer?

  Now, what was the inspiration for that character?

• 29:59Speaker 01

  I think Rachel had an inspiration for that character. She went on a vacation and there was a Debbie Downer type woman on the vacation and they were on this cruise and like this little tour and they were, you know, looking at some... Place they were getting information about or whatever and this woman just kept going like, sadly due to climate, you know, and, and everyone was like, oh, God, Carolyn, shut the up. And so it just became, and we also had occasionally people that worked for the show that would come in, just when you're at that table trying to, you're really exhausted and you're trying to make a sketch funnier and you're really trying to get it up for it and then somebody comes in and is like, did you guys see the news? It's just like somebody that's always wanting to be the breaking news, like to come out and tell you the grim thing.

• 30:44Speaker 01

  And it's just like, just hold it, please, press pause. So, but it resonated because everyone apparently works with a Debbie Downer. They would always say like, I work with a Debbie Downer.

• 30:56Keke Palmer?

  I mean, I feel like we all come from such different backgrounds, but obviously comedy is a common language for us. And I remember that being one of the main things that when I found my groove with Jack very early on, was just like the romance and the intimacy, it comes from the joy and the laughter that they can share together. Like, I think that's such a beautiful thing. I always, anybody I'm around, they gotta have a sense of humor. Because that's how I process life. So, I mean, when you think about comedy, do you source your inspiration from your experiences?

• 31:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think a hundred percent. Yeah, that's, that's why as well as a comedian, it's so important that you have like breaks from it. So you go off and you have real life, because that's where you get all of your inspiration from. And I find it's like so hard because you just burn through so much stuff. So you need to take these gaps where you just go away and you sort of live your life and then you can return to it. And you've, you've accumulated all of this like life experience, which is then your sort of inspiration. So, yeah, that's, that's how I've always approached comedy.

• 31:52Speaker 01

  Those breaks are vital, especially with comedy, is you have to go meet people and you have to have experiences.

• 31:57Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 31:58Speaker 01

  You have to go have a holiday with family. You have to go, be it sitting in a weird diner. You have to just have, be in a beauty shop.

• 32:05Keke Palmer?

  I love a weird diner.

• 32:06Speaker 01

  You just have to know what humans are and how funny and weird they are. And then you go, I'm gonna put that in a movie or I'm gonna put that in a show. Yeah.

• 32:14Speaker 02

  Stand around your dad.

• 32:15Keke Palmer?

  Can I say something about Jack?

• 32:18Speaker 04

  I don't know if everybody here watches as much British TV as I do. I really should just be given a passport at this point. I watch so much. I have seen you, as you know, on all of the panel shows that I watch. When you were, I don't know, 12? How old were you when you started? He was so young.

• 32:40Keke Palmer?

  Oh, little baby.

• 32:41Speaker 04

  And he's with these experienced, awesome comedians on a panel show where there's no script. And he was incredible from the beginning. I think I saw some of your earliest.

• 32:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, you remembered some panel show appearances that I'd forgotten I'd even done. When we first spoke, it was amazing, yeah.

• 32:57Speaker 04

  Well, we rewatched them when there's nothing else to watch. They're so good.

• 33:01Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:02Keke Palmer?

  You have a great deal of confidence and it's great to see. You're really able to be bold. I imagine that's something that you have to have in order to get in front of folks and do stand-up. I'm curious, have you ever gotten in trouble with your fiance by bringing some of y'all's life to the stage?

• 33:16Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, constantly. In the end, I've sort of, now I sort of ask for forgiveness rather than permission. Because the worst thing is having the difficult conversation where you're gonna do a routine about something quite personal. And you have the difficult conversation and you sort of rip the Band-Aid off. And then you go to a comedy club and you try it for the first time and it doesn't land. You're like, that was a complete waste of an argument. So now, I always just road test it once just to make sure there's some promise there. And then I'll have the difficult conversation. But yeah, I mean, it's terrible being like married to a comedian because nothing is sacred. And whenever you say anything, it's likely to end up in your stand-up routine.

• 33:56Keke Palmer?

  So now that you guys are getting ready to get married soon, I feel like we're gonna get a lot of material from this wedding.

• 34:01Speaker 02

  There's gonna be a lot of material from the wedding. I'm sort of waiting for my daughter to start like giving me material as well. Because obviously, that's one of the great things about having kids is then you've got this whole new lease of life. And this whole new lease of comedy.

• 34:15Keke Palmer?

  You are telling the truth.

• 34:16Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 34:16Keke Palmer?

