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In The Limelight by Vanity Fair

Busy Today

In The Limelight by Vanity Fair

Conde Nast & Vanity Fair

Society & Culture

3.9537 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Part 2/2. Josh and Julie have a lively, in-depth conversation with Busy Philipps, host of E!'s "Busy Tonight," about her new late-night show, her acting roles, Instagram filtering, and much much more.

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0:00.0

All right, now we're getting into our interview with Busy Phillips. Busy's an actress, writer, producer, director, and now a talk show host on E. She's also a wonderful Instagram storyer. She's written up in The New Yorker for her amazing Instagram stories. She's been in so many shows and TV shows and films that you guys, I'm sure, are familiar with, freaks and geeks, Dawson's Creek, Cougar Town, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, White Chicks, I Feel Pretty. She's currently the host of the Late Night Show on E. Busy Tonight, which airs at 11 p.m. Her memoir, this will only hurt a little, came out in October. And we also were going to talk about her new campaign with Airy, in which Busy was named one of the Airy Real Role models. It was a really fun conversation, Julie. I feel like we really got into it with her. We talked about all sorts of things, her TV career, a lot about the late night show, which is really interesting for both of us, and her book, and as well as the campaign. So we're really excited for you guys to listen. But we're so excited to have you here.

0:55.2

Thank you.

0:56.1

I know it's like freezing cold outside of New York today.

0:58.5

This is insane. It's like you really came at the, I mean, I'm sure you're in New York a lot, but this is a crazy time to be here. It's like, no, this is the cold. I do travel to New York a lot for work, but I have been so lucky in all of my years.

1:10.7

I've never been here for any of this.

1:13.3

Like, this is truly why. travel to New York a lot for work, but I have been so lucky in all of my years, I've never been

1:11.9

here for any of this, like, this is truly wild, how cold it is. And now I understand why people who live in climates that are freezing talk about it all the time, because this is like, you can't comprehend it. It really felt like this is one of the first days. I feel like I can't, I just can't go outside.

1:26.5

I don't know what I'm going to do.

1:27.6

Do you know I post-mated gloves to my hotel?

1:30.2

Because I didn't have any.

1:31.3

I'm do you know I post-mated gloves to my hotel because I didn't have any I'm an eight-minute walk and I almost ubered here I probably just should have I don't know why I don't know why I did that yeah you don't need to be outside yeah there's really no reason um but yeah julia and I are both such big fans of the show and it's i i feel like we both are just kind of as we've said like just the feel of it the vibe

1:48.0

yeah are both such big fans of the show and um it's i i feel like we both are just kind of as we've said like

1:46.4

just the feel of it the vibe the hanging outness of it the song i love thank you thank you that was

1:52.4

important to us and i think the network thought we were insane but they still probably do actually a

1:57.9

little bit what would you say just i mean not to be too college essay about it, but have you learned just so far?

2:04.1

Like what have been like the biggest takeaways for you is just like getting into this,

2:07.2

jumping in with your first time doing this kind of thing in the first couple of months?

2:10.7

I would say more of the things that I'm learning are about being a boss and being an executive producer

2:18.3

and being in charge of people

2:20.0

and figuring out how to deal with the things that occur

2:25.4

when you have people on your staff,

2:28.0

people's unhappiness, you know, with certain things

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