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And, you know, people that book you and whether it's in a theater or like a festival or some like, just come in and have a drink. And I'm like, I'm going to have a drink. Just come in and have a drink. It's kind of weird one-off that you do. It's like, they can be welcoming and like, leave a basket for you or whatever it is. I just went to this, this, it was a first year book, a writer's festival. And I have, and I don't want to take away anything from the way, the kindness of how other people have treated me. This experience, was like, I felt, oh my, you guys, I, it was in Kinderhook, New York, in upstate New York. I felt what I kept picturing was, I'm not looking for this kind of attention, but the way they did it, I was like, I can get used to this. I felt like Cinderella when like the little birds would come and bring things. And this, you know how, have you, you've been in, I don't know how much time you spend in upstate New York, but sometimes it can be hit or miss. It can be like a little too rustic or, you know, a bed and breakfast can have a real like bed, you know, it looks cute from the outside, but it's not great on the, this was picturesque start to finish. I pull up to the hotel. I'm like, well, this is cute. I go in and then these, um, I think it was a, a lesbian couple that just opened a restaurant out there. They made me, and I'm not exaggerating the most delicious meal of my lifetime. Oh, this goes on. So I, I have, they, they made me this curry, tofu, curry, vegan meal. And then it was like, oh, do you want a seasonal salad? And I thought, I don't know if I need a seasonal salad. Then I just thought, sure. Why not a seasonal salad? I ate a bite of the seasonal salad. And then I was like, this is the most delicious thing I've ever had in my life. And then I went, well, now I'll try the tofu curry. Most delicious thing I've had in my life. And then I was like, I don't need to go back to the salad. Cause this is so good. And then I went back to the salad and I was like, no, this is better than the tofu curry. And I kept doing that back and forth. I opened. So are you like sitting by your, I'm sitting by myself in the hotel room watching for your reaction. Don't know. Don't care. I know I'm, I'm alone in my hotel room. Okay. Okay. Then I opened my closet. You guys, do you know my obsession? Yes. Do you know how much I love the actress Deborah Winger? Yes, we do. Okay. Yeah. Hands down. My favorite actor of all time. I open the closet door. There is a vintage 1970s t-shirt hanging in the closet from my favorite movie from Gillies, the saloon that's in Texas in the movie. It's from the 70. I'm like, what? Wow. Then I walk over princess. I'm like, I'm telling you, I don't, I am not princess vibes like giving it to you, baby. It sounds like they've curated an experience specifically for you. And not just me. The whole event was so incredible. Then. Oh, I'm just walking by the desk. Okay. And I see this very beautiful hardcover book. I don't focus on what the book is, but I thought, what is this? It's Chrissy Hines art book that they have put in my room. My favorite, like one of my favorite singers of all time. Wow. And, and so it's a hardcover book of Chrissy Hines paintings. I'm like, what? And, and then also local some locals gave like soap to me. So I have my show at the town hall. So fun. All I did was open talking about how unbelievable my time was before I even did my show. And I'm in my hotel room going when all of this, these gifts were given to me and the food and the hotel. So I was alone. I said to myself, where the hell am I? And I got on Google images. I was like, what is this town? Where were you? Kinderhook, New York. Kinderhook. Then I go to town hall. Yeah. It's like, it is what it sounds like. I have such a fun show. And beforehand I had texted my assistant saying, Hey, how long do I have to be at the meet and greet after? Well, after this experience, I was like, I'm going to that meet and greet. And it was at the bookstore where the woman owned the bookstore and behind the bookstore key, just know that the bookstore and the backyard of the bookstore was exactly what you would hope upstate New York is the food that was catered by the lesbian couple, the music that was performing that was in the corner. And I think they're the ones that made the soap. And then a woman comes up to me with a pail of handpicked flowers from her own garden. Wow. That she brought me. Oh my God. That's your dream. Dude, this is, I mean, the bar is high now. This is like gratitude journal type stuff. This is. I did. I, I normally in those situations, I'm like, Oh, I don't know what I'm walking into. I don't know if who's going to be weird or over step or nobody did. No one, even the woman that brought me there. I had to hunt her down to introduce myself. She wasn't hovering. Okay. So we're, so we're okay. If you're listening, and you've, you, you're a fan of TIGs, you want to endear yourself to TIG, but you're nervous because you know, TIG doesn't like certain to be touched and stuff. This is what to do. This is like leave curated, curated gifts and kindness, but, but where you go just to enjoy. And then that's the thing is I don't need to be Cinderella. I don't need those things. I was just so blown away. And then also side note, you know, who else was at the festival the day after I left? And I was like, damn, I wish I love to see her perform. Natalie merchant. Nice from 10,000 maniacs. These are the days. Okay. Natalie is sitting front row at my, at my show. And then she's at the after party and we stay up all night talking and laughing and listening to Bob Seger together. I don't even know how to tell you my dreams came true. And I didn't know these were my dreams. This is crazy. You should check astrologically. This is like things were aligning. There was a full moon lunar eclipse without that's supposed to bring about emotional chaos this sounds smooth sailing like you were in the flow of synchronicity and life oh my god yeah it was it was such i was like wait you like bob seger i love bob seger and we're like me and natalie