Jillian Bell

Between cycles.

See, that's more suspect to me. It's like, why just force people to take this just so they can manage the ovulation cycle?

And then we can do it in a week.

So can I put you on these drugs? He's booked up. That's right. Well, that's more dubious than, you know, it's like, why all the medicine?

So now just to come back from that, you're on Lexapro and Busporin and occasionally Betabox.

Just because your brain's fucked up from the estrogen.

Ja, ja. Ja.

A baby?

I don't like this one.

So you remember that or did your mom remember that?

Nice thing to hear. I know. Yeah, I'm trying to track. I tried to track how long I've been having my particular form of anxiety. Yeah. Which is, you know, dread-driven, catastrophic thinking, intrusive thoughts. Yes. But they're all practical intrusive thoughts. Like, you know, like you talked to Bamford. Her intrusive thoughts are like, I want to kill that baby.

You know, me, it's like, you know, what if my cat hangs itself on the drape thing?

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I'll be at the Music Hall on Wednesday, May 7th. Then I'm in Brooklyn, New York for my HBO special taping at the Bam Harvey Theater on May 10th. Two shows there. Go to wtfpod.com slash tour for all of my dates and links to tickets. Yes, do that. So, look, you guys. I don't know. You know, I brought this up. Must be five, six weeks ago that eventually...

And then I just lock into that. Oh. Yeah. But so when you have reasonable intrusive thoughts, how is that not just being, you know, like, you know, worry. It's worry on some level.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like a snowball. It's like, okay, you've depleted that worry. Exactly. Let's pull up, let's open the folder.

Are you ever thinking like, I'm going to fuck it up?

Oh my God. That's a similar type of anxiety that I have. But why did you stop driving?

But how did, over what?

So you landed on, I can't drive. Yes. Even though you'd gotten as far as you'd got. Logic couldn't help you.

But is this like, is it fear you feel or I don't, because you know how to drive.

Das ist anders.

Ich verstehe es. Ich muss den Fehl der T-Bone bei einer Intersektion kämpfen.

I actually, I can track that one. There was an accident in my hometown that was so devastating that it traumatized me for life. It was a stop sign situation. And a drunk driver was just barreling down this road. And this car had the, you know, had the right of way. And this fucker just, you know, not only T-boned him, but was going so fast, decapitated all four of them.

Yeah. Just hit it so hard that the car just went right through the other car.

It happened. I didn't see it happen.

No. But I was like, that's bad. So Beta Blocker don't help with that shit?

Yeah, but it's only for four hours.

Yeah, I think so.

Well, if you're afraid. Yeah. I mean, it's the stage fright drug.

Yeah, I was prescribed it once because I was fighting so much with my girlfriend at the time that I was trying to detach with love and not be angry. So someone said, you should try Beta Blockers. So I'm just sitting there. She's just sitting on a couch and I'm like, I just take them.

Oh, that's good. It wasn't all one-sided, that one.

So wait, do you have siblings?

So, does she remember you not being, holding your breath and shit?

So she just didn't want to have anything to do with you. It was just you getting more attention at the time.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Oh, they weren't willing to roll the dice on a Disney kid.

The president would defy the courts and that's happening and then we would be in a bonafide constitutional crisis and that has arrived. Here we are. This is it. This is the precipice. I don't know what the recourse is of the Supreme Court over this deportation ruling or the lower courts with theirs, whether they're going to find the president in contempt or not.

Yeah.

But she ended up doing what before hooking up with you?

Wait, so where did you grow up? I grew up in Las Vegas. Nevada? Yeah. Is it like there's no other one? Yeah. There's actually Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Las Vegas, New Mexico, yeah. Yeah. Really? I've only met a couple of people that did that. Yeah. Who's that other one? Baron Vaughn?

Yeah, the one. I feel like I've talked to maybe three people. There's the Killers. Yeah.

Okay. Jimmy Kimmel. Where did you go? Which buffet did your family go to every Sunday?

But why did he end up in Vegas? No one's from Vegas.

I feel like you have, not in a negative way, some Montana vibes. Yeah? Yeah.

Just like solid person. You know, kind of like, you know, you're candid, but you have boundaries.

Like in the 70s? Yeah.

So he started as a jock.

