Aidy Bryant's "Overnight Salad"

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This week, host Jesse David Fox chats with Saturday Night Live veteran Aidy Bryant, who has been a highlight of the show since she joined in 2012. Bryant also currently stars in and executive produces the Hulu series Shrill, a show that is “about a fat young woman who wants to change her life — but not her body.” In this Good One episode, Jesse talks to Aidy about her SNL sketch “Overnight Salad,” a digital short that aired in the last episode before quarantine shut down in-studio production. As Aidy discusses in the interview, it’s a sketch that she might not have felt comfortable pitching or writing much earlier in her career. Similarly, Shrill feels like a creative milestone in Aidy’s career, with characters and humor that feel more authentically Aidy. You can watch episodes of Shrill on Hulu. Episodes of Saturday Night Live are available on Hulu or the NBC app, and you can catch clips on YouTube. You can follow Aidy on Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white momfluencer of attempting to kidnap her children.
0:07.0	The Karen phenomenon where white women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually fixates on the
0:13.5	accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the
0:17.2	innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know
0:21.9	what she did was wrong.
0:24.0	In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen.
0:26.3	Available now wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes. Each episode a guest comes on to play a clip of one of their jokes, bits, segments, scenes, or sketches, and then discusses how they wrote it and how it fits into what they're trying to do with their comedy.
0:54.4	This week's guest is 80 Bryant, the star and executive producer of Shrill, the acclaimed Hulu series based on the
1:00.0	Lindy West book of the same name. The series was originally pitched as, and I quote, a show about the The six episode first season was much more about the journey her character Annie takes to self-acceptance.
1:15.4	The eight episode second season which premiered in January of this year
1:19.2	expands the world, gives the other characters more room, and focuses on Annie reckoning with her newly embraced voice as an individual and a journalist.
1:27.0	Oh, also 80 is a freaking Saturday Live Living Legend, starring on the show for eight seasons and counting.
1:33.5	And what a peculiar season this last one ended up becoming, with the cast filmed in the
1:37.4	last three episodes from their homes.
1:40.1	Though shooting from home was hard at first, 80 quickly found her groove, including getting to work on truly one of the weirdest sketches of the season, the creepily animated Eleanor's house with her husband Connor O'Malley.
1:51.6	The SNL sketch, 80 and I focus on this episode is
1:54.3	overnight salad, a pre-taped piece that aired during the last episode of the season
1:59.0	filmed before the quarantine and the home editions. The host that week was Daniel Craig and he plays
2:03.9	80's husband in the sketch. We're gonna play the audio now and it's funny and
2:08.7	great and clear but I implore you to watch it on YouTube if you didn't catch it in March.
2:13.7	You just got to see this thing.
2:15.2	It is one of the most visually specific sketches in recent memory.
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