Aidy Bryant

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 19 January 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Aidy Bryant grew up in Arizona watching women like Molly Shannon, Cheri Oteri and Ana Gasteyer on Saturday Night Live. Today, she is a member of that exclusive comedy club herself. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the actress and comedian about her eight season run on SNL, as well as her latest role as executive producer, writer and star of the acclaimed Hulu series Shrill.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:05.6	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.3	I am really excited to bring you our guests this week.
0:11.5	It is SNL cast member now in her eighth season, the hilarious 80 Bryant.
0:17.7	She has been funny since I think the moment she got on the show in 2012.
0:22.3	She came in with a class that includes Kate McKinnon, longtime buddies now.
0:27.4	They share an office together at 30 Rockefeller Center where we're sitting right now.
0:31.8	They write together in that tiny little office.
0:34.2	They laugh together.
0:35.2	They cry about their moms together as you'll hear in this interview.
0:39.6	80 brings us some of the best characters on the show for my money.
0:43.3	Lil Baby 80 is perhaps her best known in those SNL digital shorts that star the superstar
0:49.9	females of SNL.
0:51.9	Tonker Bell is another favorite.
0:53.9	She of course played Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary and
0:58.3	Megan McCain on the view.
1:00.0	We get into all of it with SNL.
1:01.8	She grew up in Phoenix watching the show, loving cast members like Sherri O'Terry and Molly
1:07.4	Shannon.
1:08.5	She got into theater camp.
1:10.5	Then she did a little improv camp.
1:12.2	Then she moved to Chicago for college.
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