And then he became a sidekick for a local TV show?

Okay.

So he, you have video of it?

Like him sidekicking?

Go find it? Yeah. And then he, like, well, he was, he knew about at least copyright ads, you know, if he's doing radio. Yeah. He knew that. So he did, he has opened his own ad agency? Yeah.

I'm sorry. That's okay.

Is there?

But this is what was going to happen. And I assumed it would happen and now it's happened. And we are in a true constitutional crisis because I don't know really what the recourse is for the courts to take the president to task.

I don't know if you do. Wait, so, you know, we, it seemed like there's an arc there that we're missing.

Well, we ended before we, I watched your movie and it was cute.

I love it.

It's odd because, like, as an old man, I didn't quite know how to watch it.

No, no, no, because of the subject matter. I'm like, is this a type of movie now where these kids are learning about sex? This way, you know, there is sort of a type of movie going on.

Ja, wir werden darüber mehr in Detail sprechen, sobald wir herausfinden oder überlegen, wie dein Vater alles verloren hat.

Well, no, because we were talking about how he started an ad agency and then in passing you're like, even when he lost everything. He did.

Well, I mean, like, so you guys are growing up and he's got his own agency and it's local. Yes. And he's like writing funny stuff. Do you remember, did he have billboards that he was proud of and that kind of stuff?

There's nobody in the orbit in terms of advisors or people with positions of power in the Justice Department or in the executive branch that will tell him he can't do this and he's going to do it. And then ultimately, if there is no recourse, the government that we have or had is no longer functioning. It's no longer America as based in constitutional democracy. So, how are you? Good morning.

What were the production values? Was it like? Did it have the guy walking in in front of a backdrop? Come to the buffet.

Hat er direkt gedreht?

Because it seems like if that's what he wanted to do, he had the option.

Drift? No, I mean start to business go wrong. Why do you really want to talk about when my dad's business went wrong? Because my dad lost everything. I mean, I was older. And so like it was, you know, it's an odd thing. Auch wenn es nur passiert, weil das Geschäft schlecht ging. Aber es ist eine seltsame Sache, wenn du jemanden hast, der dich mitgebracht hat, und plötzlich hat er nichts.

Für irgendeinen Grund. Und dann musst du ihn instinktiv in eine andere Art und Weise ansprechen.

Really? I did get lucky.

Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja.

I wonder if that's part of it. I'm still putting this together. And, you know, I've had more time than you.

Well, I mean, I've known that my brain is a certain way for a long time. Yeah. But I always rationalized it as being reasonable and it just made me intuitive that everybody should feel exactly like me if they were just in touch. That's interesting. Yeah. And I tried to sell that on stage for years. Like, everyone's bitter. I mean, how can you not be bitter? Everything worked out for you?

It didn't. But then it moved into, I think anxiety is more relatable. Yeah. But no, when I think about my childhood and about that feeling you had of being afraid or not feeling safe or something. But that seems like you had more of a mental thing.

Well, it's just like, I have to appreciate my life and I'm not living that life. And I don't know that that's all anxiety, where I feel like I've got to be engaged and, you know, putting new things in my head and, you know, curious about stuff. Right. You know, that they're like, I don't mind that part of being unsettled.

You know, because I think that's part of creativity. Yeah. But it's more about having to overcome... Ja. Ja. So that was, I've been doing this joke about it, about how like, you know, I don't know if what I'm medicating is exactly the source of my creativity. Maybe I just like to, you know, pan for gold in a river of panic, just to see if I...

Welcome. What are you going to do about it? What are we going to do about it? I mean, look, I get focused on these, you know, I'm starting to go into deeper dives. It seems that outside of the mania and sociopathic autocracy of the president that you have These people within the administration who, you know, Trump is not smart. He's not he's a dummy. And so, you know, he's being operated.

Because that's how we, I mean, you're a funny person, you're a writer. That's how we problem solve is with comedy. Yeah. And even if it's improvisation, you're still on some level, you know, having that moment outside of yourself that, you know, is, it's rewarding, but it's also like, you know, it makes you feel better.

Yeah. But when did you start doing that? Because we worked together, and I didn't know your work that much when we did Lynn's movie.

