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Molly Shannon - Learning Resilience _ Collaborating with Will Ferrell on _The Hawk_ _ The Daily Show · Mic Drop Comedy

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  Speaker 1: Please welcome Molly Shannon. Cut your dick in two on
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  Speaker 1: a brioche bun.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Word for word, that's what they wrote
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  Speaker 2: for me. Because people ask me if I improvise, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, nope.
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  Speaker 1: Not that one.
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  Speaker 2: Will Ferrell and his team of writers, that is exactly
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  Speaker 2: what they wrote. And it was fun to perform.
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  Speaker 1: Also, what an honor for them to write those words
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  Speaker 1: knowing you're gonna be excited to say those words.
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  Speaker 2: I know, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: The Hawk, you play a very mean wife. Yes. I've
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  Speaker 1: only known you for 35 seconds, but you seem and
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  Speaker 1: you have a reputation of being a nice person. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How were you able to play Neen so well? Do
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  Speaker 1: you hate Will that much? I know. That's so funny.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when Will asked me to do it, I was
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  Speaker 2: on the phone. He goes, Molly, can you play my
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  Speaker 2: wife in this TV show? And you have to yell
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  Speaker 2: at me. And I said, yes, of course, because it's
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  Speaker 2: Will Ferrell. Like, of course. You just say yes. You
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  Speaker 2: don't look at a script. You say yes. But in
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  Speaker 2: all honesty, I was like, really? You think I'm right
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  Speaker 2: for that? And it requires real acting ability because Will
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  Speaker 2: and I are so close in real life that we
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  Speaker 2: are thick as thieves. We've been friends for 30 years.
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  Speaker 2: We're such good, good buddies. And so it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: What's the key to you guys being good teammates together? Because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I remember watching you together in SNL. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And this whole series... Is it that you support each other?
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  Speaker 1: How do you do that? Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: We really support one another. We knew one another years
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  Speaker 2: ago when we were first starting out in comedy doing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, little gigs at comedy clubs, sketches, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he came into my restaurant, I waited on him, we
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  Speaker 2: met through a mutual friend.
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  Speaker 1: You were working at a coffee shop?
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  Speaker 2: I worked at a coffee shop, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And was Will a famous actor yet?
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  Speaker 2: No, he was just doing the Groundlings Comedy School, and
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  Speaker 2: I worked across the street at Mel and Rose Baking Company,
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  Speaker 2: and a friend said, I really think you're gonna like
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  Speaker 2: this guy, Will. And I go, yeah, bring him over
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  Speaker 2: to my restaurant. And he came in.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny when I go to coffee shops in L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: I think, look at all these losers, but really, I
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  Speaker 1: should be saying, these could be the next Molly Shannon
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  Speaker 1: and Will Ferrells hanging out here. That's so funny. You
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  Speaker 1: write about it a lot in your book, which, man,
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  Speaker 1: I love your memoir. You're so open and honest. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many funny stories. So many of your characters have
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  Speaker 1: this physical toughness attribute.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Even that clip, you're going like this, I love. Mary
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Gallagher, I mean, she's constantly... Thank you. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard not to just do superstar when I see you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh good, I love that. Do you approach a character
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  Speaker 1: wanting to use your body in a physical way? Is
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  Speaker 1: that the smartest question you've ever heard from anybody? I
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  Speaker 1: love that.
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  Speaker 2: Do I approach it wanting to use my body? No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really think about that. But I do think
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  Speaker 2: that after our... My mom died when I was little.
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  Speaker 2: We were in a car accident. And I think I
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  Speaker 2: had a recklessness when I did comedy where I just
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  Speaker 2: didn't care. I would be so wild when I did
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  Speaker 2: Mary Catherine Gallagher. I did it in my stage show
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  Speaker 2: and I would definitely hurt myself. My legs would bleed.
