D'Arcy Carden (Live)

D'Arcy Carden is beyond one hundred. Amy hangs with the 'Good Place' and 'Five Star Weekend' star for a live taping of 'Good Hang' and talks about being homecoming queen and class clown, whether or not she's a Disney adult, and kissing Lenny Kravitz on screen. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: William Jackson Harper, Abbi Jacobson, and D'Arcy CardenExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige GarbariniOriginal Music: Amy Miles Live show production by: Elizabeth Fierman, Charlie Finan, Tessa Herrick, Aleya Zenieris, Jack Wilson, Darren Joe, Francis X Bernal Jr., Peter Westervelt, and Mike Wargon Brought to you by Chase Ink Credit Cards. Cash Back Built For Every Business. Compare options and see details at https://chase.com/ink Switch today at https://www. Visible.com for just 25/mo. Or get premium Visible+ pro plan and save $10 on your first month with code HANG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Good evening, everyone. How are you feeling today?

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  Welcome to Town Hall. I am Amy Poehler. I am so happy that you're joining us this evening. Here we go, here we go. Before we start, we just wanted to say thank you, everybody, for coming. And especially thank Chase, Inc. Business Credit Cards, our sponsor tonight. Give them a round of applause. Thank you, Chase. We are gonna start our show with a performance. An old, beautiful friend of mine, who happens to sing the Good Hang theme song. A performer, a writer. She is an incredible artist and a wonderful person. And she's joined by her friend, Chris Anderson. Give it up for Amy Miles, everybody.

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  Amy Miles!

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  Howdy.

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  How do?

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  One thing my friend, Ms. Poehler, always taught me is whenever I would say, "I'm nervous, I'm nervous," she'd say, "Don't say, 'I'm nervous.'" Just say, "I'm so excited."

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  So I'm excited.

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  You ready, Mr. Chris?

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  Yes.

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  Okay, so I need audience participation. Do you guys know how to clap?

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  Okay. So what you're gonna do is you're gonna clap 16 times really fast, just like this. When I go, "One, two, three, clap," you're gonna go.

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  Yeah, I don't know how many that was, but that sounded right. Just clap until it's awkward. You know what I mean? Are you guys ready? Because you're part of this. Don't mess it up. One, two, three, clap.

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  Low consequences and low advances. Let my arm break a bone. Coming back to city in late summer. Everybody, everybody, everybody's gone.

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  Everybody, everybody, everybody's gone. Everybody, everybody, everybody's gone. Everybody, everybody, everybody's gone. Everybody's gone. Woo-hoo-hoo! Going for the love. Go out with a bang. What's up? What did you say? All I ever wanted was a really good hang. Hold my hand, see if I'm breathing. Tilt to the right and start believing. Money's got a dress that the party started. Money's got a party that starts tonight. Money's got a dress that the party started.

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  What did you say?

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  Starts tonight.

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  Money's got a dress that the party started.

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  What did you say?

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  Party. You broke my heart.

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  When I see you, I turn and go home. Woo-hoo-hoo!

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  Going for the love. Go out with a bang. What's up? What did you say? All I ever wanted was a really good hang. What up? What did you say? All I ever wanted was a really good hang.

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  People of Town Hall.

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  The Amy you've been waiting for.

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  My friend.

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  Your friend. Amy Poehler.

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  Hello!

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  Amy Miles, everybody. Amy Miles. Amy Miles, Chris Anderson. Hello!

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  Hello, everyone. Welcome to Town Hall. Hello, hello! Happy National Kinetic Sand Day. Not a sponsor. And happy Viola Davis's birthday.

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  How psyched are you that this show is at 6 o'clock?

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  Right? I know what you want. I know what you want. You know, I wanted to do the show at 5 o'clock. And Jenna said no. She said that we have to give people some time to come from work. So just out of curiosity, did anybody leave work? By a show of hands, anybody leave work early today?

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  Wow! A lot of people have jobs. I'm very impressed. Anybody not work today? There you're all up there. Hello, you're all up there. You'll get down here one of these days, don't you worry.

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  Anybody work from home today? Oh, that's great.

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  But think about it, you'll be in bed by 8:30.

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  Fully entertained. You can watch a show tonight. It's incredible. And we're very, very excited about our guest. I am very... You know, on the way over here, I was thinking to myself, "Oh, man. I get a chance to hang with Amy and Chris and this guest." And I'm like, "How lucky am I?" And I think you'll understand when you hear from our guest tonight. She is... Talk about a good hang, our guest. This person is... Well, let's just say it's Darcie Carden joining us tonight. Hey! Darcie!

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  And you know what? Darcie, I didn't even say hello to Darcie backstage, because I wanted to keep the tension. I wanted to...

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  But Darcie is such an incredible actress. You may know her from The Good Place. You may know her from Broad City. You may know her from Five Star Weekend. Humongous hit. I mean, Darcie does so many things so well. And we're thrilled to be talking to her tonight. And I think you're in for a treat. So really glad you could join us. But you know, we always do this on Good Hang. We always talk well behind our guest's back. It's a little different when you're on stage and they can hear it, but it's still the same. And we get a question from someone who knows our guest that I can ask them. And we are very, very excited to introduce our guest tonight, who... Oh, I don't know.

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  Maybe you know from The Good Place as Sheedy? Give it up for William Jackson Harper, everybody!

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  Will, have a seat.

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  Will, Tony nominee. That's all I gotta say.

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  And you're in American Hostage with Jon Hamm, coming out in September. Congratulations, Will.

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  Thanks.

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  Good to see you.

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  Good to see you, too.

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  I like your hat.

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  Thanks.

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  Okay, great to see you. No, I'm just kidding.

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  Um, Will, um, we do this thing, you know, where we talk about our guests. And I want to get into Darcy, because it's so easy to talk about her.

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  Yeah.

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  Right?

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  Yes.

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  Right? We can talk about how great she is all night.

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  All night and all day, yeah.

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  But, um, how was your day?

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  Uh, largely uneventful.

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  Ooh.

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  I, I, I hung out with my wife, Ally.

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  Yes.

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  And hung out with my dog, Chico. And did nothing else.

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  Nice.

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  Yeah, it was pretty great.

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  Did you get caught in the rainstorm that I heard happened just a bit ago? No.

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  No.

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  You didn't get it?

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  Missed it entirely.

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  Now, what's a, what's a nothing day for you look like? What's your dream nothingness, you know?

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  Oh, dream, dream nothingness, or like the typical nothingness?

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  Oh, that's an existential question right there. That's some Good Place shit right there.

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  Yeah, yeah. Um, dream nothingness is going to the gym on the early side.

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  Okay.

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  And then going to have brunch.

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  Yeah.

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  Like, late morning, so you're having that cocktail around like 12, 15 or so.

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  And we earned it because we went to the gym.

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  We went to the gym, so we're allowed to have it.

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  And what are we doing at the gym? What kind of reps and stuff?

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  All right, well, we're getting to my split. Um, yeah, it's, uh, it, it ranges, uh, like I do strength training like three days a week, and then one night still.

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  It's a podcast, we're supposed to talk about our workout.

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  And then I, and then I do like HIIT training and cardio stuff another three days.

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  Okay, fantastic. Brunch, and then?

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  And then a nap.

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  Yeah. Because we're drinking during the day.

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  Drinking during the day.

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  Yeah.

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  And then maybe-

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  And we have a show to get to at 6 o'clock.

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  This is, also a 6 o'clock show is, I'm, I'm so excited.

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  Thank you.

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  And it's at 6 o'clock.

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  You know, people laugh when I say it, but I, I wish I could, I wish every show was a matinee.

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  I, I, I, yes, I know. Actually, Ally and I go to matinees-

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  Yeah.

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  For theater shows often, because we're just like, I don't want to be coming home when it's dark outside. I want to be inside already.

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  Yeah.

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  Like-

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  10:30, I want my headgear on, I want to be fully-

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  Fully in pajama mode, yeah.

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  Yeah, yeah, do the red light therapy and all that stuff, and, yeah.

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  Um, well, I feel like we have a lot to talk about, and I want to talk about your, uh, partnership in many ways with Darcy, because that show was such an ensemble, and you guys, like, really loved each other.

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  Yes.

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  And you can tell from the work, and it's not surprising because of the kind of show you made together. And, you know, Darcy has so many people that want to speak well of her, and we thought, you know, because she's such a dynamic, wonderful person, we should maybe, uh, bring out two people who love Darcy. So, joining us along with Will, um, from, uh, well, uh, author, producer, actor, Enneagram H, and, um, and, uh, and, uh, Broad City star, Abbi Jacobson, everybody.

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  Abby!

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  Do I talk about my workout, too?

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  Yeah, yeah, what was your workout?

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  Lot of reps, heavy stuff.

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  Yeah. What's your circuit?

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  Yeah, lots of different circuits.

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  Constant, constantly mixing it up.

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  Yeah, yeah, you gotta keep it fresh.

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  Muscle, muscle confusion.

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  Yeah, lower, body, upper, back.

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  Yeah, you love doing back.

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  I love back.

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  Okay, so you both have worked on fantastic, groundbreaking shows that have a common denominator, which is, uh, Darcy is in them. And, um, and I guess I just wanted to ask what it's like to have a person like her around at work.

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  Well, all right, like, for, for, for Darcy and I, I feel like it was, like, The Good Place was kind of our first, like, big, big, like, we're here every day kind of job. And, um, we were, I feel like we sort of bonded over how not normal it was, which was a lot of fun, you know, just sort of like, show up and like, you know, they, they feed you, you know?

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  And, you know, it's like, you, you, you, you get paid enough to pay the, you know, the rent.

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  Yeah.

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  And like, just things like that, and just being like, oh, wow, and then like, doing things like afterwards, like with the, like, panels and all this stuff, and people have watched the thing that you ran, and you're like, what is, what is, what is this? Like, how, how, this isn't normal at all. And so like, bonding over how not normal everything was, um, and sort of going through all of that the first time together was really, like, it really bonded us. Because I mean, I think, I don't know, I won't speak for, for Darcy, but I know that it was like, it came at a time in life when I was like, well, you know, I probably won't get to experience that kind of, of job, or that kind of life.

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  And to have someone else there in the same sort of space that I could check in with, was, was, was great.

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  Oh, that's special. And, and also, you're like, you've, you've been, you know, you've been working for a while, so it's not like your first job.

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  Right.

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  So you can, you can have like some wisdom around knowing that it's good.

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  Yeah, yeah. It's like, this is, this, that was, that was great. That was, uh, we were spoiled on that job, it was, it was fantastic.

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  Yeah. And Abby, what's it like having Darcy around when you work?

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  I mean-

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  We've worked together a few times.

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  Yeah.

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  You've made out heavily.

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  We have made out heavily.

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  I think, you know, I go, Darcy and I go way back. I was thinking about this today. I met her in a UCB class, a commercial acting class, which is like, not really a typical UCB class, but immediately I was like, that's the funniest person maybe I've come across. And so kind, and generous, and warm, and I was very new, this was probably 2007, I was like, everybody's kind of scary, and Darcy is not that way. And I think after that, we just became really good friends, and then I was like, I, if I ever,

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  I mean, at that point, I wasn't like, I'm gonna get a show and then I'll get to write her on the show. But, uh, eventually, I was like, I, this person has to be on everything I ever get to do. Um, first on Broad City.

