Kristen Chenoweth and Alan Cumming : Schmigadoon! Season 2 Delights

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,740 In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, I talk once again with the amazing Kristen Channel 2 00:00:05,740 --> 00:00:10,760 with and this time she's joined by the amazing Ellen Cumming, all about Shmigadoon Season 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:11,760 2. 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,600 Let's go! 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:18,260 Welcome to Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from My Heart Radio. 6 00:00:18,260 --> 00:00:24,300 Your Pop Culture News, Views, Reviews, and Celebrity Interviews on all the movies TV 7 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:27,800 music and pop culture you crave weekly. 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,280 Here's Kyle McMahon. 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,060 nennennenn, nennenn, nennenn, nennenn, nennennenn, nennennenn! 10 00:00:34,060 --> 00:00:35,220 Hello! 11 00:00:35,220 --> 00:00:36,300 And welcome to Kyle McDonald's. 12 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:37,300 Welcome to Kyle McDonald's. 13 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:39,620 Welcome to Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McDonald's. 14 00:00:39,620 --> 00:00:42,420 I, of course, am Kyle McDonald's. 15 00:00:42,420 --> 00:00:46,240 And thank you for hanging out with me and talking, 16 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,180 listening, talking, enjoying Pop Culture, 17 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:50,780 and all about Pop Culture. 18 00:00:50,780 --> 00:00:53,300 We have a really cool episode for you today. 19 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:56,600 I'm excited, because once again, I'm talking 20 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:04,040 with Kristen Chenoweth, performer, actor, producer, director. 21 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:05,840 I'm sure she's directed stuff. 22 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,600 And all around great freaking person, by the way, 23 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,920 she is so awesome. 24 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:13,000 I love her. 25 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,480 And I'm talking to her all about Shmigadun Season 2, 26 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,040 and she is joined by the one and only Alan coming. 27 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,160 If for some reason you haven't heard, 28 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,680 haven't watched Shmigadun on Apple TV Plus, 29 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,000 in the show notes, I have the link to my interviews 30 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,680 with the cast of Season 1 was the all-musical episode. 31 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,880 We were going to do an all-musical episode for Season 2, 32 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,000 but little few things fell in the cracks, fell through the cracks. 33 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,280 And we didn't, but instead, you know, 34 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,040 you get me and Kristen and Alan. 35 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,880 So where do you even start with Kristen Chenoweth? 36 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,360 She is a powerhouse. 37 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,200 Her voice is incredible. 38 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,640 You know, she is an incredible singer. 39 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:01,640 I mean, she's a Tony award winner for Best Featured Actorous. 40 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:06,000 Got a second Tony NAMM for Glinda and the musical Wicked, 41 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,040 which she originated, by the way. 42 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,520 She's been on the West Wing pushing daisies. 43 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,280 She won a primetime Emmy, actually, 44 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,280 for outstanding supporting actress for pushing daisies. 45 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,000 She also started in G.C.B., which I believe stands 46 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,560 for Good Christian bitches. 47 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:27,120 And of course, she is in Shmigadoun. 48 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:33,280 And that's just a little taste of the incredible Kristen Chenoweth. 