merchant are like exchanging bob seger songs and anyway i just wanted to share that i had the greatest time in kinderhook new york but also i don't want people to misinterpret that as i think i am cinderella and i need things brought to me or oh i forgot to tell you when i had my other podcast don't ask tig where i had advice yeah yeah i had reese witherspoon on and somebody had asked about she she was like oh i've been thinking about opening a bookstore and i don't know if i should yeah and i was like you should you should open it well if i understand correctly the woman who put this festival together she was listening to that episode and i think she said she had a pop-up bookstore her father had died recently and she listened to my advice to that person and she was like i should open my bookstore no way and so it was all that folded in and it was just a magical beautiful time i really like that then also that it came from a very authentic place then that then being like you brought this into my life so we're here's this yes experience for you that's nice i felt and i told stephanie i said i can't this is not a word i would normally use and i personally as tig i felt so nourished by that experience you know just that like real you know it's you walk through airports or places and people grab your arm they're like oh i'm a fan or can i get a selfie it wasn't that vibe it was like it was it felt like yeah and appreciation yeah and it just was so upstate dreamy yeah i picked your flowers i made your food it sounds like yeah like how you want your birthday to be you want your loved ones to just kind of plan something that goes smoothly with all the things you love like oh my i truly i said to natalie i was like i don't stay up this late i was like this is so insane and i'm just hanging out at a meet and greet well i mean she was i was so nourished i was so nourished and then on my way out of town i went to natalie's youtube page this woman's a hit machine i need to look up natalie merchant machine and then she sent me a curated music song list for me to listen to on my journey what is that she likes just stuff songs that she loves yeah that's great and she's doing incredible things in her life anyway really cool people really really cool her neighbor was there her manager and all the locals i was just like i love a neighbor on i just had to get that out of my system it was it was magical it was so magical i love how excited you are we love to see a girl happy we love to see our girl happy for sure and a little pampered yeah that's nice man anyway i wish that for everybody thomas do you remember that question on don't ask tig i do yeah that is so cool in that yeah i remember that too nice you remember one i remember that question too do you really yeah i remember that episode yeah oh how funny yeah anyway um that's what it turned into down the road is um a magical magical night that's wild love this for you my friend thank you my friend meanwhile old bingo and bongo over here what have we been up to what's going on bingo and bongo yeah how are you fortune i got i went to see um i went to the premiere of practical magic too oh yeah and i got to see sandra bullock and nicole kidman in the flesh yes sandy sandy i got to see sandy yeah sandy sandy sandy yeah i love that's my that's one of my um celebrity crushes is sandy bullock oh really yes i thought that was in the back of my mind yeah somewhere yeah she looked incredible and they were so funny in that movie i re-watched the first one and then to prepare to prepare yeah in the daytime and then the second one they're they're like a comedy double act they're really funny that's cool but i got pretty stressed about what to wear and uh i wore a black t-shirt and black pants and then i brought another t-shirt in case parv likes my other t-shirt better and then i but i didn't have a bag with me and so then i showed up and didn't know what to do and then i ended up throwing the t-shirt in the garbage because i didn't have anywhere to carry it it was weird yeah i threw in the garbage i was i panicked i was like money to burn man like i could have tucked it behind the garbage i don't know yeah but it was a good inspiring movie we need more like witches and women power and i i think that's what's it's gonna take those kind of movies yeah for a big cultural revolution like we had flower power i think we need actual sorcery like like a woman to tap into yeah yeah i think that's gonna be the thing okay be the thing what do you mean for what to finally bring about a new world order or to to shake up the the patriarchy and and fix this bring in the witches yeah bring in we all need to tap into 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Most adults don't go in costume. Yeah, Parv was Mrs. Potts. I was Lumiere. Alma was Chip. Very cute. And so we'd rewatch the, I'm rewatching a lot of movies, I guess, but we'd rewatch Beauty and the Beast prior. And Chip is the little teacup with the chip in it. And it was like, do I have to sleep in the cupboard, you know? And so Parv's daughter was really excited for Chip to come on in the musical. And then they'd done this cool thing where they had a kid playing Chip, but he was just a head. So the cup is on a table and it's like a magic trick where he has no body. It looks like just a floating head. But that horrified Alma. She was like, he's just a head. And we were like, no, there is a body. It's somewhere in there. She was like, just a head? That's so funny. Yeah, but then we left it intermission because she's fallen asleep. The first half was like, I mean, Be Our Guest, that song, they made it a 15-minute, they're adding dance breaks. Oh, my God. And this is which movie? Beauty and the Beast, but the musical on stage. Yeah, they have to take into consideration kids are there. Yeah. And their attention span is not great. And take all the F-bombs out. Yeah, take those F-bombs out and Be Our Guest is about five minutes. Did I ever? I'll tell you the story of my friend who, when she was in elementary school, she told her mother that the teacher told all the students to come dressed as their favorite author. Did