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Hollywood Handbook

Ellie Kemper, Our Close Friend

Hollywood Handbook

Headgum

Comedy

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Hayes throw back the curtains on the industry by playing a game of Gmail Roulette and prepare listeners for any type of Hollywood meeting during Let’s Do Lunching. Then, ELLIE KEMPER graciously lends us her time as she recalls old Hollywood Game Nights, chooses her favorite sitcom pitches while playing a game of Ellie-Vator Pitch, tells us if it’s nice to be given clothes to act in, and shares how she’s preparing for her upcoming portrayal of Lady Gaga.

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0:00.0

So, we realized the mistake and we all started losing it and I go, oh, Samberg, I thought

0:09.5

you said Sandler and I apologize every time I know it happens to me with Sandler else

0:18.3

calling Samberg.

0:19.3

The opposite.

0:20.3

Yeah, the opposite as well.

0:24.8

What up, what up?

0:26.5

Welcome to Hollywood Handbook and Insiders Guide to Kicking Button, Dropping Names of the

0:29.7

Red Carpet Lineback Hallways of this industry.

0:31.7

We call Showbiz, I'm Hayes Davenport, I'm here with Sean Clements.

0:35.5

Hi.

0:36.5

We are Hollywood industry people, sort of, jacks of all trades.

0:41.2

Yeah, we defy a clean label, but we absolutely have-

0:45.6

We reject labels.

0:47.6

They're not useful to us.

0:50.4

We're working under the new model.

0:52.2

But we want to give you guys a peek inside what happens in the real Hollywood and

0:59.7

one of the ways we've decided to do that is to play a little game at the top of this

1:02.7

episode we call G-Mail Roulette.

1:04.5

G-Mail Roulette, this is a game we really love.

1:07.6

We figured the best way to really open up, to throw back the curtains on the industry is

1:13.4

to each select a random email, random being the keyword, totally random, which is something

1:20.6

that I think makes comedy good and I see it everywhere.

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