Ego Nwodim
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The Viall Files
E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Perfect.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
How are you guys?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Thank you. Happy to be here.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Not great, but we're pushing through nonetheless. I know I'm supposed to say good. That's okay.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I prefer honesty. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I prefer honesty in general as a rule. So how's it been for you?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah. Yeah. Respect. And I'm happy to be here and be part of that.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yes, that is that is a big, giant part of the goal. I got a text from someone last night who lives in L.A. pretty late last night, and they were like, hey, hope you're doing well. I want you to know that the cold open made me laugh and I haven't laughed in days. So thank you for that. And I was like, and that's why we do it. Yeah, that's why we do it.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah. I didn't know how the writers were going to pull it off, but they did. They did. And at least one human being told me they laughed. And so I'm,
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
job mission accomplished i'm always trying to make one person at least one person feel joy that's my that's my whole thing we make more than one yeah yeah i loved very much of that it was really great yeah thank you thank you guys mary over here is a huge huge huge fan of us and uh and you as well mary i can't see mary see this is what there's mary yay
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Oh man, thank you.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Well, I don't know if I'm a big fan of the Grammys. Do you want to say thank you Beyonce right now? I would love to thank Beyonce. There are a few things that pop up in the news, specifically in pop culture and entertainment news that I go, oh, I need to see what's up with that.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And I was at work and the Grammy Noms list came out and I was like, I got to find the list and I got to see who's on it because I was very invested in music this year. I mean, I like music a lot in general, which is not a unique, fun thing.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
sabrina or chapel i you know they might they i think this is going to be a tough year because there were some real bops this year and some real hits and if we're going based on popularity some people really broke through this year i'm guessing sabrina sabrina had this mainstream appeal in a way that i'm like you couldn't get espresso out of your head even if you tried even if you didn't know the words like i posted a video
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
to my Instagram story or a series of videos to my Instagram story last year asking all my castmates to sing the lyrics of Espresso just the chorus it was the week Sabrina was the musical guest at SNL and basically no one knew the words so
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
So I feel like Sabrina, it might be Sabrina, but I was really curious to see who's going to be a record of the year in terms of, I was a big fan of Kendrick's, the way Kendrick approached this beef. He really brought rap beef back and I want to see him win something, you know?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
i don't think he's okay i think he's pretending to be okay but i don't think he's okay he couldn't possibly be um what am i he couldn't possibly be okay after that i wouldn't be okay but he is taking selfies still so that's something that's something he's got that indication proof of life it is a proof of life of anything if people are talking shit about you and all you're doing is taking silent selfies just to let you know you're wrong
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah, but that's the thing. I'm like, I think that's gonna there are people I feel like that discovered espresso via bridesmaid sketch and the Domingo of it all because I see comments like what fill me in on what what's so funny here. And part of it is that we're thinking made up lyrics. Yeah. But very, I think that might actually, I forgot about that.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And that's how quickly the week before at work is erased from my memory. I forgot we even did that. I forgot that was mere weeks ago. I think that that's going to be the thing that sends, I think that's going to be the thing that gets espresso, espresso and award. Some sort.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I think I turned it off because I was like, this is literally replaying in my head. I have to get it out quick. That's many people's, I will say, favorite part of that sketch is when Domingo appears at the wedding and he's like, Kelsey's like my sis, but we did hook up, though. Yeah.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I'm more like, I don't know. I feel like whenever we do a sketch, there's no telling for us how an audience is going to respond to it because there are things that our table read that absolutely kill, destroy, have us all erupting in laughter.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
applauding our castmates and then we put it up at dress rehearsal and the audience is like the fuck and silent and so we have no real gauge on what people are going to like and how people are going to respond to it let alone whether it's going to like pop off and blow up and so that was one I couldn't have anticipated that but then I go I guess it is kind of like an earworm when like
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I can like Monday morning, like what is what do they say about football? Well, I'm just getting into sports now, guys. Monday morning quarterback. OK, Monday morning quarterback it and go, oh, I see. This is why this might have gone viral. But otherwise, we're like, we don't know. And we're rehearsing it.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Like one of the writers took a video of us rehearsing that sketch and doing the dance rehearsal. And I'm like, if I'd known this sketch was going to be such a big deal, I might have put makeup on for rehearsal and I might have wore a different outfit. And I didn't know you were going to post that video.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Good question. I mean, I was very, I feel like I did like a double take and kind of like, oh my gosh, he's here when Eddie Murphy came to host. That was a huge one for me. Grew up watching him. Obviously such a huge fan of his. Amy Poehler was in the hall last week and I was like, oh my God, Amy, because I think she's so immensely talented and also so incredibly kind and just such a jovial spirit.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