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  For people who don't know-

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  I should apologize for that, to her, because Gemma-

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  What we made Darcy do?

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  Yeah, I was like, yeah, we were like, so you're gonna be the only naked one.

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  All day, and she's like, gotta, gotta, gotta. She's just like, so-

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  How would you describe that character?

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  Both characters that I've gotten to work opposite Darcy, I think, are getting to amplify a part of her that you see when you're friends with her. Which is this like, really silly, like, like, like, she's just the most fun. And Gemma is, like, Darcy's not Gemma, but Gemma's like, wacky, and like, says it all, and means it, and is like, the most flirtatious, like, sexually, like, all of it, out there. And that's not Darcy, but Darcy like, has that.

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  Yeah.

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  And I think when I was, got into League, I was like, Darcy gets, is like, this incredible actor, and like, can, has this huge comedic range, but when I'm with Darcy, she's also like, the sexiest.

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  Yeah, she has some swag.

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  She, she just is.

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  She does.

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  She's like, so flirtatious, and so when we were, when we were creating Greta, I was like, this is a thing that I see in Darcy all the time, but, but I don't know if the world has gotten to see. And obviously, Darcy's not Greta, but there's like, the heart of her, I was like, she could, I want her to show this part of her. And then there's also like, the silliness, and the openness, and the vulnerability that is, is in Darcy. So, yeah, did I answer it?

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  I don't even remember what I asked.

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  But you know what's a cool thing, though, is it's kind of remarkable to see someone who has all those things that you're talking about, and can be so incredibly vulnerable, but then is like, a very easy hang, and very easy to be around.

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  Yeah, someone would even say good.

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  A good hang.

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  Someone would even say good.

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  And I, I'm curious if you feel this way, like, the best scene partner.

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  Yeah.

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  Like, the best.

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  Yes.

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  Like, giving you everything.

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's, yeah, she's locked in, and I feel like I'm talking about like a, a college recruit.

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  Well, I just want people to feel like they're watching their own funeral.

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  Is that weird?

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  Darcy, is that weird? We'll talk about it. So, um, what question do you guys want to know? Does something, you know, small or big, something you want to have Darcy talk about, a story, or something you don't know about her, you've both known her a long time? Anything you think I should ask her?

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  I want to know when Darcy knew she was funny.

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  Great, great. And Abs?

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  I have two.

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  Okay, okay, here we go.

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  First one is, she's been in so many things, she's acted in so many roles.

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  But I feel like there's definitely something that she hasn't gotten to do yet as an actor. And like, or I don't, I'm wondering if she, if there's a thing that she's dying to do.

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  Ooh.

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  And then my other question, I'm sure a lot of people are curious this. Of all the people that she's gotten the opportunity to kiss, scream, which one? Like, did she feel was the best?

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  Yes.

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  I love these questions. Thank you so much for these questions. Thank you for talking about our friend. Thank you guys both. Again, if you get the subway, you literally could be asleep by 7:30. I don't mean to.

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  Would you, like eight, like eight o'clock?

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  Yeah.

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  Okay.

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  We leave?

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  But I was gonna say, thank you so much.

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  Will and Abby, everybody!

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  All right, all right. How's everybody doing?

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  Don't worry, I have my laptop. Anybody want me to look anything else up?

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  It doesn't have Wi-Fi.

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  Okay, thank you, Will and Abby. It's so good to hear about our friend who's joining us tonight. So without further ado, please give it up, everybody, for Darcy Carden.

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  Hi, Darcy!

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  Hi, Amy!

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  You look so good!

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  Sorry. Okay, first of all, is there, are there two people in the back row that would rather sit in the front row?

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  Oh, look at this, look at this caring-

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  Just two of you, come up here.

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  This caring person.

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  Hurry, now, it's your chance, literally. If you're, if you have to be on the aisle, though. Ready, go.

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  Yeah, there they go. Good job, Darcy.

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  That seat was saved for Guffman.

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  Yes, he didn't show.

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  Guffman didn't show.

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  Hi, Amy!

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  Hi, Darcy!

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  Before we start, I have a present for you.

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  Oh!

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  Wait, I feel like, what do I do right now? Should I scoot back so I can see you?

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  Great, that's a great call. Let's adjust.

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  Okay.

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  Well, I want you to come this way and face me more.

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  Okay, maybe I'm not doing it because I want to give you the present and I don't want to reveal.

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  Okay, okay, give me the present first.

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  So first and foremost, here is, I know how much you love fake food. What about a very realistic-looking corn?

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  Ooh! I don't have corn.

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  Hold on, hold on, it feels like there's a button underneath it, but maybe you could press? And just like, I don't know, hold it up to the microphone or something.

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  Oh, okay, here we go. Here we go.

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  Wow. So this is, this is opera corn?

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  Opera corn. Opera corn.

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  Wow, so, listeners.

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  Yes.

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  Darcy has handed me what is a glistening, glassy corn cob.

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  Slicked in butter.

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  Gorgeous. And it, and it has a button and it plays. Let's just hear it one more time.

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  Yeah, please.

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  Yay!

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  Different opera songs!

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  I love it.

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  Oh my God, I love it!

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  Thank you so much, opera corn.

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  Thank you, Darcy.

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  Of course.

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  Incredible.

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  Hi. Okay, so do you feel good about, am I, am I, are we fine?

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  I think we're fine. Are we fine? Jenna, you guys will tell us.

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  Okay, has this ever been said before? For the first, I don't know, three times I listened to the podcast when it first came out, I would have bet $1 million that you were singing the theme song. Anyone else? Isn't it her voice? You guys are twinsees.

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  Oh my God, I wish. Oh my, that's my dream, to sing like Amy Miles.

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  I know, I know.

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  But yes, much like Nicole Kidman, I insisted on singing my own theme song.

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  Do you guys remember when she sang that theme song? It was so good. What show was that for?

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  I don't know.

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  Moon, no, not Moon and Rouge.

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  I love the theme song of Moon and Rouge.

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  She sang a theme song!

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  This week on Moon and Rouge. No, it was for a TV show, I believe it was with Hugh Grant. The Undoing, thank you. The one with the coats. That was Nicole, she can do it all!

• 26:36Speaker 05

  She can do it all. We know this because of-

• 26:38Speaker 00

  We know this, we know this.

• 26:41Speaker 00

  And also, I want to say, Darcy, thank you. You were on our second episode. You did this, you did the, you gave me a question for Rashida Jones.

• 26:50Speaker 05

  Rashida, that was, that was so fun.

• 26:51Speaker 00

  And thank you, because you know, when people invest early in a podcast before-

• 26:55Speaker 05

  I know, I really.

• 26:56Speaker 00

  You know, you're coming on before you know if it's gonna be something special.

• 27:00Speaker 05

  Amy, anything for you, and I cannot mean that enough.

• 27:04Speaker 00

  Thank you, buddy.

• 27:05Speaker 05

  Anything for you.

• 27:06Speaker 00

  Thank you. I love you so much. Okay, so, let's get down to business, Darcy.

• 27:13Speaker 05

  I just want to keep goofing.

• 27:15Speaker 00

  Well, you grew up in the Bay Area.

• 27:18Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 27:20Speaker 00

  And, yeah, and you know, I know-

• 27:21Speaker 05

  That was my cousin, Neva.

• 27:24Speaker 00

  And also, the Bay Area, I think of the, of Lonely Island.

• 27:28Speaker 05

  Yes, yes, totally.

• 27:29Speaker 00

  And Bay Area is like, for us East Coast people, it's like, what is it?

• 27:34Speaker 05

  Yes, totally.

• 27:35Speaker 00

  Like, it's, it feels like such a big area.

• 27:37Speaker 05

  Yes, it's such a, a bay?

• 27:40Speaker 00

  The Bay Area?

• 27:41Speaker 05

  The entire area?

• 27:42Speaker 00

  It's like, would be like, like, it would be like, if we were like, we grew up, like, we're from like, the tri-state area.

• 27:48Speaker 05

  Yes, you would never say that. I've thought about this before, that like, there's not a lot of areas.

• 27:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 27:53Speaker 05

  We don't talk about it in area.

• 27:55Speaker 00

  Yeah, the Bay Area.

• 27:57Speaker 05

  The Bay Area, Bay Area, it's almost one word, the Bay Area.

• 27:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:00Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 28:00Speaker 00

  And your dad, you called yourself, you've, you've, like, in a very sweet, and, like, self-effacing way, you've called yourself a nepo baby, because your dad, your dad was in, in the music business and he started a magazine, BAM, which was a music magazine.

• 28:15Speaker 05

  Bay Area music.

• 28:17Speaker 00

  Bay Area music.

• 28:18Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 28:18Speaker 00

  So, I've never seen a picture of your dad. He's Turkish?

• 28:22Speaker 05

  He's Turkish and Greek, half and half.

• 28:23Speaker 00

  What did he look like?

• 28:24Speaker 05

  Um, he looks like-

• 28:25Speaker 00

  Or does look like, excuse me.

• 28:26Speaker 05

  Yeah, he looks exactly like Harold Ramus.

• 28:29Speaker 00

  Great.

• 28:30Speaker 05

  Like, no, I'm like, expecting a picture to come up.

• 28:33Speaker 00

  Like, like, like that.

• 28:35Speaker 05

  Like you're just listening, a picture popped up.

• 28:41Speaker 00

  So, not like, not like mustache.

• 28:45Speaker 05

  There was, he had a mustache for one church play.

• 28:49Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 28:51Speaker 00

  That he was in or he attended?

• 28:54Speaker 05

  That he was in. I think it was, um, I think it was Our Town.

• 28:57Speaker 00

  And did he know any Turkish?

• 28:59Speaker 05

  Well, he must have. He was born there.

• 29:01Speaker 00

  Right.

• 29:02Speaker 05

  Yes. But he moved to America when he was, I want to say like, I, it's like, three or four.

• 29:09Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 29:09Speaker 05

  But he was like, you know, three or fours talk. Three or fours talk. Three or four year olds talk. They talk.

• 29:14Speaker 00

  They do talk.

• 29:14Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 29:15Speaker 00

  They talk all the time.

• 29:16Speaker 05

  They be talk.

• 29:16Speaker 00

  Yeah, they be talking.

• 29:17Speaker 05

  Um, so he did know Turkish and now he really doesn't.

• 29:21Speaker 00

  Do you know any Turkish?

• 29:22Speaker 05

  I don't know any Turkish. And I'm, and I'm like, full of shame about it. I've never been to Turkey.

• 29:28Speaker 00

  Uh huh.

• 29:29Speaker 05

  We, we're all, we're like, he's also half Greek and I feel like, I know a lot of.

• 29:33Speaker 00

  And did he kind of absorb, like, that's what he embraced a little bit more?

• 29:37Speaker 05

  I think Greeks in the audience maybe know, like, it does sort of take over. If you're like a little Greek, you're 100% Greek.

• 29:44Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 29:45Speaker 05

  If your spouse is Greek, you are Greek.

• 29:47Speaker 00

  The Greeks are.

• 29:47Speaker 05

  They're going nuts. They're dancing in the aisles.