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  Speaker 2: In the stage show, I would climb the rafters. I
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  Speaker 2: would do crazy improvs and I felt nothing. And then
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  Speaker 2: I would wake up in the morning and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my God, I'm like bruised and cut. And I
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  Speaker 2: kind of treated it like punk rock, but I had
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  Speaker 2: a recklessness because I think I, you know, went through
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  Speaker 2: trauma when I was little. So I just didn't care.
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  Speaker 2: I thought of it like, Just, I just didn't care.
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  Speaker 2: But I would say, and Sally O'Malley is kind of
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  Speaker 2: me imitating my dad. It's like a character who looks
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  Speaker 2: kind of like she's limping, she's weak, but then she can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like she has power.
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  Speaker 1: So it was basically, thank you. Thank you. Are we
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  Speaker 1: still able to act with that physicality? I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: my back hurts sitting here for 30 minutes. My back hurts.
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  Speaker 2: That's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Are you still able to superstar it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I can still do it. But I was going
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  Speaker 2: to say, so that character is basically, because my dad
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  Speaker 2: had a brace on his leg after our car accident,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of like I'm doing an impression of when
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  Speaker 2: I was little, my dad couldn't walk fast. I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: jump on his lap because he was injured.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's like, it's supposed to be kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: I may look weak, I look like I'm limping, but
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  Speaker 2: it was like my wish for him to kick the
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  Speaker 2: braces off his legs, like, be strong, like I can
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  Speaker 2: you all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, kind of like, he's a powerhouse.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry to swear. Even tying this trauma from your childhood
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  Speaker 1: into a character years later at SNL, it's like when
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  Speaker 1: we watch you, it has a therapeutic, release, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it's for you, it is for us, but
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  Speaker 1: they're so grounded in reality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the second most important question you've ever had?
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  Speaker 1: I love it, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: But I was gonna say, to answer your question, like
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  Speaker 2: when I went back for the 50th, I thought they
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  Speaker 2: might want me to do Sally O'Malley, because she's 50,
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  Speaker 2: it's the 50th. And I was like, oh God, can
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  Speaker 2: I still do this? And so I definitely exercise and
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  Speaker 2: stretch and swim, and I want to make sure I
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  Speaker 2: can still do that, because it's not, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it takes physical ability.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Michigan, you're from Ohio, Midwest. I'm always rooting
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  Speaker 1: for all Midwest people to make it in show business.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best. The hardest I ever saw my father laugh.
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  Speaker 1: I know the two times, and I'll share with you
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  Speaker 1: the two times. And you have not asked, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: be happy to share. The second hardest you ever laughed
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  Speaker 1: was when we were watching A Fish Called Wanda together,
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  Speaker 1: and he fell off the couch laughing. The hardest I
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  Speaker 1: ever saw him laugh was when you did Jeannie Darcy,
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  Speaker 1: the stand-up comic in the old person's home, who has
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  Speaker 1: this confidence, even though she's not really good at stand-up comedy,
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  Speaker 1: and people are literally dying around her. Dying, dying. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to share with you how much joy that,
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  Speaker 1: my father's no longer with us, but I think of
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  Speaker 1: him laughing like that. That is so sweet. And isn't
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  Speaker 1: that cool I get to talk to you? You're Jeannie Darcy.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Yes. Yes. It's a great memory for me.
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  Speaker 1: I love that your dad... That's really cool that.
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  Speaker 2: He loved that because that was kind of toward the
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  Speaker 2: end of my run on SNL and I was so
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  Speaker 2: tired of him getting laughs all the time. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard. It's hard, comedy's hard. I think Conan said
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  Speaker 2: it once, he's like, do you know how exhausting it
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  Speaker 2: is to constantly be thinking of comedy bits or to
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  Speaker 2: be funny? I'm actually a little more serious in real life.
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  Speaker 2: But that character was a reaction to, I want to
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  Speaker 2: do a character that's like a terrible comic. She does
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  Speaker 2: not get laughs. I did it almost as a creative exercise,
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  Speaker 2: like a bad standup who's really awkward and should not
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  Speaker 2: be in the field of show business, but she keeps trying.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was based on that. And I really
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  Speaker 2: just did it to make Will Ferrell and Jimmy Fallon laugh.