And that was all improvising, and you were hilarious. Oh, thank you. Everyone was so fucking funny. Oh, that was a good one. Did you know that, like, you know... Did you know about my crisis, like on day two of that movie?

No, it wasn't the cereal crisis.

I know.

Those eggs were weird. Ja, ich habe es immer gedacht. Es gab einen Zeitpunkt, wo ich, wenn ich mein eigenes Shampoo auf der Straße mit mir nicht bräuchte, ich wäre so, dass mein Haar, alles wird verpustet. Kontrolle. Genau. Also war es mehr so. Ja, ich habe es verstanden. Was war das Tag, an dem wir mit Tobi draußen schreien? Ich weiß nicht.

Yeah, all riffage.

Ja. Ja. With all these fucking improv wizards everywhere. And Toby has done some kind of weird deep swamp research.

On his fucking accent.

Everything was like that.

Also habe ich es nur für einen Moment aufgeschaut. Bester Lächeln auf der Welt. Oh, ja, das war so. Ich denke, das war der Gluh, der uns zusammengehalten hat, dass ich sie ständig lachen konnte.

And, you know, go poke around. Take a look at Russell Vought in the Office of Management and Budget, because I think that guy is an engine. And of course, Stephen Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff. Is that what his position is? In charge of policy. Yeah, that guy. He's out there doing it. But yeah, I mean, if you want to get more definition around it, I know people don't stay checked in.

Oh mein Gott. Egal, wie wütend ich wäre.

She had a system with all that medicine. It was so brutal that... You know, there's something about a belief in, you know, homeopathy or, you know, natural medicine or, you know, whatever. Yeah. You know, but I don't know.

I often wonder, but it doesn't matter that whatever she had, you know, outside of her stomach issues, you know, would have been diagnosed earlier had she been more prone to regular doctors. Right. You know? Right. Because I remember, like, this is so fucking heartbreaking.

But I remember, like, because she was like, when she got sick that week, you know, she reached out to her naturopath or whoever in Seattle, the person or wherever they were. And with the symptoms and stuff.

And then, like, you know, after she passed away, you know, I get this box at the house with like a tincture. And I'm like, yeah, that wasn't, that wasn't going to do it.

I think that's when she got sick.

I think that is when it started to happen.

Yeah, she didn't, she couldn't work within that system either.

Well, she would have.

I mean, and it would have happened, it was like, you know, I think it was pretty near, it was gonna happen.

Look, man, it's like I get those pictures on my phone all the time.

And I had a dream about her like two days ago.

I do. It happens sometimes.

No, but when she does, it's always pretty specific. But she didn't look great the last time. Well, she would hate that. I know. But she generally just says, you know, I love you. Oh. You know?

Oh.

Yeah, that's sorry. I'm doing it on the air, but I'm just fighting the getting the choked up thing. I know. But Steve Feiner just made a documentary about me and a lot of it has to do with her.

It's pretty good.

Well, no, I don't know where it's going to end up. You know, I don't think we've got a deal for anything yet. Okay. And it's going to be a Tribeca. Do you live here? I live here. But, you know, they screened it at South by Southwest in the same theater that I believe we screened Sword of Trust.

Yeah. Well, I mean, when did you start getting interested in performing?

Es ist sehr lustig.

There's a lot of other people, you know, working on this. But what did we do? What do we do? Well, I just spent an hour and a half playing guitar deeply, trying to find a riff to use for my special. I have been on the fence about how to handle my cat Charlie. In terms of medicine, I'm deciding now, and I think I talked to you about it before, that...

And your dad was taking you?

They did casino shows? Yeah.

Yeah, the touring group.

Wasn't there improv element?

You just approached him after a show?

Und hast du Spaß gemacht mit der Klasse?

Ja.

Ich bin noch nicht so lange zurückgekommen.

Ja. Hast du einen Club gemacht, der im Jahrbuch war?

So, okay, so you're really right out of high school?

Yeah.

Really? But your sister wasn't out here yet?

Oh, wow. So you got to see that side of the business. Yeah. Not exciting, or it was.

Really? Yeah.

So how did you get in there? But you're still working at the agency.

Oh, das war eine Familienregel. Ja. Ja. Okay.

Okay, aber wer war deine Crew bei Groundlings?

