Well, this weekend Spokane born comedian
Julia Sweeney will be filming her newest
comedy special at the Fox Theater,
and it's called Julia Sweeney
Older and wider. Well, sweetie,
of course is an SNL alum and an accomplished
standup comedian as well and actress
and some of her most recent work.
Includes shrill on Hulu and American gods.
That's right, and this morning we are
welcoming her to the crib to studio,
and we're so excited because
she is our first in person.
Guest in forever. So good morning, Julia.
Thank you so much for being here.
We're so excited. Yeah,
it's good to have people
back in the studio. Kind of.
Feels like we're getting back to normal.
This is the first in person.
Thing I've done it over
two way yeah wow yeah,
so tell us more about your show
that will be here in Spokane.
We're super excited for this
one. Very excited.
I'm filming my show on Saturday at
4:00 o'clock and 8:00 o'clock and
the show is about an hour and a
half so it'll take about 2 hours
and if people come you'll kind of
see the behind the scenes of how a
film you know people are used to it,
but it's kind of fun to be there with
the cameras and it's meaningful to me,
because that's where I had my first job.
No Fox Theater,
and really all of my formative.
Movie watching experiences.
'cause it was a movie theater then came
from the fox which shaped my life so much.
It's such a beautiful theater.
Oh my God, it's so it was not.
It was not beautiful
then no. Before the remodel of it
in that in 2000 they had put
like walls up in front of all
the beautiful art deco stuff.
It was really awful,
but it's so nice to see it now.
I mean, it's really
such a jewel in Spokane.
The Fox Theater
standing and you have a lot of local ties
including ties to CRIM. 2, that's right.
That's right. My dad was a sportscaster
here in the early 60s. In fact,
I used to see him on TV doing the sports.
No way, yeah, Bob Sweeney, Bob,
sweetie? Yeah yeah, I love that.
So you obviously are spoken girl.
You used to. You grew up here.
What are some of your
favorite memories of Spokane,
and how does it feel to be back?
It feels great.
It really feels like home.
I have many girlfriends in Spokane
that I still get along with,
some of which I've known since kindergarten.
In fact, we just did a five day
thing in Palm Springs together.
And so I have a lot of
ties that way and I guess.
Well, where I'm staying at
my brothers condos right by
Marycliff where I went to high
school so I walked through there
and that's a really meaningful
place for me and managing park.
Of course yeah.
So many great places here
absolutely and so. Now tell us a
little bit about your comedy special
that's coming up this weekend 'cause
I know a lot of people I'm sure.
Know you from your days and
Saturday Night Live so what's
what can we expect this weekend?
Well, I've done.
This is my third really big
one person show that I've done.
The first one was I did on Broadway.
God said, ha, that was all about
my brother and I having cancer.
Hilarious, and then I did another
show about religion and now I'm
doing this show and it's really
about being older and wider.
I'm raising a kid and launching a kid.
It's about I'm having my parents
age and it's just about my how I
kind of put my family together.
'cause I adopted my daughter and
married my husband a little bit later.
So we're kind of put together,
family and our travels and us
being together through this time.
During the quarantine,
I love that really quickly tell us
one more time about your shows.
Where to get tickets and the dates.
It's on Saturday,
March 26th at 4:00 o'clock and 8:00 o'clock.
Expect to spend about 2 hours.
It's only $25 today.
Prices low because I'm really,
you know, you're part of the
comedy special right now.
And yeah, that's what it is you'll come in.
They'll be cameras there.
It'll be fun and quick,
relatively speaking, and a meaningful.
I hope so. I love that,
and that's what's happening, yeah,
yeah, and Julia, we made a
keyword for you on our show.
So really, when people text in
the word Julia to 509-448-2000,
we're gonna send you a link to the
confirmation page where you can
then buy tickets to the from the
phone. And I guess you
could just go to the fox.
You know Web page 2 or call Fox,
but I know you want them to go through.
Well, Julia, thank you so much
for joining us. Yes, thank you.
We're looking forward to seeing everything
that you have coming up next
and maybe getting a sneak peak
of that show. Yeah, good?
Alright, we'll be right back.