[INTRO MUSIC]
Our greetings everyone, and welcome to another episode
of After the Shadows, the show created just for you, the fans.
I'm your host Harvey Guillén.
Today's episode is stacked so let's get going.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
If you love funny and you love Broadway,
boy do we have a show for you.
Please welcome the nicest kids in town Anthony Atamanuik
and Marissa Jaret Winokur.
Hello.
Hello
Thank for-- for coming-- thanks for coming
on the show you guys.
Thanks for having us.
Thanks for having us - Is he the funny and I'm the Broadway?
Does that make me not funny and Broadway?
[LAUGHTER]
Oh my god, and I've been on Broadway!
Together, we are funny and Broadway!
We're funny and Broadway!
And Broadway!
Well, that's my first question.
How did you guys get started--
I mean Marissa I know that--
we talked about this but--
I saw you as Tracy Turnblad on Broadway.
That was like what blew my mind.
Like how did you get started in acting, musical theater and all
that?
Oh my gosh, I was born, and decided
I wanted to be Ethel Merman at the age of like four,
like every little girl does.
And then literally I just did it.
You know there was no social media,
there was no American Idol, there was no way
for me to do it except for community theater
doing my high school productions and then I
was on Broadway at 19
And Anthony you are no stranger
to creating original characters, and also
imitating some famous ones.
You're recently famous for imitating Number 45.
Is that correct?
Yeah, that's unfortunately true, yes.
Yeah, I mean I wish I had Marissa's story but I don't.
How did you get started in comedy and acting and all that?
Well I'm the child of a Broadway singer and dancer.
And my father is a drummer so I grew up in a sort
of performance household.
And then I took a bunch of life detours
and eventually somehow ended up doing this.
And here you are.
Well think about these two characters, OK.
So your neighbors to the vampiric group of friends
that I live with--
I just want to say to my wife--
That's me.
--that I, adore you.
GROUP: Aw.
I mean look at us, you know, it's 11 friends, all together.
It's, pretty amazing.
Yeah.
Holy shit!
It's just like Ocean's 11!
What, did you guys get a group rate or something?
Yes!
I love this woman!
OK
What did you have to do to get into the mindset
of a Staten Island character?
Well I put on a padded bra, and honestly I feel like I just
worked with Anthony.
I didn't have to do anything.
It just felt like I just sort of arrived
and was ready to do the show.
Well I'll say first off, Marissa walked on,
we did not know each other at all.
And within 30 seconds we knew exactly the dynamic.
Which was so hostile that someone I think it was--
didn't-- didn't Kyle go guys like
it's got to not be this angry.
And we both later were like this is
what it was like in our home.
Our characters are not the smartest, but I definitely--
Yes.
-- hearts of gold and clearly love each other.
We love your characters we love Shauny, we love Charmaine.
And you're celebrating a major anniversary here right?
I don't know what year it is but maybe
it's like 20 years, 10 years--
How are you forgetting our anniversary?
You know I-- I honestly--
Charmaine!
I feel like it has to be 25 years.
Well, you know when we have on set,
we always ask the cast to pitch any ideas they might have
or future story lines.
And Marissa, you pitched an idea--
I think, that Charmaine should take Nadja on a shopping spree.
And I think I should take her on a makeover
and do like a full makeover of Nadja.
Because I can't imagine her wearing like tracksuits
from Staten Island I think would be
an amazing moment watching a montage of Nadia
getting to be like Charmaine.
I like that idea.
I love that idea.
I-- I like it I didn't remember what I said,
so I was a little nervous.
Now the producers know about it, they're aware about it,
they know your wishes, so you never know
what the future might hold.
But, Anthony if you had to pitch an idea
what's an idea or storyline that you think by might be Shauny's?
It would be fun to discover something, like, soft
that Shaun does.
Like some secret soft thing like that
he's part of a quilting group.
Or like that he or that like-- or that he likes--
he rescues like birds and like a Wildlife
Refuge in like Staten Island.
I feel like I want to--
I want to find one piece of him that's like gentle.
So that would-- I don't know if that's a moments of a story
line as much as a character aspect,
but because he's such a rough sort of moron.
I like the bird thing maybe we put up--
I'm just going to feed off of this.
This is called working together to come up with a good story--
but, you know the birdhouses that people put up but they put
up bat-- bat houses to keep all the mosquitoes out
of their backyard?
So you put--
Yes.
--we put bat houses in our backyard and we and--
And we capture.
--catch the vampires!
Yes.
Oh you know what, you capture Laszlo,
and then Laszlo watches my day to day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the episode is like-- is a day--
is like a day in a life where Laszlo is kept in a cage--
I love it.