So that was very exciting. But by and large, at a certain point, I'm like, of Of course I'm going to meet everyone, but there are people I want to meet that I haven't met. So I don't want to act like I'm so chill about it.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I've put it out a lot. jay-z i would love to meet i want to meet jay-z has he hosted ever he was the musical guest of the premiere episode the season before i got hired so yeah exactly can you even believe can you even believe i go what is this but we have the big 50th coming up and so maybe maybe hope will make an appearance there maybe maybe not um but that's that's somebody i also i mean
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
If I could meet Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, that would be pretty tight to say I did that. I was in the same room as Michelle Obama this summer. I know. Hi. And I was like, so close.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Okay, cool. That's so crazy. How long ago? And the year was like 2016 before I was ever on. That was a few months ago. This is a few months ago. This is, yeah. And he was like, I'm obsessed.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I wish that were true. It's true.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Thank you for saying that. That is a kind of compliment. I think I started with me like doing impressions of my mom and my aunts and uncles. Like I would just mimic the way they spoke. I'm first generation Nigerian American. And so I would mimic the way they spoke if they said something and then then they'd all laugh at me mimicking them.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Of course, I had no idea even into adulthood, early adulthood. I had any idea that that would be translated into my career and work at all. But that's when it started, I would say. I feel like I could do an impression of many people for like 10 seconds maximum.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And then when we start to get into like, I think Jamie Foxx is like a master impressionist and I'm obsessed with the way he approaches impressions. I could never do what he does, but it started with thankfully my family being good sports about me making fun of them. Yeah, they were very good sports.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And I have to say, another person that was surreal to meet is freaking Dionne Warwick, who is an impression I've done on the show. Dionne, Miss Dionne, Miss Dionne, she's incredible. That was really, really special. And then to sing a duet with her, I was like, what is even happening? Pinch me. Yeah.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Or are they like you crushed this? Well, you know what? It's OK. So my friend printed this out for me and framed it. But it's right after I did the Dionne Warwick talk show for the very first time. The next morning, Dionne tweeted like you did a wonderful job, baby. You're a star. And my friend printed that tweet for me. It's in on my vanity in my bedroom.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
So I was so grateful that she embraced the impression, but I get the sense every once in a while, and not with me because I don't do a ton of impressions, but I get the sense every once in a while that I'm like, someone doesn't acknowledge the impression that was done of them on the show. And I was like, oh, they hated it. But I don't know that that's true. Maybe they just don't give a fuck.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
in my mind I'm like if they don't acknowledge it they kind of hated it um but I don't worry too much because I don't do too many impressions and thankfully that was one where I was like I hope she knows this is done purely out of love and she was being very funny on Twitter at the time it was of the moment in that way do you still have to do impressions for your SNL audition
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
You can do whatever you want with that SNL audition. They give you five minutes and it's your, you can like, a lot of the people in the cast who are standups did like five minutes of standup. What did you do? I did not do standup. I did characters. I did an impression of my mom. Of course. And her having a meltdown about me saying I wanted to be an actor.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I did, at the time, LeBron James, I promise, schools were in the news big time. And so I did a character, an original character that was a mom who was in the principal's office and basically like, hey, I've been trying to get my son in trouble so I can meet Principal King James. When does King James get involved? Because basically she's a groupie. And then I did a 911 operator who was...
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
on everybody's business so she'd take the 9-1-1 call and then be like okay hold on and then call a friend on her cell phone and be like so they having trouble
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
basically that i haven't even done that on the show i would love to but then um i did god what else was a thing i'm blanking i did maya angelou because also maya angelou is like my impression of maya angelou informed i hope this isn't offensive i've said it a few times but i hope it's not offensive inform my impression of dionne warwick because i think they have a like they share a tone i'm rubbing my fingers together yes
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
um but there's like they share they're they share some some musicality in their voices so the five minutes also flew by people were like um did you see Lorne people ask all the time they're like did you see Lorne did you see was in your audition I was like nope didn't look over at them one time they're like not in front of you they're off to the side and they're like taping your audition so yeah no stand up for me but I shout out to those guys because I feel like that's
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
incredibly brave as well.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I was in an incredibly anxious place just generally in life. And I was I had moved out of my apartment in L.A. very abruptly.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
like weeks before because there was a roach in my apartment and so i moved which is what a normal person does i was more like i want to sign a lease i want to get an apartment but i can't get an apartment because i'm waiting to hear about this thing and so basically right after the audition i felt good i heard laughs but i was like more like just someone tell me i'm not getting this job so i can sign a lease i i'm like couch surfing right now and i'm not enjoying it so