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  Speaker 2: And so Scott Wainio wrote that sketch in the old
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  Speaker 2: age home where people are dying and she doesn't even care.
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  Speaker 2: She keeps doing her act.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as a stand-up comic myself, I've done hard shows,
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  Speaker 1: and I think, well, it can't be as bad as
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  Speaker 1: Jeannie Darcy. I mean, that's... Let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel.
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  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to ask me a question.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel, Michael, like comedy and joking is a
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  Speaker 2: way to... Do you look at it as, like, wanting
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  Speaker 2: to bring people closer or to push people away?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think, for me, I mean, if we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do this shit, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: Um.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the youngest of four, and I truly think, even
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  Speaker 1: at this age, I'm just trying to get my parents
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to me. Is that right? Is that
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  Speaker 1: both of them? Yeah, both of them. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it was a busy house. A lot was going on.
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  Speaker 1: You felt loved, but there's just a lot going on, Molly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, four kids, sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I remember the very first time I ever
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  Speaker 1: got a laugh, I was like, oh, this is good.
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  Speaker 1: They're actually looking at me and want me to talk.
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  Speaker 1: But comedy takes on a therapeutic element.
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  Speaker 2: What was your first joke, though, where you got them
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  Speaker 2: to laugh? Or when you were a little kid, like.
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  Speaker 1: The first joke or the first joke that got them
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  Speaker 1: to laugh?
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  Speaker 2: The first time... The first time you made them laugh
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  Speaker 2: and realized, like, ooh, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: On stage or in my family?
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  Speaker 2: In your family.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. My brother and I used to do Michael Jackson...
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  Speaker 1: moonwalk impersonations and i remember i remember seeing them be
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  Speaker 1: excited and laugh with us so that was fun um
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  Speaker 1: but enough about me that's sweet do you feel the
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  Speaker 1: midwest shaped you at all yeah where you're at tell
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  Speaker 1: me how because i love i love sharing if there's
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  Speaker 1: anyone from the midwest listening i wanted to know like
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  Speaker 1: you can still make it in showbiz Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of funny people that come from the Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: And we grew up in a double house. We split
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  Speaker 2: paper towels in half. And my dad would have us
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  Speaker 2: sneak into the pool so we didn't have to pay.
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  Speaker 2: He would say, say you're under 13. And then we'd
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  Speaker 2: go to Geauga Lake. And he would want us to
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  Speaker 2: hop the fence so we didn't have to pay. So
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  Speaker 2: it was like, you know, and snowing. And I just
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  Speaker 2: feel like Midwestern, I feel like there's good values from Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: And I try to bring those, and Michigan. And I
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  Speaker 2: try to bring those, that politeness to show business. I
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  Speaker 2: think I treat Lorne Michaels, she probably thinks of me
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  Speaker 2: as a very Midwestern girl. I'm polite, you know, and grateful,
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  Speaker 2: I would say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you just, even just from watching you interact,
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  Speaker 1: you treat everybody with a level of respect. To me,
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  Speaker 1: that seems Midwest. Yes, yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I think when people get really miserable in show
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  Speaker 2: business where they're snapping or, you know, being nasty to people,
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  Speaker 2: I get like, they must be unhappy. Like, you know, yeah, that's,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be like that. I come from
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  Speaker 2: knowing the value of, I started out working in restaurants,
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  Speaker 2: I bussed tables, and my dad, I remember, picked me
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  Speaker 2: up after my restaurant job and I was like, it's
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  Speaker 2: so tiring. We have to bust these tables. And he
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  Speaker 2: was like, that's how you make a dollar. And it's
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  Speaker 2: important for you to understand that that hard work is,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it takes to make one dollar. He was tough.