--because because Shaun doesn't want to kill him.
And so you really see the sort of true Shaun and Charmaine
life.
I love it.
I'm-- I'm behind--
Bottle episode, it's cheap too,
producers it's cheap, that's a cheap episode.
You just film it in the house.
Oh wait, we have some questions here
from the audience they wanted to ask you.
And the first question is, how have you been sleeping lately?
Any neck or back pain?
Can you recommend a good pillow?
What you really should do is stop
acting like a bunch of jabronies,
and get like 25 of these things each.
COLIN: Well I don't usually sleep with 25 pillows.
Newsflash, you don't use these, you buy extras.
And then you sell them to your stupid friends,
for a little doe ray me, for yourself.
Oh, the My Pillow
Oh, I was like--
Can I even [LAUGHING] the My Pillow.
Yes, I mean, I sleep great!
Here's another question for you,
hellhound or golden retriever?
Golden retriever!
Hellhou-- I got to say hellhound.
HARVEY (VOICEOVER): Oh!
You're totally opposite, opposites attract see.
[LAUGHTER]
Before we move on to our game our, world famous game,
we have one last question it's really important.
And this one got over 36,000 likes so here it is.
What's it like working with me?
Harvey, it is a dream to work with you.
And you know how I know that?
I haven't worked with you yet actually.
We've never had a scene together, have we?
So, that's, what, a dream?
You know I know that we never--
Exactly!
-- work together, so it's been a dream.
Good-- good-- good punch line, right?
[INAUDIBLE] together with him.
He doesn't even remember shooting, Harvey
No spending time with Harvey is the best.
Harvey's--
On set together
--like, no seriously.
It's like the hanging out--
I'll say that the hanging out on the show--
is some of the best hanging out of any show I've worked on.
We love having you on the show.
Thank God.
We love hanging out with you guys and who knows season
four starts soon, so you never know if Shauny and Charmaine
may be popping in again.
So, I'm excited.
So, have you guys heard of this game?
It's our famous game.
You've heard what New York minute,
but have you heard of a Staten Island minute?
I'm going to ask you some rapid fire questions with 60 seconds
on the clock the goal is for you two
to work together to answer as many questions
correctly as you can.
Are you ready?
I'm so competitive this is stressing me out.
OK, ready?
ANTHONY: Yeah and I'm--
HARVEY (VOICEOVER): Clock is ready to go.
Which of the following is Shaun's mother's name?
A. Janice, B. Joan.
Janice.
Oh, it's Joan!
Aw!
HARVEY (VOICEOVER): Last season, Shaun gifts Charmaine what?
A. Nadja's necklace or B. A new ring.
A, A.
That's right, Nadja's ring--
Nadja's necklace next, next.
HARVEY (VOICEOVER): All right the author of the first ever
Dracula book is named A. Abraham Stoker, or B. William Faulkner.
The author if there's ever Dracula book.
I feel like it's a--
A, A.
A, correct!
Correct, moving on.
Oh did we already hit the clock?
No, no, no keep going
HARVEY (VOICEOVER): Tonight's episode, Guillermo's mastermind
way into taking over power.
What year did Christopher Columbus sail to America?
A. 1492 or B. 1462.
Isn't it A. 1492?
Yes, that's correct.
OK moving on to--
[BUZZER] oh we're out of time.
No, do one more, do one more.
OK, do one more, do one more OK.
OK what is Nadia and Laszlo last name?
A. Ravensworth or B. Cravenworth.
I'm going to say B.
That's correct.
Yay, you got four.
That was pretty good, so far that seems to be the average
score four, five, so you guys are probably in second place as
of now, I would say.
Ugh.
Yeah, well guys that's all the time we have for this show.
And is there anything you want to tell
the fans who we do the show for, anything
you want to say Marissa?
Oh no, just I love this show and I am so grateful to be
a part of this show.
So I'm also a fan.
So I do--
I will say that I watched the movie What We Do
in the Shadows years ago, I turned to my cousin who
put it on for me.
And I said, man, I go I wish I could be
a part of something like that.
Like that would be so great to be in something.
That's-- that's what I want to be in.
And the fact that I even get to do this be a part of it is like
it's-- it's truly like, you know, like rock and roll
fantasy camp or whatever?
It's like it feels like just a dream to get to come do it
and to work with all of you.
Far more talented, and better governed people than me.
Well, again Thank you guys so much for coming on the show.
We love having you on the show and off the show.
So please join us whatever because we love you we
love Shawnee we love Charmaine they're
the best neighbors ever, so thank you again for joining us.
Thank you
All right, thank you.
Bye work-wife.
Bye!
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