• 29:50Speaker 00

  All right, all right, all right.

• 29:51Speaker 05

  Spanakopita on the wall.

• 29:52Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 29:53Speaker 05

  But, yeah, so we, I feel like we really, um, we were like a Greek family.

• 29:58Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 29:59Speaker 05

  I'm saying this, I know no Greek either. Say, I got.

• 30:02Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 30:02Speaker 05

  That means I love you.

• 30:03Speaker 00

  And, um, your dad loved music.

• 30:06Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:06Speaker 00

  You know a lot about music. You grew up loving music. Was there any, I mean, to have a cool dad who loves music?

• 30:12Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:12Speaker 00

  Was there ever music that you liked that he was like, this is garbage?

• 30:16Speaker 05

  This is so funny that you're saying this. Okay, my mom is equally, my, my mom and dad started this magazine together.

• 30:21Speaker 00

  Excuse me, yes. Erasing the woman.

• 30:23Speaker 05

  No, no, no, no.

• 30:25Speaker 00

  Already, seven minutes in.

• 30:28Speaker 05

  She, she is, my mom is like very behind the scenes. So her name, she wasn't like.

• 30:32Speaker 00

  Holding up the fort.

• 30:33Speaker 05

  Madison Lorry's magazine at all. She was just like, you know, she was there with him and she also has this like incredible sort of encyclopedic, uh, knowledge of music.

• 30:43Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 30:43Speaker 05

  And out of absolutely nowhere, I think three days ago, she texted me, I wish I had my phone, I want to read it to you. She was like, "When you were in junior high, I told you that I didn't like the sound of Eddie Vedder's voice and you got really mad at me. And I just want to say, I think he has a great voice and I'm really sorry."

• 31:04Speaker 00

  She was making amends.

• 31:05Speaker 05

  Yes, it was wild. It was so wild. And I, and I, I was like, I actually really appreciate that. I was like, I'm sorry. I, it's funny to think of like 12 year old you being like, "I love Pearl Jam."

• 31:18Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 31:19Speaker 05

  Screw you.

• 31:19Speaker 00

  This is how you were like rebelling a little bit against cool parents.

• 31:23Speaker 05

  And I think also we did, you know, my siblings and I really, um, loved a lot of my parents' music and my parents also liked really modern music. So to have anything that they did, that they weren't into felt like, I don't know. Also, I grew up in the Bay Area, so.

• 31:36Speaker 00

  Bay Area.

• 31:37Speaker 05

  I know, I know, I know. We, we, we listened to like a lot of hip hop. I feel like my mom was always sort of like, okay. She, she was really into Run DMC. But the rest of it, she was like, great, enjoy. Like, there was just some things that sort of missed her.

• 31:50Speaker 00

  Right.

• 31:51Speaker 05

  Um, but in general, my dad and I, I feel like we really liked a lot of the same music. And actually.

• 31:56Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 31:57Speaker 05

  I'm just remembering that also, my mom didn't like Pink Floyd.

• 32:01Speaker 00

  Uh huh. Hot take, hot take.

• 32:03Speaker 05

  And then when I was in like college, I sort of discovered that I really liked Pink Floyd and my dad was like, finally, I love Pink Floyd.

• 32:11Speaker 00

  He's like, I can't talk about it around your mother.

• 32:13Speaker 05

  Exactly.

• 32:14Speaker 00

  You know, can I talk about Pink Floyd for a second?

• 32:16Speaker 05

  Please, Amy.

• 32:22Speaker 00

  Songs are too long.

• 32:29Speaker 05

  Three minutes, or die.

• 32:33Speaker 00

  I mean, there's a couple of times, it's like, it's like man spreading.

• 32:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:37Speaker 00

  It is. It's like, dude.

• 32:40Speaker 05

  Dude, we get it.

• 32:41Speaker 00

  Come on.

• 32:41Speaker 05

  It's kind of like, you already said that.

• 32:43Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 32:45Speaker 05

  I heard you.

• 32:46Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 32:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 32:47Speaker 00

  You already said that.

• 32:48Speaker 05

  You already said that.

• 32:49Speaker 00

  Now, did you go to shows all the time?

• 32:52Speaker 05

  This was like, to me, that my, one of the coolest parts of my childhood was that my parents really included us in the concerts of it all. They're like, we, we, and, and everything, everything came through the Bay Area. So we saw everything.

• 33:04Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 33:05Speaker 05

  We, we, they would just, um, we, yeah, they would take us to everything.

• 33:08Speaker 00

  And do you remember like a, a formative moment when you were a young person watching somebody on stage?

• 33:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, I do. I like, well, Huey Lewis was my first concert.

• 33:17Speaker 00

  Oh my God, Huey Lewis was one of my first concerts too.

• 33:20Speaker 05

  That's cool.

• 33:21Speaker 00

  That is cool.

• 33:22Speaker 05

  That is cool.

• 33:24Speaker 05

  And I also remember.

• 33:25Speaker 00

  Give it up for Huey Lewis.

• 33:26Speaker 05

  Wait, what?

• 33:26Speaker 00

  Give it up for Huey Lewis.

• 33:29Speaker 05

  Thank you, guys.

• 33:29Speaker 00

  Talented.

• 33:30Speaker 05

  Such a voice.

• 33:31Speaker 00

  Talented.

• 33:32Speaker 05

  And the harmony, the whole band. And the news. Give it up for the news.

• 33:37Speaker 00

  They never get any credit. They never get any credit.

• 33:41Speaker 05

  Um, I remember being much like you guys in the very front row of an Eddie Money concert.

• 33:47Speaker 00

  Oh, I was just talking about Eddie Money the other day.

• 33:50Speaker 05

  You were?

• 33:51Speaker 00

  Yes, I just, I was looking him up when I, when we were driving, because I was like, what is Eddie Money's deal?

• 33:56Speaker 05

  What is his deal?

• 33:57Speaker 00

  First of all, it can't be the name his mother gave him.

• 33:59Speaker 05

  And it's not, right?

• 34:00Speaker 00

  No.

• 34:01Speaker 05

  What a cool name.

• 34:02Speaker 00

  I believe his last name is Mahoney. His real last name is Mahoney.

• 34:05Speaker 05

  I mean, that's kind of a cool, like, from Mahoney to Money.

• 34:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 34:08Speaker 05

  But he did one of those, I think, I bet this was like my second or third concert. I was so little, probably too little to be there. But he did the thing where he's singing to the mic and then he put it down to me. And I remember being like, oh, I don't know the lyrics. I like five.

• 34:26Speaker 05

  And it was, but, but, you know, cool, cool to, there's something about, when I say like nepo baby, what I mean is like, there was no, like the proximity, like to, to, to be close.

• 34:38Speaker 00

  Well, you were around creative people.

• 34:40Speaker 05

  Right. That's like, and I know nepo actually doesn't mean that, but what we've sort of decided nepo baby means, it's like, I think a lot of people, you know, are like, want to be an actor and they are raised in Ohio or something and they're like, well, I don't, I've never seen a movie filmed here, so I don't really underst, you know, like it doesn't, it, you can't like grab it.

• 34:57Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 34:58Speaker 05

  And so there was something about, even though the music industry is not the, it's the entertainment industry, and I was like, well, that could be a career. That could be something that you like, do with your entire life.

• 35:05Speaker 00

  Yes. Did you ever want to go into music?

• 35:07Speaker 05

  I kind of did. I mean, really when, maybe this is like every kid, but when I was in elementary school, I made like a, we had to make something like, like about our future. And I drew myself as a pop star.

• 35:20Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 35:21Speaker 05

  As an actor, as a major league baseball player.

• 35:25Speaker 00

  I mean, you made that happen.

• 35:26Speaker 05

  I know. And then as the president.

• 35:29Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 35:30Speaker 05

  But like overly confident, my God.

• 35:33Speaker 00

  That's a very healthy child. That's great.

• 35:36Speaker 05

  That's my parents. That's my parents.

• 35:38Speaker 00

  Now, I've heard that you, as a young person, also had a big love for Annie.

• 35:43Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 35:45Speaker 00

  Do we talk about Annie a lot?

• 35:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 35:47Speaker 00

  Can we talk about Annie? When did you see Annie?

• 35:49Speaker 05

  Annie, I guess was my first real play. Like, we saw a lot of children's theater where you're kind of like sitting on the stage or whatever. But Annie, we went to the Concord Pavilion, neither knows it, and, um, and we saw like a real production of Annie. And it was, did you have this thing where you were just like, get me up there?

• 36:08Speaker 00

  Uh, 100%.

• 36:09Speaker 05

  Get me up there.

• 36:09Speaker 00

  I feel like it was a real, it's a real divining moment for young women of our age, or maybe you're younger than me, but like in that age group, where Annie was like, it was like incredible parts for young women. There was like 12 orphans. Also, the idea of being an orphan, the idea of being an orphan was like.

• 36:27Speaker 05

  It was so romantic. It really was. It really was.

• 36:31Speaker 00

  It really was.

• 36:32Speaker 05

  Let's play orphans like that. Yeah, exactly.

• 36:34Speaker 00

  Let's be orphans.

• 36:34Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 36:35Speaker 00

  Like, people don't understand, in the eighties, like orphans were cool.

• 36:37Speaker 05

  Yes, I know, I know, I know. Why is that? And I always, for some reason, I was like, well, certainly I wouldn't play Annie, but Pepper.

• 36:46Speaker 00

  Yeah, you're right. And, and there was just this moment of like, the songs are, it was like, they're singing about us.

• 36:52Speaker 05

  Yes, totally. Okay, now, okay, now I'm just going to bring up this damn nepo thing one more time, but, but we got to go backstage.

• 37:00Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 37:00Speaker 05

  Okay, whatever. Sorry to brag. And in my, whatever age this was, four or five year old delusion or whatever this was, Miss Hannigan was backstage, the woman who played Miss Hannigan, and she was sort of like bent over talking to someone and I slapped her ass.

• 37:19Speaker 00

  No, no, Darcy. No.

• 37:25Speaker 00

  No.

• 37:25Speaker 05

  Like, almost like, like, almost like I punched her in the face. I was just like, you bad lip.

• 37:35Speaker 05

  That poor actress. That poor actress.

• 37:39Speaker 00

  Oh my God. Do you remember her reaction?

• 37:42Speaker 05

  I think she was kind of like, woo!

• 37:47Speaker 05

  Definitely was not expecting some weird little like girl boy being like short haircut.

• 37:53Speaker 00

  You love to sing. You love to harmonize.

• 37:54Speaker 05

  I do. Yeah, you do too.

• 37:55Speaker 00

  Um, I have the lyrics. I have the lyrics to, um, "Maybe" by Annie.

• 38:03Speaker 00

  You ready?

• 38:04Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 38:04Speaker 00

  I'm just saying the first couple of lines.

• 38:06Speaker 05

  With you.

• 38:07Speaker 00

  Yeah, let's try it. I don't remember it. Maybe far away. Or maybe real nearby.

• 38:21Speaker 05

  She knows!

• 38:26Speaker 05

  Damn it!

• 38:28Speaker 05

  What a, what a like-

• 38:30Speaker 00

  What a song.

• 38:31Speaker 05

  What a kind of sad, romantic song.

• 38:33Speaker 00

  I know. We were just talking about it. We were like, could it be a song and a wedding?