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
um, then I got a call after or a text, maybe, maybe it was probably a call that was like, um, the producers want to like grab a drink with you. So then we arrived at these drinks and we see who else got invited to drinks. And it was like maybe four other people like Bowen, Chloe, there's another girl who later got hired as well, Lauren, and we got drinks with the producers.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And then, and then after that was a waiting period. If I'm not mistaken. I think I went back to L.A. and then I was couch surfing still. And I was like, anyone just call me today and tell me I'm not getting it so I can go get this apartment in Studio City. And so arbitrarily decided I want to live in Studio City, by the way. I was like, I think I'm a Studio City gal now. I think I've graduated.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
But it was like weeks after because then they were SNL was producing the Emmys that year. So they were consumed with that, not worried about who they were going to hire. Weeks long limbo. And then I think I found out I got the job on like a Wednesday and I moved on Thursday and then I went on on Friday to get an idea and then work started Monday.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And so it was very, very what a shock to us to your system. No, truly. It was very abrupt. I was truly I kid you not worried about signing a lease for an apartment because I was tired of being on my friend's couch.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
You know, no. So no, because I think in general. Um, I don't try to be funny. And in fact, when I'm like, if I'm going to like go, if I'm going to go like get a drink with someone, I'm going to go to get dinner with someone. I am not the comedy person who's like, and I'm here to crack you up. I'm more like, what are you scared of? And tell me what's going on.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And so I'm not, I, and when I being out with comedians, sometimes I'm like, okay, people, we understand everyone's funny. Can So no, I was not trying to make anyone laugh. And again, cannot, you ever been so anxious that you're just kind of out of body? I was, the couch surfing was really getting to me. I was so anxious that I was like, someone's telling me to go to drinks. No problem.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I'm going to go to drinks.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah, there's a restaurant. So have a couch for me and maybe I can get some of my things out of storage. And so I was not, I feel like I was not fully present. I think I turned to Chloe at one point and I was like,
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
do you really want this job and she was like yeah and then she's like you and I was like yeah but I was like I'm thinking about the couch anyway I saw I was I was so I don't I was not trying to make them laugh I'm like you just got to go be yourself and in general I do try to especially just having one-on-ones or intimate if I'm not performing I'm
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
If I'm not on a stage or I'm not being asked to perform, I'm generally just trying to be a person who then I guess maybe makes people laugh sometimes, but definitely not going for it.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
He's trying to live his life. That's so funny. OK, I just started watching the Martha Doc last night. Me too. Well past my bedtime. It's like, guys, it's like 1.30 a.m. I was supposed to go to sleep at 11 p.m. But then I found myself just like being an adult is fascinating because I'm like, I guess I'm supposed to put myself to bed because I know I need to wake up at a certain time.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
But I can never really can I do it or it's 50 50. And so last night it was like not happening. And I was like, I'm going to start the Martha Stewart documentary at 1 15 a.m. And I'm going to watch.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I'm sick. I think I got. Um, I got to the point where, am I allowed, like, I don't know timestamp, but I can tell you it was like after she, what I remember is like cheating on her new husband.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I can't, he asked her like, yeah, was it fun or infidelity? And she was like, it was neither or no, it was like, it was an infidelity or another thing. And she was like, neither. It wasn't infidelity. It was,
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yes, that's what she said. God, I love her. I was like, I didn't know Martha was such a bad bitch. I had no idea. I was like, whoa, Martha. And then her quote about
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
okay if you want to be happy for a year get married if you want to be happy for 10 years i woke up this morning could not remember what the 10 years was and then if you want to be happy for a lifetime get a garden get a garden yeah but what was the 10 years i don't think it was a dog a dog maybe a dog yeah it was get a dog it was get a dog a little morbid did she lie though no martha is a baddie she was like
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
dominating like the new york like wall street before she got into like baked goods it was kind of insider trading never hurt nobody she was wrong yeah that's some bullshit everyone but also if i bet if you ask her when i saw the thing about the infidelity and her going like no that's not what that was it was a moment everyone should have i was again that's how far i got in the doc kind of fell asleep i was like can't wait to hear them ask her about the insider trading because i'm sure she thinks that was also
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
She was like, that was fine. Everyone should act. Everybody insider trades once in a while. But I do think people do. Isn't that the word on the street? Don't they? Insider trade? I don't know. They all do. Yeah, but aren't people doing it?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
That's what I thought. So I'm like... It's not wrong in that way, maybe.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Okay, I'm an OG love is blind girl, but I know it's now just, I think, or I'm understanding from friends that it might just be a bunch of people who want to get on TV now. But I miss the experiment. Cameron and Lauren, they are the one successor, or maybe there's like two or three, but...
