Aline Brosh McKenna

They kind of let me sing and perform on the regular.

So I sang at my graduation, which was hilarious, with my friend John.

And many years later, I said to John, you know, I really don't sing in tune very well.

And he said, now you're...

now after you've sang in public so many times.

And I would have loved to, if I had a magic wand, that would be the thing I would know how to do is to like be a great singer.

So I went to college and the way they do it at Harvard is that you audition for all the student plays or student run.

There's no faculty.

And you audition for all the plays in the first week, common casting.

And there's about 50 plays.

They're all student runs.

They're all over the campus.

So those seem like good odds.

So I went and I auditioned for, you audition for all the plays at the same time.

And then I went there the day that all the cast lists were posted and there was, you know, 50 cast lists, which is a good amount.

And there was another kid who was in a freshman and I watched him, his name appear on this.

And like, I think he got like seven leads and I didn't get a single part in any play, which is kind of hard to do.

Like I shot the moon of

Bad acting.

And so I really had to lick my wounds.