00:01What was the first comedy project you ever did? What was the first comedy
00:04project I ever did? My first, well I, so I worked at Comedy Central in
00:13development for a long time. That was like my first job, my first real job out
00:18of college. I also worked at a video store and I temped. You're welcome. But
00:24then my first comedy writing job was I worked on a show called The Showbiz
00:30Show with David Spade. Also, you're welcome. That was on Comedy Central and it
00:36was great. It was like this perfect first job. David Spade was super lovely and
00:40funny. I adored him. He's awesome. He's so great. He's so great and like genuinely a
00:46delightful. He was one of my, I met him at the SNL 40th. I was like, he's one of my
00:50favorite people that I've met. He's the best. He's so great. Yeah, he, we had a
00:55moment. I know, I know, now it's getting back to sounding like sarcasm. But he, I just loved him.
01:03We had a quick, I don't know why, I would not have predicted we'd get into David
01:06Spade's stories, but I was, we, he took the writers to dinner and I was wearing,
01:12because it was many years ago, I was wearing a very treasured swatch of mine,
01:17like a swatch watch. And he was like, oh, where did, he was like, what's with,
01:23what's with your watch? I think it had a frog on it. It was like blue and I was like
01:28over 30 with a green frog on my watch. And I was my, I was like, oh, my boyfriend at
01:33the time, I was like, my boyfriend gave it to me. And he just, he just like looked at
01:38it. And he just went, get rid. And it was very much needed advice. He was not wrong.
01:47Amazing. By the way, my first phone was a swatch phone. Remember the swatch phones where
01:51you could see through them? Not only do you remember it, I thought of it, I think of it
01:54every morning. Yeah, the see through where you can see what's going on in your phone.
02:00It's all fake wires, right? Like it's all colorful, like fake wires that don't do anything.
02:05But you're like, whoa, and the bottom and the top. I thought this was going to fall.
02:10No, no, no. The bottom of the phone and the top of the phone both work like phones.
02:13It's basically two phones. Well, there's your love of free stuff. Two phones for the price
02:19of one phone. Great. Awesome. Nobody knows what we're talking about. Everyone's too young.
02:25No. Okay. Who else has a question? Okay, kind of a quiet...
02:30Chica, do you have another one? Does anyone... Oh, my cousin Brooke.
02:35We're only going to calm people that we know. Of course.
02:40When did you know you were funny? When did you know you were funny?
02:44Great question. There was not like an aha moment of I'm funny,
02:54but I was noticing in high school that I wasn't becoming particularly attracted.
03:03But I was like, time to lean on something else.
03:06And so I tried being funny and that seemed to go better than relying on the other parts.
03:15So, yeah, I think like in college, I auditioned for a sketch group.
03:23Yeah, oh, Rishi from college. We went to...
03:27The only people that we know are here.
03:29Everyone's like, are they in their house?
03:32We went to Vassar College and there was a sketch group called Laughingstock and I auditioned for it
03:38and I got in and I was like, well, that feels like a big vote of confidence.
03:45How many more questions?
03:48Unless there's... Oh, here's a question.
03:50How becoming a mom is in your writing?
03:55What a great... Sorry.
03:57That's a great question.
03:58Yeah, how becoming a mom... I just... for Facebook.
04:01Can I say something so humiliating, which was as she was asking that question,
04:05I honestly thought she said, how becoming a model?
04:08And I was like, oh, but I'm not a mom.
04:12She asked how becoming a mom affected your writing.
04:17Not a model. Not a model.
04:18Yeah, you didn't ask about me becoming a model because I'm not one.
04:21How did... that is actually...
04:23By the way, you look gorgeous tonight.
04:24Thank you so much. So many people helped, but thank you.
04:28As do you. I love your red lip.
04:29You do. Thank you very much. Also, thank you.
04:31It feels like it's really spreading all over my face, but...
04:35It's not. It's perfectly where it is.
04:37Okay.
04:38No, that is a really, genuinely good question.
04:41I think I'm still figuring it out.
04:43I have a son who's just turned one, and he is the bomb.
04:48And, you know, I think you learn a lot about patience when you have a baby,
04:56because it's just very nonstop.
04:59And it also doesn't leave a lot of time.
05:02So, like, all that time I used to spend on the internet, suddenly that is not there as much.
05:07And I want to spend time with my kid, and that leaves a shorter amount of time,
05:10in a good way, sometimes, to write.
05:13And it just... it kind of... it focuses the attention on, like, getting it done.
05:18But, yeah, I'm kind of... it's still kind of new.
05:21Check back in.
05:22Yeah.
05:25Um...
05:26Oh, we've got one over here.
05:27Yes.
05:30Are you going to go back to...
05:31I'm saying it from Facebook.
05:32Yeah.
05:33Are you going to go back to stand-up at some point?
05:34I would very much like to.
05:37There was a moment...
05:38I was trying to do stand-up when I was pregnant, and then there was a moment when I was
05:42about
05:42seven months pregnant where, um...
05:45I...
05:45I was a very large pregnant person, and I... I'm not...
05:49I mean, I...
05:49You're supposed to be big when you're pregnant.
05:51It's not self-deprecating.
05:52Objectively, I was enormous.
05:55Like, if you...
05:55There's, like, pictures of me and Amy Schumer at, um, our premiere party for Thursdays,
05:59and you were like, oh, that person's going to give birth any day.
06:03And it was, like, month six.
06:05Um...
06:05But, uh, anyway, I tried to go up on stage, and I was, like, trying to talk,
06:10and I was like, oh, I can't very much breathe.