• 38:37Speaker 05

  It kind of could.

• 38:38Speaker 00

  No, it can't be, can it?

• 38:39Speaker 05

  Bet you he re- bet you he reads?

• 38:42Speaker 00

  Bet you he reads, bet you she sews. Maybe she's made me a closet of clothes. Maybe they're strict as straight as a line. Don't really care as long as they're mine.

• 39:10Speaker 00

  Incredible.

• 39:11Speaker 05

  Incredible. Incredible lyrics.

• 39:12Speaker 00

  Incredible. Good job, Annie. Okay, so then you get to teen years and you fucking do the coolest thing. You put an apostrophe in your name. You put an apostrophe in your name.

• 39:26Speaker 05

  I'm kind of Eddie Money in that way.

• 39:30Speaker 00

  It's your Eddie Money moment.

• 39:31Speaker 05

  That's my Eddie Money moment.

• 39:32Speaker 00

  And you come to school and you're like, you're like, you're like- So for people who don't know, Darcy spell- how do you spell your name, Darcy?

• 39:38Speaker 05

  It was just D lowercase a r c y.

• 39:40Speaker 00

  Right.

• 39:41Speaker 05

  And then I really became obsessed with grunge music and Smashing Pumpkins. And Smashing Pumpkins has Darcy Retsky on bass and she was just like the fucking coolest. Sorry. And, um, child in the front, child in the front.

• 39:54Speaker 00

  Child in the front, child in the front. Okay, good to know, good to know.

• 39:56Speaker 05

  Hey, child in the front, hey!

• 39:58Speaker 00

  Child in the front.

• 39:59Speaker 05

  So maybe far-

• 40:08Speaker 05

  Yes, and I just, I just, I was, thank you. I was basically like, she's cool.

• 40:14Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 40:14Speaker 05

  I love her.

• 40:14Speaker 00

  She's cool.

• 40:15Speaker 05

  I want to be her.

• 40:16Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 40:16Speaker 05

  And I, it was a, it was a not decision. It was just like, then that was my name. It wasn't a big decision. It really was just like-

• 40:24Speaker 00

  Okay, first of all, that's an earth-shattering decision.

• 40:26Speaker 05

  It's so funny. It really was like, I, I wasn't like, should I? Could I? I just did it.

• 40:32Speaker 00

  And when you walked into school?

• 40:33Speaker 05

  I was like, pop my collar.

• 40:36Speaker 00

  I picture that, like a very-

• 40:38Speaker 05

  It just was like, I just started doing it. I just started doing it and my mom was like, hmm?

• 40:46Speaker 05

  And she does this thing, she doesn't really do it anymore, but she would often like sign a letter, M apostrophe O M. It's like a little-

• 40:54Speaker 00

  Oh, cute.

• 40:55Speaker 05

  She's like, I can do it too, Darcy.

• 40:56Speaker 00

  Cute.

• 40:57Speaker 05

  Glory.

• 40:59Speaker 00

  Glory!

• 41:00Speaker 05

  Glory!

• 41:01Speaker 00

  You know, I have a quick Darcy story from Smashing Pumpkins, which is, I was waiting tables in Chicago and one of the guys, they was like, oh, I do a catering business on the side and I cater weddings. We need extra help. Can you help me this weekend? I said, sure. Uh, oh, we're going to somebody's house for a wedding. Who is it? It's Darcy from the Smashing Pumpkins.

• 41:21Speaker 05

  You catered Darcy's wedding, Amy?

• 41:24Speaker 00

  Well, I didn't, I didn't cater. I, I, I passed around hors d'oeuvres and stuff.

• 41:28Speaker 05

  I think that's catering. Right, you mean cooked the food. Right, right, right.

• 41:31Speaker 00

  Yes, but I had a white shirt and black pants and she lived in Michigan City, Michigan.

• 41:36Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 41:36Speaker 00

  I forget who she was marrying. I could look it up, but I, it's just-

• 41:40Speaker 05

  There's no way to know.

• 41:41Speaker 00

  My laptop's so far away.

• 41:42Speaker 05

  It's so heavy. It's such, it's like-

• 41:44Speaker 00

  And I hope they're, they're together. I don't know.

• 41:46Speaker 05

  And I don't think they are.

• 41:47Speaker 00

  I don't know. I don't believe they are. And I hope they are. And I don't believe they are.

• 41:51Speaker 05

  And I don't believe they are.

• 41:52Speaker 00

  But, but it was a very intimate, small wedding and Billy Corgan sang in the living room.

• 41:57Speaker 05

  Oh my-

• 41:58Speaker 00

  I know!

• 41:59Speaker 05

  Is this like something that you've told before?

• 42:02Speaker 00

  I did. I wrote about it in my book because-

• 42:03Speaker 05

  Wait, I've read your book.

• 42:06Speaker 05

  I was like, only me with a Darcy story.

• 42:10Speaker 00

  But she was so cool, even like not, at her wedding as well.

• 42:15Speaker 05

  At her wed- was she wearing not a white dress?

• 42:18Speaker 00

  Oh, that's a great question.

• 42:19Speaker 05

  You know what I mean? It's gotta be black.

• 42:22Speaker 00

  You know, my memories are like, um-

• 42:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get you.

• 42:26Speaker 00

  You know, they're really like, uh, you know, like when, um, a child makes a drawing?

• 42:31Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 42:32Speaker 00

  And then it's left out in the rain?

• 42:34Speaker 05

  And you're kind of like, I know it was something.

• 42:37Speaker 00

  Colors and there was a tree and-

• 42:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, totally.

• 42:39Speaker 00

  That's how it feels.

• 42:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's, I mean-

• 42:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 42:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:43Speaker 00

  You were also class clown in high school.

• 42:48Speaker 00

  Congratulations!

• 42:49Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 42:50Speaker 00

  I love a, a, a woman-

• 42:52Speaker 05

  A woman.

• 42:52Speaker 00

  A woman class clown.

• 42:55Speaker 00

  Well, I would just say that women who are class clown kind of sometimes go two ways.

• 43:00Speaker 05

  Right.

• 43:00Speaker 00

  Sometimes they're the bad kids.

• 43:02Speaker 05

  Right, right, right.

• 43:02Speaker 00

  Mischievous, mischievous. And then they're just genuinely funny. Rachel Dratch was class clown.

• 43:08Speaker 05

  She was.

• 43:08Speaker 00

  Rosie O'Donnell, class clown.

• 43:10Speaker 05

  Yes, I, and yes, Rosie O'Donnell, class clown and also prom.

• 43:15Speaker 00

  Prom queen.

• 43:16Speaker 05

  Me too.

• 43:16Speaker 00

  You were prom queen too?

• 43:18Speaker 05

  Well, we, we didn't have prom queen, but we had homecoming.

• 43:20Speaker 00

  Oh, you had homecoming? You were homecoming queen and class clown? That's incredible.

• 43:23Speaker 05

  You know what I sort of-

• 43:24Speaker 00

  It was the apostrophe.

• 43:25Speaker 05

  Okay, well, here's- It was the apostrophe. You know what's funny is like, um, this is because we're doing this live. I feel like I can like peek behind the curtain.

• 43:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 43:33Speaker 05

  The guests ahead of time are supposed to be a surprise.

• 43:35Speaker 00

  Right.

• 43:36Speaker 05

  Okay, you should know, Abby absolutely spilled the beans.

• 43:39Speaker 00

  Yeah. We forgot, we forgot to tell, you know, I don't love surprises.

• 43:43Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 43:43Speaker 00

  And I, I get stressed out about pranks.

• 43:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, oh, I do too. God, I do, yeah.

• 43:47Speaker 00

  So I don't want to make anybody feel like they have to keep a secret.

• 43:50Speaker 05

  And it was, and also it's not like I knew what they were gonna say. It was, it was actually perfect because then I could hang out with them backstage and everything.

• 43:54Speaker 00

  Great. So I was like, tell or not tell, up to you.

• 43:57Speaker 05

  It reminded me that my dad spilled the beans the night before, the, the homecoming queen. Isn't that funny?

• 44:03Speaker 00

  Oh my God.

• 44:04Speaker 05

  Isn't that funny? I guess not.

• 44:05Speaker 00

  So maybe a-

• 44:07Speaker 05

  But it was, it just reminded me where, where I was like, do I like to know things in the moment or do I like a little, a little heads up? But my dad was like, I gotta tell you, you got homecoming queen.

• 44:16Speaker 00

  Well, he didn't really, he didn't like accidentally spill the beans. He told you.

• 44:20Speaker 05

  He fully told. And my mom was like, Dennis! And then he went, just kidding.

• 44:27Speaker 00

  Dennis?

• 44:28Speaker 05

  Dennis?

• 44:28Speaker 00

  He couldn't tolerate his own stress about it.

• 44:31Speaker 05

  That's right. Yeah, tell me. That's kind of a cute memory.

• 44:33Speaker 00

  And did you like it?

• 44:34Speaker 05

  I did, because then I didn't have to, I mean, then it was-

• 44:36Speaker 00

  You prepped?

• 44:36Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 44:36Speaker 00

  And then you were like, oh my God.

• 44:38Speaker 05

  I was kind of like, oh my God. It was like the Bay Area.

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• 47:33Speaker 00

  Okay, you go to school for theater.

• 47:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 47:36Speaker 00

  You think about music, but you're, um... Are we checking our pants?

• 47:42Speaker 05

  Well, my pants did that, you know.

• 47:44Speaker 00

  Well, here's the thing about pants now. Pants are ridiculous now.

• 47:48Speaker 05

  They're stupid, and everybody knows it.

• 47:50Speaker 00

  Everybody, they're so big, there's so many pleats.

• 47:53Speaker 05

  And I want them big, but then when you sit, they're like, "Ha, ha, ha." This is the joke part. You look insane.

• 48:04Speaker 00

  So how do you go from theater?

• 48:06Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:06Speaker 00

  Where do you go to college?

• 48:08Speaker 05

  Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.

• 48:10Speaker 00

  Interesting. How do you get there?

• 48:12Speaker 05

  Okay, you go straight up the... Okay, because I couldn't remember the freeway either, so...

• 48:20Speaker 05

  Okay, Ashland is a big, it has the, I want to say it's the biggest Shakespeare Festival in the country. Is that right? Ashland Connoisseurs? Yeah.

• 48:32Speaker 05

  And so my theater class in high school, every year we would go up and watch a bunch of plays, and I just loved it. It's like a, it's like an, almost like a bless you blast from the past, like out of Elizabethan era town.

• 48:44Speaker 00

  Ooh.

• 48:45Speaker 05

  It's cool. It's wild. It's crazy.

• 48:47Speaker 00

  So you used to go up there and watch Shakespeare?

• 48:49Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 48:49Speaker 00

  So you enjoy Shakespeare?

• 48:50Speaker 05

  I do, but don't hold that against me.

• 48:52Speaker 00

  I don't. I enjoy Shakespeare too, but I don't, it's, I'm, it's a long process for me.

• 48:58Speaker 05

  I know, I know, yeah.

• 48:59Speaker 00

  It's a long process for me.

• 49:01Speaker 05

  It's another sneeze? Chill out. We already had the one. Oh my god, guys.