49 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:38,240 I mean, she's really a powerhouse, and I love her, and she's awesome. 50 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:43,720 She's joined today, and he's first time on the show, Alan Cumming, 51 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,320 who, hello, Alan Cumming is freaking awesome. 52 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,560 He played, by the way, I mean, this is-- 53 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,440 he would probably be like, that's what you're announcing 54 00:02:52,440 --> 00:03:00,000 me as, but he played Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in the X-Men films, 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,520 which I'm a huge X-Men nerd, so geeking out over that. 56 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,440 But he's also got some stage work. 57 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,800 He's world renowned for his acting on stage. 58 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:17,240 And he's been in Goldnye, that James Bond movie, Emma. 59 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,080 He was a vegan fluke in the Spy Kids trilogy. 60 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,400 He was in the good wife for like six years. 61 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,960 He was nominated for three-prime time, any Emmys, three-prime time Emmys, 62 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,360 two screen actors go towards two Golden Globe Awards and a satellite award. 63 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,520 And of course, he is on Shmigadoun. 64 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:46,000 So yeah, two really powerhouse people in both film and television and stage. 65 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:46,880 Love them. 66 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,520 Let's get into my interview with Alan Cumming, 67 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,520 and Kristen Chenowen. 68 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,280 So first of all, congratulations on Shmigadoun Season 2. 69 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,080 It is so awesome, and I absolutely love it. 70 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,560 Oh, good. 71 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,840 Yes, it is so much fun. 72 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,600 And Kristen, when I talk to you about this for Season 1, 73 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,440 I still have never seen a Broadway show yet. 74 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,120 And I am-- I know. 75 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,240 I'm going to come see you. 76 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:16,800 I'm going to come see you. 77 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:18,120 I will. 78 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:24,080 For me, I feel like Josh in a lot of ways where I'm kind of like in some ways out of the loop, 79 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,600 but it is so freaking enjoyable that it doesn't matter. 80 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,600 And it's just so creative in so many ways. 81 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,840 What is it like for both of you? 82 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:44,840 What is it like to do a series like this that is playing with so many of the great works 83 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:47,560 that you both have been involved in? 84 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,800 Well, for me, I don't know how you felt, Alan, but when I read-- 85 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:57,360 when I opened the script, every one of them, I think, OK, how is he going to surprise me this time? 86 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,840 Because we do this for a living. 87 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:07,080 And so then he ups the ante with these genius ideas and Easter eggs all over the place. 88 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:14,040 So to kind of make us go, all right, when we do this, this is what we do. 89 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:15,840 It's cool. 90 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:21,080 And I think I'm a little bit like Josh in the first series. 91 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,560 I didn't know a lot of the musicals that we're partying. 92 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:30,520 So I sort of liked doing the show as a sort of learning curve on all those musicals. 