I tell you this story? Go on. No, I don't think so. So her mother sewed a Dr. Seuss costume with a big floppy hat. For her to go to school in. And she went to school dressed like that, only to find out there was a misunderstanding that the teacher said, we will address our favorite authors on Friday. Oh, my God. So she was at school with a big floppy hat dressed like Dr. Seuss. But also, Dr. Seuss didn't dress like the cat in the hat, but I get, yeah. Well, you know, it's a kid. That's a representation of it. Yeah, yeah. That's pretty funny. Anyway, how are you doing, Fortune? Yeah, what's going on with you? Oh, God. Man, I'm glad that we record this podcast regularly so that we have a regular check-in with our bud. We have storylines. We've got things to track and follow. Some days are good. Some days are average. Some days are terrible, but we still show up. That sounds like a Dr. Seuss. Here's what I can say. What can I say? Hmm. In my career, things are fantastic. Thank God. Well, yeah, you're in the top 100, right? Of the story meter? That's right. Not anymore. Should we check? Not anymore. It's gone, gone, gone. Okay. So thank God. That's my saving grace. There are some things in my life that are very difficult right now. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Yeah. Some things that I talk about, some things I'm not going to talk about right now. Maybe one day. We'll see. Yeah. But yeah, there are things that have been very stressful for me and sad and hard. And it's been a tough time. I had a bit of a rough week. Yeah. You know, it'll ebb and flow for a while. For sure. And then at some point, I will come out the other end of some of the. I just happen to have a couple of very big things happening simultaneously. Yeah. Yes. It's a lot at one time. You will come out the other side. Yeah. So, you know, I'm just trying to get through it. And, you know, having the situation with my mom is the most important thing. Of course. It's one of the hardest of the things, but it makes the other things also happening even that much more difficult. Yeah. Like your capacity is tapped. And I will be ready to have some ease. And so I try not to dwell on it too much. And, you know, I'm not really talking about a lot of it. Or any of it. And so, you know, people, you know, come to my shows. They're very sweet. They send me messages like, you just want to make sure you're okay. I'm good. Like, that's like comedy is my saving grace. Like being on stage, everything is so fun. Like I'm not going out there and pretending to be happy. I'm genuinely so happy to be on stage and to be like it is my respite is going out there and hearing people laugh. And so that is definitely getting me through some, some tricky times. Well, so yeah, thanks for asking. We all, we all need a little tenderness and maybe some extra tenderness right now. And friends to vent to. My friends have all been awesome. All you guys. And I text my, you know, you guys, I text everybody in my life. But that's, I'm close to, and they give me, you know, everyone gives me encouragement and love and, and that's the, you know, my, my family and my friends are carrying me through. Well, you're the hardest working person we know. No one deserves rest and love and peace more than you. Tenderness. Tenderness and care. And I want to say. Tenderness. Yes. Nourishing. I'll use the word again. You need to be nourished. I've gotten your texts, but I have, I wanted to tell you, I've also been getting faxes from you. Yeah. I haven't seen you a lot of faxes. It's just drawings of cats. I appreciate it. Puppies. And that's giving me tenderness. Yes. You gotta go to Kinderhook. I know. I need my soul to be replenished in Kinderhook. You gotta go to Kinderhook and we gotta have our wellness weekend. Can you call up that lesbian couple and get. Yes. You might not want the tofu curry. I would love a summer salad. Seasonal salad. Seasonal salad. You guys, there was like two ingredients. If not, maybe three. Maybe three. Whatever. This isn't about my Kinderhook experience. It's about Fortune's future Kinderhook experience. Okay. We gotta, girl, we gotta get you there. Now I do want to know what was in the salad. Was it apple? Girl, what was in that salad? I'm not telling you. It's not about me and my salad right now. Okay. We'll circle back. What if that's the only thing that will make me happy right now? Girl, I know it's not. It's not. You're misled. I know you can find joy elsewhere. I don't know the name of those things that were in my salad. I've been listening to Tim Curry's audio book of his autobiography. He's someone who doesn't divulge a lot of personal stuff, but he loves his work and talks about, and it's really funny. And I just learned a really good fact from it. Oh, yeah? Hold on one second. I get it. Yes. Go ahead. Did you know the word brat comes from British Regiment Attached Traveler? Hmm. I don't even know what that is. So when somebody's acting immature and mean, you can say that they are a British? British Regiment Attached Traveler. I think it comes from kids whose parents were in the military in some way, so they would travel around a lot, and they were like, it was like, oh, and then the army brats. It was like, it's not as good a fact as I thought. It's really good. It's so casual. I want to get it down so I can call people the whole thing. You were Bridget. I'm not crazy about the word brat or bratty. Same, but I think that says something about, I'm like, I hate the word triggered, but I'm like, when people say, I think I was called a brat by a boyfriend once when I was a teenager, and I lost, I hated it. Yeah. It's so, yeah, snarky. I don't picture you. I was a brat. Thanks. I don't picture myself that way. I don't think we have bratty personalities. Brat doesn't. Thomas has a bratty personality. What a brat. Thomas, I saw your. No, I don't. Thomas did like a thing reviewing all the books you've read. Oh, Stephanie told me. Yeah, I couldn't buy them all, but it was, and never read them, but it was crazy. You've read that much this summer. He reads that always. I've been reading a lot. And so I just decided I wanted to talk