• 49:15Speaker 05

  I, I, I, I mean, you know, I love Shakespeare when it's good, right? I mean, whatever. Also, I've seen, like, I've seen kids do Shakespeare, and it can be good, but, but, um...

• 49:26Speaker 00

  Can it?

• 49:27Speaker 05

  No.

• 49:29Speaker 00

  Not good.

• 49:29Speaker 05

  Not good.

• 49:30Speaker 00

  No.

• 49:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, they do it.

• 49:31Speaker 00

  Cute, maybe cute?

• 49:32Speaker 05

  Sort of. Yeah, you're kind of like, eh. Do at least like Shakespeare Jr.

• 49:36Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 49:37Speaker 05

  Don't give me the full Monty.

• 49:40Speaker 00

  Yeah, you're right. Do a quick, quick Shakespeare.

• 49:43Speaker 05

  But I did, you know, it's like I fell in love with it so hard in, I guess, high school, but really in college where we studied it.

• 49:49Speaker 00

  Cool.

• 49:49Speaker 05

  And then the further away I get from college, it's been two years now.

• 49:56Speaker 05

  What is that joke? The further away I get, the less I like have a connection to it. So I'm almost like, I need, I need to, I'm like scared of it a little bit. I'm like, do I remember? Who's my favorite, what's my favorite show? Who's my favorite character? I don't know.

• 50:08Speaker 00

  Now, do you have a Shakespearean part you would have loved to have played, or you did play and love doing?

• 50:13Speaker 05

  There, in Midsommar, I always really loved Helena.

• 50:15Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 50:16Speaker 05

  Which I'm sure, you know, she's our, if we're...

• 50:18Speaker 00

  I was in, in college, we did Midsommar Night Stream, and I was one of the fairies. I was Peas Blossom.

• 50:24Speaker 05

  Peas Blossom, of course you were freaking Peas Blossom! I was Titania, Titania, Titania, Titania.

• 50:33Speaker 00

  Who's that?

• 50:33Speaker 05

  She was like the queen in the beginning, and then you kind of never see her again until you end.

• 50:39Speaker 00

  Oh, I, I'm having a memory now that I was also, I doubled up, and I was the New Yorker that comes in. Isn't there a New Yorker?

• 50:52Speaker 00

  No, wait, that's Brigadoon!

• 50:53Speaker 05

  Okay. Sorry. Funny, Amy. Hey, that was, that was Peas Blossom!

• 51:04Speaker 00

  So, how do you go from Shakespeare to comedy, to UCB?

• 51:09Speaker 05

  Okay, so I do my four years in Ashland. I loved it. I got, I, I loved it. It was, it was a great college experience, but I was like itchy as hell to get to New York. I had to get to New York. And so truly like, you know, graduated and high-tailed it to New York, and spent like a year or two auditioning for things and doing what every actor that comes to New York does, which is kind of go like, "Oh, it's harder than I thought it was gonna be." Yeah, like, "This is really, someday they were kidding."

• 51:44Speaker 05

  And, and, and had like, I think I had hit the two-year mark, and I was like, "I love it here, but I think, I don't want to like keep temping, like I probably just have to, I'll move back home or whatever." But I loved it. Like, I'm so glad I did my two years. And Amy, then a friend took me to a UCB show. And it, and I knew what UCB was from the TV show. I knew who you were because I was a big fan of you from SNL. But I didn't really know what UCB was in, as far as like, you know, the live theater of it all. And I had seen some improv that was more like short for me and I always enjoyed it, but it wasn't like calling my name.

• 52:25Speaker 05

  And I, my friend took me to an ASCAT, which is like the big UCB show every Sunday night. Yes. And, yes. And...

• 52:35Speaker 00

  And?

• 52:36Speaker 05

  And, wow.

• 52:39Speaker 05

  So good. And you were in the show, and, which she wasn't every week at all, she's a busy lady, but she was in the show, and it was like Jack McPrayer and, and Rob Riggle and Jason Manzoukas, and maybe Seth Meyers. It was like, I was kind of like, "Oh, oh, holy shit, oh, god." Like, just, and then, and then had the thing where you almost like go into like a tunnel of light. And I watched the show, and like everybody else fell away, and I was like, a little bit like the Annie moment, where I was like, "Get me up there."

• 53:10Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 53:11Speaker 05

  Get me, like, I, get me the hell up there. Everything in my life just changed. This is all I want to do. This is like, like I figured it out. I found it. And I signed up for class the next day, and it was so long ago that you would like bring your form and your check in to sign up for class. And the person that took my check was an intern named Donald Glover.

• 53:33Speaker 00

  Amazing.

• 53:36Speaker 05

  Eddie Money moment, Childish Gambino.

• 53:42Speaker 05

  And then I just, and then I just became obsessed, and I stayed in New York for 11 years. And it became my, like, my life, my love, my church, my everything, everything, everything.

• 53:52Speaker 00

  Yes, and I feel like a similar feeling with you about our love of improv, like, which I know, like, like any art form, you can kind of make fun of it. Improv is definitely made fun of a lot.

• 54:03Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 54:04Speaker 00

  Because it's, it's like not, it doesn't feel cool sometimes, but I think it's like the coolest thing in the world, and the coolest people do it, I think. What do you like about it?

• 54:15Speaker 05

  I, um, by the way, I agree so hard. And truly like the top of that pyramid or whatever is you, dude.

• 54:25Speaker 00

  Come on, dude.

• 54:29Speaker 05

  Like, I don't know how, I mean, I could, I could spend the entire episode talking about you and what you mean to me and what you mean to us, but what you mean to me, you, like, you, in so many ways, you completely changed my life and like showed me how to do it. You really like showed me how to do the thing I wanted to do that I didn't know even existed. And that's improv, but that's everything. Like, bitch.

• 54:55Speaker 00

  Durs.

• 54:56Speaker 05

  I mean, I, yeah, yeah.

• 54:57Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 54:57Speaker 05

  You know, like, it's, it's, it is always a weird thing to be like friends with somebody that you actually worship.

• 55:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's just the breaks. I, you know, I, I agree. Like, I know it's sort of like almost cool or trendy to shit on improv, and I, but I, I, I don't even care.

• 55:14Speaker 00

  Yeah, same.

• 55:15Speaker 05

  I don't care. I don't play to it. Like, I get it if you don't like it or if you think it's cringy. I think it's like magical art. I think it can be the, the funniest thing you have ever seen in your entire life. The way it like connected me to people that I'm still friends with all these years later, and in like a special way that's different than just working together or doing a show together. Like a sort of psychic bond, you know? I, it also shows you like how to be a person in the world, not just an actor.

• 55:47Speaker 00

  That's right.

• 55:48Speaker 05

  You know, like, listen to the person, set you up for success. Like, "I want you to succeed. I want to help you. I want you to help me. I want to be a team." I mean, all I ever wanted, well, it was a really good hang. All I ever wanted was to like be on a team, you know?

• 56:04Speaker 00

  Yes, to be on a team. And you bring up the word listening. I feel like it teaches you, because it's kind of life or death, because you have to listen very carefully, because you're like, "Where are we? What are we doing? What are you talking about?" And that kind of act of listening bonds people really fast.

• 56:18Speaker 05

  I agree.

• 56:19Speaker 00

  And when you're around people that aren't used to or don't practice that listening, it's like, whoa.

• 56:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 56:25Speaker 00

  I mean, in life and in, in work.

• 56:28Speaker 05

  Totally. It's also what makes you like so unbelievably good at this, you know?

• 56:32Speaker 00

  Okay, enough about this.

• 56:33Speaker 05

  Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. But really, I mean, but also as an actor and everything, like, but don't you think everything? Like, as a director, as a writer, as a mom, like, I'm sure, it's like, it's just a person in the world.

• 56:43Speaker 00

  Yes, and I also feel like if you have that skill, if you feel like you can, then it's like a, like some form of meditation where you're actually in the present moment, which is impossible to be.

• 56:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 56:54Speaker 00

  I mean, it is impossible to actually be where you are, sitting here, feet on the ground, sneezing, whatever you're doing.

• 57:02Speaker 05

  Right, right.

• 57:03Speaker 00

  It's, it's impossible to actually be not racing ahead or thinking back. Like, it's, it's, it's, for me, it's, it's a lifelong lesson.

• 57:11Speaker 05

  Same.

• 57:11Speaker 00

  Improv helps me stay in my body, actually.

• 57:14Speaker 05

  100% agree. I, oh, you took a breath. Okay.

• 57:18Speaker 00

  No, keep going.

• 57:20Speaker 05

  I was gonna say, I'm having a memory of the first show I did with you.

• 57:23Speaker 00

  Yes, what is it?

• 57:25Speaker 05

  It was an ASCAT, so I was like, I was on the sort of list of performers that would kind of like fill in last minute, which was a dream come true. I was so happy to be included. And so on a Sunday night, I would kind of keep my Sundays open just in case. And sometimes it would, you'd know, in the morning, sometimes you would, it would be like, "Someone bailed a half hour ago, can you get here?" And I would always try to do it. But I, there, there was like a night where husband Jason, hi Jason, and I, we were, I mean, oh my god, we were dirt poor, but we decided to like go to a nice dinner for some reason in our neighborhood. I think we were new to Brooklyn Heights, and we went to like a nice dinner. And I ordered a freaking steak. Like, we were having a nice dinner, and we're sitting there having like a nice little romantic date,

• 58:10Speaker 05

  and I get a text, and it was like, "Uh, someone dropped out. Can you be at UCB in like 30 minutes?" And I was like, "Bye."

• 58:18Speaker 05

  And I'm not kidding, I got up so fast that I knocked over the table behind me.

• 58:24Speaker 05

  And Jason was like, "Gah!"

• 58:26Speaker 00

  Oh!

• 58:26Speaker 05

  "Gah!" And then we got to do a show together and you were so warm and welcoming and cool. And we did, it was actually like, it's hard to remember improv shows and scenes, but I kind of remember it and it was like actually a great show.

• 58:39Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 58:40Speaker 05

  And you did the thing that you do, which is like on the back line, which is like when we're not in the scene, but we're still on the stage, so you shouldn't really talk. You like talked to me and said I did something funny and you said like, "You made me laugh so much." And I was just like, I like ascended like into the heavens. And you just, you take care of your people and you're such a giver. You're such a giver. You're such a giver with your laugh and your love and that mean, and yeah, and your praise. It really, it changes people's lives.

• 59:09Speaker 00

  Thank you, Darcy. Thanks, sorry. Sorry, thank you very much. Thank you very much. In the words of Lena Waithe.

• 59:19Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 59:20Speaker 00

  "Thank you and I receive that."

• 59:21Speaker 05

  Okay, great. That's all I needed. I just needed to tell.

• 59:23Speaker 00

  I received that. But you're talking about Jason, your wonderful husband, who you met at Disneyland.

• 59:28Speaker 05

  I know. Why did it have to be that?

• 59:31Speaker 00

  Jason, producer, are you a Disney adult? Do you care about Disney?

• 59:35Speaker 05

  I, I, you know.

• 59:36Speaker 00

  Oh, you got one.

• 59:37Speaker 05

  Not like that, but like, I always am like, "I'm not a Disney adult and yet I go every year." We go every year.

