Andrea Savage Is a Great Podcast Guest
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Andrea Savage knows she’s a great podcast guest. “Not to brag,” she says on this week’s show. The creator and star of truTV’s ‘I’m Sorry’ talks about finding the balance between cringe-worthiness and comedy, the challenges she faced as a woman in The Groundlings, what she learned working on ‘Step Brothers,’ ‘Veep’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and her hilarious new podcast ‘Andrea Savage: A Grown-Up Woman #buttholes.’
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Matt Wilstein, and this is how I say buttholes. |
| 0:05.7 | I mean, better than John Hamm, let's be honest. |
| 0:10.7 | You heard that, right? |
| 0:12.5 | Andrea Savage says, I'm better than John Hamm. |
| 0:15.3 | It's the last laugh. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:18.9 | We are back for 2020, and I could not be more excited to have as my guest today the incredibly |
| 0:25.4 | funny, incredibly talented Andrea Savage. |
| 0:29.3 | Andrea created and stars in one of my absolute favorite TV comedies, I'm Sorry. |
| 0:34.8 | On the show, she plays a version of herself, a comedian and mom living in Los Angeles. |
| 0:40.2 | Much of the comedy comes out of her awkward attempts to explain the world to her young |
| 0:43.8 | daughter and even more awkward interactions with fellow parents who don't always appreciate her |
| 0:48.9 | sense of humor. The first two seasons are on Netflix and they are hilarious. |
| 0:54.5 | A few months ago, Andrea started her own podcast. |
| 0:58.1 | It's called Andrea Savage, a grown-up woman, hashtag buttholes. |
| 1:02.8 | And on it, she chats with friends like Paul Rudd, Milakunis, and yes, John Hamm. |
| 1:08.1 | If you were enjoying this podcast, please help us out by going on Apple Podcasts, |
| 1:12.9 | hitting that five-star button, and leaving a glowing review. You can also go to rate this |
| 1:18.1 | podcast.com slash laugh to rate this podcast wherever you listen. I want to quickly shout out a |
| 1:25.2 | listener who posted a review under the name Buckets Jr. Jr. |
| 1:28.7 | And suggested Wanda Sykes, Dana Gould, John Mullaney, and Brian Regan, all comics I would love to have on the podcast. |
| 1:36.5 | Dana Gould was actually the very first comedian I interviewed when I started writing about comedy eight years ago. |
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