about the books I was reading. So I made a little Instagram video, which you can go watch. Are you going to keep making the videos? Because Stephanie's told me she was like, this is so good. She was like, she was sitting on the other couch and she was like this. She goes, oh my God. That's what I was like. And she was like, Thomas is doing book review. She was like, this is so good. Oh my God. I hope he keeps doing this. Oh my God. It felt like a big deal to me too. I was like screenshotting all the recommended. Yeah. Oh my God. Open a bookstore. I want to open a bookstore one day. You should go to Kinderhook. Everyone go to Kinderhook right now. It sounds like they have bookstores covered there. Yeah. You just need a gaggle of lesbians taking care of you in Kinderhook. Yeah. Well, Natalie said that 80%. She said 80% of her show is lesbians. Hell yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah, so it's a sweet thing. seasonal salad and then hop over there hello did i tell did i tell you guys about the the guy who made the video about how much he hated my largo show i think i i think maybe i mentioned it in person you told me in person i think thomas and i in person before tig got there somebody made a video i hate that it's popped into my mind and i'm talking about it again what is wrong with people if you don't like something to do move it along move it along what made me laugh and it's i shouldn't like give him any attention and it but i i can't lie it got to me because well let's talk about him on our hip podcast yeah so it's like a wednesday night show at largo right okay which is very experimental for you to be honest i did hear about this show no don't fuck with me i can't and listen was it my best show probably not but um it's like a new material show so it was me sarah silverman then we had improv and then a musical guest and i did one duet with the musical guest this video this guy's a musical guest al many okay really really amazing and um this guy he makes the video and he goes and he tags me and largo and he goes i don't normally make videos front-facing videos like this but i i have just been i was in shavasana in yoga which already i'm annoyed he goes i was in shavasana and yoga and i just kept getting angrier and angrier thinking about this experience i had at largo i'm picturing this guy in his yoga class just being like and then he said so the show you know my wife and i went to see may martin at largo may comes out and uh is using a question bucket so the audience has to do all the work and may tells a few funny stories then sarah silverman comes out and does what resembles a comedy set with uh and had notes on stage he said something like with eight by four notes like he described the size of the paper that pissed him off and then but he was upset with sarah too he's upset with sarah so many specific random things yeah did you tell sarah he was upset with her no should i send her the video yeah and then he goes the improv set i mean improvs hit or miss this was b minus and then the musical guest was the more he's describing i'm like this sounds like a pretty good show like i would have cared for b minus in school i know bad yeah he said so he said i told some funny stories sarah had notes then there was b minus improv and then there was a musical guest like that doesn't sound why are you fine it's a fine wednesday night fine wednesday night why are you in yoga stressing about it oh why am i even talking about it because that why is he talking about it if it's not for you you just go you know what you know what i gotta get off social media i i yeah i have to well i cheated and looked at thomas's video oh right well that's yeah because a little ray of sunshine yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna get the there was one thomas that you said this one's a little spicy one of the books i'm gonna like sexy like sexy spicy yeah and it's like it's fiction it's fiction yeah okay i'm gonna go get that i think you'd like it i'm reading a book on on well this is i feel like i'm a caricature of myself right now but i'm on like bdsm as spiritual practice you're like call yourself where you said we here's the problem we are who we are we are who we are we are and we have come together to be our own individual selves that's right and that is what our magic is yeah yeah and you do you that's right you're right and you don't you we don't want some other version of may martin to show up on this show yeah yeah we're not looking for a different version of fortune theme stir on this show yes we're all looking for a different version of me but so what girl i'm too old to change that's what we love yeah you're right we are who we are we are who we are this is what we're doing with what we've got we here at handsome love getting our support from honey love honey loves bras are the most comfortable and stylish around fortune 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it was handsome it's the best way to support the show it is funny though like just like the purpose of therapy is someone pointing out your patterns are being like oh that's interesting a few months ago you said this the podcast kind of has made me aware of like my patterns and my personality yeah not me there i go again but it's a great book it's it's interesting what it says it's talking about like in history rites of passage and stuff that involve you know things like cold plunges or fasting or things like that and it's sort of putting bdsm into that category where it's like you're instead of avoiding pain you're curating a small manageable amount of pain pain and transmuting the experience and making it pleasurable it's like yeah it was interesting well now you've gone too far now yeah i know yeah yeah yeah uh well at least you're reading right at least somebody can anything it's the first book i've been able to read in a long time i've like four pages in oh you're four pages in you're really doing it i haven't even been really watching tv much lately i usually vary in the tv and i turn it on and nothing seems very exciting even the um little league world series oh i guess i watched that i