The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - RACHEL PEGRAM IS A HOOT ｜ Episode 241

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00:00:49.720 I was not good at writing.

00:00:52.180 I didn't actually understand what a sketch was.

00:00:54.060 it was really if i the way yeah how are you writing them initially no

00:01:01.100 no i don't really feel comfortable next question yeah next question

00:01:06.180 hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section joe starring me your

00:01:17.100 favorite but he knows me who cares about me on to the guest today we have the iconic the legendary

00:01:22.300 the hilarious rachel pegram welcome to the show thank you for having me oh my god i'm so happy

00:01:30.840 to have you oh happy to be here i think you're a hoot all the clips i've seen i think you're a 0.88

00:01:35.340 hoot damn so obviously i gotta have every hoot on my show oh you're trying to collect the hoots 0.92

00:01:40.380 yeah i gotta collect now what about the hollers i'm your holler yes yes so i need a hoot to my 0.98

00:01:44.760 holler you know what i mean you gotta collect the hoots for your holler yeah i'm so happy to have

00:01:48.880 you i i think you are hilarious we were just talking offline just now about you working with

00:01:54.580 my producer amanda yes who i talk about often on the show even though she's never on camera i do

00:01:58.440 talk about her often okay because i at the end of the show i will have some fun facts for you and i

00:02:02.600 always tell people if they're not fun i counted a strike against her so her job's on the line no

00:02:07.260 pressure okay no worries yeah we'll get to that no that's all right but i know you yeah that's okay

00:02:12.200 i'll lay it down if somebody gotta get fired today that's just part of the process yeah that's okay

00:02:17.080 but we were talking about how you did stand up for one of her short films right amanda short films

00:02:21.320 which was a very unique experience you were telling us absolutely it was sort of at a venue

00:02:26.340 that was like by a river but like not the la river but maybe and then a river certainly and

00:02:33.000 then a lot of concrete and then it was also uh it was a by a railroad track yeah behind it and

00:02:39.100 then the green room was inside a school bus that was rocking a lot and then people were also on

00:02:44.120 top of the bus and they were like go on the bus and that's where you're gonna hang out meet

00:02:48.660 everybody and i was like i am not gonna be well see i was on that show with taylor ortega too

00:02:53.880 so i said taylor what are we doing who we love and she has also been on the show and we love her

00:02:58.680 dearly that is but i'll tell you what the show is really fun yeah but i i genuinely remember having

00:03:05.720 a great set and i remember being a fun time but i was like i don't know what this is well you said

00:03:10.040 Well, thank God we're having a fun time because this is a unique situation I found myself.

00:03:13.940 It could have been worse.

00:03:14.400 Yeah.

00:03:14.620 And that's honestly, I feel like the LA experience in show business.

00:03:18.600 Of course.

00:03:19.000 Sometimes you find yourself on a school bus.

00:03:20.480 Sometimes you're going to be on the bus doing crowd work.

00:03:22.460 With Taylor Ortega.

00:03:23.040 Yeah.

00:03:23.360 With Taylor Ortega.

00:03:23.920 And you say, and I'm actually, oh, I'm in the right place.

00:03:26.740 And then you're sort of looking at your life and you say, this is beautiful.

00:03:29.040 I'm crying.

00:03:30.840 Well, speaking of, I would love to know how you got into comedy in the first place.

00:03:34.780 I know you're an improv girl.

00:03:36.120 Yes.

00:03:36.500 I know you're a tried and true.

00:03:37.760 Amanda said, she's improv legend.

00:03:40.040 wow that's incredible sb ucsb ucsb yeah improv legend um so i'd love to know how you got into

00:03:50.140 it how you got into entertainment comedy acting all of it well i got started i wasn't i wasn't

00:03:56.340 looking to do comedy actually i was looking to do musical theater no way yes that's what i went 0.90

00:04:01.660 to school for and you can sing yes oh i love it i love what a bitch is like yeah obviously 0.99

00:04:06.700 yeah well yeah okay i'm so jealous uh i love it no but it's nice it's nice to not be able to sing 1.00

00:04:13.260 you think i think so i think it gives you a freedom once people find out then they want

00:04:18.880 you to sing for stuff you know how many times people try and pimp me out to sing they're like

00:04:22.740 rachel why don't you sing right now why don't you like sing a little something do it do it i was at

00:04:26.440 an italian restaurant there's a piano and then when i'm with my friends and her and her parents

00:04:31.060 and her parents are like rachel why don't you go sing something i said what a jazz standard

00:04:34.460 attention attention no they're like do you know any frank sinatra i was like every word no let me

00:04:41.100 pull something up yeah no yeah it's heavy as the head you know what i mean heavy as the head i'm

00:04:47.700 jealous but so you're a musical theater girl i was a musical theater girl to start okay too do you

00:04:51.560 love broadway yes what's your favorite broadway show company that's a great one yeah that is such

00:04:57.440 a good one i'd be getting chills that's such a good one i love i would say close second into

00:05:01.420 woods but i'm a real sondheim girl me too i like sondheim i know you know what he deserves more

00:05:07.260 love sondheim as if he's not one of those two but there are a lot of people who hate sondheim

00:05:12.540 musicals what do you mean they just they're not with it why i think they just find it annoying

00:05:16.540 when they like my sister i'll use my sister as an example i'll throw her under the bus 0.97

00:05:20.300 but she says she finds it annoying because it's like talking singing like it's just like every

00:05:23.900 word is being sung as opposed to you don't like the human experience yeah oh you don't like magic

00:05:28.460 magic and whimsy oh sorry you're not a fan of that you don't like the intern uh looking in

00:05:32.700 looking within yeah you don't like introspection you're not a big fan yeah oh it's the thinking

00:05:37.920 it out figuring it out that's what's happening in a sondheim song no for real i had to like bully

00:05:41.960 her and my mom to come see into the woods with me yes into theaters and then literally about 0.99

00:05:47.220 10 minutes and my sister's like they sing every word yeah i was like experience she did that to

00:05:54.360 me with les mis too when we went and saw she's like they sing every word i'm like you can't ask

00:05:57.500 me this every time that's okay though i know even like my mom when we saw dear heaven and hansen

00:06:02.420 i wish i know that movie got a lot of flack obviously because a 40 year old man was playing

00:06:05.620 a 10 year old yeah obviously we know we know right now and that was a choice yeah that was a choice

00:06:11.300 but we watched i remember my mom was like is this a musical but she was asking me so many

00:06:17.940 questions and we already missed my favorite song because she was late and then i was like you can't

00:06:22.200 do this to me you can't you can't otherwise i'm gonna have to make you move a seat over so i can

00:06:27.200 watch the experience yes that's just how serious i take broadway and you should and i appreciate

00:06:31.060 that and so you said company into the woods yes yes if you could be in any broadway show which

00:06:36.360 one would you pick okay and so this is gonna be a pivot it's carolina change interesting i really

00:06:42.600 love that musical i ran into it early on in my like time and i was like i just think it's so

00:06:48.520 beautiful oh i love that and it's so like sad but i love but i love like a sad woman's journey

00:06:57.160 i i agree that's why i love uh the color purple yes obviously and specifically cynthia riva when

00:07:03.100 she sang at the tonys oh i'm here at the tonys incredible 2016 i believe yes yeah i was i saw

00:07:09.900 that i saw that i was i got a rush ticket i was sitting on the side and i was just leaning over

