Catherine O'Hara
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. |
| 0:13.5 | I simply, personally, could not be more excited to bring in my conversation this week with one of, |
| 0:19.2 | for my money, the funniest people on the planet, Catherine O'Hara, my God, the career this actress and comedian has had. |
| 0:27.0 | I mean, should we start with Schitts Creek? |
| 0:30.0 | Should we start with that performance as Moira Rose the series that became a |
| 0:34.0 | phenomenon during the pandemic that earned her an Emmy a Golden Globe a SAG award |
| 0:39.4 | one of the great comedies of all time but that was just the latest and greatest of her career |
| 0:44.4 | that started when she was 18 years old joining the second city comedy troop, that iconic troop out of Toronto |
| 0:51.9 | where she grew up. |
| 0:54.0 | Murderers Row, Hall of Famers. |
| 0:56.2 | She had John Candy, Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Andrea Martin. |
| 1:00.8 | The list goes on and on of the group of performers that was up there together. |
| 1:04.0 | They create S.C. TV, a classic sort of an SNL type show, and then she launches into her movie career. |
| 1:11.0 | Beetlejuice, of course, the mom in Home Alone and Home Alone too. |
| 1:15.2 | Her new movie is called Argyle. It's a spy thriller kind of deal. I should tell you at the outset, we didn't want to give away the twists and |
| 1:25.6 | details or even say much about her character because it would give away too much of |
| 1:30.8 | the movie which is just a bunch of twists and turns. So bear with us as we |
| 1:36.0 | stumble through her discussion about the movie and then get on to her career. The movie |
| 1:40.9 | is great but we just didn't want to say too much about it. So I should |
| 1:44.3 | tell you, we got together at the Spiescape Museum in New York City, an incredible place |
| 1:49.7 | where they have the history of Spycraft and MI6 and the CIA and the KGB and all of the |
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