  All my son says, "You the bad mama." Oh. "You the bad, get back from me." And it's like, what is this baby language that you do, "Get back from me"? What is all of this? Kids are crazy. So they definitely give some good material. Now, Kapil, you said that your grandfather taught you a joke that you used to tell, like with house guests all the time. What did that moment unlock for you with comedy? And do you remember the joke?

• 34:42Speaker 05

  Uh, you know what? I didn't realize at the time that it was a dirty joke. And I just knew that everybody, I was like nine, and everyone was laughing. And I was like, this is fun. And I just say these words in this order, and then people laugh. And I think it was like really cute. And my grandfather, he was, he was an actor in, in India, and a very funny man. And he kind of just, I don't know, I think he just inspired me a lot to sort of just go out there and be myself.

• 35:16Speaker 04

  We're not gonna hear the dirty joke.

• 35:18Keke Palmer?

  Exactly. How dirty is it?

• 35:20Speaker 05

  Uh, it, ah, man, to be honest, like, I, it's, it's like I have to translate it, it's just, it's not in English. It's not in English.

• 35:28Keke Palmer?

  Okay, boom, I get it now.

• 35:30Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 35:30Keke Palmer?

  Why you were saying that, okay. But it was funny.

• 35:32Speaker 01

  All ladies have the same part, even if it's in an.

• 35:38Keke Palmer?

  Just say the word. Must be hard to translate, I totally get it. Um, well, how has your relationship changed with comedy guys? Cause I feel definitely that, that mine has over time, you know what I mean? Starting out doing sitcom comedy to getting into sketch and digital and then getting into it as math, as you put it. Like just seeing the timing and the rhythm of things, which I also look at with, with drama as well. But just, how has your relationship changed over the years of how you understand comedy as, as a part of your life?

• 36:08Speaker 04

  I, I was going to grow up to be a dramatic actress like Julie Harris. I hope that isn't a, a really old, you know who she is, alright. Incredible dramatic actress when I was growing up. And that's what I was going to be, and I was very serious about it. And yet, and yet, I never missed Carol Burnett on the Gary Moore Show. And I sat, and I had the opportunity to tell Carol this, like this far from the TV, to watch her. And my mother would say, you know, I think you're gonna do comedy. Mothers know. She didn't know anything about show business. But somehow she got that. And I was insulted because I was going to be a great dramatic actress.

• 36:50Speaker 04

  And I went to acting school. I did the whole thing. I've done lots of drama. But, and I was an ingenue forever. And as I said the other night, Celeste, my role on Palm Royale is my final ingenue role. I have decided that it's time. It's past time that I stop playing ingenue. But somehow, when I play a dramatic role, when I was an ingenue, which I was forever, I could always see why it could also be funny. I mean, I just thought ingenues could always be funny. And I absolutely adored watching people like Bob Newhart and wished I could work with them someday because I got it. Like, I got what they did. I got their kind of comedy.

• 37:35Speaker 04

  I would watch Sid Caesar. I would get videotapes of your show of shows. And all of it mattered to me so much. And finally, I realized there was a difference between comedy and drama. But it kind of became the same thing for me. It's hard to explain. But it was very important to me. And to me, it was almost, when you're playing a comedic character, had deeper than a dramatic character. Like, they had to be so upset or so this, that. I don't know how else to say it, but it was an extreme version of drama to me.

• 38:07Keke Palmer?

  You said it perfectly and beautifully in a way that I don't know that people always understand comedy to be. I really don't know. And it's okay that they don't. But the way that I look at it is exactly how you look. The places that you can go, the things that you can make people feel, the way that you can communicate urgency. It's like a magic trick. And it does require you to go very deep within yourself, you know? I love it.

• 38:32Speaker 01

  I have a journal, a diary that I wrote at 13 that actually inspired the movie Sisters. And I wrote in it so dramatically that I would say, "I shall never forget this day." I got confirmed by Bishop Vonish at church. What a lovely man. I shall never... And I would say all this [BLEEP]. And then I'd say, I'd say, "Depression hasn't been frequent in weeks." And then, and then I would say, "I have a very strong sense of humor." And unfortunately, a heavy build. Like, I would say the craziest... And yet, I was always doing shtick.

• 39:14Speaker 01

  Like, then at the end, I'd go like, "I have to pounce on the Posturpedic." And, and like, I was always doing puns and bits, but it was that wounded... It's like the Tears of a Clown.

• 39:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:25Speaker 01

  There was a song back in the day, "The Tears of a Clown." Is that, you said it perfectly. Comedy characters have so much, so many layers of pain. And when you work with comedy people, you know, they all have these deep wounds that go down, down, down. And a dramatic character is just kind of, you know, they're shallow.

• 39:47Speaker 01

  They're shallow and self-involved.

