Episode 193: Ginger Gonzaga Interview
Dead Pilots Society
Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich
4.6 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know the thing and no one picked up your thing |
| 0:05.0 | And so you buried the thing |
| 0:07.0 | That's not the end of the thing |
| 0:10.0 | Don't you like eyes yet there's a spooky surprise |
| 0:13.0 | And though you cannot revise |
| 0:16.0 | And nothing ever really dies. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome to Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold and developed at networks and streamers but never produced and gives them the table reads they never got a chance to have. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society. |
| 0:56.0 | And this is the after show for Yellow, featuring my interview with Ginger Gonzaga. |
| 1:03.7 | Ginger's credits as an actor include Marvel's She-Hulk, CBS's True Lies, Showtime's Kidding, and I'm Dying Up Here, and HBO's Togetherness and Room 104. This interview is a bit different from a lot of the |
| 1:10.5 | interviews we do here because we |
| 1:11.9 | naturally focus a bit more on acting. |
| 1:14.1 | But it was such an interesting conversation because Ginger is so honest and she's just such a |
| 1:19.3 | dynamo. |
| 1:20.3 | We talk about being a woman in the very male-dominated improv world of the early 2000s, the |
| 1:26.8 | politics of improvising on set and in auditions, how her |
| 1:30.7 | high school speech and debate background trained her, what it was like pitching a show about |
| 1:35.1 | mental health at a time when that wasn't really part of the national conversation. |
| 1:39.1 | She's got a wild story about that. And just why writing this show meant so much to her. I think you're going to like this one. |
| 1:46.1 | So here is my conversation with Ginger Gonzaga after a brief message. |
| 1:52.7 | Hi, I am Jordan Cruciala and I host Feeling Scene. I'm here with Maximum Fun member of the month, |
| 1:59.6 | Khalil Goodman. |
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