didn't know that was on oh i know it is yeah no way we watched the little league world series i didn't know that was a thing that's pretty great yeah and again world series so it's like these teams from all over the world how old it's so cute they're like 12 wow that's real the pressure the oh god are they like still sort of looking for their parents in the audience no no it's wild like even when max and finn were like you know eight or something it just they just started to feel like little dudes on right you know they're like in their world yeah yeah you know and i don't even think those kids are thinking about the cameras you know they're so to get to i can't even believe i'm talking about the little league world series but that is where i am my life is all baseball all the time but um stephanie's is more than mine but um it is they're just they're just so so deeply focused to get to the world series that you're not thinking cameras or mom mommy you know yeah yeah fortune what do you watch when you're like on a flight to a show or something do you watch something or um lately i haven't i haven't you're playing find my are you playing a lot of find my feet i'm playing that i'm scrolling online i i do love scrolling tiktok i will say i do get in that rabbit hole um but i've been where i was lately i've been a dork and working on my set on planes but and then occasionally i'll watch a movie if there's they're just not putting out much stuff right now i'm ready for them to get some more things going out there i watched the new horror movie on or scary movie on netflix with robert de niro and adam scott and about halfway through i was thinking i think i have a crush on adam scott and then i thought what does that mean that's tick oh yeah full circle it was when he put on these glasses and he's he's a grieving father and he's like and he was really good he was really yeah i had an interesting day not it didn't like take over my day but i was on a walk and this woman came up to me and she goes i used to date adam scott and she said and i'm sorry but you are better looking than he is and i was like i was gonna i was gonna text him and just be like listen i don't know who this person was but one of your exes finds me more appealing than you yeah wow i wonder if it ended badly with her and she's just going around looking for anyone she's a lesbian now yeah i threw it in stephanie's face real fast we have to take our wins where we can get them i wonder if she was into my eye clothes probably that yeah yeah yeah yeah should we get to our question let's do it today's question asker is the star of movies including idiocracy the royal tenenbaums old school and legally blonde he stars as golden fisk in the hawk on netflix great show by the way everyone should check it out luke wilson is asking today's question i had some pot it's luke wilson my question was what would you consider your big break where you got your start and the business and did anybody in particular give you a hand that's my question can i just tell you when i lived with a group of um roommates years ago one of them was watching idiocracy and i walked into the room and i was like what is this and and like if i was like this is this is dumb and then two seconds later obsessed yeah really it's have you seen it never seen it it's so well now it's kind of scary because it's it's true we're going into idiocracy now yes back then when it was made it felt very far-fetched yes so it's like satire like like what our country could become and it didn't speak to me for one second but man second number two i love idiocracy i love the royal tandem bombs that yeah still gets me um and do you remember the movie dog park i never saw that it was directed by bruce mccullough that was luke wilson i think he's so great he's been so many things i love the family stone i love skeleton twins yeah you're right the list goes on okay big break i'm still waiting for mine yeah i mean mine's very close to my heart i'm still waiting for mine i'm still waiting for mine i'm still waiting for clear um i i had a very um pre this and post this um my i had moved out to la in 2003 and in 2005 i started um improv just kind of like a way to try to make friends and um i had done some theater in college but kind of had like stage fright and just did not excel whatsoever so obviously the the bug was there to like perform um but i didn't really have much exposure to comedy um and then once i started improv it just was like oh man this is like this is it that just kind of are we talking b minus or b plus yeah well because i just started i'd say b minus um i feel like i got better in time and and sometimes even when you're good you still have some some c minus uh yes sir um performances but um it just was like i just was set on this path of like comedy's it i love it so much and i'm like i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do it so much and then two years after that i started stand up and then once i did stand up i'm like oh my god i'm all in on this um but you know for those um i i was kind of trying to get better at it in la and doing all the like comedy store and improv and some of the alternative shows and um i just wasn't really you know getting that that break and and so i was like i'm just gonna like work my booty off until like there's some opportunity here and i got last last comic standing in 2010 which definitely like opened doors as far as like some people finally i didn't know you did that yeah it was it was a the season where it was all comedy there was no like living in a house or like um you know how they had different i don't know games they had to play it was just us on stage doing stand-up um and it was it was awesome it was my first tv gig um that opened some doors but then like after that it was very slim pickings as far as like work i was like broke i had no money um and i had been working all along it's just my job as an entertainment journalist was coming to an end and i just was like oh my god like what am i gonna do and i um submitted a writing packet uh to the chelsea lately show this was 2000 end of 2010 and i was they got like 300 