• 39:48Speaker 03

  Yeah. Not all, like, the best dramatic actors can't necessarily be funny. But that was what was so fun about casting all of you, is you're all brilliant comedic actors and were able to bring such pathos to all these characters and make real moments where I was crying on set. And then there are moments where you guys make each other laugh so hard. And that's why, like, you guys were such a perfect pair. I remember one time, I went in to check on you. There was a creepy holding room in the back lot that everyone would hang out in. And I went in to kind of check on you guys. And the big room where everyone sat, it was empty. I was like, "Where the [BLEEP] is everybody? We've lost the actors." And I heard a giggle, and they were all, they had all pulled their chairs into the little room on the side and were all playing shadow puppets and making each other laugh. Oh, yeah. You were doing a shadow puppet.

• 40:33Speaker 03

  It was the most amazing thing. You got just beautiful.

• 40:36Speaker 01

  It's a real ensemble. Like, we, when you watch the show, you can tell that we really enjoyed each other.

• 40:42Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 40:43Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 40:44Speaker 01

  I enjoyed everyone except maybe one.

• 40:48Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 40:53Speaker 02

  I actually genuinely enjoyed watching this for, and I don't enjoy watching a lot of the things that I'm in because I'm in them. And this was so great because it was an ensemble show, so I got to actually watch it as an audience member and enjoy all of the other stuff.

• 41:05Speaker 01

  Oh my god, there were so many scenes I hadn't seen because I wasn't in them.

• 41:08Speaker 02

  It was so lovely to see.

• 41:09Speaker 01

  Same with you, like, we weren't in each other's scenes sometimes, so you got to see it as like an audience.

• 41:14Speaker 04

  I know, I, we all said this to each other, we were texting like mad after we got the first episodes that we could watch, and I, it's like I had no idea, I thought, all along I thought the writing was great, but somehow I just never got what the whole tone was until I watched it. And I just, and it was my daughter and her boyfriend were sitting there, millennials, and I didn't know who, you know, they're very particular, and they loved it, and it was Thanksgiving, I mean, we were tired, we'd had the dinner that I made, I was exhausted. We watched The Three They Sent To Us all in a row, they kept saying, "No, we've got to see the next one," and I thought, "Oh, this is gonna be a hit." I just knew.

• 41:56Speaker 02

  Did the millennials in agree?

• 41:59Speaker 04

  Millennials.

• 42:00Speaker 02

  Hmm, millennial, we sure?

• 42:04Keke Palmer?

  This is a quick one, I just want to know, because this is something I think is entertaining, we always have to ask ourselves, but what is the difference, you think, being funny for a paycheck and being funny for joy?

• 42:18Speaker 04

  Y'all like that? I mean, in our house, you know, you get props if you, if the timing is good, if you deliver the thing the right way, so, I, I'd never thought of it as being, it, it matters to me all the time that the comedy is good. I will correct my husband if he, if he could have had slightly better wording for the joke, because I just say it's funnier this way if you say it that way. I never thought about it being more satisfying, yeah, sure, if you make money doing that, yeah, that's better.

• 42:56Speaker 04

  That's not a hard question to answer.

• 42:58Keke Palmer?

  No, but I totally relate to what you're saying because what you're saying is like, I'm just being me. I'm just being quote-unquote, I'm just doing the thing and that it's become something that I can make money off of.

• 43:07Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 43:08Keke Palmer?

  But I would be that even if I didn't. So it kinda does change the temperature.

• 43:11Speaker 04

  Right. Because when you love comedy, the joke is king. Nothing is more important than the joke. I mean, you should try working with Bob Newhart and Tom Poston. Nothing mattered but the joke. It didn't matter if it hurt anyone, nothing mattered. But the joke was everything. The joke was worshipped above the person making the joke. The joke was the important thing, not the person who made it.

• 43:37Keke Palmer?

  Anybody else?

• 43:39Speaker 01

  I feel like I'm at an age now where I have a no [BLEEP] policy, like, very strict.

• 43:46Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 43:46Speaker 01

  And so I-

• 43:47Speaker 02

  Thanks for making an exception, though. I really appreciate it.

• 43:51Speaker 01

  I was just waiting.

• 43:52Speaker 02

  I really do.

• 43:52Speaker 01

  You know, it's just because I have a crush on you.

• 43:54Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 43:55Speaker 01

  But I'm 3% straight, so it's like, once a year.

• 44:02Speaker 01

  I feel like I have gotten to a beautiful era of knowing before I get into any comedy project or anything where it's gonna be comedy, that I will have joy because I don't allow the other part to get in. I've had things that I've gotten very low paychecks on that are some of the most glorious comedy things I've ever done in my life, but it's nice to pay your bills.