93 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,280 This season, I'm kind of a bit more my jam. 94 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:36,800 So I was aware of the partities of them more. 95 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,320 But it's just really-- I mean, I think the great thing about this show is you are demonstrating 96 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:46,760 is that you actually can enjoy it on a level that doesn't-- you probably recognize some 97 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,480 of the tunes and some of the clever things he's doing. 98 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,960 But you don't necessarily need to be a total theater geek to love it. 99 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,480 I think that's another level of stuff that you can get. 100 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,760 But actually, of course, it stands up on its own. 101 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:03,120 It's just a really clever piece of writing and hopefully performing. 102 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,480 And I totally agree. 103 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,040 I mean, I think everybody is-- everybody in the cast. 104 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,880 And of course, behind the scenes, obviously. 105 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,680 It's just everything clicks. 106 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:21,320 And everybody just seems like they're having fun in this world that has been created. 107 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:22,720 Obviously, it still work. 108 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:28,920 But it's got to be-- I feel like especially for you to be enjoyable to go into this world 109 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:34,680 that's been created, which is such big parts of your lives in so many ways. 110 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:35,680 Yeah. 111 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:41,080 Just wandering around at work with an apron, a bloody apron, a yellow teeth, and a holding 112 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:42,080 a cleaver. 113 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,560 I mean, that's sort of Halloween every day. 114 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,560 And in the first season as well, kind of being-- having a big curly mustache and things 115 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:50,560 so jolly. 116 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:51,560 Yeah, it's funny. 117 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,000 It's a place such extreme characters is really fun. 118 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,480 I look forward to what else we might get to do together. 119 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,520 I mean, I think he just said it. 120 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,920 There was one night-- and Alan will remember it because I was really ticked off at the time, 121 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,680 but now it's really, really funny. 122 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,200 There was one night where everybody was wrapped. 123 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:16,640 And I had the gross teeth and the wig and the grottet nails. 124 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,880 And just uncomfortable corset, which I bitched about all the time. 125 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,240 And it was like late night shoot. 126 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,920 We were done at 11. 127 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,800 And there was some sort of confusion about me going back to get my hair done. 128 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:30,440 They said they were going to do it on set. 129 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:31,440 Do you remember this, Alan? 130 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:32,440 Yes. 131 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:33,920 So I waited. 132 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,640 And my hair make up people were back in the trailer waiting. 133 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,040 There was a confusion. 134 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,040 So I waited there. 135 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:41,560 And then everybody's like, good night, Christian. 136 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:42,560 I'm going to bye. 137 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:43,560 Bye. 138 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,080 And Alan's like, see you later tomorrow. 