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The Comeback S03E02 (2026)
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00:01you've arrived at your destination yes we have still don't know why she took me on the freeway
00:07hello valerie cherish id please sure to see brandon wallach to see brandon wallach yeah
00:14thanks yeah okay patience in five four ready going in to see brandon wallach the new head
00:21of the studio about a possible new multi-cam more than possible val it's a definite offer
00:27did you get me on camera patience yeah okay billy nothing's definite yet okay because still not
00:35comfortable with the whole ai writing thing not entirely sure it's even legal okay please do not
00:41bring up the legality of ai so not sexy don't be a lawyer vow yes okay yeah you're gonna have
00:48to
00:48address it okay because much as i'd like to star in a sitcom again have to be okay with my
00:55union
00:59hello hello hello oh no one's here no no no no i'm here i'm here hello brandon hello valerie
01:06cherish we all know who you are valerie thank you so much we were all just so thrilled to have
01:11you in
01:11here last oh well this is my manager a producing partner billy stanton tom brown right no billy
01:18stanton no uh pal tom brown is the designer i'm wearing oh that cute skirt uh well first of all
01:24apologies for the zoom uh we're just scattered all over the world and we just think this would be an
01:29easier way for the whole team to focus in this way right oh sure yeah so there's a whole team
01:34oh yeah
01:35yeah they're all here guys just just pin yourselves pin pin pin pin yourselves for valerie okay don't say i
01:39didn't
01:40know you valerie hello everyone absolutely everyone question is there anyone not on this zoom
01:47that's great that's great okay guys just don't pin yourselves and come back as you're needed all right
01:52valerie hi ridley mcintosh head of marketing and sales really is my my right hand woman person when
01:58brandon left youtube to become the president of new net his very first call was to marketing and he
02:03was passionate how can we make free programming people have bought enough apps couldn't agree more
02:09ridley yeah you know i was on that wonderful show mrs hat you know mrs hat a few seasons ago
02:17you know
02:17part-time gardener solved crimes her husband was an ex-police chief
02:23yeah anyway it was on epics right of course people had enough apps yes you know so yeah um ridler
02:31i hear
02:31yeah okay what's exciting is we have come up with a way to mitigate the cost of content
02:36with breaks in the programming to advertise product commercials exactly valerie everything old is new
02:43again and here at new net we're we're just we're totally embracing that hey i am arbor elliot head of
02:49programming and content and i love sitcoms well then i love you arbor valerie egypt o'connor new net
02:57research and development hello egypt our latest research has shown us that viewers want to
03:01break from the complicated confusing storylines of all these dark streaming shows yeah it's like
03:06wait a minute the doctor is a spy and a zombie like what that's so arbor and when people want
03:11to laugh
03:12a moody single camera comedy isn't much of a fun break we want to make affordable comfortable
03:17wonderful television with a trusted comedy star named valerie cherish who me you have a unique
03:25recognizability across three different television platforms you do sitcom having starred in i'm it
03:30and room and board reality tv two seasons of the comeback and premium prestige cable your emmy
03:36winning best supporting actress turn is mallory in seeing red wow and mrs hat the traitors come on
03:45yeah well great to be picked for a traitor and terrible to be sent home second episode so yeah
03:52really disappointing but the meme trust me he's a faithful i know that for a fact
03:57how well i just i i feel like he's a faithful as am i you know don't you wish you
04:05knew who the
04:05traitors were i do stressful stressful stressful and it was stressful from 90s tv right up to the hot
04:18meme of today valerie cherish and we decided we want to make a show around her and that's what we've
04:25done
04:25around not so not the wife of the lead it is all about this funny complicated single woman of a
04:32certain age funny check complicated check single uh don't tell my husband wow okay um and uh woman
04:42of a certain age so what what's the age you're certain of 60 well that's a tv 60 which is
04:48really 50
04:4850 50 well if i could turn back time that's my share
04:56anyway yeah this all just is thrilling okay um my manager and i producing partner uh yeah and i
05:05just have one concern sure anything anything yeah
05:15okay um just one concern and that is um well look it would be great if we could talk about
