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ComedianNaomi Ekperiginis ready for the will they or wont they rom-com to die.
It addressed all of that in a real way, while still being funny.
It felt like Mae kept it pretty real in terms ofIm a little fucked up.
I make bad choices.
I use women to fill the emptiness inside.And I was like,Thank you!
Thank you for your honesty.
And then Ive got two words for you: Lisa.
One of my questions just says Lisa Kudrow.I mean!
I am aggressively not talking about this.
But when push comes to shove, I am still there for you.
Maybe thats my own issues.
I love how Mae finally bridges the gap by saying Im going to share an article with you.
Kudrow brings a lot of nuance to the character.She is just so sharp, so funny.
Phoebe Buffay was such a caricature, especially as the show went on.
It was, what, 10 years?
To see her as anxious, upper-crust, trying to keep it together.
To really go on the ornamental pear journey, that alone makes the show worth it.
How does she do it?
Its incredible, because when you first meet her character, she does start out a little cartoony.
And the more time you spend with her, the more she opens up.
This is a mom who has also felt hurt.
Just because youre a parent doesnt mean you dont get hurt too.
That goes back to what you were saying about American media, which has to be very didactic.
Because isnt that what any kind of relationship is?
I really like the jokes in30 Rock.
So yeah, I could watch30 Rockagain, but I dont care about whats happening to anybody.
Whereas with this show, I really did want to see how they were going to get through this.
It doesnt feel forced.
I was on board from episode one, the way they were so quickly able to encapsulate their relationship.
Mae and George meet, and they do this montage that shows you how quickly they become intertwined.
I think its only two minutes; I rewound it to see.
Thats all you needed to then drop us in this relationship.
We didnt need to have this wholeDoes she like me?
Are we together?thing.
Were in it, and now we can have the fun.
As a famously coupled individual, how do you think this show handles relationships?
It felt like it was so realistic.
As a story unit, we all know its going to happen.
To me, the exciting thing is the relationship in progress that is trying its best.
As you said earlier, this is yet another show about a comedian.
What works about this show that maybe doesnt with some of the other shows?
What is this magical world?
So what I did really like was that this character is playing bar shows.
And theres a brief opportunity to do something bigger, but its in the form of being someones opener.
The character is like a baby comic, in a way, which I really liked.
Were gonna cut the fat.The characters always feel a little more lived-in and human to me.
Also I think people on British television look like real people.
I really, really love it.
They also tend to have more diversity without making it a fucking issue.
Its not a window into another culture.
Its just people of different races hanging out, and thats life!
The show kind of goesThere were Black people in the past, yall.
Figure it out.Did you ever see that showTimewasters?
No.It was, I think, two seasons.
It was four young Black folks, three guys and a gal.
Its them time traveling.
Because they were musicians, people were like, We love you!
Were obsessed with you!
They were able to go into these different worlds thats so fun!
Let Black people have fun!
We dont have to go back and be slaves.
Sometimes we can go to 1920s England and play music.
Mae is supposed to be this newer comic, like five years in.
I think thats what you see in this, right?
Or worse, that was recorded and now its up online for them to see?
That is what happens.
Youve got to think it through.
We live in a world now where it doesnt just live onstage.
Do you want to make them the joke, or do you want to make yourself the joke?
Youre consenting to it, because youre the one telling it.Exactly.
I cant get in their head.
I can only be in my own head.
Do you owe anything to your own experience?
Is there some benefit in telling your completely biased version of events going, This is my record.
And so thats the problem.
Of course, I talk a lot about Andy in my act, but he always knows its coming.
I aint telling no lies; he did what he did.
Did the incident take place, did he say such and such a thing?
Thats the baseline; thats the fact of it.
And then everything on top is usually my outsize reaction to it.
Or join it, and youre getting onstage, and the darkness claims another soul.It claims another soul!
I played to that audience in the room.
I wanted the cameras to capture that.
But yes, I really thought about it:Can I stand by this?
Will I be ruined?
Alcohol is but a symptom is what they say in recovery meetings.
A lot of us use relationships as a balm.
Were like,Love me, and then I wont have to deal with myself.
I was always that kind of person, too.
So I would occupy my time with crushes.
I would have crushes on people, and I would let it be so all-consuming.
Because it was easier to think about them than to, like, write.
Hes like, Im gonna go write.
Hes not here for me to be obsessed with him.
Hes like, Im gonna go do stuff; you should do stuff too.
And Im like Ugh, fine.