139 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:46,800 I'm like, bye. 140 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,360 And then people were packing up the costumes and the chairs and moving the sets. 141 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,520 And I was like, good night. 142 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,120 And finally, I was like, there's something wrong. 143 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:58,120 And a PA comes up. 144 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,120 Oh, Christian, you're so here. 145 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,360 I was like, yeah, I'm not. 146 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,260 (laughing) 147 00:08:04,260 --> 00:08:06,420 (laughing) 148 00:08:06,420 --> 00:08:08,260 Anyway, I finally got back, 149 00:08:08,260 --> 00:08:09,980 I was like the last man standing, 150 00:08:09,980 --> 00:08:10,880 all the crew was gone. 151 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,700 Like, they were shivering off the lights. 152 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:16,820 I was like, so finally, I got back to the right place, 153 00:08:16,820 --> 00:08:20,100 but yeah, it was fun to live in her for a while. 154 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:21,120 - I mean, yeah. 155 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:22,100 - You don't want to go home, 156 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:24,240 like you don't want to go home like Ms. Godwild. 157 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:25,420 - Oh wow. (laughing) 158 00:08:25,420 --> 00:08:26,260 - No. 159 00:08:26,260 --> 00:08:31,940 - And Kristen, for you, the accent is so like, 160 00:08:31,940 --> 00:08:35,820 that's something you practice ahead of time 161 00:08:35,820 --> 00:08:37,640 without the script, meaning like, 162 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,740 do you just practice the accent with the script itself 163 00:08:41,740 --> 00:08:45,580 or do you like do the whole characters accent 164 00:08:45,580 --> 00:08:47,860 and then do the script, you know what I'm saying? 165 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:49,580 - Well, I had made an early decision 166 00:08:49,580 --> 00:08:54,220 which when I got the script, I asked Cinco, but we okay. 167 00:08:54,220 --> 00:08:56,980 I obviously, I started speaking that way all the time 168 00:08:56,980 --> 00:08:59,620 and I drove Josh, and I found saying nuts. 169 00:08:59,620 --> 00:09:00,820 He stopped talking like that. 170 00:09:00,820 --> 00:09:02,620 I was doing concerts and I was like, 171 00:09:02,620 --> 00:09:04,220 hey, every call, and they were like, 172 00:09:04,220 --> 00:09:05,720 what's the name? 173 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,300 - The audiences were confused. 174 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:08,300 (laughing) 175 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:10,420 I remember we were on the road and we went to the place 176 00:09:10,420 --> 00:09:11,460 called Bucky's. 177 00:09:11,460 --> 00:09:15,300 It's like a grand, like a huge seven, 11, 178 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:18,860 and they even sell clothes and like candles and things like that. 179 00:09:18,860 --> 00:09:20,500 Anyway, I went in there and I was like, 180 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:21,500 hello everyone. 181 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:25,020 And then Josh was like, shut up, just shut up. 182 00:09:25,020 --> 00:09:27,700 I talked like that for about a month, 183 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:30,700 just all the time to get it in my mouth. 184 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:31,540 (laughing) 185 00:09:31,540 --> 00:09:34,580 And then I made a decision with Cinco 186 00:09:34,580 --> 00:09:39,380 if it would be okay if my accent was good, 187 00:09:39,380 --> 00:09:43,620 but also not great so that people would go, 188 00:09:43,620 --> 00:09:47,220 she's actually like an Easter egg. 189 00:09:47,220 --> 00:09:48,060 - Right. 190 00:09:48,060 --> 00:09:52,300 - Okay, that were, it was fun because I've actually done that 191 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:55,020 accent twice before in a movie and in a TV show. 192 00:09:55,020 --> 00:09:58,940 So it was fun, but it was just fun to make it a little off too. 193 00:09:58,940 --> 00:09:59,860 - I love it. 194 00:09:59,860 --> 00:10:01,700 - And do we lose Alan? 195 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:02,540 - I think so. 196 00:10:02,540 --> 00:10:03,780 - Okay, well we'll keep going. 197 00:10:03,780 --> 00:10:05,180 - I don't know what we will. 198 00:10:05,180 --> 00:10:06,260 (laughing) 199 00:10:06,260 --> 00:10:09,540 - But so speaking of 7/11, we'll get back to, 200 00:10:09,540 --> 00:10:12,660 should we go do in a second, but I heard that you love 7/11 201 00:10:12,660 --> 00:10:14,820 and I'm obsessed with 7/11. 202 00:10:14,820 --> 00:10:17,260 - Hi, oh, I love 7/11. 