00:07:15.060 like a little toddler i was like oh my god this is beautiful so when you went into school you were

00:07:21.200 initially gonna do theater yes i was gonna go do broadway and then um unfortunately early on

00:07:27.140 i saw improv show and that'll get you that'll change your entire life calling i honest to god

00:07:33.960 it was like i gotta do something about this and then to a flame immediately yes immediately what

00:07:41.600 about it did you love i just i don't know i think like you know it's interesting how there's like

00:07:46.400 certain careers where you're like well that's a career that's a job that you can have yeah and

00:07:50.040 in my mind it's like well broadway is a job you can have that makes sense but i think for a lot

00:07:53.920 of people they'd be like that's not job that's made up right um but to me comedy was that so i

00:07:59.700 was like comedy is not a real job you can't make any money doing that and then it was like well

00:08:03.840 also it's interesting that i saw improv and i said you can make money doing that but it was like oh

00:08:09.260 that's like a thing that you can actually do so then i was like wait that's kind of fun and then

00:08:14.300 i kind of got into the sketch group and i think the thing that i liked so much about it was that

00:08:19.440 I had agency and I think that something about musical theater like in terms of like just being

00:08:25.800 a performer it's like you're just kind of stepping into roles and unless you like are so lucky to be

00:08:30.800 the first one to debut a role right you're always going to be stepping into something that somebody

00:08:35.300 else has done that's and I was like the mold's been created yeah yeah and it's like you maybe

00:08:41.440 won't be able to make choices in the same way because you might need to honor somebody else's

00:08:46.280 performance like with like kristin chenoweth in wicked it's like well there's like certain

00:08:50.660 parameters now that we've set like it's like even ariana grande made a great performance but like

00:08:55.000 kristin chenoweth made the mold the skeleton yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and that's all still

00:08:59.960 there which is nice but yeah so you liked that kind of like freedom i think so i think i found

00:09:05.320 that really really amazing and then so you did sketch comedy yeah and like did you write a lot

00:09:10.700 of your own sketches i did enjoy the writing do you enjoy the writing or the performing or both

00:09:14.960 is it kind of apples it's definitely both now okay but then i was not good at writing

00:09:19.680 i didn't actually understand what a sketch was it was really if i the way yeah how are you

00:09:27.360 writing them initially no no i don't really feel comfortable next question details yeah next question

00:09:34.160 i don't know it's like i would think of something funny but then i wouldn't know how to like

00:09:39.220 communicate and so i'd be like i think that this is funny and then a lot of people would read it

00:09:43.860 and say what is that what does that mean what is that right right right and I'd be like don't you

00:09:52.560 see it yeah you're like catch the vision okay just watch me do it yeah watch me do it were you

00:09:58.360 someone who loved attention growing up for sure me too I always like I like to I love to ask

00:10:03.220 performers because obviously the answer is pretty much always the same yeah but you never know

00:10:07.480 sometimes people are shy yeah and honestly or or just trying or lying right or they lie to me right

00:10:12.460 and say no i hated attention but i like i like asking because i think when you talk to performers

00:10:17.900 you're like well yeah obviously i love attention and i think that's important to admit yes when

00:10:21.800 you want to go into this business like obviously i have to have some sense of vanity about me

00:10:25.560 i'm gonna need the light i'm gonna need it or i'll send a mic yep yep give me about 10 minutes

00:10:31.880 yeah thank you i'm gonna need that i was like uh telling my friend about this the other day but i

00:10:36.980 was watching i have another podcast with my sister and i was watching an episode that we filmed like

00:10:41.160 three weeks ago i haven't i haven't watched it obviously so i watched it i made myself laugh

00:10:46.580 out loud with a joke i made because i forgot i made it i laughed out loud i told my husband 0.97

00:10:52.360 come here i rewinded it played it again laughed again like that's the type of shit i'm on you 0.95

00:10:59.760 know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but i think that's beautiful i think if no one else is gonna 0.95

00:11:05.300 laugh at you you gotta be laughing at you you gotta think it's funny it's gotta be the funniest

00:11:09.540 thing in the world if it's not it's not gonna be funny to anybody exactly and if it's not it's

00:11:13.640 like i got one person cracking up it's me but i love and i that's how i feel about your early

00:11:20.900 sketch ideas like you're like listen i get it right you know what i mean i just need the tools

00:11:25.260 i need to be able to flush it if i just give me a couple parameters and i'm gonna be able to do it

00:11:29.680 i'm gonna figure out final draft eventually i was like i'm gonna get in there i'm gonna be

00:11:34.880 I'm gonna bullshit my way to understanding space you know I'm gonna figure it out so when did you

00:11:39.600 start moving towards stand-up like it was it kind of a natural progression or did you do improv for

00:11:44.180 a while sketch and all that I I did improv I mean I guess I still do improv now but improv was really

00:11:49.140 like the base for everything and then I did sketch and I kept doing sketch after college

00:11:54.760 and with like an indie team and then I started doing stand-up after college and that was and

00:12:00.900 it was just like you know like a little bit here and there just like open mics and then honestly

00:12:05.740 like I feel it only got more consistent with it once I like right before I moved to LA sort of

00:12:13.280 when I was here like I feel like that was really when it was like okay this is really what I want

00:12:18.780 to be and what do you love about stand-up like specifically I mean I think the same kind of

00:12:23.280 thing that like drew me to comedy at large is like the autonomy of like taking your idea and

00:12:29.220 trying it out and like showing it in that particular way um I just like I love the like

00:12:35.180 connection with the crowd and I feel like I my favorite thing when I do stand up well obviously

00:12:41.760 is is is your favorite thing is to crush at large yeah yeah you know have a great show yeah yeah for

00:12:47.920 everyone right but I would say maybe my second favorite thing is like when that's not happening

00:12:52.120 but there's um there's there's like three girls in the audience and they're having the time of

00:12:59.000 their life and i'm like yes you guys i found them i said they're here because like sometimes you do

00:13:05.840 a show and it's like people haven't caught the vision and i'm like that's okay that's okay

00:13:09.820 i know i'm not necessarily maybe fitting in the mold that you want um you didn't come up here and

00:13:16.060 think that that's what was gonna be me and so then it's like when i see those girls like it's also

00:13:22.060 it's often a lot of little weirdo girls yeah and then so i say i love that yeah there was an 0.75

00:13:27.320 absolute little freak weirdo girl that i know and i mean that respectfully that ran up to me after

00:13:32.100 a show recently and she was like i'm not on instagram but can i give you my email and will

00:13:37.240 you tell me whenever you're around and i said yes sure queen why not yes i'll take it down

00:13:44.500 we'll do something with it sure give me that we'll pass it along to somebody that reminds me of um 1.00

00:13:50.380 cat cohen yes yeah um i fucking love her stand-up too just like i love yours and i i love women with

00:13:58.880 very unique perspectives on comedy especially uh but just the world at large and like i did a show 0.79

00:14:04.140 with cat actually where i was i was on the card with her to the ticket with her too and she

00:14:09.020 performed before me and she was cracking me the fuck up and i really told her i was like girl 0.99

00:14:15.060 that room did not get you the way that i got you yes because the way that she makes jokes is so

00:14:22.440 unique and so funny just like yours and that's why i think i love comedy like that when it's like 0.81

00:14:27.820 borderline isolating but to whom right i was like i was i'm he he and ha ha the whole fucking time 0.94