Ich denke, ich werde ihn aus dem Prozac nehmen. Ich denke tatsächlich, dass Prozac es mehr aggraviert macht. Ich werde es nur ausruhen. Das ist mein Gefühl. Ich werde darüber sprechen, mit der gleichen Urgenz, wie ich über die konstitutionelle Krise gesprochen habe. Alles passiert in meiner Meinung an ungefähr der gleichen Frequenz. And sometimes it can't get out from under it.

Was that a huge deal? I mean, to be in the fucking Groundlings?

Oh really? Yeah. So you'd only been there for six months?

So how did, did you go audition for SNL after six months?

In New York?

Does anyone go there? No, I did.

Oh, that's good.

Oh, so there was, I think the original one was down in the village, the West Village. That was the one with the cupcakes, right? The butter, yeah, yeah. So you got a cake?

I'm moving to New York. So the cake became celebratory, not sad.

And then you're going to head back home. And then you just jump in? Yeah.

I mean, the cats and I've talked about this a bit, but I do think that my brain generates as much personal crisis as possible to counteract the macro political and environmental crisis at hand. So if I can match it, I can at least keep it in the house. You know, like I can see what's going on in the macro and the big picture, but I can go like, I got some stuff going on here.

So how was that for you as a work experience?

But Seth must have been good to work under.

He's like, what you see is what you get.

Really?

So you held on to the stack of sketches that you brought to get the job. Exactly. And once you realized you had the job, I'm like, I'm not going to let them do this.

How's she doing?

So did you leave or did they tell you to go?

You auditioned for that?

Yeah, but right away.

That was like, that went on for years, right?

And that puts you on the map.

Adam ist ein lustiger kleiner Kerl.

He would take it. I just saw him at a comedy store thing and I hadn't seen him in a while, but he's just like... I don't know, he's a guy... There are some people that are just really ready for massive success.

And he's just one of those guys.

Yeah. For me, I'm sort of like, I don't know if I can handle it or if I want it. I think I'll just stay where I am and everything inside of me will create obstacles for me not to get to that other place. Yeah. Ja, ich meine... Dieser Typ? Ja! I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't have picked him.

Like he doesn't have these problems? Like The Rock is doing well. Well, yeah, The Rock has no problems.

Like, you know, he eats a ton of fish a day. Half of his life is maintaining that monster body. And everybody loves him. Oh, everybody loves him. Everyone loves a rock.

Yeah, he just exudes a sort of righteous niceness.

Yeah, but Ike, I mean, it's not like... I would never think that that was an easy road.

You know, my cat is aggravated and they're uncomfortable. So I'm going to deal with this and then I'll check in with the other stuff later today or every five minutes, however it works for you. But I do, I've had many cats before in my life. Some people are telling me to call Jackson Galaxy. I don't know that guy. But I do have a sense of what's going on.

Oh, well, that's... Yeah, I guess...

There's The Rock. Yeah, the people that are just aliens are genetically gifted. And everybody just is so excited to see them no matter what.

I just did a show with Owen Wilson. He's one of those guys. People just love that guy.

But I don't necessarily get the feeling it's easy for Owen. I think that there is something about, I think if anything... They may be, you know, relaxed in their bodies.

And I, you know, I find I can envy that.

That there's a certain amount, and they know how to have, they know how to have fun. Yeah. I don't know anything about that. Like anybody who's like, yeah, we're going out for the weekend, me and a couple of guys I grew up with, and we're going to spend the weekend on the mountain and just bring our own food. I'm like, I don't even know what you're saying.

We do it every couple of months.

I never did that. I do drag my friend who owns a record store up this hike nearby. And every time he's almost passing out. I mean, for the last two years, he's like, I don't know what's wrong with me today.

No, but those are the people that... But I can picture you going to Joshua Tree. Sure, I've done that. I don't always know what to do when I get there. One night's enough.

Well, I'll go walk and I'll take it in and I'll try to force some sort of spiritual experience. Yeah, I'll push it.

I'll get to the top of the mountain and be like, yeah, this is kind of amazing.

All right, that's good.

What do you believe? In general?

I believe, I guess like, I've never been a real spiritual searcher guy. Yeah. But I do believe that there is some order to most of it. And we're in control of almost nothing.

And I try to have some acceptance around that. That's the best I can do.