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Love is Blind. I've been going to the movies lately, which I haven't done in a very long time, like years. We're talking years I have not really been on a movie kick. And so I saw My Old Ass, Onora, and Smile 2. Yes. And I weirdly my friend it was for my friend's birthday smile, too. And he like rented out a theater and he's like, we're all going to see smile, too.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
He's like, you didn't have to see smile on it. You'll be fine. And then as a person who really felt like I haven't been to the movies in any meaningful way in years, I was like, wait, should I did see smile one? I saw smile one. And the whole time I was thinking about how Stacey Bacon is my friend Jenna's friend. And it was very distracting.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I was like, I didn't realize I was like Jenna spread the whole time. So anyway, movies, I'm into movies now, but also I'm kind of boring in that in my free time. I like to read.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
like what i i'm entering my um reading era and um what what what type of books do you like to read what are you into erotic erotic thrillers no you wish it were it would be far more exciting if it was i read okay there's this priest who runs the largest gang rehabilitation center in the world certainly in los angeles father gregory boyle i read lots of his books
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Because the way he sees life is really beautiful to me. And then I read books about how I should rest and what rest looks like and why it's important.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I mean, I'm not, I don't want, I don't want to be this girl. I want to tell you I'm reading trash.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I don't know. Low key, I try. I try to. But also, I used to try to journal. Well, I did used to journal. It helped me a lot. And then I stopped because I was like, this is becoming tedious to me and feels like very dutiful as opposed to like soothing, if you will. It feels like a thing I have to do. And I don't like when things start to feel like things I have to do. I'm like, I'm out.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
What are you currently reading?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
You should find something and then go to sleep. It lulls you right into sleep. Honestly, you're right. I should. Yeah. Next time. Next time you read a chapter. I encourage you. Thank you so much.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
You know what? I should treat myself. Or wake him up. Wake him up.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
How late? Yeah, what time? Are you a go-to-sleep-early kind of man?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You know what? I respect it. So, girl, you got to find something. You're going to find something. I'm going to get in the bathtub.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
please um yes i one of them i did with cecily strong i think twice or maybe once it was with cecily once it was with the host but is two door women at a club who are in charge of letting people in but they can't read so when you say your name they're like how do you spell they ask you how to spell it and then because they don't really know letters either like okay but like what are the shapes of those like okay
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
What do they smell like? Yeah. What do they smell like? Like, can you do them like YMCA style or whatever? But that has not worked for one reason or another. I love it. There's also this this girl who I was walking. Basically, I got in character for a pre-taped sketch. It was like one about about a subway stop. I feel like two years ago or last year.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And they gave me really long nails and I had like a crop top and like trashy sweats on. And I kept walking around while we were waiting to rehearse or waiting to shoot and say, pretending to be like an SNL super fan. And I was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's Marcelo Hernandez. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. whatever.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And so Mikey and I ended up writing a sketch of that woman who was like super gullible and goes to see a medium who's getting everything. He's saying the basics. And I'm just like, oh my God, like I have a grandmother. Oh my God. Yeah. I got a dad too. Oh my God.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And so I will, I would love to do her, but I don't know that it's going to happen, but we, that was a very fun one that I'm like, we should let her live. Her name was Latricicle.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
It's not funniest laugh wins. Yeah, no, biggest laugh does not win. There is politics involved. And I guess that's to be expected if you're making a network television show for...
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
a gigantic audience so they have to take into consideration a lot of things so there's some sketches I've seen at table that are like some of the funniest things I've ever seen that will never see the light of day on SNL but our writing staff's very talented in that way but yeah no there's a lot of consideration in terms of like Is this going to be offensive to this group of people?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And they don't let us in on that. You just kind of like over time, like we're not in the producer meeting after our table read going, like hearing why they picked a thing versus another thing or why they didn't pick the funniest thing at table today. But after some time you start to discern like, oh, I'm getting the sense like,
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
this this sort of thing is too crass for them or this thing only like one person is funny in it and everyone else is kind of not or you know and or this week they need to like showcase this cast member because they kind of have been uh pretty blank the last few weeks so yeah there's a number of things that go into deciding the show but it is not solely the funniest thing though that would be an interesting week i'd be curious to see what a week like that on the show would be like if it was like
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
the 10, the whatever, five funniest things are what's in the play.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
That would be, listen, they postcode for time, but if they could like produce some of the funny ones, some of the funniest ones we've seen at the table read and turn them into, I don't know, like the SNL uncut. Have you guys ever seen BT uncut? Ever stumble upon that by accident as a young person?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And then watch it every night on purpose after that because you're fascinated. That was me. Have you ever seen the music video for Tip Drill, Nelly? No. What is it? Okay, so before you pick up your erotic...