00:14:35.340 yes it's like i i love that you have little freak weirdo girls that you're that get you 0.99

00:14:39.780 one thousand percent it's either them or it's absolutely strange simp men what the hell and i

00:14:46.480 don't know where they came from but they are diehard like just big fans they just beat they

00:14:52.640 just be coming in on everything and they just laugh they and they don't say anything strange

00:14:57.420 to me which i'll appreciate like a good boy yeah yeah like kind of sitting to the side they kind

00:15:02.280 of know their place and i'm like thank you thank you i don't want anything else

00:15:08.760 don't do anything yeah don't do anything don't bother anyone exactly don't talk yes sit there

00:15:14.600 laugh yeah sit there laugh enjoy have a nice time yeah yep tell your friends yeah and tell

00:15:20.760 them to do the same thing that you're doing pass it along yeah what was uh like what would you say

00:15:26.660 was like a show you had where you're like yeah i think i'm gonna i think i really love stand up i

00:15:31.220 think i really want to start doing this like more consistently did you have like a show where you're

00:15:35.320 like okay this maybe this is a something i want to lean into well it's funny that like this okay

00:15:43.380 this is an early well no well okay you know what well yeah so i know that was early you know i'm

00:15:52.780 maybe not giving myself some credit i it was definitely before i moved to los angeles that

00:15:57.140 i really started doing stand-up because i'm remembering some shows that i did in new york

00:16:02.680 that were um there i'd already been doing stand-up for a while but this was like the first time that

00:16:10.520 i had done like a larger set like i put together an hour and like i i think it was just at a time

00:16:20.060 where it's like i didn't know that i could do that yeah and i did and i remember being like

00:16:26.920 because also with that show I incorporated some music so I did like some comedic songs

00:16:32.960 um and I remember that show really feeling like oh I think this this feels like the kind of thing

00:16:41.420 that I want to do yeah totally yeah like that felt like the path yeah absolutely well it's

00:16:46.320 blending your two loves right singing and also comedy yeah and I get what you mean about the

00:16:50.340 freedom thing too because Caleb obviously we have a mutual friend in Caleb but he he's been

00:16:54.580 encouraging me to do stand up forever but like I I did try it and it's it's really fun and but I

00:16:59.760 feel like I have so many things going on that I'm like I'm gonna put this down because I love stand

00:17:03.960 up so much yeah like stand up's been my favorite form of entertainment yeah ever even more than

00:17:09.660 like movies and tv shows I love watching stand up I love watching comedy because I love to laugh

00:17:14.100 yes and it's funny because one of my comic friends told me they're like telling you a funny joke is

00:17:17.900 such a good payoff you have such a good laugh like it feels good like when you get get me for real

00:17:23.520 and I was because I just love to giggle and I love to have a good time but I even when I did

00:17:28.280 a baby five I was like so nervous about memorizing a lot of it like I was like so I don't even know

00:17:34.580 how to an hour is so unfathomable to me oh my god because even with the five I was like struggling

00:17:39.780 to remember all of my jokes and I think I were I when I talked through with Caleb I was kind of

00:17:44.240 telling him I think I I liked more of the freedom I have with like kind of just going wherever with

00:17:49.820 it yeah but obviously with with stand-up you need the guardrails to at least be able to know in what

00:17:54.240 order you're going flowing because i like comedy that flows into the next joke kind of thing but

00:17:58.920 that that was so difficult for me so i like i give you like all the kudos in the world for doing an

00:18:04.320 hour like holy fuck but every every comic is like a magician to me when they're able to do that

00:18:08.780 because i just felt so like um i just want to i think it's when i honestly it's probably my fault 0.98

00:18:13.480 because when i get in front of a mic i just want to ramble and then that makes me start rambling

00:18:16.840 I'm like oh my god I have to tell my jokes um and I have to like keep going back to the material

00:18:20.120 like that's that's what it feels like my brain's doing but I think that that's important you think

00:18:25.100 you know what I mean like I think that like sometimes when you're working out new material

00:18:28.520 yeah sometimes at least for me I like to like say it however sometimes I'll keep telling a joke a

00:18:34.380 little bit different for too long but it's like I think like sometimes I find like it's like you're

00:18:39.440 doing it in front of a different audience or you're feeling a different way about it and like I don't

00:18:43.100 know like because a lot of especially stuff that's like a story for me it's like i'm like finding the

00:18:49.380 ebbs and the flows of it high points yeah yeah yeah so i feel like there's something that can

00:18:55.280 be good in in the ramble that's true you know like in terms of like figuring out what it is that you

00:19:01.620 want like what's really gonna pop or like maybe something new inside of it that you wouldn't have

00:19:06.180 done if you would like just stuck like strictly to what you would practice that's true i think

00:19:10.260 part of me too was like uh and I've said this before on the show many times that like I love

00:19:14.820 comedy so much like stand-up that I didn't want to find out the hard way I was bad so like I

00:19:19.220 didn't want I didn't want to bomb and every comic I've told is like they're like bombing's part of

00:19:22.940 it like that that is like it's part of the learning how to do it in the first place like

00:19:27.000 you can't make it if you don't bomb listen and bombing job what's been the worst time you've

00:19:32.620 bombed oh my god it's so it's so vivid really it's it's as vivid it's as vivid it's as vivid

00:19:38.540 as the railroad show i feel it as the school bus i was in new zealand oh okay and i had been

00:19:48.660 recommended by a friend for this like comedy club well i didn't know first of all though i didn't

00:19:55.520 know it was a club i thought it was just like a regular like a venue yeah yeah yeah but it's like

00:20:00.100 a club like a club yes so it was like so it wasn't just like a place where they do it was a club

00:20:06.600 comedy club that's i'm giving this distinction because he was like this is like an alt theater

00:20:11.680 and i was like no when i got there i very much realized that it was not yeah you're like um no

00:20:19.080 it's not no and everyone's like really serious like there's a girl that's in a corner standing

00:20:24.820 in a corner and she's like reciting her set to herself oh there's like people who they're like

00:20:30.460 going to like they're performing for the golden buzzer or something oh the stakes couldn't have

00:20:36.640 been higher me i'm kind of like what's going on where are you guys from nice yeah and everyone

00:20:43.420 kept being like who um who told you about who got you on this show and i was like that's my friend

00:20:49.100 i don't know well you're being whimsical in there everyone's in there like stressing beyond yeah

00:20:55.540 Yeah, because I guess this is like a make or break it show.

00:20:58.720 Come to find out, there's like a guy in the audience.

00:21:01.380 Everybody kept being like, oh, he's like the Jon Stewart of New Zealand.

00:21:05.700 I said, what does that even mean?

00:21:08.000 And also, why is he here?

00:21:09.540 And they're like, he's like a big deal.

00:21:11.480 And I was like, okay.

00:21:13.300 I know.

00:21:13.700 Was he here scouting for work?

00:21:15.340 Right.

00:21:15.880 Was he building a team?

00:21:16.760 Also, the Jon Stewart of New Zealand.

00:21:18.500 I said, what role is that exactly?

00:21:20.920 Political mostly?

00:21:22.200 Or like, I'm confused.

00:21:23.600 Like Jon Stewart of today, because he's pretty serious now.

00:21:26.860 Yes.

00:21:28.260 Or Jon Stewart.

00:21:28.860 He's not really telling jokes anymore.

00:21:30.960 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:21:32.040 Honestly, he kind of fell off that train earlier than some of us might have realized.