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  Speaker 1: You referenced this in the book a lot, which I
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  Speaker 1: was so thankful of. You were grinding out getting people
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  Speaker 1: to show up to your one woman's show. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's how a Midwesterner works.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. I love that. And also, I think it
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  Speaker 2: was important to, I was like, you know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter what happens. I'm doing what I love. I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: my show. This is very meaningful. You know, I was
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  Speaker 2: working in restaurants, but I'm passionate and I get to
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  Speaker 2: do that. And I was really into creative visualization. I
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  Speaker 2: would write stuff in the present as if it already existed. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on Saturday Night Live. I'm making millions of people laugh.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote it in a book. I have a book
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  Speaker 2: that I wrote all that. And I would buy people
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  Speaker 2: tickets who couldn't afford it because I truly believed that
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  Speaker 2: the money would come back to me. So I was
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  Speaker 2: very into like a spiritual practice with my comedy. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: isn't that interesting?
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  Speaker 1: And I also love in the book, you then say,
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  Speaker 1: And then after a while, I realized this wasn't paying off,
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  Speaker 1: so I said, this, and I took a year off.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got SNL. Yes, yes. Yes. I used
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  Speaker 1: to write in my tennis notebook, I will respond well
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  Speaker 1: to pressure.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: You did? I will. But then I would double fault
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  Speaker 1: on match point, so it's kind of like. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: You experienced such a tragedy at a young age. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You were age four. You lost your mom, your sister,
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  Speaker 1: and your cousin in a car accident. Yes. but you
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  Speaker 1: are this positive ray of light. It feels like a
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  Speaker 1: lover of your life. How did you do that?
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  Speaker 2: That is so hard. It was very hard.
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  Speaker 1: How did you choose? Because people experience tragedy and maybe
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was like, it gives me like, um,
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  Speaker 2: it was very sad. I only had my mom for
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  Speaker 2: four years, but it gives you a gift of life
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  Speaker 2: and appreciation of like, Oh, I'm so glad I at
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  Speaker 2: least had her for four years. And it gives you
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  Speaker 2: a kind of resilience where you can, I could handle
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  Speaker 2: the punches in show business because I was like, nothing
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  Speaker 2: will ever be as hard as that. Like it was
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  Speaker 2: just like such a loss and it informs how I
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  Speaker 2: am as a parent. Like I can't believe I'm alive
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  Speaker 2: in my house and I live far beyond the years
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  Speaker 2: of my mother. And I just think like, I think
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  Speaker 2: of life really like, this is it. Like you're batting up.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a kind of urgency for life and time
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  Speaker 2: with people. And your time is your life, so it
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  Speaker 2: gives you this almost gratefulness, does that make sense? And
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  Speaker 2: I was very close to my dad, and so.
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  Speaker 1: The stories of your dad in your book are tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: What an awesome guy who supported you in so many ways,
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  Speaker 1: and I just, I am so thankful of your memoir
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  Speaker 1: because you were open and vulnerable, and thank you for
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  Speaker 1: writing that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: A few more things. You've really been generous with your time. Good, good.
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  Speaker 1: Your daughter just graduated from Tisch. Yes. She wants to
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  Speaker 1: be an actress. Yes. Okay, isn't that amazing? Does she
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  Speaker 1: have to do the same things that you did to
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  Speaker 1: make it? Has it changed all these years? What advice
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  Speaker 1: have you given her? Yeah. And does she even listen
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  Speaker 1: to you because you're mom?
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  Speaker 2: I was, and I want to say too, my son
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  Speaker 2: Nolan is in college and he's an amazing surfer. I
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  Speaker 2: like talking about, bragging about my kids.
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  Speaker 1: Also, you post these awesome videos of him surfing. I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, Stella, I just asked her, I talked to her
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  Speaker 2: on the phone right before I came on, and I go,
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  Speaker 2: can you think of advice I give you? And she said, yes,
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  Speaker 2: because it is harder now because they have to put
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  Speaker 2: the actors on self-tape. They self-tape so they can cast
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  Speaker 2: a much wider net, seeing so many more people than
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  Speaker 2: when I was breaking into showbiz where we had to
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  Speaker 2: go in in person. So she said that I tell
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  Speaker 2: her that, look, if you know how to write if
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  Speaker 2: you're an actress who knows how to write, write, because
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  Speaker 2: you have more power. And then the second thing I
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  Speaker 2: say is, you know, just keep putting yourself out there,
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  Speaker 2: trying to take it personally, because you never know what
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  Speaker 2: they're going to look for. So just be yourself. Don't
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  Speaker 2: feel like you have to try to be what they want.