203 00:10:17,260 --> 00:10:18,100 - Yeah, she loves. 204 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:19,740 - Alan, can you hear us? 205 00:10:19,740 --> 00:10:21,180 - Yeah, I can hear you now. 206 00:10:21,180 --> 00:10:23,820 I think something went funny with my headphones. 207 00:10:23,820 --> 00:10:25,540 - Okay, we're talking about 7/11, 208 00:10:25,540 --> 00:10:27,180 so you can go ahead and close your ears. 209 00:10:27,180 --> 00:10:29,180 (laughing) 210 00:10:29,180 --> 00:10:30,460 - I love it so much. 211 00:10:30,460 --> 00:10:31,860 Have you had their pizza? 212 00:10:31,860 --> 00:10:35,220 - I have their pizza at least once a week. 213 00:10:35,220 --> 00:10:37,020 - And the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches 214 00:10:37,020 --> 00:10:38,900 are also good in a rush, if you're in a rush. 215 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:40,380 - I have not had those. 216 00:10:40,380 --> 00:10:41,580 I don't have to try them. 217 00:10:41,580 --> 00:10:44,180 I'm eating a ozempic or eating ozempic. 218 00:10:44,180 --> 00:10:47,660 I'm doing ozempic, which is, you know, here they are, 219 00:10:47,660 --> 00:10:49,220 but what you say? 220 00:10:49,220 --> 00:10:51,540 - I've heard that people are having 221 00:10:51,540 --> 00:10:52,380 - What's the other thing? 222 00:10:52,380 --> 00:10:54,460 - Are you diabetic? 223 00:10:54,460 --> 00:10:59,060 - No, I'm on this medicine for anxiety, 224 00:10:59,060 --> 00:11:02,100 which causes weight gain, and I was working with the trainer 225 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:04,140 and nutritionist trying to get it off, 226 00:11:04,140 --> 00:11:05,700 and then it was not coming off. 227 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:09,020 So they were like, try this, you know, and see what, 228 00:11:09,020 --> 00:11:10,380 I, you know. 229 00:11:10,380 --> 00:11:13,940 - But then don't have the PB&J at 7/11, because. 230 00:11:13,940 --> 00:11:16,620 - I know, I know, but I love peanut butter and jelly, 231 00:11:16,620 --> 00:11:18,020 and I love 7/11. 232 00:11:18,020 --> 00:11:19,420 I love, their pizza is so good, 233 00:11:19,420 --> 00:11:21,500 and it's like eight bucks for an entire pizza 234 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:22,500 or something, it's like a- 235 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:24,100 - That's an Alan, just so you know, 236 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:26,700 they're having healthy slurpees now. 237 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:31,300 - Vitamin zero in the blueberry or pomegranate slurpee. 238 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:33,940 - I saw your Instagram story about it. 239 00:11:33,940 --> 00:11:37,820 I don't, why are you not the ambassador for 7/11 240 00:11:37,820 --> 00:11:38,860 on slurpees in general? 241 00:11:38,860 --> 00:11:40,700 I don't know, they're missing a cure. 242 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:43,380 - Alan gave me a slurpee machine, 243 00:11:43,380 --> 00:11:46,020 and I've used up all the flavors he gave me, 244 00:11:46,020 --> 00:11:48,140 the grapes, my favorite, by the way. 245 00:11:48,140 --> 00:11:50,100 I, I don't know about a year and a half ago, 246 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:52,260 I put it up on my Instagram story. 247 00:11:52,260 --> 00:11:54,860 It's so nice to have that, you know, 248 00:11:54,860 --> 00:11:57,580 but I'm not at home all the time, so that's what I love. 249 00:11:57,580 --> 00:11:58,580 - It's amazing. 250 00:11:58,580 --> 00:11:59,420 - It's amazing. 251 00:11:59,420 --> 00:12:01,940 - I was staying out of day when I went to get your slurpee 252 00:12:01,940 --> 00:12:03,780 when you were in quarantine the first time. 253 00:12:03,780 --> 00:12:06,660 And I never, like I went into 7/11, 254 00:12:06,660 --> 00:12:09,340 and this was such a white boy thing. 255 00:12:09,340 --> 00:12:13,540 I went, I went and went, "Hello, I've come to get a slurpee." 256 00:12:13,540 --> 00:12:15,700 And they just looked at me like I was an alien, 257 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:16,540 and I'm like, "Yeah." 258 00:12:16,540 --> 00:12:18,580 And I went, "Where do you keep your slurpee?" 259 00:12:18,580 --> 00:12:19,820 Like, "Oh, the bath." 260 00:12:19,820 --> 00:12:21,940 (laughing) 261 00:12:21,940 --> 00:12:23,500 I don't realize you can do all that. 262 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:25,460 You know, like, I almost like, you know, 263 00:12:25,460 --> 00:12:27,540 Taylor the Latte boy that he's doing, 264 00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:30,100 pushing the lever to get the chip of Latte. 265 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:32,780 It was, that's when I, 266 00:12:32,780 --> 00:12:34,820 when I, yeah, it's quite hard working a stuff. 