00:21:35.400 That's true. 0.99

00:21:35.940 That's okay.

00:21:36.560 That's true.

00:21:36.800 That's okay.

00:21:37.640 He did a lot for 9-11 victims.

00:21:40.480 And we love him for that.

00:21:41.780 Thank you.

00:21:42.240 Thank you, Jon Stewart.

00:21:43.780 So, and we never forget.

00:21:46.140 But, although it kind of snuck up on me this year.

00:21:50.040 Right.

00:21:50.620 I agree.

00:21:51.600 I agree.

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00:24:01.400 that's crazy silence you hear ice cubes in a drink that's how silent it is

00:24:13.880 it's like i'm hearing people like i'm hearing us i'm hearing a small shuffle like i'm hearing

00:24:20.360 like a tiny little it was so bad they did not they were there was only one bit where

00:24:30.380 i got some laughs yeah but i think they were mostly confused at that point and whatever i'll

00:24:36.480 take it and i just kind of plowed through and then finally made my 30s my 30 minutes at a five

00:24:43.780 minute set i just i was like you know what okay and i was like thank you so much guy comes out

00:24:50.960 and he goes she had some props didn't she okay that's america and then like moving on to the

00:24:59.980 rest of the set i was like oh did they laugh dear god of course they're dying at him because he's

00:25:07.360 just railed into me and he's like and he's right that was the layup and he that was crazy that's 0.93

00:25:12.600 fucked up that's fucked up for him to do honestly you know he's never gonna see me again and i don't 0.98

00:25:18.360 know who that man is so honestly take a job yeah take a job and he was like the mc i'm assuming 0.99

00:25:24.900 yep yep yep yep and so i did it was so horrible my mom was there didn't add that in this is maybe

00:25:31.780 the second time no that was the first time she ever seen me do stand-up oh second time she's

00:25:36.780 ever seen me do comedy period i don't actually think she's seen me do comedy since then so she

00:25:41.300 has no idea she's kind of like oh i hope this girl figures it out well it's funny she had fun

00:25:47.180 she had an interesting time she was like and i felt really bad and then days later

00:25:53.120 i feel bad for you i was they made that so uncomfortable for you i was at the airport

00:25:58.760 we're leaving yeah guy comes up to me he said i was at that show i said oh he said that was 0.98

00:26:06.720 incredible you were so funny and i said oh thank you and my mother said why the fuck you didn't 0.99

00:26:13.040 laugh i was gonna say why the fuck you laugh oh so so funny you sat there in stoic silence 1.00

00:26:19.340 oh because you scared of everybody else not laughing why don't you laugh be brave coward 1.00

00:26:22.600 be fucking brave and laugh you know what they're gonna look at you too and then we're gonna be 0.98

00:26:26.680 together that's funny i didn't know you found it funny because not one of you laughed you didn't 0.97

00:26:31.440 say anything did was it like do you think it was intentional of the not laughing yeah like do you

00:26:36.820 think they were just being haters no they didn't like me no they didn't like me they didn't like

00:26:41.900 the set they didn't like what's going on but i will say i did make me realize that my set feels

00:26:45.800 felt at that time deeply american oh okay you know it was like a lot of american references

00:26:51.220 and you know you'd be forgetting that people don't know about rosa parks in other countries

00:26:54.320 they're like who the hell is that who is that yeah yeah like the john stewart of new zealand's

00:27:00.100 here right and he should know you would think he would know i know who this is right i don't know

00:27:05.200 who she is yeah they're like we don't know rosa when i was on that same uh show with cat cohen

00:27:12.260 there was another comic on there and i won't say who it was only because i don't know if she would

00:27:16.000 find like if she thinks this is bad i didn't i thought it was funny but like she was making a

00:27:20.420 couple like bold jokes which like we get laughs here and there but then she would make one that

00:27:25.980 was so such a softball and then and then they would laugh like they've never laughed before

00:27:31.040 and at one they did that to her a few times yeah her set and then at one point she goes 0.94

00:27:35.160 i don't fucking get this room you guys are weird you guys are fucking weird which was funny like 0.94

00:27:40.060 that made me laugh but then then again they didn't really laugh that hard and then when we talked 0.99

00:27:44.720 after she goes what the fuck is the deal with everyone out there i was like i don't know i can't

00:27:49.140 get a good read on it either so i was gonna ask if that was like if you've experienced that a few 0.70

00:27:53.140 times like a weird energy in a crowd oh absolutely you have like some cities that you're like you

00:27:57.500 guys are weird every time i come here i mean or do you have any faves any places like fave to do

00:28:03.120 stand up in i will say doing i did some i opened for caleb a couple times like in texas and i will

00:28:10.760 say doing show doing shows in houston was really fun yeah houston's fun i've i've done live yeah

00:28:17.640 have i done live yeah i did i did live comedy shows in houston yeah they are fun so fun yeah

00:28:22.260 they are energy electric yeah it's true and it's like it i was in a really tiny venue too so it

00:28:27.960 felt like the energy was packed in there they feel excited in a particular kind of way i made a i made

00:28:33.600 a bunch of iron claw jokes at that show and it was killing because they're from texas it was 0.88

00:28:38.580 fucking killing that crowd and it was funny because i i've said this before but like this 0.96

00:28:42.820 was when i was on tour with my sister we were doing like live comedy and we did three shows in 0.98

00:28:47.400 texas we did dallas houston and austin yeah and so we went from austin to houston and then we

00:28:54.260 ended in dallas before we left texas and i remember we kept watching planet of the apes

00:28:58.780 on the tour bus for some fucking reason it kept coming on the tv i don't know what it was but we 0.55

00:29:02.180 love that franchise so we were watching them constantly and we kept making this joke where 0.96

00:29:06.520 like when caesar like unites the apes and he's like apes together strong like and then they

00:29:11.700 repeat it to him and it's funny so like when i would open the show in texas for some reason 0.97

00:29:16.780 the planet of the apes jokes were killing like in austin and houston bitch when i tell you killing

00:29:22.660 i mean killing and then i went to dallas and so it was an even bigger theater and i remember 0.87

00:29:27.080 my joke was basically like this is like apes together strong like that's me to you guys and

00:29:32.920 you guys respond and like i kept killing i made one planet of the apes jokes in dallas not one

00:29:38.640 laugh not one silence silence in the theater i remember being like put that joke on the shelf

00:29:44.840 not gonna use that again i'm sorry and i'm abandoning that joke here no worries something

00:29:50.300 that brought me joy yeah you're not into it all right no worries no worries no worries okay so 0.96

00:29:54.000 you guys hate fucking monkeys got it i guess i'll jump no worries but that's okay don't worry about 0.98

00:29:57.860 those animals hurt hurt hurt received received that's why i was like oh not one not what it 0.99

00:30:02.840 felt like like it's crazy so you like texas so that's good houston houston is fun yes it's a good

00:30:10.700 and i'm from texas too oh yeah okay so that must feel extra good then that your hometown is oh my

00:30:16.920 people yeah oh thank god my people love me i die texans tough you know yeah hell yeah that's why

00:30:24.940 do you have any that you're kind of like this is terrible besides new zealand obviously you know 0.55

00:30:29.560 new zealand's haters they're big haters over there new zealand is big haters yeah bob the

00:30:35.580 drag queen told me that italy is like he hates that country and he'll never go back whoa italy

00:30:40.260 yeah and he was like doing stand-up there is awful they will not laugh at anything and they're so