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  Speaker 2: Be yourself, do a good job, you know, do what
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  Speaker 2: you think will be right for the part, and then
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  Speaker 2: let it go, because you just don't know. It could
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  Speaker 2: be nothing personal.
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  Speaker 1: How do you teach these kids toughness and grit? I
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  Speaker 1: got a six and a three-year-old. I want to be rich.
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  Speaker 1: I want to fly first class. I want to have
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  Speaker 1: a ski house. But if I do all that, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be soft. You know, you had this childhood
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  Speaker 1: where there's something very difficult happened that maybe influenced you
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  Speaker 1: and gave you some grit. But how do you give
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  Speaker 1: a kid grit?
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  Speaker 2: I know, that is so interesting. I mean, it's all
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  Speaker 2: I could think about is what my dad would tell me.
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  Speaker 2: So I think he definitely, you know, I came out
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  Speaker 2: to LA on my own with my own money that
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  Speaker 2: I made from waitressing and I rented a wreck and
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  Speaker 2: I just rented a cheap apartment and so, I really
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  Speaker 2: had to go broke and really live on very little.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a good lesson, because it was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So I think that was good, that he
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  Speaker 2: really made me learn about money on my own. He
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  Speaker 2: just kind of threw me out there. But of course,
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  Speaker 2: if I really did need money, he would help me.
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  Speaker 2: But he really did, I did try on my own
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  Speaker 2: with the money. I was always bouncing checks, and I
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: didn't know that much about that. And I remember going
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: to the bank, and I would ask what my balance was.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: I was like, what is my balance? Am I checking out?
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: And I would be like, can you say softly? Because
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: it was always, like, negative, you know, bouncing checks and,
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I used to always pull the ATM receipts in L.A.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: out of the bank trash can because you'd see these
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: guys getting, like, this expensive car, and then you would
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: see they have, like, $ 14 in the bank. You know?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: So everyone is, a lot of people were lying about
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: how much money they were making. Yeah.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: One thing I was going to say too, I got
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recently.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, you did.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: And I can't wait to see you.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I think we have a picture of that. I think
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: you did superstar on the- Oh yeah. You did, yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: I think I might post this speech on my Instagram
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: because I spoke about all the jobs that I had
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: way before I ever got SNL or started getting acting jobs.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: I worked in so many restaurants and dating services and
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: hostess and I tell this a.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Lot- Gym membership. You were selling gym memberships. Self club memberships.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I just, I remember, you know, so if I act normal,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: it's because I'm always still driving by looking at, like,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: help wanted signs. It feels like it was just around
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: the corner. I'm not kidding. So I think that I
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: like to share to college kids of, like, you don't
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: have to have it all figured out right away. It's
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: really hard. It takes time. It's little baby steps. And,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: you know, these little jobs, you know, it just can
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: take so much time. And if you want to pursue
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: your passion on the side, that's great. But so I
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: did that for years and years and years. I did not...
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I really struggled. So I do share that with college
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: kids and they appreciate it. And I'm gonna put that
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: on my Instagram because I talk about every job I had.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: And it's a lot of jobs in restaurants.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Also, college kids oftentimes at the commencement, they hear from
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: a successful person and it feels like, it went from
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: commencement to success. Instead of like the 28 years of
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: bouncing checks and working at Cravings and selling blueberry muffins
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: or whatever you were doing. Exactly. The Hawk is fantastic.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: You're so great in it. Thank you. It's a great show. Yeah,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: it is a great show. I think you're just so
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: funny and so wonderful. Thank you for spending time with
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: us today and talking with me. The Hawk premieres July
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: 16th on Netflix. Molly Shannon!