• 59:44Speaker 00

  Okay. This is actually a really good question is what makes someone a Disney adult? Because going once a year feels like not so much.

• 59:50Speaker 05

  That's not so crazy.

• 59:51Speaker 00

  But once a year, like what?

• 59:54Speaker 05

  I mean, it is really fun to go with like my nieces and nephews. It's really fun.

• 59:58Speaker 00

  But you go sometimes without them?

• 59:59Speaker 05

  We went twice without. We went twice without, yeah. With nieces and nephews, like just took my whole, my whole family, we just went in the spring and it was so fun and, you know.

• 1:00:10Speaker 00

  And when you were with Jason, when you met Jason, you were with a group of people?

• 1:00:14Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:00:14Speaker 00

  And what was the moment?

• 1:00:16Speaker 05

  The deal?

• 1:00:17Speaker 00

  The meet cute?

• 1:00:17Speaker 05

  Well, I was like hubba, damn hubba.

• 1:00:20Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:00:21Speaker 05

  But I was also like not looking for a boyfriend or anything. I was just kind of like, "That guy is cute." And then I sort of like, I think I class clowned him a little bit.

• 1:00:32Speaker 00

  You class clowned him?

• 1:00:33Speaker 05

  I like burped at one point, which is fine.

• 1:00:37Speaker 00

  Girls can burp.

• 1:00:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, they can burp. I have some like weird thing that pops in my sternum and I was like, "Hey, feel this, brother."

• 1:00:46Speaker 00

  The old classic.

• 1:00:48Speaker 05

  Like I wasn't flirting with him.

• 1:00:50Speaker 00

  Right.

• 1:00:50Speaker 05

  But I was definitely like, "Oh, I like him." And then I, yeah.

• 1:01:00Speaker 00

  And how long have you guys been together now?

• 1:01:01Speaker 05

  We have been together for like 20 years.

• 1:01:03Speaker 00

  Yeah! Right on.

• 1:01:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, he's the very best.

• 1:01:08Speaker 00

  Around this time, you also meet Abbi Jacobson.

• 1:01:10Speaker 05

  Abby J.

• 1:01:11Speaker 00

  Alana Glazer.

• 1:01:12Speaker 05

  Alana G.

• 1:01:12Speaker 00

  And you guys worked together in many different ways, including Broad City, which we mentioned.

• 1:01:19Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:01:20Speaker 00

  Do you remember those times coming in? Because you know there is a Reddit thread about your character on Broad City?

• 1:01:26Speaker 05

  What do you mean? What, just like?

• 1:01:29Speaker 00

  Just a lot of theories about her. You should go down if you ever want to go down.

• 1:01:33Speaker 05

  I want to go down.

• 1:01:33Speaker 00

  I think you should. I don't know. Sometimes it's scary to go down.

• 1:01:36Speaker 05

  For sure.

• 1:01:37Speaker 00

  But I bet they're pro.

• 1:01:38Speaker 05

  I feel like, yeah, that's true. Also, there's like enough distance that I could handle it.

• 1:01:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:01:42Speaker 05

  If it was like current, I might be like, "No!"

• 1:01:44Speaker 00

  Yeah, right. So those early scrappy days.

• 1:01:47Speaker 05

  Scrappy-dappy-doo. So scrappy.

• 1:01:50Speaker 00

  What was it, what is it like to have worked on a show that like, you've worked on a couple now, where people come up and still feel really connected to it?

• 1:01:58Speaker 05

  It's, it's, um, it's kind of like a little bit beyond wildest dreams. Because I think I just wanted to act and you want to touch people, but you almost don't think about that next step of them like letting you know that. And with a show like Broad City, that people keep discovering and rediscovering and it kind of like, you know, especially younger generations are like feel seen. And a show like The Good Place, I mean, I really, I, in League of Their Own, like I've really lucked out with some, some shows that have, have meant, have touched people.

• 1:02:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:02:35Speaker 05

  And hearing that, I mean, you know, like it's, it's kind of beyond wildest dreams.

• 1:02:39Speaker 00

  Do you have, Abby had a question for you.

• 1:02:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:02:42Speaker 00

  Which was, do you have, well, she had two.

• 1:02:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, she did.

• 1:02:46Speaker 00

  Let's get the easy one out of the way first. Who did you like to kiss the most?

• 1:02:51Speaker 05

  Okay, let's see. Okay, here's the thing you may not know. I have kissed so many people on camera.

• 1:02:58Speaker 00

  You have? Fantastic.

• 1:03:00Speaker 05

  It's, it's actually crazy.

• 1:03:01Speaker 00

  Men and women?

• 1:03:02Speaker 05

  Men and women. Should I name 10?

• 1:03:04Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:03:04Speaker 05

  Okay, let me see how quickly I can do this. Okay, Abby, Gemma Chan, Roberta Calindris, Justin Long. Are you ready for this? Lenny Kravitz. Kristen Bell. Damn it. Okay, that's six.

• 1:03:28Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 1:03:29Speaker 05

  There's more, there's more. But whatever, but whatever.

• 1:03:31Speaker 00

  Ab, Kravitz is in the race.

• 1:03:33Speaker 05

  Ab, yeah, yeah.

• 1:03:35Speaker 00

  That's tough.

• 1:03:35Speaker 05

  Kravitz is in the race. It's Abby.

• 1:03:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, it's Abby.

• 1:03:39Speaker 05

  It's Abby. It's totally Abby.

• 1:03:42Speaker 00

  What's it like to kiss your friend?

• 1:03:46Speaker 05

  Want to try? Want to find out?

• 1:03:54Speaker 00

  That's such, that's such a straight person question. I'm like, "Wait a minute, you kissed your friend who's a girl?" Wow!

• 1:04:05Speaker 05

  Yeah. It is, you know, it's funny. It's like, it's, it is, it's the, it's like the immediate sort of awkwardness of like, "Okay, we're gonna kiss."

• 1:04:17Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:04:17Speaker 05

  "That you're my friend, we've known each other for a long time." And then there's something like very easy about it. It's like the, the awkward moments that may come later, don't come.

• 1:04:25Speaker 00

  Yeah, yes.

• 1:04:26Speaker 05

  You know, it's really easy.

• 1:04:27Speaker 00

  That's nice.

• 1:04:28Speaker 05

  And we were also goofing. We were kind of like, "This is crazy."

• 1:04:30Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:04:31Speaker 05

  And we did get like, there's, there's like a really great, in my opinion, a great scene, great kiss in that pilot episode, in the first episode. And we did it a few times and we were like, "Wow, this is great. We're doing it, we're doing it." And then Jamie Bobbitt, an amazing director who, who directed that first one, was like, "Guys, you gotta use tongue." She's like, "What are you doing? More tongue." And we were like, "Okay, here we go." So we tongued each other down.

• 1:05:00Speaker 00

  But you know, it's better than the opposite, right?

• 1:05:02Speaker 05

  What?

• 1:05:02Speaker 00

  Can you imagine? The opposite, they were like, "Guys."

• 1:05:05Speaker 05

  Oh my god.

• 1:05:06Speaker 00

  Can you imagine if you got the note of like, "Guys."

• 1:05:09Speaker 05

  Just one of you. Just one of you gets the note.

• 1:05:11Speaker 00

  One of you. It's like, "Darcy, can I speak to you for a second?"

• 1:05:17Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:05:18Speaker 00

  Oh, "Hey, Anne, what were you doing?"

• 1:05:20Speaker 05

  I know.

• 1:05:20Speaker 00

  It's so good.

• 1:05:21Speaker 05

  I'm so lost in the character. I didn't even.

• 1:05:23Speaker 00

  Yeah, and we can tell.

• 1:05:25Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:05:25Speaker 00

  And it's so good, but you've got to stop using so much tongue.

• 1:05:29Speaker 05

  It's actually, it's an HR issue.

• 1:05:33Speaker 00

  And then Abby's other question was, is there a part that you're, like a thing that you're dying to do that you haven't done or want to do?

• 1:05:40Speaker 05

  I mean, I, speaking about Shakespeare, like I have such a love for it and to like never do it again feels like a shame to me.

• 1:05:48Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:05:50Speaker 05

  So I would, you know, like I would, I would love to do that for myself, to kind of like remind myself what this, this particular genre of theater and of acting that I fell in love with, that I've like really lost touch with.

• 1:06:03Speaker 00

  Would you like to do it in the park?

• 1:06:04Speaker 05

  I would love to do it in the park. I would love to do it in the park.

• 1:06:08Speaker 00

  Well, let's, let's claim it.

• 1:06:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:06:10Speaker 00

  Let's claim it in the park.

• 1:06:11Speaker 05

  I would love to play Pea's bottom in the park.

• 1:06:14Speaker 00

  And then I'll play the New York lady then.

• 1:06:18Speaker 05

  You come in off the street, every night they're like, "Uh-oh." Like, "It's part of the show." "What's this, Shakespeare? In a park?"

• 1:06:31Speaker 00

  I mean, we don't usually get this in the Triborough area. Okay.

• 1:06:39Speaker 05

  But also born.

• 1:06:40Speaker 00

  But also born.

• 1:06:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, like also kicking, like kicking ass and actually killing people and actually using guns.

• 1:06:47Speaker 00

  Totally.

• 1:06:48Speaker 05

  Like I got, I got to do Handmaid's Tale.

• 1:06:50Speaker 00

  Oh god, that's right!

• 1:06:51Speaker 05

  Which is wild and I did get to kill dudes.

• 1:06:54Speaker 00

  That's right!

• 1:06:55Speaker 05

  Not to spoil, but you know.

• 1:06:56Speaker 00

  You know.

• 1:06:57Speaker 05

  Like, it was great.

• 1:06:59Speaker 00

  Child in the front row.

• 1:06:59Speaker 05

  Yeah. I'm so sorry.

• 1:07:03Speaker 00

  That.

• 1:07:03Speaker 05

  It's hard not to laugh.

• 1:07:10Speaker 00

  That is, that like coming into a show like that, season four, five, must have been so fun.

• 1:07:16Speaker 05

  Dreamy, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:17Speaker 00

  With Anne Dowd?

• 1:07:18Speaker 05

  With Anne, damn Dowd.

• 1:07:20Speaker 00

  What a, what a giant she is. What an actress she is.

• 1:07:23Speaker 05

  Oh my god, and she's so, like, have you met her or worked with her?

• 1:07:25Speaker 00

  No, I would love, I saw a movie that she, I mean, she does, have you seen the movie Mass?

• 1:07:31Speaker 05

  No. Okay, we got to.

• 1:07:33Speaker 00

  My god.

• 1:07:33Speaker 05

  It's new, right?

• 1:07:34Speaker 00

  It's so sad.

• 1:07:36Speaker 05

  Okay, okay, I want to watch it, I want to watch it.

• 1:07:37Speaker 00

  It's so good, it was a cry fest.

• 1:07:39Speaker 05

  Okay, I want to watch it.

• 1:07:40Speaker 00

  Do yourself a favor, watch it on an airplane.

• 1:07:42Speaker 05

  I was just gonna say that. I was gonna say, I'm gonna watch it on an airplane.

• 1:07:45Speaker 00

  Sobbing.