00:30:43.460 racist i hate them and i was like okay right received her i've heard that though and then

00:30:47.860 mateo lane was on uh recently too and he was telling us that he loves um the dutch like the

00:30:53.920 netherlands oh he's like they're so fun because they'll laugh even if they don't get it they'll

00:30:57.340 laugh wait and they'll be like that was so funny let me get over there let me get over there

00:31:02.380 yeah that's pretty nice do you have any that you're like never no thanks cities not really

00:31:10.320 that's good I'm glad no there's nothing that's been too too terrible no I love that okay other

00:31:15.280 than New Zealand other than Auckland Auckland literally Auckland is on my list what's been

00:31:22.040 the coolest show you've done like where you're like wow this was fucking awesome oh man no that

00:31:28.280 doesn't make sense to bring up because that's that's from no that's strange um no no no just

00:31:35.140 kind of thinking through what's what's been a really what's been a fun what's been a nice

00:31:41.940 who who's been yeah um no i love your external processing

00:31:50.540 yes it could be yeah new york i mean new york in general's lots of really good

00:31:56.740 yeah they're fun like bell house and union hall these are i watched caleb at bell house yeah

00:32:03.020 yeah that's a great venue i love the bell house my first time ever going to bell house was watching

00:32:07.740 caleb and his whole show and it was so fun yeah and that was when i um at that same show i bought

00:32:13.660 all of caleb's merch and like let everyone have it and he was like why the fuck would you show me 0.58

00:32:18.380 up at my own show why would you do that to me and i was like well you did too good i had to do 0.95

00:32:23.000 something right i gotta pull focus in some way uh-huh just like if you get married i'm gonna

00:32:27.380 announce i'm pregnant at the wedding at the wedding yeah yeah uh-huh obviously of course

00:32:32.280 i was like oh drew hasn't been drinking i don't know if anyone's noticed but actually

00:32:41.020 guys i have a bit of an announcement this is like first dance is happening

00:32:46.480 i too would like some to say something if that's okay uh what's a what's like a big

00:32:53.960 dream you have in in comedy entertainment all of it like what this is the i always say this is where

00:32:58.700 we manifest yes like this is the place to manifest because a lot of my guests have had dreams come

00:33:03.580 true whoa that they've spoken life into here so do you have any dreams like like big comedy dreams

00:33:09.300 or movies tv shows whatever it is i mean yes yes yeah i'm glad to hear it uh i and i really and i

00:33:16.960 I do believe in manifesting.

00:33:19.060 I will, I'll say a quick.

00:33:21.120 Me too.

00:33:22.060 This is at a time when I wouldn't, okay.

00:33:24.600 But I was really into SNL.

00:33:28.440 I was a big fan.

00:33:29.980 And I like wanted to get a tattoo with my friend.

00:33:36.120 I had this idea.

00:33:36.960 I said, oh, what if I get this SNL tattoo?

00:33:39.320 And she was like, yeah, I love that.

00:33:40.940 That's awesome.

00:33:41.880 And she said, and I'll pay for it.

00:33:43.420 Cause it was, I was 18.

00:33:44.900 And I was like, great.

00:33:46.400 So you're going to buy me this SNL tattoo.

00:33:48.820 And then I got it.

00:33:51.540 But when we went to the parlor, the tattoo artist was like, I think it should be in this font that I created.

00:33:57.940 And I was like, oh, OK.

00:33:59.780 I kind of was thinking in this font that I was interested in.

00:34:02.700 That I picked for my tattoo on my body.

00:34:05.020 And he was like, no, I think that this will be better.

00:34:07.400 And I was like, OK.

00:34:08.840 But I was really like, you know, kind of like.

00:34:10.600 uh and and then uh my friend she was also getting a tattoo trouble club oh yeah typical she's getting

00:34:19.560 a trouble club yeah she's into music and so she i show her the stencil on my body which i had

00:34:26.040 chosen to put on my pelvis obviously and lauren michaels would want nothing different honestly

00:34:32.360 that's what he would want and she was like yeah that's perfect it looks amazing and i was like 1.00

00:34:38.120 okay no for sure two dumb bitches saying exactly back and forth yeah just like that's you like it 1.00

00:34:45.500 i like it i like it you like it i love it yeah and i was like okay i mean i wanted the tattoo 1.00

00:34:50.920 but this just particular and i was like and i was like you don't think it's too big she was like no

00:34:54.620 i think it's a nice size it's huge by the way and it says live from new york okay and it's massive

00:35:00.420 right got that tattoo and on your pelvis on my pelvis i also said well i'm an actress that makes

00:35:06.340 sense your thought process is very interesting to me how you decide things yeah yeah yeah and then

00:35:16.000 let's just say you know years later did get hired at snl as a writer okay period so that's how that

00:35:22.960 worked very so that so so don't want to say i'm my my poor decisions are always right but sometimes

00:35:29.220 sometimes you just got to be fast and loose with it they're right enough to reaffirm that it's

00:35:34.300 working yes like there you're right enough times to affirm that okay that could be that could be

00:35:39.580 something let's keep going with that let's tattoo the next thing on my body how'd you like working

00:35:43.960 right yes but okay i will say uh i big dreams definitely to write and star in my own movie

00:35:59.080 love as well as tv show oh period and that's that's the big you're so me you're so me do you

00:36:07.700 want it to be comedy drama i think for the tv show definitely comedy love and definitely comedy

00:36:15.140 like hard comedy and like definitely i mean i guess this feels like a relationship based but

00:36:22.780 it's like i feel like the characters matter so much i agree sometimes it's like the the premise

00:36:28.440 matters more and totally i care more about the people in the world that we're creating than it

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00:37:23.440 energy to every sip poppy sodas back and then someone was murdered yeah yeah you know figure

00:37:33.740 it out i agree i think those are the shows i love the most when they have very like complex

00:37:38.940 characters yes i was just talking to my man about this yesterday because i was like one of the many

00:37:42.880 times i just start rambling about stuff and he's like yes listening to me i'm like perfect um but

00:37:47.440 i was talking about morally gray characters and how i i find them a lot more interesting yes that

00:37:52.100 way like and and you don't need crazy things to happen when you have really interesting people

00:37:56.500 i agree yeah and i think like new nuance within people is important i agree i feel like it's more

00:38:02.900 realistic yes yeah totally it's like very easy to be like this person is like not a good person

00:38:08.320 this person's bad yeah they're evil because of this and then it's like well no maybe this person

00:38:13.520 is a complex person it's like why does like you know walter white on a breaking back yeah

00:38:17.780 as a complex individual yeah you know maybe you don't like everything about walton white yeah but

00:38:22.360 that's okay yeah you know like but we're still locked in yeah exactly it's still incredibly

00:38:28.880 interesting and far more relatable i feel like to audiences i agree that's really cool how fun

00:38:34.420 what about your movie you said you want your movie to be more like drama i think more comedy

00:38:40.840 drama okay for sure love yeah yeah yeah yeah that's so cool because i feel like the kinds of

00:38:46.060 movies like that i like the most like the things that i'm inspired by is like stuff that um well

00:38:51.660 i guess it's a mix but things i've been drawn to currently are um kind of claustrophobic movies

00:38:57.560 so movies where you feel like oh my god what's the rose burn movie that came out as like if i

00:39:03.100 kicked you oh if i like to kick you yes i love how like yeah it feels like suffocating yeah yeah

00:39:10.180 Yeah, like Uncut Gems, kind of. 0.98

00:39:11.740 Yes, I was just about to say.