267 00:12:34,820 --> 00:12:36,980 It's more to it than, I didn't thought he just bought one. 268 00:12:36,980 --> 00:12:38,780 To need a thing to do all this, 269 00:12:38,780 --> 00:12:39,780 swirly. 270 00:12:39,780 --> 00:12:42,060 - That's why I gave the tutorial online for people 271 00:12:42,060 --> 00:12:43,500 to understand how to do it. 272 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:46,540 - They're amazing, and I'm not. 273 00:12:46,540 --> 00:12:49,180 - It really, I love that you have one at your house. 274 00:12:49,180 --> 00:12:51,420 That's absolutely incredible. 275 00:12:51,420 --> 00:12:54,580 Speaking of eating, good enough to eat. 276 00:12:54,580 --> 00:12:59,380 It's such a fun song, and I love, oh my God, 277 00:12:59,380 --> 00:13:02,860 it's just masterful in the way both of you, you know, 278 00:13:02,860 --> 00:13:04,060 perform this. 279 00:13:04,060 --> 00:13:06,900 Like, is it as actors? 280 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:08,940 You get these kind of what I feel like are like, 281 00:13:08,940 --> 00:13:12,300 kind of not to be funny, but juicy roles. 282 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:16,820 Is it like as fun to play these types of roles 283 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:20,060 as it is for us to watch you perform them? 284 00:13:20,060 --> 00:13:22,300 - Hopefully, yeah, I mean, yeah. 285 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:25,740 I know it was hilarious, I mean, hilarious. 286 00:13:25,740 --> 00:13:28,180 And just every moment you're doing it, you just think, 287 00:13:28,180 --> 00:13:30,980 for me, I think for both of us, we're doing this thing, 288 00:13:30,980 --> 00:13:32,420 and every moment we're doing it, 289 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:35,020 we're thinking this is so second wrong. 290 00:13:35,020 --> 00:13:37,940 It's when you're basically your entire being is just like, 291 00:13:37,940 --> 00:13:39,460 oh my God, I love that I'm doing, 292 00:13:39,460 --> 00:13:41,140 I'm talking about me flaking children 293 00:13:41,140 --> 00:13:44,220 as I'm singing this Jolly song, hilarious. 294 00:13:44,220 --> 00:13:45,380 (laughing) 295 00:13:45,380 --> 00:13:46,500 - So fun. 296 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:49,340 I mean, I might have said to Alan at one point, 297 00:13:49,340 --> 00:13:52,420 I wonder if they'll show a patty with like a ponytail 298 00:13:52,420 --> 00:13:53,260 sticking out. 299 00:13:53,260 --> 00:13:54,100 That's what I do. 300 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:55,940 (laughing) 301 00:13:55,940 --> 00:13:58,100 - I'm just gonna punch the next thing. 302 00:13:58,100 --> 00:13:59,340 (laughing) 303 00:13:59,340 --> 00:14:03,340 - You know, it is, it's just so masterfully, 304 00:14:03,340 --> 00:14:05,820 I can't say it enough, it's just so masterfully done 305 00:14:05,820 --> 00:14:06,980 in so many ways. 306 00:14:06,980 --> 00:14:11,380 And one of the huge things that as season one ended, 307 00:14:11,380 --> 00:14:14,900 I'm like, I was hoping obviously for a second season, 308 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:17,820 and I'm like, we'll just return to smigadoon, 309 00:14:17,820 --> 00:14:18,820 you know what I mean? 310 00:14:18,820 --> 00:14:20,460 I mean, I would have been fine with that. 311 00:14:20,460 --> 00:14:24,100 Instead, they came up with this genius idea, 312 00:14:24,100 --> 00:14:29,100 and you're in Chicago, and I love how the players are playing 313 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:35,340 which, the show self referentials, 314 00:14:35,340 --> 00:14:38,140 reference, self references, there we go. 315 00:14:38,140 --> 00:14:39,420 - Yes, there you are. 316 00:14:39,420 --> 00:14:43,220 - And how you are playing different characters 317 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:46,700 in this world, and Josh makes a comment about it, 318 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:48,860 you know, oh, there's the mayor, and you're like, 319 00:14:48,860 --> 00:14:51,300 you know, I love that. 320 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:53,820 Were you, as you were doing, 321 00:14:53,820 --> 00:14:56,020 and I don't know if you could tell me this yet, 322 00:14:56,020 --> 00:14:57,820 but as you were doing season one, 323 00:14:57,820 --> 00:14:59,900 did you know that if there was a season two, 324 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,620 it would go in a completely different world? 325 00:15:02,620 --> 00:15:05,620 - Yeah, we did know that, didn't we? 326 00:15:05,620 --> 00:15:08,660 'Cause the Synco-Seddy had these ideas, 327 00:15:08,660 --> 00:15:12,420 and so yeah, I think we would have wear it 328 00:15:12,420 --> 00:15:14,540 to go for a second when it would be, 329 00:15:14,540 --> 00:15:15,820 I mean, it's this neat thing I suppose 330 00:15:15,820 --> 00:15:18,700 is in television now with this sort of anthology thing 331 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:21,420 where you have the same, like a refugee troupe of actors, 332 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:24,100 playing different roles like Ryan Murphy's, 333 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:26,820 then it's some well with all his series. 