-You had a wonderful week.
-Yeah, exactly. -The Emmys were just a delight.
I was lucky enough to see you
right after you won your first one.
-Yes.
-There was sort of a backstage bar,
and I'm standing with Bill Hader,
and you came in the room,
and everybody's very happy for you.
And Bill said, "How are you?"
And you had an Emmy in your hand and you said, "I'm really well."
[ Laughter ]
And I thought that was a very honest
yet also very British way of responding to how...
-"Very well, thank you." -...your night had been going.
I mean, obviously,
it was beyond your wildest dreams to win three Emmys.
-Yeah. I mean... [ Laughs ]
I still, even hearing you say it there
makes me go, "No, that didn't happen.
That just happened in my head." -Was this a situation
where, looking back you, you were just happy to be there,
and then it just went so beyond?
-Yeah, and we had a whole gang --
Like, the team that makes "Fleabag" is quite small,
and we'd all come out for it, so it just felt like we were
the kind of naughty kids trying to get in through the back door.
And then we got there, and then we were like, "Oh, no!
What's happening? This is terrible."
I feel like we were stealing them.
[ Laughter ] -And everybody reminds you --
You know, they say, even if you don't think
you have a chance to win, you have to write a speech,
but no one says, "Write three speeches."
[ Laughter ]
So, at the end of the night, you really have to
show your chops as a writer to come up with new stuff to say.
-Yeah, that was -- that was a horrible moment
when I was like, "What if...?"
And they're like, "You don't want to tempt fate."
And so I think just repeating the jokes...
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-Like, wow, really.
It's so blurry what actually happened that night.
I mean, it was -- it was amazing.
-I think, again, you --
You looked very glamorous that night,
and then I think there are people that think
there is something glamorous to writing.
I don't know if you were young --
When I was young, I thought of writing
as this really glamorous endeavor that...
-Yeah. -...you do with a, you know,
coffee and in a... -Or a whiskey.
-...cozy room and just -- [ Laughter ]
And I thought it was really lovely
that you posted this photo.
This is on your way to the Emmys.
-Yeah. -You were writing.
-Yeah. -Which is, uh...
-Yeah. No rest. -No rest.
-No rest for a writer. -I think this is such
a helpful thing to young writers is,
even Phoebe Waller-Bridge was late with a script.
Is that accurate? If you're writing...
-Oh, oh, that is not the first time, either.
[ Laughter ] Very much.
Yeah, that was honestly, I closed --
We got the deadline just as we were pulling in,
and it was like -- [ Breathes deeply ]
"Okay! Let's go." [ Laughter ]
-It just speaks to, again, the complete --
It seems like people are on the top of the world.
You have so little power that, even on the night of the Emmys,
people were like, "Where is the script, Phoebe?"
-I know! I know.
It's actually -- And it's kind of -- It was --
I was writing the end of the book of the scripts
that's coming out, and I was writing all these,
like, emotional bits about the people who had, you know,
really influenced it.
And so I actually got myself really riled up
before I went there, 'cause I was like,
"My director was just such an amazing guy."
[ Laughter ]
So, I was really -- I was really in the right place.
But it is -- Yeah, I mean, it's right up to the line.
-And that is -- So you're writing, sort of,
this is a collection of all the "Fleabag" scripts
that's gonna be for a book. -Yeah.
-Now I would assume then, after you win three Emmys,
the publisher probably says,
"Hey, you want to rewrite the ending?"
'Cause, I mean, you really did add on a fantastic post-script
to the entire thing. -What? What do you mean?
-Well, the book. I feel like now, like,
in the part of the book that you have the "Fleabag" scripts,
I feel like you should add, "Also, right as I finish this,
I went out and won three Emmys." -Oh, no.
That would be amazing. -Yeah, yeah.
-Yeah, yeah. I mean, as I was finishing it,
I was like, "And I'm on my way to the Emmys."
[ Laughter ] But yeah.
-I know you had said that this was the end of "Fleabag,"
and it certainly has as wonderful an ending
as you could ever want for a piece of television.
But I've also heard you say that maybe years from now,
you might revisit the character. Is there something...?
-Yeah, I quite like the idea of coming back to her when --
Well, me, when I'm 50. -Right.
-'Cause I feel like she would've had, you know,
more life then, and God knows what she would have got up to.
And actually seeing a character like that
in her later stage of life, I think, is exciting.
But I think, for now, she's been through enough.
-Yeah, she's -- [ Laughter ]
-We got to let her go. -Let's let her have some rest.
-Yeah. -Well-deserved rest.
"SNL" this week, you're at the very beginning of the week.
-Yeah. -Is this a show
you had any sense of, growing up in England?
-Yeah, but only really through YouTube and stuff.
I mean, everyone was sharing all the skits and the clips
and everything, but we didn't -- it was never aired in the U.K.
So I didn't know the madness that it is
and how you create it and how it's written and how fast.
You know, we just thought it was a sketch show, like,
that you have time to prepare for.
-Right, right. [ Laughter ]
-And turns out you don't. -You really don't.
I mean, because at this point -- Again, so it's Tuesday night.
You have a show on Saturday, and it's safe to say --
I know from experience --
you haven't seen a single word yet.
You haven't -- -No.
-Yeah. -No.
I mean, when do they do it? [ Laughter ]
Yeah, I've heard that today's
the kind of calm before the storm.
-Yeah, I think tomorrow -- I'm gonna check in
with you tomorrow just to see where you're at.
-Yeah. Can you just help me? Can you just help me with it?
-Yeah, I'll try a little bit. Yeah.