• 1:07:46Speaker 05

  She like, she is the sweetest, warmest, like love. She's like a hand holder. She like tells you she loves you a lot. She's like, she, she's sort of like, "Oh darling." She's like, "Darling, oh, I'm so glad you're here, darling." And then they would be like, they would truly be like, "Action!" And she's like, "Where are the girls?" It was amazing. I was like, she would, she would switch on a dime and it was incredible to watch.

• 1:08:14Speaker 00

  Okay, now we needed to spend a moment talking about Janet.

• 1:08:17Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:08:19Speaker 00

  We do. We need to talk about Janet. Incredible performance.

• 1:08:25Speaker 05

  Thanks, Amy.

• 1:08:26Speaker 00

  I mean, nominated for Critics' Choice and Emmy, Emmy, yes. And like, what a part to get. Like, what a fun, weird character to play.

• 1:08:41Speaker 05

  Totally.

• 1:08:42Speaker 00

  And for people who have never seen The Good Place, Janet is kind of like, if, you know, your Siri came to life.

• 1:08:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly.

• 1:08:48Speaker 00

  She's your assistant that is there to fulfill all your needs.

• 1:08:52Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:08:53Speaker 00

  She's like part like servant, part all-knowing deity. And she goes on this journey in the show. And there's so much, so many jokes.

• 1:09:04Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:09:04Speaker 00

  And you got to work with Mike Schur.

• 1:09:07Speaker 05

  The best.

• 1:09:07Speaker 00

  So let's talk for a second about how great it is to work with Mike.

• 1:09:11Speaker 05

  It's like, you're so spoiled. And it was like, it was like my first show where I was a regular. So I was like, you know, Will and I were like there every day.

• 1:09:19Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:09:19Speaker 05

  And we got so spoiled. And spoiled is meaning because he's the best. That's what I mean by spoiled. Like, like, it was the best experience with the best people. You're treated so well. The writers are, are beyond, I'm like, beyond a hundred. I don't know what that means, but I just kind of came up with a phrase. They're beyond a hundred.

• 1:09:40Speaker 00

  Beyond a hundred. I'm taking your course and it sounds amazing.

• 1:09:45Speaker 05

  It was like, it was perfect. It was perfect.

• 1:09:48Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:09:48Speaker 05

  And, and he is a genius and he's the sweetest and he's, I mean, like, you know, if I, if you could have asked me what my dream was before I got The Good Place, it's like Parks and Rec, right? It's like, I want to be on that show. I want to be on a show like that with like, with those people and like with that guy. And it was, and then, and then it really, I got to do the next thing. Like, I got to do, it just.

• 1:10:12Speaker 00

  What was your audition part process like? Did you have to audition a lot?

• 1:10:16Speaker 05

  A lot, yeah. I auditioned a lot and I didn't know anything about, anything about the show at all.

• 1:10:21Speaker 00

  And did they ask you to change how you played her at all? Like, was it like, we want you to come back, but we want Janet to be more, you know, like, were they adjusting the character while you were auditioning?

• 1:10:31Speaker 05

  As far as I remember, not really, not really. There was some, there was something like in the stage direction where it was like nothing throws her. She's like unflappable and that really, I really, that for some reason, that kind of gave me everything that I needed for, for the audition. Like, nonjudgmental, you know, like, just, I don't know. There was something, there was something in the stage direction, which is also a credit to him. Like, that's so hard to do, to just get sides for an audition and, and understand the character, which later realizing I didn't understand the character, but before the audition.

• 1:11:06Speaker 00

  Right.

• 1:11:07Speaker 05

  And it was, it was dummy sides, which means like fake side, fake script, because they didn't want to give anything away. So it was like, I was a hotline operator and you would, somebody would call in because their doll was broken and I would give them advice on how to fix their doll.

• 1:11:24Speaker 00

  Interesting.

• 1:11:25Speaker 05

  So nothing about The Good Place at all. Just sort of, they wanted to see someone that was like helpful and kept getting, you know, problems thrown at her and she was unflappable and helpful.

• 1:11:34Speaker 00

  Now, this show came out before AI like has like started to take over.

• 1:11:43Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:11:43Speaker 00

  And it's really interesting. Like, you know, it was, it was when Siri and, and like the idea that your phone talked to you was still kind of cute.

• 1:11:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, totally.

• 1:11:54Speaker 05

  Cute little Alexa.

• 1:11:54Speaker 00

  And now we're all just like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Like, but we're all very scared.

• 1:11:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:12:00Speaker 05

  Totally.

• 1:12:01Speaker 00

  And do you think it would have changed the way you would play Janet now? Like, would there be a darkness to Janet now?

• 1:12:09Speaker 05

  That's so interesting. Like, I mean, I could definitely see the writers being inspired by that.

• 1:12:16Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:12:16Speaker 05

  You know, they, they're brilliant and they're beyond a hundred, as we know.

• 1:12:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, they're beyond a hundred.

• 1:12:21Speaker 05

  And, but I'm like, I'm glad it was when it was.

• 1:12:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:12:25Speaker 05

  Because I guess that would have been interesting to play sort of like dark-sided Janet or whatever, different than bad Janet, but like, but I love her the way she is.

• 1:12:34Speaker 00

  Would you ever have a robot in your house?

• 1:12:38Speaker 05

  Fuck no.

• 1:12:40Speaker 00

  Interesting.

• 1:12:41Speaker 05

  I mean, no, I don't have, I, I like turn everything off.

• 1:12:44Speaker 00

  Okay. But don't you think it's inevitable that every single person in this room in like less than five years will have a robot in their house?

• 1:12:52Speaker 05

  I think, yes, but I like, I am so afraid of everything. Anything with a camera, anything that records my voice, anything. I'm like, turn it off, break it, break it before it comes in the house. Like, I don't want to be tracked where I go.

• 1:13:05Speaker 00

  But you are being tracked.

• 1:13:06Speaker 05

  I know.

• 1:13:07Speaker 00

  I know, I, I hear you, but it's like, it's inevitable now.

• 1:13:10Speaker 05

  I know. So is it like just lean into it?

• 1:13:12Speaker 00

  I'm just wondering, I just ask because I, I would, I'm surprising myself. I would never think that I would want a robot.

• 1:13:18Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:13:19Speaker 00

  But now I don't know.

• 1:13:20Speaker 05

  Actually. Actually.

• 1:13:22Speaker 00

  Like as an older person, they bring you your medicine?

• 1:13:26Speaker 05

  Yeah. But wouldn't you want like a real person with like a, like a, like a breath?

• 1:13:34Speaker 05

  And a heart?

• 1:13:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:13:35Speaker 05

  Like a nurse, perhaps?

• 1:13:36Speaker 00

  Like perhaps a nurse?

• 1:13:37Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:13:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:13:38Speaker 05

  I don't know, like, yeah. I, I mean, I did just watch like a robot clean my sister's floor and it was pretty rad. It was like, brrrr. And it would be like, that's right.

• 1:13:49Speaker 00

  You do remember.

• 1:13:50Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:13:50Speaker 00

  That's right.

• 1:13:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:13:51Speaker 00

  Very famous Parks and Rec character.

• 1:13:55Speaker 00

  Will spoke so sweetly about you guys working together.

• 1:13:58Speaker 05

  I love him. I love the man.

• 1:13:59Speaker 00

  And his question was really tender and sweet, I thought, which was, when did you know that you were funny? Can you answer that?

• 1:14:07Speaker 05

  I mean, okay, I think, can you answer that?

• 1:14:10Speaker 00

  I feel like there might have been, I'm just trying to think of like a performance where I got a laugh.

• 1:14:14Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:14:15Speaker 00

  And I remember being like.

• 1:14:16Speaker 05

  Me, me too.

• 1:14:17Speaker 00

  Okay, I remember being like.

• 1:14:19Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:14:20Speaker 00

  Like this, like, like when a vampire is born.

• 1:14:24Speaker 05

  Totally, you're right.

• 1:14:25Speaker 00

  I was like.

• 1:14:26Speaker 05

  Yes. Okay, that's, that's great. I was thinking, like, there's a couple of moments where I can remember making my family laugh. Like, if I would, if my mom was in a bad mood, I would like, okay, imagine you're at dinner with your family, you're at the table and mom's kind of in a bad mood. And at some point I'd like sneakily take a gigantic gulp of milk. Actually, not gulp, just fill my mouth with milk. And then like a minute later, somebody would be talking and I would just smile and like let it all go out on the plate. And my mom would like laugh every time. And it was, and I don't know if that's when I knew it was funny, but I was like, ooh, this works, this joke like cheers her up.

• 1:15:00Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:15:01Speaker 05

  But I do remember being in junior high and doing the talent show with my girlfriends. And the song, No Rain by Blind Melon was out. And, and they sort of dressed as the band, but I dressed as the B-girl.

• 1:15:14Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:15:15Speaker 05

  And I did like a little tap dance and then it was kind of like, hey. And then the music was supposed to start and it didn't. And so I just did like another little tap dance and kind of did that. And the audience laughed and the vampire moment happened.

• 1:15:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:15:28Speaker 05

  Where I was like, huh?

• 1:15:29Speaker 00

  You're like, I shall be chasing this for the rest of my life.

• 1:15:32Speaker 05

  That felt better than anything I've ever felt.

• 1:15:34Speaker 00

  Yeah. God, isn't it funny that it was in an accident too? Like you had to improvise. Improv.

• 1:15:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:15:42Speaker 00

  Okay, we spoke about Broadway. We talked about, you know, you were on in Thanksgiving play. How was your time on Broadway? And was it really hard?

• 1:15:53Speaker 05

  Okay. My time on Broadway was so fun.

• 1:16:00Speaker 05

  I need you to do it.

• 1:16:01Speaker 00

  No way.

• 1:16:02Speaker 05

  Yes, dude.

• 1:16:08Speaker 00

  Here's my theory, here's where it's like only matinees.

• 1:16:11Speaker 05

  Matinees, yes, totally.

• 1:16:13Speaker 00

  It's too hard, it's too hard.

• 1:16:14Speaker 05

  No, it's not.

• 1:16:15Speaker 00

  Look, somebody's leaving, it's so hard.

• 1:16:16Speaker 05

  They're like, I love Broadway and especially the night performances.

• 1:16:21Speaker 00

  So hard.

• 1:16:22Speaker 05

  I, it's not. I mean, here's the thing, like.

• 1:16:24Speaker 00

  Every night?

• 1:16:25Speaker 05

  I know, I know.

• 1:16:26Speaker 00

  Twice?

• 1:16:26Speaker 05

  Not Sunday.

• 1:16:27Speaker 00

  Two days?

• 1:16:28Speaker 05

  Yeah. But what you would do is a show like I did, which is like a 90-minute comedy.

• 1:16:32Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:16:33Speaker 05

  And you, and people give you the like, wow, you're doing a Broadway show. And you're out of the show when like Cats is at intermission. And they're still like sweating and dancing and they still have to take their makeup off. And you're like already at Sardi's. It's really.

• 1:16:47Speaker 00

  At Sardi's after the show? After the show?

• 1:16:50Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. Well, that's the thing is you kind of like.

• 1:16:52Speaker 00

  I can't eat that late, Darcy.

• 1:16:54Speaker 05

  You kind of.

• 1:16:55Speaker 00

  I can't eat that late.