06:12So I decided to take a break.
06:14Uh, but I really miss it, and I'm going...
06:16I think I'm going to try and do a little more soon.
06:18This feels like a nice, soft landing.
06:20Yeah.
06:21Into it, in some ways.
06:22Yes.
06:23Yes.
06:24Yeah.
06:24Yeah.
06:25Yes.
06:26Oh, over here, yes.
06:27Um, did getting an Emmy change your writing style, or the way you feel about yourself?
06:32Did...
06:32Yeah, I'm going to repeat it, because it's...
06:34Yeah.
06:35Yeah, no, for the people.
06:36Did getting an Emmy change your writing style, or the way you feel about yourself?
06:40I, like, I've never gotten an Emmy, but I would think, like, it doesn't matter, but...
06:48You're correct.
06:49Vanessa, you're so right.
06:50I don't think it wouldn't affect me.
06:51Um...
06:51It's like, about you, it's like, it doesn't matter what other people think.
06:53No.
06:53And in fact, great question, and there is a chapter in the book entitled Dog Shit,
06:59Um, in which I describe how that, um, feeling remained both before and after the Emmy.
07:07Um, it was very awesome to win one, um, and was really exciting and unbelievable.
07:13But, um, no, writing style, um, definitely no.
07:18Um, and how I feel about myself, um, sadly, no.
07:23All the same, anxiety, and sweating disorders.
07:28Um, yeah, I don't know, it's awesome in that moment, and then you just kind of keep on dealing
07:33with yourself, I think.
07:35Ooh.
07:36Right, Vanessa?
07:37I mean, I don't know, but, like, I would think so.
07:39Do you...
07:40No, but, like, you will, but, like...
07:42Well, and it doesn't matter?
07:44No.
07:44Is the thing that that...
07:45It's not a measure of anything.
07:46That's what, like, kind of, like, resonates with me, is that it doesn't matter.
07:51Oh, my God.
07:53Oh.
07:54Anybody else?
07:55Do you look at one?
07:57Well, I don't...
07:58I don't care.
07:59How do you look at one, though?
08:01Well, I don't...
08:02I feel pretty confident about it.
08:03Oh.
08:04Well...
08:06Any other questions?
08:08We're, um, we're sweating a lot.
08:14Yes.
08:15This one's kind of a little bit more serious.
08:16It's, like, people keep saying that it's such a great time for, like, female comedians.
08:21Like, how does that make you feel that you're...
08:24People keep saying it's such a great time for female comedians.
08:27That's a great question.
08:28So, how does it make you feel?
08:29How does it make you feel?
08:30Do you want to answer first?
08:31I'm going to think while you talk.
08:33I always...
08:33I want to know what you think.
08:35It's interesting because I think if you are a female comedian, you're, like, I guess.
08:42Right?
08:43Right.
08:43Like, you don't feel like, yeah, we're really...
08:46Because there still is, like, it feels like there's still a thing of, like, if this female
08:50comedy goes well, that's good for...
08:52Right.
08:52And you're, like, really?
08:53Yeah.
08:54If this...
08:54Like, it feels like every time a female comedy comes out, people are, like...
08:57You better go.
08:58For women.
08:58Yeah.
08:59If it works, women works.
09:00If it doesn't work, women don't work.
09:00Go buy 20 tickets, throw them in the garbage, whether you see it or not, but buy them.
09:04Or it'll never happen again.
09:06And meanwhile, like...
09:08You know, like, male comedy people or whatever, directors are, like, pooping out another turd.
09:15And everyone's, like, this would be amazing.
09:18Yeah.
09:19No worries.
09:20Yeah, I do.
09:22I...
09:22Yes.
09:23Yes.
09:24Like, you said.
09:24Yes.
09:25Yeah, it feels a little...
09:26It feels like...
09:27I think in some ways that is true, but I think in other ways it's, like, the fact that
09:32people keep being, like, it's great for women now, right?
09:35Right.
09:35You're like...
09:36Right.
09:36I guess.
09:37Yeah.
09:38It's, like...
09:39I've sweated through my underwear.
09:41So how great is it?
09:43I...
09:46That's actually kind of the perfect...
09:48Yeah.
09:49Yeah.
09:51I...
09:51I do...
09:52I mean, yeah, it does...
09:53I mean, definitely now more than ever.
09:57There are...
09:58I mean, it is great that there are so many...
10:00I think the fact that there are so many women writing and creating shows, that is something
10:04that was not happening, I don't know, 10 years ago, in terms of the numbers, that's
10:09a big deal.
10:10Women kind of, I think, feeling like there's space to write stuff, and that story is about
10:17women are not in any way trivial.
10:20Yeah.
10:20They're just...
10:22They're your story.
10:23They don't...
10:24They're not...
10:25Can I say less than?
10:26Right.
10:27Yeah.
10:28Well, and I just hope that, like, I feel like when we really...
10:31When it's really a good time for women in comedy, it won't even be like a thing.
10:34Like, women in comedy won't be like a...
10:36Yeah.
10:37It will just be like people.
10:38Yeah.
10:39Comedy.
10:39But, like, you're right.
10:40It is, like, so talked about.
10:41Like, women in comedy, and you're like...
10:44If you have to say...
10:45You know what I mean?
10:45Yeah.
10:46The fact that it's still a topic probably means it's not as awesome as it could be.
10:52Yeah.
10:52We have to make everyone laugh again.
10:57Uh...
10:57Oh.
10:59Oh.
10:59Oh.
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