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Debra Messing & Paul F. Tompkins: Show Yourself Some Grace

Ask Me Another

NPR

Society & Culture, Comedy, Leisure

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Actor and activist Debra Messing discusses the Will & Grace revival season and getting fired from her first job. Plus, comedians go head-to-head with their funny partners — Paul F. Tompkins, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Naomi Ekperigin, and Andy Beckerman join us as this week's couple-testants.

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0:17.9

Hey, it's Sophia Eisenberg. This week, we are re-airing an episode we taped back in March.

0:23.2

At that time, all of our guests had recently begun living in quarantine,

0:27.5

so you'll hear a couple references to that.

0:29.9

We'll be back with a brand new episode next week,

0:31.9

and thank you so much for listening. Jonathan Colton

0:46.5

Oh, hello, Afira.

0:49.0

Hello.

0:50.1

How you doing this week?

0:52.0

I'm doing okay.

0:53.2

So it's the same as last week. Nothing has changed. It's all the same. You look good. You look showered. No, no, I don't. It's kind of you to say that, but I know it's not true. It's absolutely not true. I haven't showered in about 15 days. Well, it must be that enhanced look function on Zoom. That's what it is. It's just I'm airbrushed. I don't know if you have other Zoom calls to get to, but I was wondering, would you like to do a show? I'm pretty busy doing a lot of other things, but okay. Yeah. No, let's do a show. Let's do a show. Hang on. Let me, I got to put my on-air sign on my door.

1:29.1

Ha-ha.

1:30.5

Stand-bye.

1:31.1

That's hilarious.

1:32.2

That's hilarious.

1:33.6

You've created an on-air sign?

1:36.6

I had to.

1:37.8

Aw.

1:40.2

I like that you didn't choose, you know, busy or don't enter.

1:45.1

On air.

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