334 00:15:26,820 --> 00:15:30,820 So I think it's such great fun because, you know, 335 00:15:30,820 --> 00:15:32,500 it's great to be in a long-running series, 336 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:34,700 but inevitably you're just playing the same character 337 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:36,620 again and again and again. 338 00:15:36,620 --> 00:15:39,700 Whereas with this, it's just like a totally different thing 339 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:41,540 each time, and yet you feel you're still part 340 00:15:41,540 --> 00:15:43,660 of that company and you know everybody, 341 00:15:43,660 --> 00:15:45,900 and it's not like starting a new each time. 342 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:47,660 It's, I love it. 343 00:15:47,660 --> 00:15:48,500 - I do too. 344 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:50,620 It's like our own little, we say this a lot. 345 00:15:50,620 --> 00:15:54,780 We're like a troupe and finally the music theater, 346 00:15:54,780 --> 00:15:57,900 music theater reigns, you know? 347 00:15:57,900 --> 00:15:59,660 - Mm-hmm, yeah. 348 00:15:59,660 --> 00:16:00,500 - I can't. 349 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:01,340 - I can't. 350 00:16:01,340 --> 00:16:02,820 - Well, I'm so sorry. 351 00:16:02,820 --> 00:16:05,500 - I said the nerds will inherit the air. 352 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:07,100 (laughing) 353 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:08,620 - Absolutely. 354 00:16:08,620 --> 00:16:11,340 I can't thank you both enough for speaking with me. 355 00:16:11,340 --> 00:16:16,340 - Shmigadoon season two is just as delectable as season one. 356 00:16:16,340 --> 00:16:21,900 And I can't wait for hopefully more forever and ever, ever. 357 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:24,020 Thank you both so much for your time. 358 00:16:24,020 --> 00:16:26,020 I really appreciate it. 359 00:16:26,020 --> 00:16:26,860 - Thank you, Kyle. 360 00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:28,020 - Thank you, thank you. 361 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:30,420 - Of course, and Kristen, I'm gonna come see you on your tour. 362 00:16:30,420 --> 00:16:32,340 I think you're doing Mid-Atlantic at some point. 363 00:16:32,340 --> 00:16:33,500 So I'll come see. 364 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:37,500 - I am and you must, and I promise that to embarrass you 365 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:38,500 terribly when you come. 366 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:40,420 (laughing) 367 00:16:40,420 --> 00:16:41,660 - Thank you very much. 368 00:16:41,660 --> 00:16:42,660 Thank you both. 369 00:16:42,660 --> 00:16:47,380 - I'm coming in Kristen Chenow with the finale 370 00:16:47,380 --> 00:16:51,180 of Shmigadoon season two is out right now, 371 00:16:51,180 --> 00:16:52,740 and it is awesome. 372 00:16:52,740 --> 00:16:54,540 I love Shmigadoon so much. 373 00:16:54,540 --> 00:16:56,180 I cannot stop talking about it. 374 00:16:56,180 --> 00:16:59,980 You know, I raved about it for months when season one came out. 375 00:16:59,980 --> 00:17:01,580 I was so hyped about it. 376 00:17:01,580 --> 00:17:05,460 Season two came out and it's so surprisingly, you know? 377 00:17:05,460 --> 00:17:08,620 Sometimes when a great show ends a season 378 00:17:08,620 --> 00:17:11,700 like that story is told, you're like, okay, you know, 379 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:13,620 what can they do next? 380 00:17:13,620 --> 00:17:14,900 That's not what happens here. 381 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:16,260 It's really awesome. 382 00:17:16,260 --> 00:17:17,900 I really super creative. 383 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:20,300 The songs are so catchy. 384 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:21,700 ♪ Red, pudding ♪ 385 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:23,780 And I just love it. 386 00:17:23,780 --> 00:17:28,780 So go check out Shmigadoon season two on Apple TV Plus right now. 387 00:17:28,780 --> 00:17:34,740 And what the next week, we have Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry 388 00:17:34,740 --> 00:17:37,780 the week after we have Kate Mar on the class of '09, 389 00:17:37,780 --> 00:17:39,260 and the week after that, maybe Jane Fonda, 390 00:17:39,260 --> 00:17:40,980 the week after that, maybe Robert De Niro, 391 00:17:40,980 --> 00:17:46,740 who knows you just gotta stay tuned and see if that happens, you know? 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