submissions and i was just like there's no way i'm getting on this show and i was like i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do it it was like the super hot show at the time and um i had tried to get on there as a panelist and they were not having it because they told me they the the feedback that it was that i was too chill too laid back um it wouldn't work on that high energy panel and so i submitted the writing packet and i got a call back to meet with the producers met with them that was great and then um then they said we want you to meet with chelsea and there was like maybe eight other people that were gonna meet meeting with her as well and i had not watched much of the show truth be told and so i just like started studying telling yeah what's funny because the writing packet i had to write for chelsea in her voice and like so i'm like writing jokes about like food and snacks for chelsea which was like not her you know i think i had a harry potter joke in there like so not chelsea um and then i met with her and um it was about six minutes into the meeting we were talking about i was just talking about whatever and she just gets up in the middle of the meeting she goes well nice to meet you and she leaves and i was like oh that's not the chelsea i know and i was like so desperate to get this job because i when i tell you i had no money i had nothing and i did not know what i was gonna do i just was so broke and i called my manager and i was like i there's i didn't get it um she like abruptly got up six minutes later and then next day they were like you got the job and um i couldn't believe it and it changed it changed my life um i got uh to start i started as a full-time writer and within two weeks they put me on the panel um i ended up writing on the show for three years um i was on the show a lot and have been working ever since so i'm i've always that is like a really sudden and like turn a really rapid kind of jump there yeah it was like um just years of like nothing and then all of a sudden boom this big job and uh i've always given her due credit for that because that was a time i had tested twice for snl and had not gotten that and like um been auditioning and auditioning got nothing and no one knew what to do with me i was considered different which was not a positive thing at the time and she had this knack for like enjoying things that were different and putting putting that on tv when other people weren't um and so i was just really grateful that she saw something and and when she saw something a bunch of other people were like oh yeah yeah you know it was like you have to have that one person like pick you um and yeah that it it was the beginning i've been working ever since so that was a huge break for me that's awesome did it help you see something in yourself too like well i guess like that panel format yeah i learned a lot doing that yeah it hones your your voice a little yeah yeah what just got me into the mode of being a professional at this you know yeah i was like oh this is not just me going to the comedy store and tell some jokes i'm like this is like a job and i have to write for a professional who's gonna put it on television it just sort of focused me more yeah um and then and you know right i i mean i wrote on there like i said for three years five shows uh a week for three years it's like five five hundred six hundred shows i helped write for um so it sharpened my writing income though too wow yeah i finally i mean i i'm telling you i went from negative two thousand dollars because i owed my roommate rent to like having a proper um paying job yeah that's amazing literally like overnight so it it was and i never tell you the the australia bit of that you have to use the accent okay yeah so i will tell you very quickly um that new year's eve before i got hired in january i was just having this like come to jesus moment and i was like i'm gonna go to jesus moment and i was like i'm gonna go to jesus moment with my friends we were sitting around a table there was like 12 of us and i had no money no prospects um my journalism job a year prior come to an end i didn't have that safety net anymore i was giving it like a full-time go at stand up and making no money at it on the road doing like college shows for like nobody i was so bummed my no love life no nothing and i just was like something has got to give like and i'm telling this to my friends because we're going around the the table and say what you want for the new year yeah and i was like i just saw board i was like i just kind of like gave myself over like please just something it's got to happen yeah and my friends collectively started like banging on the table and clapping and they're like yeah yeah yeah and my one friend goes and you're gonna go to australia and you're gonna go to australia and like the oprah kind of thing and we were all clapping we're like yeah we're gonna go to australia yeah so i get this job i get this job two weeks later and on the very first day of the job the producer walks me into his office at the end of the day and he goes we're so excited to have you and by the way uh this is pretty cool we're gonna be shooting a week of shows in australia in may and you're going and i was like oh my god this is what i'm talking about the bringing the show to australia yeah and i was like oh my god this is what i'm talking about the bringing the energy i think and you feel like now energy i think and you feel like now energy i think and you feel like now energy i think and you feel like now or after that happened you're like that or after that happened you're like that or after that happened you're like that did it my friends are witches yeah yeah did it my friends are witches yeah yeah did it my friends are witches yeah yeah that's awesome dude what about you guys that's awesome dude what about you guys that's awesome dude what about you guys the thing that came to my mind was uh the thing that came to my mind was uh the thing that came to my mind was uh in 2012 i guess in england well it's in 2012 i guess in england well it's in 2012 i guess in england well it's weird