Jillian Bell
Appearances
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So now just to come back from that, you're on Lexapro and Busporin and occasionally Betabox.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Just because your brain's fucked up from the estrogen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So you remember that or did your mom remember that?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
You know, me, it's like, you know, what if my cat hangs itself on the drape thing?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Are you ever thinking like, I'm going to fuck it up?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Oh my God. That's a similar type of anxiety that I have. But why did you stop driving?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
But is this like, is it fear you feel or I don't, because you know how to drive.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Ich verstehe es. Ich muss den Fehl der T-Bone bei einer Intersektion kämpfen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Yeah. Just hit it so hard that the car just went right through the other car.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
No. But I was like, that's bad. So Beta Blocker don't help with that shit?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Well, if you're afraid. Yeah. I mean, it's the stage fright drug.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Oh, that's good. It wasn't all one-sided, that one.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So, does she remember you not being, holding your breath and shit?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So she just didn't want to have anything to do with you. It was just you getting more attention at the time.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Oh, they weren't willing to roll the dice on a Disney kid.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
But she ended up doing what before hooking up with you?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Yeah, the one. I feel like I've talked to maybe three people. There's the Killers. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Okay. Jimmy Kimmel. Where did you go? Which buffet did your family go to every Sunday?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
But why did he end up in Vegas? No one's from Vegas.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
I feel like you have, not in a negative way, some Montana vibes. Yeah? Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Just like solid person. You know, kind of like, you know, you're candid, but you have boundaries.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
And then he became a sidekick for a local TV show?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
I don't know if you do. Wait, so, you know, we, it seemed like there's an arc there that we're missing.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Well, we ended before we, I watched your movie and it was cute.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
It's odd because, like, as an old man, I didn't quite know how to watch it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Ja, wir werden darüber mehr in Detail sprechen, sobald wir herausfinden oder überlegen, wie dein Vater alles verloren hat.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
What were the production values? Was it like? Did it have the guy walking in in front of a backdrop? Come to the buffet.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Because it seems like if that's what he wanted to do, he had the option.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Für irgendeinen Grund. Und dann musst du ihn instinktiv in eine andere Art und Weise ansprechen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
I wonder if that's part of it. I'm still putting this together. And, you know, I've had more time than you.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Ja. Ja. With all these fucking improv wizards everywhere. And Toby has done some kind of weird deep swamp research.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Yeah, she didn't, she couldn't work within that system either.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
I mean, and it would have happened, it was like, you know, I think it was pretty near, it was gonna happen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Look, man, it's like I get those pictures on my phone all the time.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
And I had a dream about her like two days ago.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Yeah. Well, I mean, when did you start getting interested in performing?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Ja. Hast du einen Club gemacht, der im Jahrbuch war?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So, okay, so you're really right out of high school?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Really? But your sister wasn't out here yet?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Oh, wow. So you got to see that side of the business. Yeah. Not exciting, or it was.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So how did you get in there? But you're still working at the agency.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Oh, das war eine Familienregel. Ja. Ja. Okay.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Okay, aber wer war deine Crew bei Groundlings?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Was that a huge deal? I mean, to be in the fucking Groundlings?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Oh really? Yeah. So you'd only been there for six months?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So how did, did you go audition for SNL after six months?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
I'm moving to New York. So the cake became celebratory, not sad.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
And then you're going to head back home. And then you just jump in? Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So how was that for you as a work experience?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So did you leave or did they tell you to go?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
That was like, that went on for years, right?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Like he doesn't have these problems? Like The Rock is doing well. Well, yeah, The Rock has no problems.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Yeah, he just exudes a sort of righteous niceness.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Yeah, but Ike, I mean, it's not like... I would never think that that was an easy road.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
I just did a show with Owen Wilson. He's one of those guys. People just love that guy.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
I'll get to the top of the mountain and be like, yeah, this is kind of amazing.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
And I try to have some acceptance around that. That's the best I can do.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Von der Akzeptierung des großen Leuchten. Ich mag Buddhismus für dich.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Spiritually? That's where you're at spiritually?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
No, they clearly do not want anything to do with us. No. But you believe in God?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
The old Jewish joke. I sent, what is it? I sent a boat.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
It's a clever joke. So how does... Oh, da ist sie. Das ist diese Frau.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
But how long had you been festering about directing?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Just go get the money and shoot it out. She shot that fucking movie in three weeks.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Und wer waren die Schauspieler? Ich meine, wie hast du sie gefunden?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Well, I think it was very funny to cast Paula.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Aber sie war, jede Linie aus dieser Frau's Mund ist einfach das Beste. Ja, ja, ja.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
A voice and he had the dark glasses on. I didn't identify him until he comes back at the end.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Aber ja, ich dachte, es war ein süßes Film. Nachdem du es beendet hast, hast du jetzt noch irgendwelche Noten für dich?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Und dass, du weißt, once it starts to land more in kind of like, oh, there's still kids kind of stuff.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So it's like... And your doc said you should do it now.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
And that, you know, these characters have to be balanced. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Well, that's great. It's like Kyle Mooney did that Y2K thing, which is a take on that teen movie. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
That there weren't that many of those kind of comedies.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Yeah. I think the great age of teen comedies was probably the 80s.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
I was able to understand the conceit of the movie.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
And then, you know, once I settled into it, I was like, oh.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
That's what I mean. Okay, good. Yeah. Maybe that's the blurb. I was like, oh.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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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Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
At Starbucks? Yes. But I don't, I can't, I don't go. I don't go to the Starbucks.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
What am I doing? I'm using, this is where my brain's at.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Oh, also es ist neu, um mit dem anderen zu handeln. Ja. Fühlst du etwas? Du würdest es nicht wissen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
You didn't take a beta blocker to come talk to me?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Okay. Was ist das alles relativ zu der anderen Sache?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
So you've never been on birth control and you felt that immediately?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
And that's to counter the effects of the impact it had on your uterus?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
It's like, this is a bad story. I wonder if Charlie's gonna be okay or if it's gonna take months.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
Yeah, I think that, and I'm not sure it's incorrect.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1635 - Jillian Bell
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?