05:23the ai of
05:23it all now everybody uh say thank you to to valerie thank you and we'll recoup on this later thank
05:29you
05:31what it's over what happened why did you bring up ai because you didn't yeah so not sexy
05:40hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey just to finish what um you okay yeah i thought you were
05:47in new york
05:47yeah no no no no i was just down the hall in my office um it's okay um uh right
05:57about why i just
05:58ended the zoom yeah i shouldn't have mentioned the ai it's not not sexy yeah just i'm worried about
06:05the no writers of course we have writers we have to have writers you have writers there are writers
06:10okay there are writers we have a husband and wife team josh and mary abridge are going to be our
06:16head writers uh alongside alice's star ai program and yeah josh and mary got a deal with no net so
06:23you'll love them and they have a deal so they're good they're great that's great okay yeah one's a
06:28woman which is really great because the show's about a woman they could fetch four women in a
06:33dog park so they know women and dogs and um and the writers guild is is fine with this we
06:40are within
06:40the writers guild agreement yeah so are we in the valerie cherish business well uh let me think
06:47about it uh how quick can i say yes yes well great right but we have to go over the
06:53deal points uh
06:53valerie and i will need to be executive producers yeah we'll so that's a yes that's a yes oh my
06:59god
06:59oh before i go we've been kind of uh off the record about the whole ai thing you know just
07:04keep
07:04people you know on a need to know basis so i'm curious uh how did you hear about it valerie
07:12oh oh well i um heard how did i i don't yeah i don't know i just heard i don't
07:20know that's all right
07:22it's okay it's good just just uh okay here's the thing in our business ai uh well it has bad
07:28branding
07:29right yeah yeah and so we're looking at these first six episodes as a proof of concept and when
07:34we see that the show works we're going to go wide with the with the whole ai information along with
07:39the likely pickup of a few more episodes but but till then it's it's a secret you know secret yeah
07:45good
07:45smart not that i'm concerned about any of this ai is is really extraordinary after all it picked you
07:53it picked me it did oh well i feel like i'm in good hands you think sure that's great okay
08:00and
08:00thank you so much for coming all the way in from your office just down the hall right means a
08:06lot so
08:07thank you thank you executive producers finally this is so exciting it is exciting yeah you could
08:16have told me there were writers though billy then i could have had the meeting last week you know
08:20that's why i was so worried now i look difficult you know about the writers okay well then how'd
08:25you know about the secret i'm sleeping with one of the execs yeah the one on the top left i
08:30don't
08:31remember who that was do you think the zoom is still on time to go yeah i'm home i know
08:40i was
08:40tracking you oh how's your meeting oh it was great they've got writers writers guild is good with it
08:48so i'm not a traitor i have the exciting news as well you found your rolex i knew it wasn't
08:53the movers
08:54no it was the movers okay well i just wish we had these cameras sooner okay what's your exciting news
08:59oh
09:00my uh sohouse membership card came i got the app let's go across the street for dinner what tonight
09:06yeah aren't you already eating yeah but who cares look they have an opening at 7 or 9 30. 9
09:1430. come
09:15on are we in spain okay what's that that's right i'm gonna take a shower and then change i'm gonna
09:20wear my
09:20new glasses this is a hip crowd kind of young young is cool it's a good vibe and look at
09:35that view
09:37well that's the same view we have from our place no it's a little different we can't see century city
09:42well it's the same view with a membership fee
09:48i'm gonna have one more of these crackers all right because you know i love a cracker with a view
09:56really good i know you like those flatbreads yeah used to get them at trader joe's in brentwood
10:02you don't get these anymore well where is there a trader joe's here everywhere did we leave room for
10:07dessert he did i have a show cool glasses thank you um i want the chocolate cake and the check
10:19please
10:20wonderful you're so right about these bigger glasses val so good yeah that oversized thing is what's
10:28happening now yeah no i am what's happening now hey hey over here oh motherfucker what what happened
10:36i just saw greg greg yeah from the old fern no i know who greg is why is he here
10:42he's not cool enough
