00:04Right after this huge breakout success in Girl's Trip, which obviously you two did together,
00:12you then go into somebody else's vehicle. And I'm curious, again, the question of how do you
00:18sort of navigate that? Is it freeing? Is it frustrating? And how do you sort of find your
00:22place in that? At that time, Girl's Trip hadn't come out yet. It hadn't come out when I took that
00:28job. And had I known, like if I know, like I believe Girl's Trip was going to do good,
00:33but if I would have known known, like somebody was like, it's going to make all this money,
00:38you about to go like, oh yeah. And I would have been like, well, I'm sorry guys, I'm going to
00:43do
00:43my own show. I'm going to do Hollywood Hattish. And yet here you are in this other show. So when
00:51you're trying to sort of find yourself in this character, what pieces of you did you bring to
00:56her? I brought my sophisticated business side to Shay. Also, I brought my ratchet side to her
01:06when I play the younger Shay. And also as the older version, I have a really good time. Like
01:11the writers on the show are so good. I would love to like kidnap all of them and use them
01:16for
01:16everything. Yeah, for Hollywood Hattish and everything else I do. But they're really amazing
01:22writers. And so there's, I don't have to, I don't have to do too much. I don't have to like
01:28put, you know, a whole lot of me in it because they already write it with me in mind. They
01:33already
01:33make it, they make it so easy for me. Sure. So yeah. On a more serious, what would that be?
01:40That would be a really fun show that we're talking, I haven't seen a show that's dealing
01:46with female comedians, like the world of female comedy and how that navigating in a man's world
01:53and how it's such a boys club and like really doing standup, like for real standup, female
01:58standup comics and how like difficult it is and how you have to kind of like fight and like kind
02:04of be like fight your way into that boys club and be like, yo, I'm just, I'm just as funny
02:09as you.
02:09I can be up here just as long as you. I can pack out this theater just as much as
02:13you can pack out
02:14this. Sorry, I'm getting passionate about it. Uh, but it would be about, it would be about that.
02:19And then trying to have that regular life where you want to date and stuff, but guys are afraid
02:23to date you because they think you're going to talk about them on stage, which is like,
02:27please, you're not that popping. But that show, my show would be about that and trying to also be,
02:33you know, a family member trying to be, you know, lift up my family. Like it would be about my
02:37life.
02:38That's coming. Yeah. It would be about my life. I wrote it already. It's written.
02:42You better do it quick. Cause now that you've talked about it.
02:44I was about to say, it's already written. Come on, come on. Let's go.
02:54Looking back in your careers, what was the most amusing or frustrating or horrifying feedback you
02:59ever got going up for a part? You know what I would do? I would, uh, put my phone on
03:04voice
03:04memo and put it in my bag. I'd do the audition, walk out the room, leave my bag.
03:10You're nasty. Oh, really? What would you hear? Come back. Be like, oh, I forgot my purse in there.
03:17Get my purse. You've actually done that. Get in the car. Then. Let me look under the table.
03:21What would you hear? I love this.
03:24They'd be like, she's not as urban as I thought she would be. I knew that was the word. Yeah.
03:29That's the word I don't want to hear. Or they would be like, she's so ghetto. I just can't.
03:33Her boobs aren't big enough. But I really think we should just go with a white girl.
03:37She's not, she's not, this, this role should be changed to white. Um, oh, if her hair was
03:42going better. Wait, how many rooms did you leave it in?
03:44A lot. A lot. It was like my M.O.
03:47You two would get into a lot of trouble with each other, I feel like.
03:51Yeah. We would get into trouble.
03:52I'm the opposite. Like, you know, have you ever gone to your own movie in a theater and
03:57then you go to the restroom and people are starting to talk about the movie?
04:02I've always been so scared of what they would say. I want to let them know that I'm in here.
04:08Don't say anything. I wouldn't want to hear.
04:12No, I don't want to.
04:12Oh, I want to hear so that I can grow. And also that I can write jokes about it.
04:16Oh, yeah.
04:17I can, like, use it to my advantage.
04:19That's the area.
04:20They'd be like, oh, she can't read. Oh, jeez. If she just could read, it would work.
04:24Like, she said every word wrong. And I'm like, they're right.
04:27And so then I started reading out loud more and practicing more. Like, it helped me in the long run.
04:31I mean, sometimes they hurt my feelings. Sometimes I'm like, damn, what a bitch.
04:35I'm never going back in there again.
04:36But you did.
04:37But I did.
04:38And then you left your bag.
04:38That's for you.
04:39I did. And then she was like, wow, she's come along way.
04:41What a breath of fresh air is so refreshing.
04:42What they should have been saying is, she's so forgetful.
04:45This is a stretch.
04:47Exactly.
04:49This is a stretch.
04:50Well, it worked.
04:59This is a stretch.
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