because england has such a kind of weird because england has such a kind of weird because england has such a kind of self-contained industry like there's self-contained industry like there's self-contained industry like there's people playing arenas there that that people playing arenas there that that people playing arenas there that that don't make it over here but i'd been don't make it over here but i'd been don't make it over here but i'd been there there there a couple years and uh i think i'd done a couple years and uh i think i'd done a couple years and uh i think i'd done one edinburgh fringe and then i was about one edinburgh fringe and then i was about one edinburgh fringe and then i was about to go back and i was so broke and to go back and i was so broke and to go back and i was so broke and my grandma had just died my grandma had just died my grandma had just died and then i broke up with my fiance and i and then i broke up with my fiance and i and then i broke up with my fiance and i i but i went to edinburgh and i but i went to edinburgh and i but i went to edinburgh and had a good month in edinburgh and i got had a good month in edinburgh and i got had a good month in edinburgh and i got booked to do the show russell howard's booked to do the show russell howard's booked to do the show russell howard's good news do you know that guy russell good news do you know that guy russell good news do you know that guy russell howard howard howard he's a british comedian blonde hair he's a british comedian blonde hair he's a british comedian blonde hair yeah that's all i got but anyway i did yeah that's all i got but anyway i did yeah that's all i got but anyway i did a set of like musical comedy in my a set of like musical comedy in my a set of like musical comedy in my tight jeans and my tight jeans and my tight jeans and my small eyebrows and uh and then that was small eyebrows and uh and then that was small eyebrows and uh and then that was what what what allowed me to quit my day job like i allowed me to quit my day job like i allowed me to quit my day job like i guess i'd had date like i was about 25 guess i'd had date like i was about 25 guess i'd had date like i was about 25 and then and then and then i was able to off that i could get on i was able to off that i could get on i was able to off that i could get on the club circuit and like tour around the club circuit and like tour around the club circuit and like tour around the country and so it felt like the country and so it felt like the country and so it felt like yeah but i was so nervous my whole body yeah but i was so nervous my whole body yeah but i was so nervous my whole body was shaking i'm not good at a short set was shaking i'm not good at a short set was shaking i'm not good at a short set anyway anyway anyway i mean ask that guy who made the video i mean ask that guy who made the video i mean ask that guy who made the video but i like to to do a televised like but i like to to do a televised like but i like to to do a televised like six-minute sets yeah it stresses me out six-minute sets yeah it stresses me out six-minute sets yeah it stresses me out so much so much so much oh it's so stressful but that was it yeah oh it's so stressful but that was it yeah oh it's so stressful but that was it yeah and i got and i got and i got i think i just got an agent but who's still i think i just got an agent but who's still i think i just got an agent but who's still my agent now my agent now my agent now um yeah so maybe maybe that um yeah so maybe maybe that um yeah so maybe maybe that nice yeah it was nice yeah it was nice yeah it was it was a fun it was a good summer and And then definitely I would say your big break in America was feel good, right? Because even though you filmed in England, it was very popular over here as well. I don't know. I think it critically did well. I don't know how many people, but it was the pandemic. But yeah, so I guess that. But this is what I knew there was something fun. Look at the sparkle in that eye. Yeah, there's a real sparkle in my eye because I wanted to say, I was like, maybe I should tell you guys about my real big break in grade four when I played Charlie Brown. I think I've talked to you about it before. Oh, yeah, that's a real, that's a true big break. That's massive, Mae. Because grade three, I lived in England. Grade four, I go back to Toronto and I have a weird little British accent and I get cast as Charlie Brown, the role I was born to play. And you're a good man, Charlie Brown. And can I play a recording of my weird little British accent? Please. And I am trying to. This is so funny. This is going to become the number one handsome episode. With little baby Mae Martin. Hit it. Okay. It's so me. I really relate. I can't wait. Okay. See if you can hear it. Someday, I wake up early to watch the sunrise and I think about how beautiful it is and how my whole life lies before me and I get a very positive feeling about things. Oh, you're so cute. That's such a weird. That is really, that is really cute. It just sounded like you were very good at enunciating. Yeah, you seem like a theater kid. Can I play you one more bit? Please. Okay. That's what we're here for. Go to U-Haul. You can count. You'll never guess what happened today at the baseball game. It's hard to believe what happened today at the baseball game. Mae, that's so cute. Michael Schrader, Schroeder was Patrick and all of the team was the same. As always, but somehow or other, disaster struck at the baseball game. Oh, you sound very theater kid. Disaster struck. Disaster struck. That voice. I love it. People must have been dying. Angelic over there. Well, that place was supposed to be a comedy. Like I was given it. It was very like me and the Hawk. I was not treating it like a drama. Yeah, I took it so seriously. I love it. And so it was just like totally chill and whatevs. Like you're playing the Charlie Brown because you weren't non-binary. I think that's why it was so huge for me because it was an all-girls school and I was the closest thing they had to a boy. And so they threw and when I vividly remember