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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

Darcy Cardin has had a very wild ride lately.

Not that long ago, she was doing improv a lot, getting little parts on TV shows,

inside Amy Schumer, Veep, Broad City.

The last one was created by her friend Abby Jacobson. She also worked

as a nanny, and her boss for that job was Bill Hader. We will talk about that later on. In 2016,

she got the part that changed her life, Janet, the all-knowing, all-seeing, unfailingly cheerful

assistant on The good place.

Here we are. Just press that button in it's goodbye, Janet.

Cheedy, I can see that you're worried, and I just want to assure you, I am not human,

and I cannot feel pain.

Thank you. That helps. However, I should warn you, I am programmed with a fail-safe measure. As you approach the kill switch, I will begin to beg for my life. It's just there in case of an accidental shutdown, but it will seem very real. Cool. So who's doing this? Me or You? The Good Place was a hit. Millions of viewers, 14 Emmy nominations, including one for Darcy.

And while the Good Place was going strong, Darcy started appearing on another critically acclaimed hit TV show, Barry, created by and starring her former boss, Bill Hader.

These days, you can catch her on a new show called Sunny Nights. She stars on that program

opposite another SNL legend, Will Forte. In Sunny Nights, Cardin and Forte play Martin and Vicky,

two siblings who head to Australia with dreams of making their fortune from selling spray tan

in Australia. Does it go well? Well, I don't know that it's a spoiler to say

not really. And does it go poorly? Well, in fact, yes, it does go poorly so poorly that the

criminal world gets involved. When Darcy Carton and I talked in 2022, she had just starred in a league of their own, the TV series, based on the movie of the same name.

Like the movie, the show tells the story of the Rockford Peaches and all-women professional baseball team in World War II.

That show reunited Cardin with her longtime improv collaborator Abby Jacobson who co-created it.

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