It's kind of healthy. I think I got some of it from recovery. But I have been doing jokes about this, because I'm doing these Zins. What are Zins? They're just nicotine. But I always have something. I'm a recovering addict guy. But I recently framed it as, you gotta have something to hold back the big empty. Yeah.

Und dann habe ich eine Nacht nachdem ich es auf der Bühne gesagt habe, dass ich, wenn ich Buddhist bin, den großen Leuchten akzeptieren würde. Also vielleicht bin ich auf dem Präzis.

Von der Akzeptierung des großen Leuchten. Ich mag Buddhismus für dich.

I remember a buddy of mine, he remembers, I buy raw wood boxes. There was a point where I was like, I'm going to figure out how to finish wood.

And sand it and oil it. It never came out quite right. But that didn't last long. Records happen. Sometimes cooking things. Right now I'm in a pretty big nut oil phase. State of mind? Yeah, because I've been vegan for a couple of years and I've just decided that walnut oil and pecan oil are the key. Because you have to get your omega somewhere if you're not eating meat.

I mean, when I go and I think I went away too much this last time, the vacuum, the power vacuum creates, you know, a dominant struggle. And I've got, you know, Buster and Charlie, who are, I think, more or less the alphas. Sammy's kind of a moron and was pretty severely punked out by Buster. So they have a very cute gay relationship.

And then I realized, well, walnuts are supposed to be so good for everything. Why not just use walnut oil? So now I find a place that makes cold-pressed walnut oil. And then I found another place that does cold-pressed pecans, because some guy said pecan oil is better. So then I'll put those in my smoothies or my oatmeal and I... It'll pass. It'll pass. But, you know, those are the kind of things.

I love it. Which is almost spiritual.

Well, it's also that thing about control.

Whether it's the good cereal. Yeah. You know, but I've had, you know, if I get interested in a musical act, you know, that I didn't know about, I'll get all their records and I won't listen to them. You know, that kind of thing.

Spiritually? That's where you're at spiritually?

Where are you at spiritually?

I don't know. This last year?

Either way, I don't give a fuck.

The thing that I try to do a joke about it, but I let it go. Anytime you hear about these stories, it's like they found a dead one or they see them leaving. So...

No, they clearly do not want anything to do with us. No. But you believe in God?

Yeah, I think it probably happened like very early on. That was when you were holding your breath. You're like, why isn't God stopping this?

I love that joke.

The old Jewish joke. I sent, what is it? I sent a boat.

It's a clever joke. So how does... Oh, da ist sie. Das ist diese Frau.

She's always good.

But how long had you been festering about directing?

Yeah, but that was a weird thing that you learned from Lynn. It's like, if you align yourself with people that believe in you, just fuck everybody.

Just go get the money and shoot it out. She shot that fucking movie in three weeks.

Yeah, it was crazy.

gay marriage to a degree, but I find that Sammy is like, he's gonna go to wherever the tough guy is. So that creates a little friction, but I think me being away so much has put Charlie in this position to where he's gonna fight it out with Buster to be the king of the house. And then I come home, and he's fighting with me.

Weißt du, dass der Trick zu Plakaten-Aktoren ist, wenn sie eine Idee haben, sie zu machen, sie zu machen, und dann sagst du, okay, mach den, den du machen willst. Wissen in deiner Meinung.

Und wer waren die Schauspieler? Ich meine, wie hast du sie gefunden?

So the pitch is this girl who's not... Basically an inexperienced, sexually inexperienced teenager. Yeah, but kind of a nerd girl. Yeah, yeah. And she's playing against the popular girl.

Right. But also like the trick is like getting Chloe Feynman. Yes. Is like, you know, you have to make, you know, we're coming off the year of Nora. So you've got to figure out how to make sex workers teen friendly on some level.

Well, I think it was very funny to cast Paula.

Sie ist einfach die Beste.

Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies? What the fuckniks, what's happening? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast. Welcome to it. Look, you guys, today on the show... I'm going to talk to Jillian Bell. She was my co-star in Sword of Trust. That was Lynn Shelton's last movie.