putting on that costume and feeling so euphoric and confident rocking that base and just being like, can I just wear it for the rest of the day at school? I had to wear like a tunic and knee socks and like I hated it. So that was a really and then I won the grade four junior drama prize. It was a good year. It was a great year. It's been a good life. I mean, you've always been the number one star meter. That's right. In my eyes. How about you, Tig? Yeah. I had a few different big, big breaks that at the time. I mean, I always think just even my first open mic, I'm like, man, I felt like I made it. Yeah. You know, I was so into stand up. And then. And then just to go a little further down the road in my actual stand up career, I stopped into the Boise, Idaho, Funny Bone to do. I had heard from all my Denver comedy friends that Boise was like a sweet spot for comedy. And there is a woman, Lisa Young, that booked that club and she let me do a guest spot. And then she called the guy that booked the the chain of clubs. And she was like, you got to see Tig. And he came out to see me. And then all of a sudden I was headlining all over the country. Wow. And so that was like a really big break for me. And it takes this one person room for you. Yeah. So huge thank you to Lisa Young all these years later. I think I I'm certain I thanked her back then, too. But and then my first TV spot. Zach Galifianakis put me on his old show. And then I always have to give huge credit and thanks to Sarah Silverman because she talked me up everywhere. And put me on everything. And whenever I would thank her, she would always say, are you kidding? She was like, you make me better. She's like, I did it selfishly. You know, she's somebody that is a good. Yeah. She's never been somebody that's like, I gave you your break. And you. And you owe me and you better thank me. And she's just like, no way you. I it was selfish, you know. Yeah. And but yeah, she always, always, always. Those were my I would say my early my early. breaks i remember you on the uh sarah silverman program i love that it was said in valley village the whole show was so specific area of la yes for sure i remember seeing you on conan and that that was a big exposure to you for me which what was i doing i'm moving that stool around oh yeah yeah that's what that's called stool well i'm curious what um what luke wilson's big break was should we find out sure let's do it that's why he's here the person who gave me and my brothers and wes anderson a break was this guy named james l brooks and polly platt who we worked with and james l brooks had done taxi in terms of endearment and broadcast news and as good as it gets and uh polly platt had helped make the movies like uh last picture show and paper moon and bad news bears but they saw a short we made at the sundance film festival and that's how we got started love it love it was that the bottle was that the bottle rocket movie is that what it was called yeah yeah nice he named a deborah winger movie if anyone caught that oh really which which i'm not as familiar um with deborah's deborah winger as you're as you are let's put put it this way and the star meter in tig's mind deborah winger is number one yeah number one number one yeah there's there's no one better so and she also started out as a stand-up oh really didn't that was it either yeah i didn't either but i was like wow that makes sense because she's actually really a funny person yeah but man the greatest actor but anyway what a lovely app it was really a lovely app a lovely app truly fortune we're we're hugging you yeah we're giving you some snuggles and whether you want them or not i don't want them thank you tender snugs i'll take some tenderness some nice snugs yeah what do you guys have coming up oh my gosh comedy right yeah i'm on the road uh if anybody wants i promise i'm not sad on stage um uh coming up out of madison wisconsin durham and morgan to north carolina jacksonville and fort lauderdale florida oakland and bakersfield california santa barbara san luis obispo los angeles palm springs denver and nashville and then i'm done well if anybody cares where i'll be go to tignotaro.com i'm gonna be in cincinnati chattanooga knoxville chico california olympia washington fresno napa wilmington delaware terrytown new york new london connecticut colorado springs steamboat springs basalt and i'll also be at dynasty typewriter and largo always working out things but also i just want to really get the announcement out i might not continue only doing stand-up it might be a talk show it might be um a handsome event it might be me doing a headstand and spinning plates it could be a circus we don't know okay experimental yeah that's gonna be the risk you take it could be a musical comedy night it could be an improv musical i don't know what to tell you may are you doing shows i'm always at largo and dynasty typewriter as well check out social media to see to see when also make sure that you subscribe rate and review this podcast i cannot stress enough how helpful it is to our show stop what you're doing and rate review subscribe for the audio version go to youtube or u-haul wherever you get your podcast and uh also we're available on hulu a day early and all of our wonderful um merchandise handsomepod.com we're so grateful and we love you and until next time keep it handsome handsome is hosted by me may martin tignotaro and fortune feimster the show is produced recorded and edited by thomas willett email us at handsomepod at gmail.com and please follow us on social media at handsomepod that was a hate gum podcast checking all state first could save you hundreds on car insurance not checking my footing before i get off the couch oh sorry little kitten i don't think that between the coffee table and the couch is the best spot for cat nap but i don't make the rules around here yeah checking first is handsome so check all state first for an auto quote it could save you hundreds you're in good hands with all state potential savings vary subject to terms conditions and availability all state north american insurance company and affiliates northbrook illinois