• 44:28Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 44:28Speaker 01

  And it's nice to treat other people and put money out in the community and so, cough it up, Hollywood.

• 44:39Speaker 02

  I mean, I feel like I've done a fair amount of comedy for the paycheck in my, in my past.

• 44:45Keke Palmer?

  I love the honest-

• 44:45Speaker 02

  I've done a lot of gigs and corporate events and award shows and just horrendous environments in which to do comedy, where it's felt pretty soul destroying and it's felt like, yeah, you're doing a job and you sort of have to- Almost go to a fugue state and just get through the thirty minutes and just get out of there. And yeah, it doesn't feel great, but what feels so wonderful about this and also so wonderful about this compared to like any form of like stand-up comedy is sort of stepping into this, this, this world of being part of an ensemble and being part of a group and it being a shared experience, which I love so much. It's so wonderful. When so much of my career has been so solitary and you go on and you do the gig and it's your own experience

• 45:30Speaker 02

  and you can't relate to anyone when you step off the stage. With this, we were all in it together. We were all there. Like, you know, really generous performers, working with each other, you know, it just felt like the camaraderie of it is just, you can't, you know.

• 45:44Speaker 01

  When you have that first night where you're all laughing together really hard and you go home and you're just like, this is gonna be such a fun project.

• 45:51Speaker 03

  Can I give praise, can I give a little praise to Kiki though?

• 45:54Speaker 01

  What?

• 45:55Speaker 03

  You would, you would show up every day a hundred and ten percent and everyone can be tired. We would do such late night shoots and you would just bring it immediately and everyone would rise to your occasion.

• 46:04Speaker 01

  Oh, absolutely.

• 46:05Speaker 02

  Unbelievable.

• 46:06Speaker 03

  God, stop that!

• 46:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, and with a two-year-old.

• 46:09Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah, with a two-year-old.

• 46:10Speaker 02

  You were the star of the show and you set the whole tone as well. You're like, the, the energy that you brought to it and how kind and generous you were to everyone on set, from the actors to all of the cast and all of the crew. It, it does, you know, it, it trickles down and it, and it set an amazing tone for everything. And the way, the way you work is amazing.

• 46:30Speaker 01

  Kiki would be getting her hair and makeup done in the trailer while doing a, like a interview like this, while scheduling her music.

• 46:38Speaker 03

  Choreography.

• 46:39Speaker 01

  Video that she's got choreography she's gotta learn for Saturday when we're all gonna sit on our asses and have a day off. She's incredible and an incredible mother.

• 46:50Keke Palmer?

  Guys, that really is so kind of you. We are so lucky. I honestly just feel so happy. Like, I've been in the industry for so many years, and it's just so good when you have something like this, where you go to work with people that you love and enjoy. And that doesn't, that's not about, ah, everybody else was terrible. But it's just, this is special. We're better. You're better. You are. Some, I mean, I'm Rick Pella, Paula when she's right. And she's right. You guys are amazing. And it was so joyful to come there and just be a human, and talk, and hang out, and get into it, and create something that we loved and enjoyed. And that's why I was so happy to be out here with you guys again, and rehash it all, and go back down memory lane,

• 47:33Keke Palmer?

  because it really is, it marked a different tone of my life, for sure. This is like, ah, this is the tone, I'm with you. No more [BLEEP] holes, no more [BLEEP].

• 47:42Speaker 04

  Right.

• 47:43Keke Palmer?

  I'm done with it!

• 47:46Keke Palmer?

  Life is way too short for that.

• 47:47Speaker 04

  But you know, Kiki, with all you have going, I hear you on the phone with your agent. I mean, first of all, the way she conducts business is so impressive. And I've talked to you about this before. When you would take a phone call, it was like, "You better do what Kiki says." Because clearly, she knows the best way to do whatever it is she's talking about with her agent. It's impressive. I mean, you're, you're still so young. But it didn't matter if it was 2:00 in the morning. You were just somehow at a level that we all had to be at, as if none of this was bothering you at all. All the other things you had to do, and how late it was, and all of that. And there's a baby in your trailer, and, you know. It was very impressive.

• 48:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, just an unbelievable amount of experience showing up to set in the small things, you know? That add up, small things of like, what does this person I'm acting with need? Does he need to get opened up a little bit? Let me give some of the fire of Kiki in here. Or, you know, should I just shut [BLEEP] a little bit, and lean back and give this person space? All these little things add up. And we see it and we notice it and we really love you.

• 48:59Speaker 04

  You make it look so easy.

• 49:00Keke Palmer?

  We love you.

• 49:01Speaker 04

  Guys, I love you.