This little fuck is taking me on, and I'm like, dude, that's not gonna go well for you. And then I medicated him. You know, just like a small... authoritarian leader in my house. I'm like, if these fuckers aren't going to like me, I will repress them. I will suppress them. I will put this little fucker on medicine so he can't function the way he wants. And then, I don't like that part of me.

Aber sie war, jede Linie aus dieser Frau's Mund ist einfach das Beste. Ja, ja, ja.

A voice and he had the dark glasses on. I didn't identify him until he comes back at the end.

Wann machen wir das? Ja, und es scheint, dass die Balance von keeping it cute schwierig ist. Und die anderen Strippers sind lustig. Aber es gibt diesen Moment. All this stuff is kind of like you were able to kind of mute the seediness so everyone kind of is lovable. Right. Aber es ist interessant, wie viel der Moment kommt, als sie in das Haus mit den Tweakers geht.

Und da ist ein Moment da, wo es so ist wie, oh, das ist ein bisschen... Richtig, weil du die dunkle Seite ihres Jobs sehen kannst.

Teen Selfishness, ja. Und die Art und Weise, wie sie es löst, ist faszinierend, weil es nur funktionieren würde, wenn sie wirklich hoch sind. Genau, was wirklich Spaß macht.

Aber ja, ich dachte, es war ein süßes Film. Nachdem du es beendet hast, hast du jetzt noch irgendwelche Noten für dich?

Oh yeah, that's great.

And it just was interesting to me that I had the response I had initially. Yeah? Well, only because like, Ich hatte es in irgendeinem Rahmen in meinem Kopf, dass Kinder jetzt, die Teenager sind, viel mehr wissen, als wir. Und als ich. Ich meine, ich bin 61. Und dass, du weißt, es gibt ein Vokabular um dieses Ding, das über ihre Jahre hinaus ist. Richtig.

Und dass, du weißt, once it starts to land more in kind of like, oh, there's still kids kind of stuff.

You know, I was relieved.

I don't like that. But also, having cats for so long... They're just going to have to figure it out. I've got one more trip to do and it might be a little dicey, but I've got some gabapentin and I'm just going to try to wean them off this Prozac and let them figure it out. Because they will figure it out. I've had so many cats. I know that this has happened before.

So it's like... And your doc said you should do it now.

Well, yeah, I thought it was good to make a decision, you know, because, you know, you get, there's movies that are, you know, intentionally meant to be gritty and to have an effect. And then there are movies that are, you know, the conceit is that we're doing a comedy here.

And that, you know, these characters have to be balanced. Yeah.

Well, that's great. It's like Kyle Mooney did that Y2K thing, which is a take on that teen movie. Yeah.

It's around, I saw it.

Because I watched it, because he's such an odd guy. And I'm like, what did he make? And it's really, it's a take on one of those kind of like sci-fi teen movies.

Yeah, if it really happened and all the machines kind of ganged up. But then there's a big monster that's made of toasters and refrigerators and stuff. That's a blast. Yeah. But it's interesting that your generation, because I don't know what, I can't remember what the hell the movies were when I was a teenager. I guess I really didn't see those kind of movies when I was in high school.

But you end up seeing them somehow.

Like Ordinary People was a teen movie.

Yeah, but I remember seeing that as a teenager and it was about a teenager and I don't remember the funnier movies of the time.

Like when I was in junior high. Jesus, I mean, I don't know. I graduated high school in 81, so I was in junior high in like 75.

What the fuck were those movies?

Don't you just want to know now?

Let's see, 70s teen movies. Okay, here we got a list. Meatballs. Meatballs. Corvette Summer, didn't see it. Ice Castles, didn't see it. American Graffiti, that's a little, I saw that with my dad.

Carrie, okay. The Wanderers, I did see that. That's 79. Rock and Roll High School, I think I saw it. Takedown, I don't know. Cooley High. Okay. Interesting. Those are just movies, though. Those aren't comedies.

I just freaked out because there was a lot of shit involved. Literal shit. And just a lot of insanity. Three male cats. Kit sagt mir immer, wir kriegen eine Frau und bauen sie aus. Ich werde nicht nur Katzen zum Problem geben. Du kannst nicht nur Katzen zum Problem geben. This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. And we've come a long way with our website thanks to Squarespace.

Interesting.

That there weren't that many of those kind of comedies.

Yeah. I think the great age of teen comedies was probably the 80s.