00:39:13.180 Like I, or like John Cassavetes' movie,

00:39:17.520 The Woman Under the Influence with Gina Rao.

00:39:20.960 Oh, like I just, I like,

00:39:23.060 I think also like depictions of like womanhood

00:39:25.600 in that way are so interesting.

00:39:27.340 Yeah, totally.

00:39:28.500 It's like the complex feeling

00:39:31.080 of like trying to do better for yourself, 0.99

00:39:33.860 but then like kind of being a fuck up, 0.97

00:39:36.040 but then like constantly trying to figure, 0.99

00:39:38.380 I don't know, like being on that hamster wheel.

00:39:39.960 totally but i think there's also i think it also could be funny yeah and i think there's room for

00:39:45.520 a laugh here and there yeah yeah yeah totally yeah i think that's uh that's so such a good

00:39:50.460 point too about women and and the depiction of them and i think especially now with like 1.00

00:39:55.860 the moral policing of everything on things like tiktok yeah they they moral police women like 1.00

00:40:01.720 these characters in these shows that like sex in the city for example yeah like obviously carrie 0.99

00:40:05.640 radshaw is like unlikable in a lot of ways but like she's also extremely relatable in those ways 1.00

00:40:11.040 like and that's kind of one of those things that you learn like as women like when you make i've

00:40:16.480 talked about this before where i'm like when people are super judgmental of women even if

00:40:20.420 they're fake characters they make very judgmental decisions like things that they feel like they can 0.99

00:40:25.060 be hypocritical or critical of yeah i'm like well women are so complex and i think that's why like 0.97

00:40:30.200 you know how many things i've loved my friends through like the kinds of decisions they've made 0.84

00:40:36.620 where i'm like girl why would you ever and then it's like you learn to love them through it yes

00:40:42.200 and then love them so they come out the other side of it and then when they do they look back 0.61

00:40:46.600 and they're like i was fucking nuts yeah i was like yes you were you were you were hey y'all 0.61

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00:42:02.860 my really good friends she was like ranting to me about something and it was like the most it was

00:42:07.240 it was the most nothing burger issue like it was like it was something that was insane and crazy

00:42:11.100 but also she didn't need to care about that much but i i got why she did and so she was rambling

00:42:15.740 to me for like maybe an hour and then after she goes do i sound insane and i go i mean yeah but

00:42:21.240 i love you yeah i was like i'm loving you through it girl yes you do sound insane yes but like it's

00:42:26.900 okay who doesn't yeah like i was like who doesn't when i talk about stuff sometimes i sound insane

00:42:31.440 yeah it's like you just gotta be letting it out saying it and then yeah and that wasn't and then

00:42:37.760 look she found her way to the end figured it out yeah you had to get there by yourself yeah but i 1.00

00:42:43.500 love watching women like that on screen yes like ones who could be perceived as like unlikable at 1.00

00:42:47.900 a certain point like you're like that that is like real life like that's very human i think

00:42:52.420 and i think uh like fleabag for example is like a great example of that especially when you find

00:42:57.820 out the twist and you're like oh my god i've been rooting for her this whole time right but then

00:43:02.180 you find out like you it's just real life i feel like it depicts it like parallels i think that's

00:43:07.060 wonderful i think if anyone could make it hilarious you could thanks but you know it's like it's i

00:43:13.660 think in anything comedy happens like i think it's unrealistic to think that like even in your

00:43:19.440 worst times you're not laughing a little joke yeah laughing a little somebody's saying something

00:43:23.720 inappropriately somebody's done something a little you know and you're laughing yeah yeah

00:43:28.200 absolutely i love that i'm i'm gonna look i'm gonna look out for it i'm gonna manifest it for

00:43:33.220 you thank you alongside you and then i'm gonna look out for your big movie and be on the lookout

00:43:36.960 yes i'll be on that and then i'll invite you back when the movie comes out and then you'll

00:43:41.520 talk about the movie and i'll be different then yeah i want you to know i'll be different yeah

00:43:46.320 i won't be i won't be goofing off like i am no i'm gonna be serious i'll be like oh yes very good

00:43:51.240 just so you know i'm gonna be different yeah i'm gonna blow up and act like i don't know nobody

00:43:56.460 that's literally how i feel i might i might come in here and i might say hey it's so nice to meet

00:44:00.060 you it's like that meme when they're like i'm gonna let the money change me like when i get

00:44:07.460 trust and believe I will be a different person I will forget about you oh 1000% reintroduce

00:44:12.280 yourself because I'm a new person I go by right now don't worry about that I made that joke on

00:44:20.740 here once when I was talking I did like um I'm venturing into acting um so I've been like doing

00:44:26.360 reads and stuff haven't booked anything yet but when I do that I'm like yeah I'm like I haven't

00:44:30.360 booked anything yet and obviously because I'm still doing here doing this I'm still here clocked in 0.79

00:44:34.240 here bitch like that's how you know i haven't made it yet this is this is what i'm doing still 0.96

00:44:40.160 but that's okay yeah and i was like because i do plan on forgetting everybody as soon as that 0.97

00:44:43.620 happens for me the second you book yeah this is in the garbage spotify goodbye i don't care

00:44:49.780 yeah see you later sorry yeah uh contract sorry talk to my lawyer yeah i'll have my people call

00:44:56.940 your people okay so that's a good transition actually into your fun facts oh are you excited

00:45:03.520 yes and you'll let me know if they're fun obviously okay so this first one says that uh

00:45:09.900 you cry during movies because the quote existence of cinema makes you really emotional

00:45:14.840 okay and i gotta be honest me doing this that's a fun fact about you it's not the first time this

00:45:24.140 has come that's that's come up is somebody is a pull from like a broke vulture article i think i

00:45:31.420 did in like 2018 you're getting embarrassed you're getting embarrassed of that corny thing you wrote

00:45:38.240 i can't believe i can't believe that's what i said

00:45:41.120 i can't believe i said that and i didn't know it you know you said i didn't know it'd be here

00:45:47.960 i didn't know you guys would be quoting me i didn't know it'd be 2026 it'd be here

00:45:51.600 i mean i am an easy cry for a movie if a movie is trying to get me to cry

00:46:00.460 I can get there especially on a plane on a plane yeah time's not real up there

00:46:06.460 I'm crying over everything oh yeah I watched um Raya and the last dragon on a plane once I was

00:46:13.660 like I literally I that was when we had to wear masks on the plane too and I was like wearing

00:46:18.860 I was wearing my mouth I soaked through my mask like because I was open mouth sobbing 0.96

00:46:24.420 on the fucking plane yeah it's not that serious no but it was in the plane yeah it was it did 0.98

00:46:29.920 feel like that it's heightened it's heightened up there yeah i watched the beekeeper recently 0.99

00:46:34.300 on the plane oh man jason statham i've never seen it cried that movie is not a movie you

00:46:40.760 when you said when you said jason statham i said right i said oh something's off and you got

00:46:45.160 emotional what's going on with her yeah well you know it's it comes out the gate kind of

00:46:50.520 strangely swinging felicia rashad's in that movie oh okay felicia rashad jason statham uh josh

00:46:57.780 husherson jeremy irons that's a very interesting lineup mini driver damn two stacked that felt