• 49:02Speaker 02

  If you think she's good in The Burbs as well, wait till you see her remake of Apollo 13. She's gonna do the whole Tom Hanks canon now. And that's the next one out the gate. It's amazing, complete reimagining.

• 49:15Keke Palmer?

  She's on the moon in heels.

• 49:16Speaker 02

  She lands on the moon, she lands on the moon in heels. It's incredible.

• 49:21Keke Palmer?

  Guys, you are amazing. Can we get a round of applause for the Burbs cast?

• 49:27Keke Palmer?

  I mean, they told me I'm out of time. I'm just gonna try to do this game, okay? I play games with all my guests and I really wanna be able to do it with you guys.

• 49:36Speaker 02

  Bring out the shag carpet. We're now gonna really bond.

• 49:38Keke Palmer?

  But guys, where are all my... I only have one of my pointers. If any of my team knows...

• 49:44Speaker 02

  No, we got them.

• 49:45Keke Palmer?

  Okay, great, you've all got your pointers. Oh yes, baby, it's time.

• 49:48Speaker 04

  I forgot about that.

• 49:48Keke Palmer?

  All right, now, we spent a lot of time together, you guys. I thought this was with a finger when I first... Right, it's like this, though. So, we gotta get into how we actually... How well we actually know our neighbors, okay? This game is called "Who Done It on the Block?" And here's how it goes down. I'll read a scenario and you'll use one of these pointers to call out who's most likely to do it. Get ready and don't be afraid to throw a little shade.

• 50:14Keke Palmer?

  Okay.

• 50:16Keke Palmer?

  Who's most likely to hang a "Please Leave By Nine" banner at the wine night? A "Please Leave By Nine" wine banner. A "Please Leave By Nine"?

• 50:29Keke Palmer?

  Definitely Julia. She said, "Get out my house." Okay, bring Tupperware to take home leftovers from set.

• 50:39Keke Palmer?

  We got a lot of... There's a lot of us here. It's all of us, actually. I mean, who wants to waste good food? Can we talk about how good the food was on our show? Great, Crafty. Man! He had spa water, too. Crafty was eating up...

• 50:51Speaker 02

  Crafty was amazing.

• 50:52Keke Palmer?

  Eating up catering. Catering, he had nothing on Crafty. There's a competition going on. Okay, who's most likely to get inside the kids' bouncy house at a party? I mean, is that all of them? It's so fun, yeah. Y'all know I'm in there with the kids.

• 51:07Speaker 03

  Died in a bounce house once, I'm not doing that.

• 51:11Keke Palmer?

  We actually had a day where we had the big picnic outside, kind of Memorial Day situation. I literally brought my son and was like, "Have fun, boo." It's on the set. Okay, who is most likely to accidentally reveal a plot twist?

• 51:27Keke Palmer?

  Definitely Kapil. Why y'all playing?

• 51:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 51:30Speaker 05

  I almost did it like three times today, to impress.

• 51:33Speaker 02

  Yeah. To be fair, I think I did it during this show.

• 51:36Keke Palmer?

  You did?

• 51:37Speaker 02

  Danny Daniels' dad. He may not be dead. He may not be dead.

• 51:40Keke Palmer?

  Oh shit.

• 51:41Speaker 02

  If you watch it, he could be alive.

• 51:42Keke Palmer?

  Danny Daniels don't even have a dad.

• 51:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 51:51Keke Palmer?

  Okay, last one, last one, because I know I gotta go. Who's most likely to pretend they didn't see you wave to avoid talking? I'm gonna reveal something.

• 52:00Speaker 06

  Oh!

• 52:01Speaker 05

  Whoa!

• 52:02Keke Palmer?

  Oh my god, I didn't even see you, girl! How you been?

• 52:08Speaker 04

  Well, I'll remember that. When you try it on me. Oh my god.

• 52:13Keke Palmer?

  Sometimes it gets awkward. Okay, guys, I hate to go, but I thank you so much to our New York City audience. Yeah! Making tonight such a special experience. Make sure you guys check out The Burbs on Peacock if you want to see more of this. And don't miss an episode of Baby, This is Keke Palmer wherever you get your podcasts, and on YouTube, of course. Thank you again to this incredible, incredible cast and the entire creative team for bringing this world to life. We thank you.

• 52:41Speaker 04

  So, Kiki, now I know something else you're brilliant at.

• 52:46Speaker 04

  Hosting.

• 52:46Keke Palmer?

  Hosting.

• 52:48Speaker 04

  You're amazing.

• 52:49Keke Palmer?

  Thanks, Julia. I love you guys. And we love you guys. Thank you again.