All right. Well, great job.

Yeah, sure.

You gotta put the, alright.

Yeah.

Yeah. But is that condescending?

But I watch them.

I think cute is good.

I was able to understand the conceit of the movie.

And then, you know, once I settled into it, I was like, oh.

That's what I mean. Okay, good. Yeah. Maybe that's the blurb. I was like, oh.

There you go. I think we covered a lot of good stuff. Summer of 69 streams on Hulu starting May 9th. Always good to see Jillian. Hang out for a minute.

Hey Folks, we've got the latest Ask Mark Anything episode posted for full Marin subscribers. It's an all new batch of questions from WTF listeners like this one. What was the impact of the Patrice O'Neill episode and what are your feelings about it in hindsight? I think it's a very popular episode. I think it's a very thorough and good kind of

audio portrait of who that guy was um i i loved talking to him i thought that he was at times a problematic guy in the way he thought about things but he definitely had a way of thinking about things and when some of his jokes that were the most provocative landed as a performer no one was really as good as him

And his whole being and presence on stage was something completely unique and powerful. I feel in hindsight that, again, like I said, I think it's a very thorough and great representation of Patrice. I think it's a great... Testimony to who he was. I like that it's out there.

And again, some of the things that he talked about and some of the ways he frames things are not the way I would and may be problematic to me or some others. But that's who he was. And I'm glad we had that time. A-Cast Oomer lives. Monkey Lafonda. Cat Angels everywhere.

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She was a writer on SNL before being in movies and shows like Workaholics, Brittany Runs a Marathon and Eastbound and Down. But she has just directed her first feature, Summer of 69, which is not about 1969. It's a reference to the sexual position. Let me just get this out of the way. Los Angeles, I'm back at Largo for an 8 p.m. show next Tuesday, April 22nd.

And that was what you got.

At Starbucks? Yes. But I don't, I can't, I don't go. I don't go to the Starbucks.

What am I doing? I'm using, this is where my brain's at.

I was going to turn my heater off with my car fob. This is the machine. This was the remote that I was looking for. Yeah, for sure. So we're both in a great place. Well, I mean, I actually just started medicine and I've never taken it before for an anxiety medicine. What? Yeah. Which one are you surprised about? That I've never taken one?

No, I was on, I did Prozac years ago for a short period of time to process some other shit. Yeah. You know, when I was in New York and then I just never did it. And I tried some stuff, but they always fuck with me. But this one's not an SSRI. It's more specific.

It's Busporin. I can't shut up about it.

How long have you been on Busporin?

Oh, also es ist neu, um mit dem anderen zu handeln. Ja. Fühlst du etwas? Du würdest es nicht wissen.

Okay.

Du hast auch Beta-Blocker?

You didn't take a beta blocker to come talk to me?

Oh, that'll kick you. That's a hardcore. I can't do those because I'm in recovery. I can't have Klonopins in the house.

That's not good to have in the house.

Okay. Was ist das alles relativ zu der anderen Sache?

Ich mag eine Person, die es schlägt.

Yeah, this is on you, dude.

It's an old Catholic procedure.

So you've never been on birth control and you felt that immediately?

And that was just to control the ovulation?

Okay.

And that's to counter the effects of the impact it had on your uterus?

Okay.

Oh mein Gott.

Oh my God.

Just from the estrogen overload.

Then I'm at Dynasty Typewriter on Saturday, April 26th. And again on Tuesday, April 29th. Toronto, I'm at the Winter Garden on Saturday, May 3rd for two shows. Burlington, Vermont, I'm at the Vermont Comedy Club for two shows on Monday, May 5th and one show on Tuesday, May 6th. Those, I believe, are all sold out, but there might be tickets surfacing. I don't know.

Well, I mean, but that's half of medicine. But oddly, I'll share with you the response that I'm not proud of. But I'm like, well, what do you think this means for Charlie? Do you think it's going to take him a long time to get off the Prozac?

It's like, this is a bad story. I wonder if Charlie's gonna be okay or if it's gonna take months.

Yeah, I think that, and I'm not sure it's incorrect.

Ja. Ja.

Und ich sage, ich kann nicht mit all dem umgehen. Why couldn't they just sort of schedule it in the middle of your cycle?