10:43to be here oh hi um we can't stay well i thought you wanted chocolate cake no i can't be
10:50here he can't
10:51see me mark you didn't do anything wrong do you want the cake to go no yes yeah
10:58mark i'm gonna say it again you told a joke at work at a time when jokes were illegal no
11:04one cares
11:05now okay okay let's go let's go i don't want to be here yeah i get that get my jacket
11:11it's okay
11:14go he's looking the other way phil
11:18gallery hi hi oh that's sharon case casting director she does all the sitcoms she's with jane
11:25fonda so you want to meet jane fonda no no i want to go well i can't be rude i'll
11:32be right back
11:37you know jane fonda hi hi valerie chair nice to meet you valerie so how do you two know each
11:45other did sharon cast you in something or um we were walking buddies you know we walk around the
11:53neighborhood together oh i love walking it's my favorite exercise my um husband mark and i walked
12:01over here tonight yeah yeah we live just right there in um sierra towers so beautiful yeah
12:09would it be okay if um i got you for my socials sure great then don't worry i don't do
12:16anything
12:16political why not well where do you start you know it's how i feel it's overwhelming you know it's
12:25okay sure okay well look who i just ran into miss jane fonda vote
12:36funny yeah uh thank you it was very nice to meet you really nice to finally meet you
12:43okay all right yeah down huh oh oh god are you okay i just looked on my napkin okay
12:53i'm okay um yes so stupid and so me well uh i heard about your new net show
13:01already it just happened today yeah that's really exciting yeah well you know nothing extraordinary
13:07about it well you're executive producing right yes yeah i am yeah well i would love it if you would
13:14consider me i mean sitcoms i'm my favorite well and you're the best yeah so uh keep me in mind
13:21it'd really be great to be working again well you are top of mind yeah and i'm sure this time
13:28it'll be
13:28different just because on uh room and board remember i wanted tom selick and you said not interested
13:36and just so you know he did call me back and he would have done it so oh yeah um
13:42i'm sorry
13:45my bad sure it'll be different this time bow oh okay that's my husband oh okay your knee is bleeding
13:53tall yeah i was stuck talking to greg because you had to go and see jane fonda all right well
14:01what did he
14:01say nice to see you it's pathetic pathetic mark it probably was nice to see you all right you two
14:08were friends yeah well we're friends why didn't he have a conversation instead of sending that partner
14:13email letting me go and i'm just standing there and then and then the waiter comes over hands me this
14:19fucking doggy bag and greg looks at me like i i can't afford to waste food oh mark it's not
14:24possible
14:25he thought that okay that was your golden parachute yeah well i was humiliated okay
14:33well did you mention uh finance dudes no i didn't mention finance dudes it hasn't sold not yet
14:40where are you going i'm going into the kitchen to eat this fucking cake okay oh and this is la
14:47please
14:48don't ask me to walk anywhere again oh i won't well look what i'm buying at trader joe's it's mine
14:57and
14:57my husband's absolute favorite green olive fats flats italian lingual crackers yeah you can edit that out
15:06right yeah okay so i'm just a little bit confused though is this for trader joe's or is this for
15:10the
15:11italian lingual crackers it's potential collab for both that's the beauty right yeah yeah just gonna
15:18get more of these okay i'm gonna go get a neti pot okay i'm gonna check out i'm not buying
15:26you another neti pot
15:34okay
15:42so are you are you working here now oh no i just stole the tropical shirt and started scanning
15:47shit you know for fun oh yeah i work here now and i have you to thank for that me
15:53yeah when i left
15:54you in new york that time oh did you find everything you're looking for today on your
15:58shopping list we're supposed to ask that up top oh um i sure did i felt so bad that i
16:05still owed you
16:06money back then i just said to myself get a fucking real job you know yeah it wasn't just you
16:12it was
16:13everyone i owed everyone money running around making my documentaries begging people to care about the
16:18things that i cared about right the inevitable dangers of big tech or climate change impacting water
16:24resources for the navajo nation right or the fun of me starting a new chapter you know shame nothing
16:32happened with our dog right still got that great footage you know it just so wasn't working yeah
16:39and then the fires happen right all that craziness yeah just i thought about you guys oh yeah well we
16:46almost had to evacuate so oh yeah your house is good no our whole canyon burned because we didn't
