Hey everyone, welcome back to the screen running life.

I'm Meg Lofov, and today I am giddy to be joined by Jeff Hiller, who is not only the star

of The Amazing Show Somebody Somewhere, for which he just won the Emmy people for best

supporting actor in a comedy.

He is also a writer and a comedian appearing on TV shows such as American Horror Story, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and 30 Rock, among others.

His film roles include Greta, Morning Glory, Ghost Town, and set it up.

And he has performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, in Shakespeare in the Park, Disney musicals and regional theater. Jeff regularly

performs solo shows at Joe's Pub at the public theater and improvises at the Upright

Citizens Brigade Theater in L.A. and New York City. And most recently, he is the author of his

best-selling memoir, actress of a certain age, which I listened to on Audible,

and I listened to Jeff narrate it, and I loved it so much. It brought me joy every day.

Every day I got to have a little sunbeam of joy named Jeff Hiller enter my life. And I was so sad when it was over. Truly, I was like, oh, my God, what am I going to do now? It's done that I just called our producers. And I was like, we have to have them on the show. I have to meet him. So welcome, Jeff Hiller. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. That was such a good intro.

I was like, man, I'm good. I'm good. All right. We're going to start by talking about our weeks or what we like to call adventures and screenwriting. I'll go first. Super easy, Jeff. You're going to be much more interesting than mine. Okay. So for the past couple of weeks on this show, I've been telling you I've been waiting for notes and I got them. I got them yesterday, people. Yesterday I got them. And, you know, I was telling you all, I hate notes because I'm worried about getting the boot, you know, the boot right in your face where you're like, what?

I didn't get a boot. Well, not that we think. I don't think so. I have to look at the notes again. But there was no kind of shocking, what? They were very respectful. They were excited. And the truth is, even as I was listening to the notes, I was like, yeah, that's probably right. Yeah, we should probably do that. Yeah, okay, I have enough distance from it now.

Yeah, it's probably overcomplicated.

And yeah, we could probably

lose that character. Could we lose that character? Yeah, we probably could. So I felt very open on the call,

which is not like me, by the way. But I think it was because they were so open and respectful and

good at their notes that I was able to do that.

You know, of course, there's moments you're like, okay, we have to re-outline this whole thing.

But my manager's advice is, okay, and I have a writing partner, Joe, and his advice to both of us was,

you know, for a week, don't do anything.

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