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
book tonight just watch or maybe after watch the tip drill video Nelly's tip drill video it is fascinating and I remember like it's another you stay up too late and you put on BET and just you're like oh I'm gonna put on this channel you go whoa what's happening after hours here It's fascinating to watch. I encourage it. I just encourage everyone to watch.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
What has it been like to work with Steph Curry on Mr. Throwback? Oh, the shit. Steph's amazing. He truly is. He's so funny and down to play. And I feel like such a fan of comedy. He was able to hang with me and Adam. He was on his shit. And I loved getting to work with him. It was super fun. He also...
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
So I was supposed to I don't I can't remember if they took this out, but I was supposed to have had a basketball career myself, my character. But like Adam's character ruined my basketball career with his shenanigans. And after I got the job, they're like, do you know how to play basketball? And I was like, not even a little bit like can't.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I played on a basketball league and I told this story on Fallon, but I played on a basketball league. I was like the one black girl on this team and I was by far the worst. I was so bad. I didn't realize all the rules of basketball. I know what traveling is. I've heard, I know what that is, but I'm like the rest of it. I was out of my depth.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
yeah scar for life at least you can shoot though because i can't i can't shoot steph taught me how to shoot basically they realized like i couldn't they were like she can't play basketball i think they took it out of my character because i was like oh no no i don't even know how to pretend and they did keep in a scene which i thought was savage of them and i hadn't realized until i saw it on the internet i was like oh they kept this in um me shooting
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
air straight up air balls we're not even close right and so Steph taught me how to shoot on the today show um and I was like there's no way this man can teach me to shoot and all these people around you know there's like an audience watching the today show when you guys are we're outside on the courtyard um and he taught me he taught me how to shoot and I was like I feel like we're gonna I'm gonna someone's gonna get hurt here because I'm actually really really bad um
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I don't even say that to be like self-deprecating because it's funny. I'm actually remarkably bad. I want people to believe me. And all the people who were sitting out there, all the people who were sitting out there understood that immediately. But Steph was able to teach me to shoot and everyone's like, oh, of course, he's the greatest shooter. Like, of course, he could teach you to shoot.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I'm like, no, no, I'm genuinely that bad. And he was able to do it. I took four shots. He, I, there's a whole method, obviously, you know, cause you played, but I'm like, I, it's a, it's a thing. And I was doing it so wrong, but I got it. I made a basket. Have you played? And that's huge. And so, no, of course not. Why would you do that? Why would you keep up? Yeah, exactly.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I'm like, that's, it's like Jordan. I want to retire while I'm on top of the game. And so, no, I didn't. I was like, I'm, I'm good on, I'm good on playing basketball.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
We haven't heard yet, but we're hoping to hear very soon. We're hoping to hear very soon. I hear from Adam and the Libman's who are the creators from time to time. And they're like, we're creeping, we're creeping and hopefully any day now. So I would have loved to tell you guys first, but I don't even know.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I don't know. Even the SNL 50 is happening. Um, in February. There's no real tea. I'm trying to think if there's something in my personal life I want to tell you first, be the first friends to find out. I go from my apartment to work while we're in season. And so people ask me all the time, they're like, oh, how do you like living in New York? And I'm like, I had no idea.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I work in New York and that's
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
it i don't know what new york is but no there's there's no see the 50th is in in february i don't even know who they're bringing but i just imagine that's why i'm like i hope daisy's coming maybe barack obama will come in and michelle as well um i don't know who but yeah they're planning a huge thing and they're not telling us so if barack does come do you feel like there's like a party that wants to ask him about me at all or no
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
i will absolutely i'll be absolutely i'm gonna ask him about you and he'll remember he also turned her down for a selfie though he did turn me down for a selfie after he shook my hand i was like i would love to take a selfie and he was like i can't do that and i was like okay well perfect now no one will ever believe me ever yeah but in fairness to him he had to say no because he was going to get mobbed afterwards so like it was yes if he takes one selfie he has to take self-preservation yeah yeah
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yes. Fair, fair enough. Fair enough. I'll get, I'll get a selfie with him. If he comes for you, we will Photoshop your face onto my body. I don't know if that's doing you a favor or not, but let's play it on that. I'll just start posting your, your body, my face on your body. Yeah. You're very kind.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Do you know after the bridesmaid sketch, by the way, I got a couple messages that were like, are you pregnant? And I was like, well, damn.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
She's giving gut. She's giving guts. She's giving guts. She's giving Olivia Rodrigo guts. She's giving guts. And I was like, this dress, I had other things underneath that to get ready for the next sketch. And I was like, also, this dress is not built for that. I think I got to try on every one of those bridesmaids dresses in the sketch before the
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
the costumer, I was the first one to go to my fitting. And he's like, because you're first, you get first dibs. And the thing is, none of them looked right on me. And so we, I just kind of was like, F it. Let's take, let's take whatever this.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Wait, did you do that at your wedding?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Lies.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Okay. Any dress in black. Okay. Okay. And how did they show up? Were you pleased? Were you pleased with how the girlies look?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I know. You know what? Well, here's my thing. Don't you want. I've never had a wedding. I've been in weddings. I've never planned a wedding, but I'm like, don't you want everyone to just look bomb.com or not? I'm going to look bomb.com in my white dress. You're going to look bomb. And you're like, isn't that cool? I don't get that. But I had a friend, she was cool.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