16:53pay off the right fire department uh-huh so once i got the horses to safety in montana i just
16:58said you
16:58know what i'm done i transferred to this trader joe's out of the fire zone i got an apartment nearby
17:03walked to work getting your steps in and i even found a really great girlfriend that lives in my building
17:10oh it's one-stop shopping good for you right and since i've paid everyone back my life is just so
17:17simple now do you have bags i do yeah i didn't bring them but so i have to buy some
17:24oh no you don't oh
17:27really oh thank you that's nice so how are you starring in a new show a multi-cam oh oh
17:39okay yeah okay
17:40okay uh it's uh 103 61. yeah okay i'm actually really happy for you that's i think it's gonna
17:48be a huge success yeah i mean that's really what people want right uh-huh nothing challenging
17:54nothing they don't want to know about well just uh comfort food nothing new
18:01well this one's kind of new so you're telling me that it's not like the sitcoms of the 70s 80s
18:0890s
18:09well it's not okay if it's written by ai maybe the first show to do it
18:18but don't tell anyone because that's a secret now wouldn't that make a good doc
18:24ready jane ready well i'm happy to report the script is good so funny ai is funny well first
18:35of all jane shh it's a secret right and yes so funny laughed out loud twice also found a few
18:43typos
18:43so you know what that says to me writers how's that that's the name of the show how's that yeah
18:51yeah yeah and it's my character best catchphrase how's that yeah she runs a cute charming old new
18:58england b and b with the help of her hunk nephew beau so beth and beau b and b cute
19:04huh how's that
19:06such a good hook you know you can say it's so many different ways right how's that how's that
19:13how's that right oh so good oh there's billy yeah okay he's got his power skirt on not judging looks
19:25good yeah aren't you hot yeah but it's a whole look uh-huh yeah hi jane so glad you're doing
19:31this and i'm
19:32sure we'll figure out who's paying you okay come on let's go back this way yeah ready for our first
19:37production meeting executive producer yes i am so fun to get a seat at the big kids table right see
19:43how the donuts get made oh val yeah i got us these hats thought it'd be fun to wear them
19:50in as a bit
19:50oh no no no not a good bit billy executive producer no don't want the show runners to think i'm
19:57trying to
19:57run the show right not good okay fine so not a bit but patience at least can you get a
20:02photo of us
20:03yeah yeah okay stand here yeah i'll stand here have a quick pic yeah all right got it oh my
20:10god what
20:11this is good yeah those are the charters yeah yeah that's right there did you see that not a good
20:20first impression billy okay okay oh look valerie billy's named executive producer i'm gonna take a
20:31picture yeah very careful oh my first thank you so much for this i'm really just so grateful to be
20:39working my psychic told me i would i should believe them excuse me doll i gotta say oh yeah go
20:46go go go
20:46yeah i'm gonna send you out the casting links hi barry josh valerie cherish here take the dog
20:53yeah this lady thank you take her um just to say first episode so wonderful oh laughed out loud twice
21:03right yeah i just love the whole b and b world the premise isn't ours okay what's with the cameras
21:10uh if uh if they all know about the a9 why did we have to sign an nda oh no
21:15they signed too yeah
21:17everyone we are so excited to be working with you when mary and i wrote the episode of fetch where
21:27delia
21:27played so beautifully by judith light yeah when she has to put her beloved kava poo down and she comes
21:32home alone to the empty house i was i was so blown away by how much online love we got
21:40from women of a
21:41certain age you know felt seen yeah maybe for the first time and i'm just honored to have the
21:48opportunity to be the voice of another vibrant and vital woman of a certain age such as yourself
21:54for all those ladies online to love so yeah which two jokes you said you left out loud twice okay
22:00spoken like a true writer you know which i was so relieved right that you because i could tell
22:07because there were some typos there should not be any typos well let me get my script did you put
22:13jokes in just a couple they're right there great keep teaching it coming back please okay yeah i'll find
22:22it because i have it i have a dog-eared after our last show please never say dog anything to
22:27us
22:29okay i won't all right um oh yeah this is it well if she's moving in the b and b
22:37will stand for
22:38bimbo and breakfast that that wasn't us that was al oh al is there a third writer no we call
22:46a.i.