• 1:16:56Speaker 05

  What you do and what you will do is you kind of push your schedule. You like wake up at 10.

• 1:17:01Speaker 00

  You know, Amy Miles and I used to stay up all night and party. And I literally, if I'm awake at 10:30, I'm like, what's wrong? Like, who's it? I'm done, I cannot believe the night I used to have.

• 1:17:15Speaker 05

  I, I mean, I wasn't in like Chicago with you, but when we would do like the marathon, the DCM marathons, we stayed up all night.

• 1:17:22Speaker 00

  All night.

• 1:17:23Speaker 05

  And we drank beer.

• 1:17:24Speaker 00

  We drank beer.

• 1:17:25Speaker 05

  Straight out of the can.

• 1:17:29Speaker 00

  I also want to talk to you about in being in yet another, like, five-star weekend. Huge hit. Darcy!

• 1:17:39Speaker 05

  A big old-fashioned hit.

• 1:17:42Speaker 00

  An old-fashioned hit. With a bunch of ladies.

• 1:17:44Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:17:45Speaker 00

  The adorable, wonderful Jennifer Garner.

• 1:17:47Speaker 05

  The best. I know. She's listening to this right now. When I, when, when I posted that I was doing this, she wrote, bullshit.

• 1:17:57Speaker 00

  What a peach.

• 1:17:58Speaker 05

  I know, I love her.

• 1:17:59Speaker 00

  A peach and a pro.

• 1:18:00Speaker 05

  A peach and a plum.

• 1:18:01Speaker 00

  And a plum and a pro. Peach and a plum and a pro.

• 1:18:04Speaker 05

  I love her.

• 1:18:04Speaker 00

  And congratulations on like, like, and then you're going to do another season?

• 1:18:10Speaker 05

  Yes. I'm so excited. It was, it's like, I will say, like, let me just tell you guys, you know, okay, five women, Judy Greer also, West and Harlow, like so many women in the cast.

• 1:18:25Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:18:26Speaker 05

  Two female directors, that's all we had. Like five female producers.

• 1:18:31Speaker 00

  Fantastic.

• 1:18:32Speaker 05

  Female writer. It just happened, female cinematographer.

• 1:18:35Speaker 00

  Amazing.

• 1:18:36Speaker 05

  It just happened to be that.

• 1:18:37Speaker 00

  Great.

• 1:18:38Speaker 05

  And it absolutely ruled.

• 1:18:41Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:18:42Speaker 05

  It was incredible.

• 1:18:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:18:44Speaker 05

  It was like, it was, it was problem-free.

• 1:18:48Speaker 00

  Yes, of course, of course it was.

• 1:18:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was really smooth and amazing.

• 1:18:53Speaker 00

  Of course it was, of course it was. And people showed up for it and like, and like you shot it in Nantucket.

• 1:19:00Speaker 05

  We shot in Nantucket.

• 1:19:00Speaker 00

  And what month were you there?

• 1:19:02Speaker 05

  September, which is apparently the month.

• 1:19:04Speaker 00

  Perfect, the perfect month.

• 1:19:05Speaker 05

  Because all the tourists are gone.

• 1:19:06Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:19:07Speaker 05

  You kind of get that chill in there.

• 1:19:08Speaker 00

  The island is still gorgeous.

• 1:19:10Speaker 05

  It was really beautiful.

• 1:19:11Speaker 00

  Did you stay in a house?

• 1:19:12Speaker 05

  We stayed in these sort of like furnished apartment-y homes, whatever. It was great. The White Elephant, shout out.

• 1:19:18Speaker 00

  Oh my God, we love the White Elephant. And then, um, um.

• 1:19:21Speaker 05

  No.

• 1:19:21Speaker 00

  But not a sponsor, but I do love the White Elephant.

• 1:19:24Speaker 05

  You do.

• 1:19:24Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:19:25Speaker 05

  Would love a sponsor.

• 1:19:26Speaker 00

  And then love a sponsor.

• 1:19:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:19:30Speaker 00

  I also love Chase and.

• 1:19:35Speaker 05

  What else, other things?

• 1:19:36Speaker 00

  I love Chase Inc. business credit cards.

• 1:19:38Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:19:41Speaker 00

  But that idea of all those women coming together, of like, we always, we say that, like, oh, it was great to have women around, but you're a real lover of women. Women love you. And there is some way of working sometimes that is like hard to explain, but I think people, when they are around it, feel it. What is the best part of that? Like, what, you know, what's the vibe? Like, what's the way of working? Because I'm always looking to see like how people like to work.

• 1:20:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:20:12Speaker 00

  How do you like to work? And how was that special in the way you were working?

• 1:20:16Speaker 05

  Okay, there was like a few, this is gonna sound so sort of cryptic, but there were like a few heavy things that happened during filming in people's lives.

• 1:20:24Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:20:25Speaker 05

  And the way that these women just sort of like made it work in the most loving, supportive, simple way, where it was not a problem. It was like, we got it, we've handled it, it's done. Take the day, whatever it needed to be. It was just like, that's only like one small thing, but I just remember it was, it was like sort of a surprising amount of things happening during, during shooting. And, and it really just, it was like kind of remarkable and beautiful how, how, how, just how much they took care of it, how much they took care of the person that needed to be taken care of.

• 1:21:04Speaker 00

  Very nice, very cool.

• 1:21:06Speaker 05

  Yeah. And then also just like Gavin.

• 1:21:09Speaker 00

  Just Gavin.

• 1:21:10Speaker 05

  Just Gavin.

• 1:21:11Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:21:11Speaker 05

  Just freaking Gavin.

• 1:21:12Speaker 00

  Well, I mean, I don't want to freak people, because by the way, I took a poll of the audience. A lot of people have jobs here.

• 1:21:18Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:21:19Speaker 00

  Which I'm shocked, I know. Like, most of the people raised their hand. And you know that you spend more time with the people you work with than usually your family and your loved one.

• 1:21:32Speaker 05

  Right, when you have a job.

• 1:21:34Speaker 00

  When you have a job.

• 1:21:35Speaker 05

  Yeah, you get like a couple hours at the end of the day. You're like, love you.

• 1:21:38Speaker 00

  It's, like, the people that you work with. How many here, anyone here tonight with people they work with?

• 1:21:47Speaker 05

  Yay.

• 1:21:49Speaker 00

  Cute.

• 1:21:49Speaker 05

  Cute, so cute. Coworker night.

• 1:21:53Speaker 00

  Coworker night.

• 1:21:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:21:55Speaker 00

  They're like, let's get out of here. Let's, they're like, it's 7:40 and we're almost done.

• 1:22:01Speaker 00

  Okay, Darcy, I ask everybody this question. I need to know, what is making you laugh these days?

• 1:22:09Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:22:10Speaker 00

  You're a comedy aficionado, you know so many funny people. You are, you're like, you know, like, you know, sometimes when you do a lot of comedy, that's not the thing you want to escape and, and watch or do. What is the thing you're liking, watching, reading that you're into?

• 1:22:25Speaker 05

  This answer is coming to me so easily because it actually happened yesterday on the plane, waiting to take off. I started watching, I went down a rabbit hole of, let me just think if I can like phrase it perfectly. Okay, I also do not like pranks.

• 1:22:39Speaker 00

  No.

• 1:22:39Speaker 05

  I do not like being scared.

• 1:22:42Speaker 00

  No.

• 1:22:43Speaker 05

  At all. But there's like this area of, I guess, you know, Instagram, Twitter, I mean, not Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, where it's like people scaring their spouse. And the way that they react, it's not like, it's not like, ah! It's like, hoo!

• 1:23:02Speaker 05

  Do you know what I mean? It is so funny. And I was watching a compilation of people scaring their spouse or roommate or whatever, and it would, it would, the reactions are like, like, they're so insane. I was crying on the plane.

• 1:23:20Speaker 00

  Like, I'm picturing, if I'm getting this right, like, it's like someone holding a laundry basket.

• 1:23:24Speaker 05

  And then somebody, yes.

• 1:23:26Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:23:26Speaker 05

  And then, yeah, somebody holding a laund- and then someone comes around the corner and they're like,

• 1:23:32Speaker 05

  it is so funny that while I was laugh crying on the plane and people were walking on, I was like, should I pretend like I'm actually sad crying so it's less weird?

• 1:23:44Speaker 00

  Now, does it have to be someone's spouse for it to work for you?

• 1:23:49Speaker 05

  No, it can be, I mean, I'm like, could it be a kid? Yeah, it could be anybody. It could be freaking anybody. I think it's just a lot of spouses or roommates in their home where you feel safe and comfortable. Also, remember, recently, remember my husband, he knows not to scare me.

• 1:24:04Speaker 00

  Right.

• 1:24:04Speaker 05

  And he did, he was like, he did something where, honestly, I was in the shower and I see through a window and he was like right there. That's not okay with me.

• 1:24:13Speaker 00

  As a joke.

• 1:24:14Speaker 05

  No, he was like fixing something. But I saw him and I went, not cool! Not cool, Jason. I don't like to be scared, I really don't like it.

• 1:24:23Speaker 00

  I really don't like to be scared.

• 1:24:24Speaker 05

  But I really implore you to kind of go down this. And it is heaven.

• 1:24:29Speaker 00

  I, okay, can I unpack it with you for one more second here?

• 1:24:33Speaker 05

  Uh oh.

• 1:24:35Speaker 00

  Is that not an act of violence?

• 1:24:38Speaker 05

  Yes, it is. It is. It's violence, it's abuse.

• 1:24:43Speaker 00

  It is abuse.

• 1:24:44Speaker 05

  It's a prank, which we both said we don't like.

• 1:24:46Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:24:47Speaker 05

  So, but it, but I-

• 1:24:49Speaker 00

  Yeah, you don't mind it.

• 1:24:50Speaker 05

  I couldn't not laugh if I tried.

• 1:24:54Speaker 05

  It, like, when something tickles your funny bone.

• 1:24:56Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:24:57Speaker 05

  It tickles.

• 1:24:58Speaker 00

  It's so true, you can't help it.

• 1:25:00Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:25:01Speaker 00

  Yeah, I think I would-

• 1:25:04Speaker 05

  Like, the funniest noise is huh huh huh. I'm just like huh, I mean, oh, this is gonna be on camera.

• 1:25:17Speaker 00

  Okay, D'Arcy Carden, before we leave, I'm gonna just give a little bit of love back to you, as you've heard tonight. But Darcy, you are so fun to be around. You make everybody feel very included. You're such a good listener, you're such a good actress, grounded all the way, babe. Deeply, deeply funny and very, very real. And I find that to be the same way you show up as a person. It's very, very rare to find somebody as deeply funny as you are, like, like Abby was saying, like, really, like, laugh out loud funny and a really, really genuine, authentic, fun, connected person. Thank you for being both.

• 1:26:01Speaker 00

  Thank you for your work.

• 1:26:03Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 1:26:04Speaker 00

  Thank you for coming tonight.

• 1:26:06Speaker 05

  I love you so much. Thank you for changing my whole entire life.

• 1:26:10Speaker 00

  It means so much that you were here. Everybody, give it up for D'Arcy Carden.

• 1:26:15Speaker 05

  Thank you for being here. Give it up for Amy Poehler! The one and only.

• 1:26:23Speaker 00

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