She let us all pick our own dresses, but it was like color palette. We got the color palette assignment. It wasn't like one color, but in this world. And that was nice because it was like, great, I got a dress that I will presumably wear again. Exactly. But those dresses were, for the bridesmaid sketch, I think a particular kind of hideous. Like, these are fucked.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I think Lisa from Tenecula. So we did a sketch where she goes to a wedding as a guest. Yeah. I was like, for this one, because she's at a wedding, can she make can she turn her current sweater into a dress? And so we made that sweater, her iconic sweater into a dress, like put a skirt. And I think she'd wear that to someone's wedding as well.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I think she'd wear that outfit in white to her own wedding. It's like the sweater. She knows her shape. She's convinced. She's convinced in the year 2024 that that is the look and that is the vibe. She knows what she wants. Yeah, she can. Can you please show us your dog?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yes, I actually want to show you. You know I want to do it because he's chewing something he's not supposed to. But guys, I'm going to be happy for 10 years or at least nine more. This is Chief.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
oh my gosh oh my god this is my buffs this is chief this is chief he's chewing what was he he went in his toy basket he he i put up i brought his toy basket down first i was like he should be able to take whatever he wants out of here i shouldn't police that but what he wants is a uh one of his little like shoes that is not in fact a toy and he was just like ripping that apart he does want to let you know that he hates the shoes
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yes, he does. He does hate the shoes, by the way. That is a real thing, which is why they were in there. And I forgot they were in there because I try to be like, Do you guys have a dog? We have two. Two dogs. They get to sleep in the bed with you.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Okay.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I want you to know my underwear is actually quite attractive. It's so sexy. It's all little tiny thongs. Wait, did you guys get a trainer for Jeff or Jeff was just good?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
but mostly he was just good he was mostly good but we had a trainer like give us tips and tricks but got you and then with steve trainer before trainer we sent him to yeah okay okay he is not better steve okay okay well i chief is very good and so chief is chief is chief is a very good boy i want to let him sleep in the bed with me but we live in New York and New York is disgusting.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
So that's where the shoes came. I was like, well, maybe if you wear shoes or like little, I can justify, but he fucking hates them. And so that's out the window, but I do like, Neurotically wipe his paws before he gets to run around. I mean, because it's nasty.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
So guess what? This week I tried to do that because this week was particularly rough. I go, I'm letting Chief sleep in the bed with me tonight. And I put a blanket. It's actually the Barefoot, you know, the Barefoot Dreams blanket. It's a nice blanket. I put the Barefoot Dreams blanket on my bed, at the foot of the bed. And I was like, you stay on here. And he stayed on for exactly five seconds.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
He's like, no, honey, I want to be on the duvet. Like, this is... He's like, I want to be on the pillowcase. Yes, exactly. And he's like, it's not happening. So anyway, he doesn't get to sleep in the bed with me. But he's fine. He's like, he's...
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
kennel trained and all and all the things and honestly i don't even know that he thinks being on my bed set exciting um they probably don't i tried my mom says that too she's like put him on the and also do you feel like he should get a friend maybe you guys can advise me here should he have should i get a second dog no nick got steve when i was like seven months pregnant and was like we have to have jeff has to have a friend because we're gonna have a baby and we're gonna
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
that's why what kind of dog is steve they're like golden doodles you know and it's okay it's rotten okay okay i understand i understand i i can't tell if i'm projecting on him because every time i look at chief i'll be like is he bored sad like he feels so deep and i'm like are you okay is everything doing is are you do you should get a journal as the owner Yeah. Maybe he should start journaling.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
What's that? He should start journaling. Journal. He should do a gratitude practice.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Chief does watch TV. So I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I just was telling my mom this yesterday. I had a friend come stay with me a couple of weeks ago and I was at work and on a Saturday and she sends me a picture of her and Chief watching TV. He's just posted up next to her and they are watching TV together.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And does not look like one of those pictures you take of the dog where it's like, well, they're still for 30 seconds. Like, let me try to grab this. It was like, no, they're chilling hard. And I was like, that's what's missing from his life. Honestly, that I don't sit and watch TV. I'm like, I'm a weirdo. I want to watch like the Martha Stewart thing I watched on my laptop.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I have a big old TV and I was like, I'm going to watch it on my laptop in my bed. Is that are you is that's insane. People have told me that's crazy that I do that. So. I think you're not alone.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah, it just feels cozy. Yeah. Yeah, something about it feels cozy.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah. Maybe genuinely when I get off of this record with you guys, I'm going to do that. I'm going to go find, I'm going to go find out what this show is and put it on for him and see what it is and see, do you guys watch this trash TV all the time?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
What's your favorite poison?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Salt Lake City is the best show. Is Salt Lake City the star right now? Because when I was an OG... Okay. I was OG Housewives. Big time, like...
