Sean Hayes

But, you know, also, they saw me on Conan O'Brien, but I was doing ASCAP monologues that same summer.

When Amy and Seth were doing ASCAP a lot.

So Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers were doing ASCAP, which is an improv thing at Upright Citizens Brigade.

So Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers were doing ASCAP, which is an improv thing at Upright Citizens Brigade.

So Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers were doing ASCAP, which is an improv thing at Upright Citizens Brigade.

Which at that time was at 26th and 8th under Gristides.

Yeah.

And they might have...

You know, I haven't, I think they kind of floated my name there as well.

That seems familiar.

Yeah.

Because I knew some folks that were working there.

And the desire was to be a writer or performer or both?

No, I auditioned as a performer, but it's so, I don't know, there's so much, it's so fluid between the two.

No, I'd been an intern at UCB, and I was taking classes there.

When I first moved to New York in 2004, I was taking classes there, and I was an intern there, which meant I was taping garbage bags to the ceiling so that McDonald's water could leak down into the theater without splashing on the good folks.

Yeah, I started at 26 and 8th.

I'd been to the first theater a couple times in college.

And this was the second less fire hazard of the theaters.

And I, yeah, so I was a janitor there on Saturday nights for, let's see,