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She put together a troupe in college at Northwestern University, and she studied at Second City after graduating.
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(Its something thatBlack people do with newborns: You sip alcohol, you see the baby.)
I pitch that to my writers to dead silence.
They said, Somethings wrong with you.
Its hilarious.But Im all about impressing my own writers.
If theyre not laughing, Im like,Oh, its trash.
Then we got shut down in March of 2020, five days before we were shooting season two.
It requires actual kids.
So we have three types of sketch: character-driven, concept-driven, and situation-driven.
This sketch is situation-driven.
You would think it was character-driven, but its not.
At first, it was all about Annie: What up, Im three.
But she doesnt really say much more than that.
There wasnt enough meat on the bone.
I said,Okay, let me go back to my sketch roots.
Every sketch has a beginning, middle twist, and end.
We always start a sketch with a joke.
In season one, I thought the pace was a little slow getting in and out of some sketches.
Every third line was a joke because that was something Id heard Tina Fey say back in the day.
In the second season, I decided,All right, every other line needs to be a joke.
In the third season, I went to,Every lines a joke.
The setup is in the joke, and then the punch lines in the next joke.
Because Im so happy you made it.
Double meaning: made it to the party, made the finger painting right.
All in that one joke.
Really, all the jokes come from the absurdity of the situation.
Gerry is trying to convince everyone the opposite.
There wasan article inThe Hollywood Reporterabout all the hair on the show.
Just a really ridiculous play on an adult-looking baby.
Its not hair for hairs sake.
Its hair for comedys sake.
I want people in pain from laughing.
Let me take another pass.
She just peppered in [seven more] what-up-Im-threes, and thats when I said, Thats the sketch.
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