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evolved with Intel Evo Platform. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 142 of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards podcast, presented by the iconic Empire

Hotel on New York's Upper West Side.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is an actress and comedian who at the age of 70 recently

was hailed by New York magazine as quote the funniest woman alive close quote a top

star of stage and screen who has two tonies and two

Emmys on her mantelpiece, the great Andrea Martin. It's not a coincidence

that Martin currently is starring on TV shows executive produced by Tina Fay and Amy Polar.

NBC's great news and Hulu's difficult people respectively,

since her comedy helped to inspire a whole generation of women to pursue careers in comedy.

She first made her name back in the early 70s in Toronto as a star of the Blockbuster

1972 theatrical production Godspell of, like Ivan Reitman's 1973 horror flick, Cannibal Girls, and especially of Sketch Comedy as one of the standouts at Toronto's second city improv club, which spawned the sketch comedy

TV show, SC TV, on which she was a star, writer, and performer.

Over the course of our conversation at the Empire Hotel, Martin and I discuss a wide range of topics, among them.

How a woman who insists she's never felt comfortable doing improvisation wound up part of Toronto's

legendary improv scene that also included the likes of Gilda Radner,

Martin Short, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Victor Garber, Harold Ramus, and Paul Schaefer. Why Edith Prickley, a fictional network programmer turned bartender who's so old that she can remember, quote, when the Dead Sea was only sick, close quote, became her signature character on S.C. TV.

What makes acting in the theater generally and Broadway specifically

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