00:47:04.980 like mad libs for actors you know what i mean like i need an actor for a action movie that's

00:47:12.160 about beekeepers but it's actually a secret society yeah one thing about jason statham he's 0.99

00:47:16.280 gonna play a secret agent one thing about that bald guy he's gonna be kicking ass and taking 0.88

00:47:20.880 names i'll tell you what i feel i'm on the train yeah i want to get on the jason statham train i'm 0.86

00:47:25.460 here to stay hell yeah yeah I think so yeah I I feel very like I love when actors just kind of do

00:47:32.160 what's like they're like yeah that like makes sense like they're like yeah it's it's kind of

00:47:37.040 like that joke they've made about Dua Lipa which I don't feel this way Dua Lipa if you ever see

00:47:40.480 this I don't feel this way but like they're like Dua Lipa is gonna make the same song and put it 0.90

00:47:44.360 out every summer yeah till the end of time right and I'm and I'm gonna play the fuck out of it

00:47:49.240 yeah like that's how I feel about that I feel about Jason Statham I'm like when he's just like 0.98

00:47:53.600 killing people and beating people up i'm like well that makes sense for him you're in your bag

00:47:57.500 why would you get out of it exactly stay in there you found the formula that works you found what

00:48:02.760 works you're making oh you're gonna make a just a nice little song of the summer every summer yeah

00:48:07.420 a chart topper come on okay who cares twist my arm sure i'll listen to it something that i want 0.83

00:48:11.880 to dance on the dance floor something that gets me thrown a little ass in the middle of the day 1.00

00:48:16.300 middle of the night sue me oh yeah take me away that's crazy yeah lock her up in the studio 0.88

00:48:23.740 that would make a few more hits well i'm glad to hear that you're so emotionally connected to

00:48:30.140 cinema yeah i'm happy for you i gotta delete that i gotta get that article i gotta ask you to take

00:48:36.460 that down please okay for the this one says for your 28th birthday you wished for hot dr pepper

00:48:46.300 i did i don't girl i don't know you tell me 28th birthday i wish for a hot dr pepper

00:48:52.220 hot dr pepper 28 what was 28 what was i older you now 33 okay yeah that's not too long ago then

00:49:03.660 well but it feels do you like do you like dr pepper love dr pepper do you want it hot hot

00:49:09.500 i want a hot dr pepper you know i would have brain damage i would

00:49:14.380 you have a tbi i i would think that this is like an insane random thing but based off everything

00:49:22.880 i feel like i've seen the way your brain turns this would make sense this is probably something

00:49:27.920 that i said this is one of those things you didn't realize right but i didn't say but i don't stand

00:49:31.860 by it now i could not i'd like to retract that statement yeah it's not a representation of me

00:49:38.600 no i've changed and i no longer those reviews no longer reflect who i am

00:49:43.460 um and i just want to shout out to the community thank you for your support

00:49:50.020 hot dr pepper that's very interesting i don't remember i don't i i love diet dr pepper

00:49:55.920 oh delicious i do love that i know i know a lot of people are are very anti-diet soda but

00:50:02.160 no i honestly think that's got a kick that's just honestly the only that was what i was raised on

00:50:07.180 was diet soda so that's why it's my favorite one it's not like a calorie thing yeah i could give i

00:50:11.960 could give a fuck about calories no like in a drink please but it's got that kick it does it's

00:50:17.100 got a particular i was never into diet soda growing up but then diet coke grasped me and now 0.98

00:50:23.560 i can't get away yeah yeah it's got you get away and i think that's maybe what's in there

00:50:28.580 it's that aspartame yeah aspartame is doing something to me because they don't have diet

00:50:34.660 coke in all of the countries outside they don't you know no they have that like pepsi zero pepsi

00:50:39.780 max yeah when i went to ireland in uh december of last year they only had pepsi max ever whatever

00:50:47.060 the hell that is get rid of it yikes disgusting yeah pour it out i just started drinking regular

00:50:51.860 coke because i was like that's just better yeah but it tastes better than whatever the hell this 0.89

00:50:55.900 is well i'm glad i'm glad that doesn't reflect you anymore it doesn't reflect yeah i'm glad i'm

00:51:00.060 that we could take that off the table for you no problem okay that says in uh 2023 you were

00:51:04.640 bert from sesame street for halloween that's true who was ernie uh my friend karen karen was ernie

00:51:11.300 and i was bert but i i was like i'm gonna be i'm gonna be sexy i'm gonna be sexy and it was like

00:51:18.780 kind of not i just had a skirt on i couldn't figure out the top to be hot it was just bert

00:51:24.160 in a skirt yeah it was bird in a skirt it was bird in a skirt and i but because i was like oh

00:51:30.120 i think it's because i often in my head i'll be like oh i could craft it yeah i could do it i bet

00:51:35.680 i could sew amazingly oh that's i just haven't tapped into that potential you know i know how

00:51:41.440 to sew you're so me you're so me i'm always like that i'm like if you gave me like 10 minutes i

00:51:46.180 bet i could figure it out well of course i didn't figure it out of course i get the shirt in the

00:51:50.580 mail and i said well now what the hell am i supposed to do cut a v into it yeah yeah so it

00:51:56.400 was just it was just normal right yeah got it with the skirt yeah and then i put my hair in a

00:52:02.880 little bun oh cute yeah i didn't even paint myself yellow i was gonna say did you do face

00:52:08.080 paint or anything no i should have should have now that i'm thinking about it i really should

00:52:12.320 have in many ways it was just kind of like oh rachel kind of got a strange little outfit on

00:52:16.120 huh you just have a striped shirt off yeah without my uh because i was without my ernie

00:52:20.520 kind of kind of you you'd have no idea certainly not no probably because i'm not yellow and i have 0.75

00:52:29.020 the skirt yeah yeah you're throwing people off with the skirt that's why you're gender bending

00:52:33.080 yeah and people weren't ready for that no they weren't right the world wasn't ready at the time

00:52:37.340 that's right okay last one back that says that at nyu you were accepted into a highly competitive

00:52:42.960 sketch comedy group called the hammer cats oh that is true it's highly competitive sketch comedy

00:52:48.580 group is interesting phrasing it is yeah it is i bet it's extremely popular though yeah it's one

00:52:55.000 of those things what was that process like to get in was it like just a regular audition was it like

00:52:59.800 snl probably no yeah you had to submit sketches yeah and then you had a in-person audition oh

00:53:05.960 and i was good at the audition okay nice but like i said i did not know how to write a sketch

00:53:12.140 so my sketch was really strange but the performance was good and so then when the

00:53:16.900 like directors they were like they interviewed people yeah and they're like so would you be

00:53:20.380 willing to learn how to write yeah would you be willing to learn how to do this and i was like

00:53:26.280 yeah i know 100 yeah i can you're literally i feel so like kindred spirit with you because i

00:53:35.120 feel very the same in the sense that i'm like i'm i know i can do it yes and even when i don't

00:53:41.060 really know how to do it i still kind of know how to do it yeah like i still can kind of do it right

00:53:46.460 so that's what i'm saying it's like you it's like it's all in here yeah the only block is you

00:53:51.680 stand out of your way it's belief yeah just keep going i that's so true because i've said like it's

00:53:58.440 um i make this joke about myself all the time because i watch i have watched many things but

00:54:03.400 i've also not watched a lot of things if that makes sense yes so i always feel similar i always

00:54:08.480 joke that i'm like i got the gist uh-huh so like like when i was uh they came out with a new

00:54:13.900 gladiator right the original gladiator gladiator i've never seen and i was telling my dad about

00:54:19.320 this and i was like i think i'm gonna i i should go see that new gladiator movie like i was like

00:54:22.880 oh that looks interesting i should go see it and he goes well have you seen the first one and i go

00:54:25.660 no but i got the gist and then he's like what do you mean the gist and i was like well like i know

00:54:31.020 it's like guys fighting that's enough i'm like you don't need to see this i'm i'm watching to

00:54:37.980 enjoy i'm not watching to critique this is like lord of the rings you know it's like you don't

00:54:41.780 need to like oh then this character and then that it's like i know what's going on yeah because

00:54:45.440 even like something like stranger things right like i watched all of season two i did not watch

00:54:51.980 season one i did not watch anything else after that i watched all of season two yeah clocked out

00:54:56.840 and then season five obviously ends and then in ireland like my sister and other friends we were

00:55:02.060 with were like oh let's watch the season finale of stranger things they watched it i watched it i

00:55:06.580 I cried, I laughed, laughed with them.

