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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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3546 total appearances

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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

I think it's in my DNA. It was certainly in the culture of our family, you know. Who was funny? My mother was funny. My grandmother was funny. My dad was very funny. Do you remember making them laugh when you were young? What'd you do? When I was really little, I was trying to make my mom laugh and I stuck raisins up my nose. And she laughed just like that. It's so funny.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

I think it's in my DNA. It was certainly in the culture of our family, you know. Who was funny? My mother was funny. My grandmother was funny. My dad was very funny. Do you remember making them laugh when you were young? What'd you do? When I was really little, I was trying to make my mom laugh and I stuck raisins up my nose. And she laughed just like that. It's so funny.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

And then she said, okay, take them out. And I inhaled them. And we had to go to the emergency room. But it was totally worth it because I got the last.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

And then she said, okay, take them out. And I inhaled them. And we had to go to the emergency room. But it was totally worth it because I got the last.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

I mean, my parents were divorced, and I went back and forth between the two homes. But I was really raised by my mom and stepfather. But this was back when divorce was like, it wasn't a dime a dozen. And it was whispered.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

I mean, my parents were divorced, and I went back and forth between the two homes. But I was really raised by my mom and stepfather. But this was back when divorce was like, it wasn't a dime a dozen. And it was whispered.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Divorce.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Divorce.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Divorce.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Divorce.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Well, I went to SNL very young. I was 21, and I was there for three years. And I didn't really succeed in any kind of way there, except to say I learned by not succeeding. And I learned what I didn't want. I didn't want a tense work environment. I didn't want to be unhappy. And I thought to myself, well...

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Well, I went to SNL very young. I was 21, and I was there for three years. And I didn't really succeed in any kind of way there, except to say I learned by not succeeding. And I learned what I didn't want. I didn't want a tense work environment. I didn't want to be unhappy. And I thought to myself, well...

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

If I can't find work that's happy making, like the work I was doing in Chicago in theater, I don't think I'm going to do this because it's not right for me.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

If I can't find work that's happy making, like the work I was doing in Chicago in theater, I don't think I'm going to do this because it's not right for me.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

That's right, because my final year on SNL, Larry David was the writer there for one year. He was deeply miserable there. He was more miserable than you. And I was deeply miserable, and so we connected through our misery. And then a couple of years later, I heard from him about this show he was working on that was called The Seinfeld Chronicles.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

That's right, because my final year on SNL, Larry David was the writer there for one year. He was deeply miserable there. He was more miserable than you. And I was deeply miserable, and so we connected through our misery. And then a couple of years later, I heard from him about this show he was working on that was called The Seinfeld Chronicles.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

And the rest is history.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

And the rest is history.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Presenting: Julia on Be My Guest with Ina Garten

It's like... Endorphins you can taste.