22:47al short for al assist because ain't nobody got time for that oh cute yeah that's so al for al
22:55assist
22:55so clever right that's a great cover right there's a third writer named al right works remotely never
23:01comes in which is believable right because writers are weird not you guys but you know keeps it a
23:08secret because you can just say let's send it to al for a joke right front of the cast crew
23:14such a
23:15great story so you're a writer no no i'm just trying to be helpful this is too much talking i
23:21agree
23:21yeah that's what's going to be so great you know about jimmy burroughs directing right because he
23:27says just enough he passed on this jimmy passed when his agent texted me oh okay well yeah i have
23:36a
23:36personal relationship with jimmy you know we did my last sitcom so yeah agents say no to everything
23:42right if it were up to his agent jimmy wouldn't have done cheers right or will and grace or fraser
23:49or we have to go yeah we have kids okay so should it yeah we should get started what does
23:55that mean
23:56we have kids yes uh valerie cherish to see jimmy i called ahead uh hold on please yeah well what
24:06did
24:06he say on the phone he never spoke with him just left a message with the housekeeper that i was
24:10on the
24:10way come in oh he's not by the pool okay yeah thanks jim cool okay go go go you can
24:18stay here
24:19no no i know jane no you got to stay back i said valerie cherish to see jimmy he's not
24:25valerie
24:26cherish in her camera caravan yeah besides she said he was at the pool so you know what if he
24:31swims
24:31naked right not nice can't do it no consent so it's closing you got to get on the other side
24:36of that no
24:37oh remember i have to be at trader don't have four in case you have to move the car okay
24:54you guys have enough sunblock on
25:00jimmy hi val hi i think you wore the wrong shoes for a home invasion
25:06and if you puncture a sprinkler line i don't know you okay well look at you king of the world
25:12uh king of this bel-air rental our new house isn't finished yet three years and counting
25:16that's a bit this is a rental this house and those kids hi valerie cherish
25:25sir uh sit down okay kind of hug first oh yeah oh yeah would you like some lemonade or water
25:32oh no don't want to be a bother well you came all this way to see me i'd like to
25:36give you something
25:36besides a polite no thank you oh no well not that far and you know i just needed to check
25:43that no it's
25:44from your agent you know and maybe you didn't read it yet oh no no i read it i read
25:49it because you were
25:49the lead sweetheart oh you were so good in that paulie g heroin series you really surprised me
25:55well thank you yeah but you know that was a dramedy right dramedies are easy this is comedy
26:01and comedy needs jimmy this one doesn't well look it's a good part for you new heart meets faulty
26:08towers but with a woman yeah you'll be great thank you i've done a million of these there's nothing new
26:15you want it for me oh the gate's opening go go go oh she's coming she's coming go go go
26:23go it's her go
26:24go go go oh oh boy okay no she's okay all right look at it she doesn't even have grasping
26:36how did you get jimmy to say yes oh just talk to him you know first he said no but
26:43then i told
26:44him how important this one was to me did you tell him it was ai i did yeah but jane
26:50it's a secret
26:51why is it a secret why can't people know about it bad branding you know everybody everywhere is
26:57worrying about ai right i for one am excited to let go and see what ai is all about turn
27:06right now
27:08it said turn it yeah that's all right mr jane last time i didn't listen to it and i saved
27:15five minutes
27:16okay i know better
27:17you
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