Hi everyone it's Seth Rudetsky doing this Obsessed and I film a lot of them in a row so Andrea Martin was scheduled to do this one
And my filming was going a little long, so I literally texted her,
I wrote "I'm filming right before you in the room so wait in the hallway" and she wrote "wow. not since my audition for Oklahoma!"
So cut to- I wanted to know if she was here yet, so I walked out literally no joke
This is what I saw so right around the corner
(vocalizing)
is it my turn?
(vocalizing)
literally just committing to the joke literally just sitting
Literally borrowed a picture and resume to make it look like. Let's do it.
Okay there we go. Thank you
Thank you very much
Okay, so now we're actually here so Andrea's here promoting her book
Andrea Martin's Lady Parts.
Yeah. I'm also here cuz I love Seth Rudetsky.
ok ass kissing
Obsessed with this book. First of all it's called Lady Parts
But in the Playbill article, it said Steve Martin wanted you to call it "perky pits"
"Perky pits" so I call Andrea
and I I read the article and I thought "oh, maybe Playbill won't allow the real word"
So I just let it go, so then Seth
I was like perky pits
What's happening? So Andrea hesitantly wrote Andrew Gans turns out he didn't hear her through the phone and Steve Martin actually wanted to call the book
perky t**s
Wanted to call the book perky t**s. We're gonna keep beeping that out.
perky t**s
Beeping it out. Ok there's a whole chapter. Whole chapter on that okay? The book is amazing second thing
I want to say is that there's an entire chapter
all about the making of ScTV
Obsessed with that because I grew up with it. But the whole thing is sort of like musings about her life
I mean, it's it's in and out
It's just fascinating but the point of all that scTV talk about Edith quickly, your character.
How the hell did you come up with that go and by the way
I asked her to tell...she goes "that old chestnut story" but tell the damn story it takes five seconds go
You know there isn't a lot about show business in this book startlingly enough
No, my mother-in-law is obsessed with it. Andrea thinks its for all women over 64 go
And young boys who are just coming to terms through their homosexuality under 23
That's what this book is for
Runs the gamut. Edith Prickley. so we're doing Second City, and I'm in Second City with Catherine O'Hara and John Candy
Eugene Levy and
Joe Flaherty, and you know in improv. I don't know if you know, but in all improv usually at the end of the evening
There's a set show and then they take the actors take suggestions from the audience about what scenes
the audience would like to see performed so the audience yelled out "do a
Parent/teacher scene where the teacher- where the parents have delinquent kids" so that was the seat that was a suggestion?
We rushed backstage. I see Catherine O'Hara's leopard
Jacket and leopard hat that it was her mother's from the 50s that she brought backstage
We brought each other we brought costumes from our homes
I put the leopard jacket on put the hat on found some black glasses, and I put them on
I had, there was some red lipstick there
And I put that on I knocked on the door at the teacher conference and Catherine says you must be
Did she say Mrs. Prickly?
I think so. Yeah
You must be Mrs. Prickly, and I said that's right dear
Edith's the name
Sebastian's the game HA. and the character was invented. Now Catherine
reminded me though that- and I had forgotten this- that every night for 10 days she tried a different name like yeah
Yeah, she tried a different name like you must be you know Mrs...
Anderson and Prickly stuck and I still have that jacket, still have the hat and we still do it
I mean, we still do it, do the show, her show and literally wear the same costume, okay, so
Lin Manuel Miranda from In the Heights is obsessed with SCTV like I am
obsessed with Edith Prickly and he and Andrea wrote this rap together for Edith Prickly
That's actually in the book and I thought we'd superimpose like a little Edith Prickly on her. We do some of the rap. This is by
Lin Manuel Miranda because literally it's the coolest. I'm ever gonna be just saying his name with my name
Makes me cool. Okay, exactly yeah
What am I supposed to do shrivel up and cry now? menopause and then applause thank you can I die now?
What, I'm pushing 60 suddenly I'm sickly? hey suck this dixie cup
I'm Edith Prickly
Now I'm worried that performance actually made Lin-Manuel Miranda less cool. See doesn't go that way
1 2 3
I'm prickly and I'm loud, I'm prickly and I'm proud I'm wearing leopard print so you can pick me in a crowd
doubly uncool
I was amazing
Okay, also the book has one of my favorite stores
It's not a lot of show business, but there's a whole chapter on ScTV and one whole chapter on Broadway
And she does this great story about Young Frankenstein, please tell that story about how you sort of sassed Mel Brooks, but not really go
Well, I was very intimidated around Mel Brooks because you know he's an icon in the comedy world
And he's a genius and he's still going strong, and he's in his 80s, and I worship him
I was really intimidated so we were in Seattle in tryouts with Young Frankenstein and
There was a scene that I thought "oh God love to add a line here"
"I don't know" but I was too scared to ask Mel, so I called Nathan Lane and
Marty Short who of course worked with Mel and I said
What should I do? and they both said
"try the line out in the show, don't tell Mel, and if it gets a laugh believe me he'll let you keep it in" so
This was the scene.
This is how it was supposed to be first. She was Frau Blucher so I'll be Dr
Frankenstein and Sutton Foster's next to me you know she's angled, looking amazing and knocks on the castle door,
Good evening
And welcome Dr. Frankenstein
And who may I ask is this lovely young creature.
This is my new laboratory assistant Inga
Assistant ah
How do you do?
So that was basically what it was supposed to be so this is what Andrea added to the show one night
Good evening. And welcome Dr. Frankenstein
And who may I ask is this lovely young creature?
Mrs. Inga my new laboratory assistant
Assistant, huh? So that's what they're calling them these days
How do you do?
Just a side note- I A) started laughing B) messed up my line
Wait, so what happened go?
So it got a huge laugh from the audience
and
Mel came backstage after the show and he knocked on my dressing room door, and he said it's in but no credit
And finally another reason to read this book. I'm telling you my mother in law really loves this book
You know she's like "oh, I know Andrea. I like it." She loved this book there
It's like 40 chapters and all these great stories slice-of-life. It's really wonderful, and it's also gets really dark
can I just read the quote on the cover from Tina Fey? Literally from Tina Fey
I asked Tina Fey at my birthday party if she would give a quote about Andrea,
if she'd read the book and oh my God
She doesn't have time
Read the whole book and this is the quote "I have loved Andrea Martin from afar for many
years, but now after reading this funny and heroically honest book. I would like to take things to the next level and marry her"
It's such a great quote! Okay, finally. This is the ending of the book which I'm obsessed with: spoiler alert? at the ending
But I'm just obsessed with this story
It was your idea to put it at the end! - I love that
I think it's a great summation. It's cool. Yeah, I'll be I'll act it out. So this is true
Oh, I've got new contacts, hope I can read this. This is the epilogue. A couple of years ago
I was spending the afternoon at the Whitney Museum in New York taking in all the wondrous art of Edward Hopper
I saw out of the corner of my eye a woman staring at me and then she averted her gaze.
"Oh God," I thought, "Can't a celebrity get some downtime without being bothered by her fans? Is there always
Paparazzi lurking about?
Don't I deserve a little privacy? Am I gonna have to pull an Alec Baldwin and punch her out?" At that moment
I felt a tap on my shoulder
It was the woman. She spoke quietly and hesitantly
"Excuse me. I don't mean to bother you, but are
you Cher's mother?"
True story. Gotta go