-I want to congratulate you.
I know I've talked to you a little,
but I don't think you've been here since "Shrill" came out.
-It's true. -It's just a fantastic show.
-Oh. -And you have a second season.
And you're gonna film it out in Portland this summer, right?
-Yes, I damn am. -[ Laughs ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
And I know -- You know, it was so great
because obviously you have a show like that.
And it is very much your show.
You are driving the show.
I know you have a hand in creating the show.
And when you do press about it, it must be different
than when you get interviewed about "SNL"
because it is a far more personal show.
-Totally, yeah.
I mean, the show is about, like,
a woman finding her self-confidence
and hating her body and deciding to stop hating herself.
And so, you know, like, "SNL," they're like,
"What's it like in the wacky wigs?"
And then when I do press about "Shrill,"
the questions are like,
"So you've hated yourself for many years."
[ Laughter ]
And I'm like, "Yeah!" [ Laughter ]
And it's -- There's nothing like back-to-back digging in
with people being like, "So, must be tough to wear T-shirts."
[ Laughter ]
I'm like, "Yeah, I guess."
[ Laughter ]
-Your husband, Conner, who's a wonderful guy,
who I've known for a long time, and your family,
did they have a different experience watching the show
versus watching you on "SNL"?
-Yeah. I think they were weirdly more nervous for it
because it is so much more personal and it is, like,
you know, a little bit --
There's -- Parts of my life are in there.
And I think for them it was a lot to take
because there's, like, some sex scenes.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-You know?
Yeah, if you want to see my ass, check it out.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That's a resounding "yes."
-That's a -- If you want it, you've got it.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I do what I have to to make money.
-Yes. [ Laughter ]
This is all about money.
This is not titillating for her. It's just about money.
-Cash. [ Laughter ]
-The season finale is this week. -Oh, yeah.
-You've had a great season.
And you did some impressions this year,
and you did one of Anne McClain, who is a female astronaut.
-Yes. -And she tweeted.
-From space! -From space.
From space she tweeted, "I am still laughing about this,
and, Aidy, your uniform looks impeccable!"
-I can't handle it.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Because, I mean, it's easily the coolest thing
that's ever happened to me.
It means that she watched the sketch in space.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-My face has been to space.
[ Laughter ]
Like -- Yes.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It was the coolest thing.
And she gave, like -- In space she gave an interview about it
where they, like, asked --
she's floating in the air and they're like, "Did you like it?"
And she was like, "It was the laugh we needed this week."
[ Laughter ]
And I was like, "Are you telling me I'm helping the astronauts?"
[ Laughter ] It touched me so --
It was easily the coolest thing that's ever happened to me.
-That is fantastic. -Yeah.
-I am a little sad that Twitter made it to space.
-Yeah. -You know, just in general.
-And I hear you.
-Yeah, I feel like it is a virus
that I hoped we could contain on our planet.
[ Laughter ]
-I know. -It's spreading.
-You're right. -It's spreading to the --
-Yeah. [ Applause ]
-Meghan McCain was on the show.
You did a Meghan McCain impression this year,
and she was here
and she was talking about how she enjoyed that.
You guys have a crazy connection.
-Yeah, it's really -- We're both Arizona women.
That is true.
And we weirdly -- We also went to the same high school.
-Yeah.
-And so I watched her on your show.
And in it she's like,
"Yeah, you know, Aidy and I went to the same high school."
And she, like, shouts out our high school,
and is like, "Whoop, whoop! Yeah, Xavier College Prep!"
And I definitely was like,
"Oh, man, we had different experiences of high school."
[ Laughter ]
Like, I was like, "For her, it was a 'whoop, whoop!'"
[ Laughter ]
And for me it was the darkest opposite.
[ Laughter ]
And I really was like, "Oh, okay, okay."
Like, I'll tell you, I recently found a self-portrait
that I drew in class of myself in high school.
I think you have it. -Yeah.
-But just to warn you before you show it, it's incredibly scary.
[ Laughter ] Okay?
But I think it's fun to know that, like, Meghan McCain
in her mind, high school is "Whoop, whoop!"
And for me it's this, which is...
[ Laughter ]
This is -- Okay. [ Cheers and applause ]
I think something that I love about -- It's very subtle.
-Yeah, yeah. [ Laughter ]
-And that's -- My school had a uniform.
So I'm wearing the uniform, and I'm behind bars.
[ Laughter ]
And then I assume that's sort of blood on the walls?
[ Laughter ]
Or sort of red paint.
-They were like,
"Aidy, we got your submission for the yearbook cover."
[ Laughter ]
"And we are going to go another way."
-And that is fair.
I have to say it was, like, 2005.
It was kind of cool to be emo, and I was living that very hard.
[ Laughter ]
Dipping my toe into goth.
-I do think people that go, "Woot, woo"
are not the ones who end up in comedy.
So I do think that it makes sense that you ended up
being the version of Meghan McCain that's on "SNL."
-Yeah, absolutely, begging people, in wigs, to like me.
For sure. [ Laughter ]
-So we mentioned your husband, Conner.
You guys went to Italy. -Yes.
-This summer?
-Well, yeah, this past summer.
-This past summer and you --
you went to a cheese factory, I guess?
What do you call it?
-Absolutely, cheese factory.
[ Laughter ]
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we went to Italy which --
they were like,
"Oh, it's the most romantic place for a honeymoon.
Oh, the romance."
And right away when we got there, they were like,
"There's also a cheese factory."
[ Laughter ]
And we were like, "That's for us."
[ Laughter ]
And while we were there, one of the women was like,
"You need to slow down eating the cheese."
[ Laughter ]
"There's such a long day.
You must not eat all this cheese."
But here's -- I think this is a --
We had to wear full-body condoms to go...
[ Laughter ]
...into the cheese factory.
But it's the -- Still to this day, it's guiding our marriage.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
And how does it work?
I mean, is it just like -- they just are constantly, like,
saying, "This is what this cheese tastes like"?
-Okay, well, it was only one kind of cheese.
[ Laughter ]
It was Parmigiano-Reggiano.
And it's basically you're just watching men
who are exhausted and are working so hard.
And you're, like, watching them
lift, like, huge chunks of cheese.
[ Laughter ]
And then you kind of walk around and taste it.
And we still talk about it probably once a week.
-Wow. [ Laughter ]
That is outstanding. Living the dream.
-Abs-- This is love.
[ Laughter ]
-It is so exciting that you're gonna do season two of "Shrill."
-Thank you.
-And it is so great that this week is the season finale.
Another great year for you.
Give it up, everybody. Aidy Bryant.