And during the time I
wanted to be a journalist,
I thought maybe I could, like,
you know, get a job working,
writing stories for newspapers.
Or then I thought, well,
maybe I could go into advertising
or marketing or something like that.
I could become a copywriter that was my
original goal and then I have read a
story or an article in the newspaper.
This sort of said starting
salaries for occupations.
An journalist was like on one of
the lower 100 and I was like,
you know, what? Forget that.
I'm going to go make some money,
so that's what
I did I think that turned out
to be a very wise decision,
so you made you made the leap
into improvisational comedy,
which is a big change.
Did you find that you took
to that pretty easily,
or was that was that tough
to get a whole lot to get to?
You know, reasonably good
at the start. You know I didn't know
that I was good until other people told
me that I was good. You know it was.
I kind of felt that I did have like a
natural affinity to it, I guess. Anne.
The only reason I think that that was
the way it was was because growing
up my brothers and sisters and I,
we will pretend a lot.
So I was very good at pretending Ann.
Let's talk about glory
days. What's the basic premise
of the show? The basic
premise is for young college freshman
starting up their college careers at a
University in the Midwest in Indiana.
They are joining a fraternity.
These are for kids that come from
different backgrounds and they sort
of sort of bond over the experience
of trying to place this fraternity.
I played a college professor.
I'm a liberal political scientist
and I'm going through divorce and
I'm a little bit angry at the world.
An at my ex-wife these kids sort
of helped me get my life together.
An eyesore to advise them on how
to become men. I'm sorry.
Am I
not interesting enough for
you or is this just the first
time you said next to a girl?
No, I mean no. It's I mean,
yes, you are interesting,
but no, this is not the first
time I said next to a girl.
I said yes to lots of girls.
Love it. It's good.
Because from the looks of it,
this may be the only thing
you do with the girl.
Your whole college karere.
Burn you've done a lot of different things.
Improv comedic theater, television,
movies, sitcoms, etc etc.
What's been your favorite?
What has been the most rewarding to you?
The most rewarding of those
things that you mentioned,
I guess, would be the improv.
Anne. I feel because there's no,
there's no editing between
me and the audience.
They they see me coming up with ideas,
is happening and it's really
cool shared experience.
Everything else is second,
I like TV I like.
I like working in general but
just comedically I just feel more
rewarded when I'm performing live
after I'm done performing live.
It's like being in a sporting event.
You come off stage, sweating.
Breathing hard or it's like sex
you come off stage breathing.
You had a good run on Saturday Night
Live on that show for about a decade.
Created a lot of memorable characters.
Was that a good experience for you?
Did you enjoy SNL? I did enjoy SNL.
I just want to say that
when I have sex, I usually
breathe hired after sex.
I just want to go back first. Thank you
for that clarification.
Yeah, 'cause I don't want
there to be the I don't want
people to get the wrong idea.
I'm not good at sex 'cause
I'm really good at it.
But what was the question SNL? Yeah,
I was. I had sex while I
was at SNL. Is that the
question? Yeah, that was the
question where you were you sweating
or we are breathing hard or both.
When you finished on SNL both,
I was breathing hard and.
Oh, but yes, the I
enjoyed working at SNL a lot.
And I mean I miss it occasionally.
Thursday nights when we would have our
rewrite meetings that those are the
nights that really enjoy being there.