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
my favorite so i was watching atlanta i was watching um jersey a little bit of new york i was obsessed with jersey obsessed obsessed we're talking teresa judice or is it judice now or is it okay she's admitted it it's like five different ways that's okay yeah Okay, great. I obsess. And then I felt very bad. I stopped watching because I felt so bad that Teresa's family was falling apart.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And so I stopped watching because I was like, I feel so, so bad. I'm like, I think it's because of this show. Yeah. And so I felt guilty and like I was part of it. But now I want to pick back up because I do hear Salt Lake is where it's at. I've also heard Potomac is.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Potomac is so good this season.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
It's perfect. Do I need to start season one? So a few years when Salt Lake was first starting, I did start watching because people at work were talking a bunch about it. And I was like, I can probably return to the Housewives. That was so fun. And I remember someone smelled like hospital. Yeah.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah. yeah okay okay great there's also only five seasons so it's like not that much to watch it's not too much here's the thing i'm shout out to the housewives though who are committing federal crimes and on television by their own volition literally yeah and i'm like i'm deeply fascinated by that i feel like this could be a sketch
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah. I'm just like, what is, I remember, do you guys remember, um,
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
gosh teresa buying the house but then they couldn't furnish it because of whatever was going on with whatever federal charges she and joe who is joe's deported right yes right he's in italy yeah yeah he lives in italy not a bad place to get deported right not one of the words yeah and then teresa got to take a picture with taylor swift so you know
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
she did or joe did she became a bodybuilder she did for a minute she did oh my gosh teresa i got to do watch what happens live with her and i was a little starstruck i was a little like i can't believe i'm getting to meet her and i think i felt like teresa had a little bit of stranger danger up top because i was like so out of the loop on what was going on with the housewives at the time i did this episode with her was like a couple years ago
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And it wasn't until after I was like, oh, I think a lot of people seemingly don't fuck with her. And I don't maybe she was like guarded because she was like, am I one of those ones who don't? But I'm like, I don't know the latest. But yeah, I got to do that with her. And it was a dream. I was I can't believe I'm getting to do this with freaking Teresa herself, who flipped the table.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Prostitution whore.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Okay. I will have to watch. I will have to watch because I was a big I love New York fan. Truly. Do you guys see that? Every time I see the meme of her on the bed with her arms crossed and pouting Tiffany, I'm like, it's always perfect. Every single time.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
There is no misuse of that name. She is an icon and she is a legend. Ever. Okay, I need to see those two go toe-to-toe because I'm like, I don't know who's going to win that battle because Teresa's savage and she'll never let you forget she's from Patterson, New Jersey, which meant nothing to me until she said it so much. I'm like, that must be the hood. But I'm scared of Patterson, New Jersey.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah. I was like, I all of a sudden know I should be scared of Patterson, New Jersey. I'm going to watch. Thank you very much. I'm much Martha talker shit tonight. And put on blue.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Bluey. People talk about like adults talk about bluey all the time. Like adults who don't have children. It's a thing for their dogs. He's having a moment. Okay.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
maybe you like it more than chief i don't know i think i no i'm not i'm i'm not necessarily i'm not an animated girl i love my like i that's why i do i did love the house because i am very like let me see what's actually happening in people's lives whether it's a little scripted or not i'm like let's see what's going on more staged than scripted i feel more staged correct yeah
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Did you guys, I used to, I mean, this, my love affair that I've since fallen off from with reality TV did start with Laguna Beach. Yes. That was my. That's where I started too. That was Laguna Beach was it for me. I, man, you, I was obsessed. Elsie, Kristen.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I remember. I can't remember. Whitney was the Hills. Yes. What was gosh, I'm trying to remember the time. I thought this was so funny. It's probably so wrong now. So bear with me and meaning wrong. But someone like somebody's boyfriend and then was like apologizing for it. And then in the apology, whoever they were apologizing was like, say you're a slut. Say you're a slut. Yeah. MTV reality.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
We used to really let some shit fly, I will say. It's true. I'm like, there are so many things we were just like, wow, that's crazy, and laugh about it. And now we're like, that's terrible. But I just thought that that was wild. I was like, well, she's apologizing already, which I feel like it takes...