00:55:10.240 Like I was there. 0.98

00:55:11.080 I don't know anything that's fucking happening. 0.98

00:55:12.960 And then I was like, wow, that was incredible. 0.97

00:55:15.640 That was so awesome.

00:55:17.120 And then my sister was like,

00:55:17.900 are you going to go back and watch like all of it?

00:55:19.380 I go, no, no, I had, I had the experience.

00:55:22.660 You know what's going on.

00:55:24.340 I was like, I got, I got it.

00:55:25.700 You're getting, what you needed was the characters, you know?

00:55:28.880 And you, you were connected to them

00:55:30.380 because you'd watched the season.

00:55:31.860 You knew their arcs, you knew their flaws.

00:55:33.780 You knew what was going on.

00:55:34.620 The gist.

00:55:35.460 yes and then you hopped in and you got to oh you get to experience it in a real way you know what

00:55:40.860 that shows that somebody did their job yeah yeah i i enjoyed it yes you're just like me that's why

00:55:47.260 you're like you're and honestly that's how i know that's why i know you're successful and going to

00:55:50.620 continue to be successful because honestly 90 of this business is confidence yes and just like i

00:55:55.920 can do it and no fear like no no fear being perceived yeah yeah which leads me to my last

00:56:01.120 question i was going to ask you like what are some tips you have for aspiring artists because

00:56:05.180 obviously you wear many hats which i love and i'm jealous of the singing i i always joke that i i

00:56:10.040 think the universe didn't give me singing because they knew i would just be unbearable i'd be like 1.00

00:56:13.980 the most agonizing person to be around so they were like funny and that's it bitch i feel you 0.96

00:56:17.840 would be popping out with some songs i i would have dropped at least i joke but this is not a 0.96

00:56:21.840 joke like if i could sing and i have the platform i have now i would have dropped at least one ep

00:56:26.120 oh one thousand percent at least one you would have three tracks popping off right obviously

00:56:33.100 obviously so i i would love to know if you have any advice for any aspiring artists that are like

00:56:39.060 maybe going through it right now or going like in the grind of it all right now um do you have

00:56:43.660 any advice for them i mean i do think that the most like important thing is to keep going is to

00:56:51.960 continue and not be like judgmental of your own work it's like if you're standing in your own way

00:56:57.480 then it's like you're not gonna be able to bring other people into it there's like a martha graham

00:57:01.280 quote that i really like yeah that like uh she just talks about it's mostly it's actually kind

00:57:07.160 of like um uh being an artist like talking about how being an artist is a lot of dissatisfaction

00:57:13.240 yeah that's so true and it's a lot of like you not being completely like i don't know i'm somebody

00:57:18.880 that likes to keep tinkering with something or like keep having like if it's like i'm working

00:57:22.640 on something i feel like it's not ever finished yeah it just has to move to the next stage yeah

00:57:27.500 um and i feel like the quote is kind of like about how there's is a bit of a dissatisfaction

00:57:34.080 and you just have and it's like an unrest but it keeps you alive and that what you have is a

00:57:41.700 creative channel and you have to keep the channel open because like even if you have a similar idea

00:57:46.780 to somebody it's not going to be the same coming from you versus somebody else that's so true and

00:57:51.720 so i think it's just important to be open to your craft and like let your ideas out and don't be

00:57:59.420 scared if they suck yeah you know like if it doesn't work like that also yeah if you don't

00:58:05.540 flop you can't soar yeah yeah and it and it is true like it's very like i think a lot of it like

00:58:10.520 you were joking about like it's the only obstacle is me yeah but it's true like especially when it

00:58:15.600 comes to art like in putting out art it's like this fear of being judged or critiqued which i

00:58:20.380 think it's natural obviously it's natural to it but like art is also subjective exactly so like

00:58:25.420 you said it's like what's hilarious and awesome to one may not be to the other but as long as it

00:58:30.480 is to you that's what matters really all that matters that's what matters if you're playing

00:58:34.180 back your jokes and you're laughing that is what matters literally that's what matters you're

00:58:39.240 making yourself laugh that's what matters yeah my husband after i did that he goes you're laughing

00:58:43.320 again like you didn't hear me like i didn't hear you didn't hear me laugh the first time yeah i was

00:58:48.960 Like, yeah, I had the nerve to rewind it, watch it, and laugh again.

00:58:52.060 Play it back, yeah.

00:58:53.340 Yeah.

00:58:53.760 Yeah.

00:58:54.360 I love me.

00:58:55.120 I'm supporting me.

00:58:55.820 I'm my biggest fan.

00:58:56.340 Yeah.

00:58:56.700 Yeah, obviously.

00:58:58.340 Y'all don't go get me because I got me.

00:58:59.940 Yeah.

00:59:00.400 Yeah.

00:59:01.060 Yeah.

00:59:01.960 Well, thank you so much for coming on the show.

00:59:03.900 Of course. 0.99

00:59:03.980 I think you're a fucking delight. 1.00

00:59:05.420 Oh. 1.00

00:59:05.860 You are the hoot to my holler.

00:59:07.080 I love that.

00:59:07.760 That's perfect.

00:59:08.700 I love to be a hoot.

00:59:09.080 We're match made in heaven.

00:59:10.040 Yeah.

00:59:11.160 Thank you so much for coming on the show.

00:59:12.640 I adore you.

00:59:13.620 For those that are not familiar with you, where can everybody find you?

00:59:16.440 um online at I am Rachel Pegram on all platforms and then I'll tell you what I also got a new

00:59:23.820 podcast coming out how exciting in the winter yeah so when you're bundled up yeah you want to

00:59:30.260 get cozy yeah yeah that'll be something nice yeah oh my gosh how fun you really are a jack

00:59:38.840 of all trades look at you you're doing everything I gotta keep up with you thank you so much for

00:59:44.440 coming on the show i think you're amazing make sure you all go follow rachel everywhere she also

00:59:48.720 performs live too so i'm sure if you just follow her you'll see all of the many many amazing things

00:59:53.340 she's doing so thank you all so much for tuning into this week's episode don't forget new episodes

00:59:57.740 in the comment section drop every wednesday you can stream the audio on all streaming platforms

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01:00:05.500 to my amazing guest rachel pegram and thank you all so much and i'll see you next week bye

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RACHEL PEGRAM IS A HOOT ｜ Episode 241

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