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
say you're a slut I don't want to say I'm a slut I'm practicing gratitude I cannot say that I'm a slut I'm a slut I'm working on myself but yeah anyway I'm gonna guys you got me I'm gonna I'm gonna get it I have work to do can you believe and a journal to journal in I want to know what happens I need to know what happens in your book
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
And after or before you watch Tip Drill, I just need to know what your Tip Drill experience is. Let me know. Okay, I will.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I'll send videos or pictures or voice memos or something. No voice memos. Somehow why is voice memo worse to me? I go, no, no, not a voice memo.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
okay like you're out of breath for some reason for doing the like voice memo and it's like why are you so bad why are you breathing just walking and doing a voice memo always it's i'm like sorry i'm just i'm just walking down there i'm just but i'm like why does it sound like it's very serial killer it's always very and then when the other person keeps it you're like why'd you keep that yeah you know like i know i love to keep a voice memo to stress someone out
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
It's awesome. I keep them, too. I've kept them. Someone like I'm not even particularly close to you're about to do a job. And they were talking about someone. It wasn't even bad. It was basically like we're getting a lot of money to do this job. Like, let's rob this like air quote, rob this bank. And I was like, I kept the note. And then I immediately was like, oh, my God, we're not that close.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I just like keep the notes. I just I do this. I always do. It's a default reaction. I'm not going to like play this for anyone while you while you basically say this job.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Everybody has blackmail. But yeah, never leave a paper trail. But now we're just like leaving literal voice evidence of ourselves. We're all basically wearing wires or something. Yeah.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Isn't that what she said?
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
Yeah, something like that. I like that. That's the updated gangsters.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I will. I will do my own. Guys, you're setting me down a path and I'm here for it.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
You can follow me on Instagram at eggyboom, E-G-G-Y-B-O-O-M. I have a podcast called Thanks Dad on HeadGum, but you can get it wherever you listen to your podcast. Thanks Dad, I talk to dads about being dads and they get to tell me their tea.
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
i don't have a relationship with my dad it's born of this idea and so they get to be my dad for a day it's cute um and and then i'm on snl and you know saturdays at night pacific 8 30 p.m i believe yeah 11 30 p.m um and so yeah those are the places and maybe in the streets of brooklyn going to work yeah
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E839 - SNL w/ Ego Nwodim, Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan, RHOC Reunion, RHOSLC, & the Grammy Nominations
I'm still here. Love you guys. Okay, but for real, bye.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
I'm trying to think of something to say. Hot dog. That's hot dog. Yes, okay. Thank you for translating. But yeah, yeah, I can, but I need a prompt. I don't have a Baltimore thing in my back pocket.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
I'm obsessed with Old Bay. I put it on everything, including my fruit. I've got Old Bay merch. I've got Old Bay tote bags, socks, mugs, oversized Old Bay. No food in my home, but that Old Bay to go on it should it arrive.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
I actually just got to tell the Old Bay team that earlier today, so fingers crossed I get to be the face of Old Bay.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
Well, here's the thing, guys, and I've said this many times now. The audience is not supposed to say anything at Saturday Night Live. They never have. They likely will not be prompted to again in the future. They're supposed to watch. They're just supposed to watch the piece and laugh and cheer.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
You know, everyone keeps saying that's such a well-known phrase, men ain't ass, but I'm like, I don't know. I don't know that I've heard that particular phrase
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
I've heard they ain't that. I've heard... But I have not... It was meant to be worth it. It was meant to be, they don't know, because they've never seen me perform before, and then I say worth it. But they were amazing. I loved that first crowd. Very enthusiastic, but very locked in.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
No, I was just happy to be asked to be part of Poker Face. I was like, hell yes. And then I was asked to eat cheese, which I can't. I can't have as much cheese as they would have liked me to have.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
We had a conversation before where they told me the plan was for me to eat a lot of cheese, and I thought, oh, wow, of all the rolls, I'm getting the one I can't do. But here's the thing. I raw dog cheese all the time. I'm lactose intolerant, but I go raw with the cheese all the time, without a lactate, that is. And we don't die, but at a certain point, I would have a problem.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
And so they decided to swap out the cheese for, I believe it was vegan cheese. which just created a different problem. Sounds like you were farting either way. Yeah, no matter what I was going to be farting, I was farting.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
Hey, Kara, I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Come on, let's get this.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
This is tough. This hard. C. It's C. Yeah, that was right. I don't know how you knew that.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
I'm going to say, and this is very chaotic, but it's B. You're going to go with B. As soon as he moved in, he painted everything black because that was his taste.
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WWDTM: Ego Nwodim
Everything that's been going on has kind of changed my life plans.