Get a Hobby, Be Happy with Jessica Williams
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Higher Ground
4.3 • 13.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of IMO, actress, host, and podcast veteran Jessica Williams joins the show! She discusses what it was like to have Jon Stewart as a mentor during her early tenure at The Daily Show, how she has had to approach her acting career as a tall Black woman in Hollywood, and the surprising crafting projects she’s picked up in her down time. Plus, Jessica shares her favorite stories from behind the scenes of Shrinking.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm doing a rom-com right now that I think you'll be really excited about. |
| 0:03.2 | It's like me and a shorter, a guy who's shorter than me. |
| 0:05.9 | I love you. |
| 0:06.5 | And I'm really excited. And I was like trying to tell him, I was like, look at Tom and Zendaya. And he's like, no, I'm not going to Google that. But I know for me, it's my info is Tom and Zendaya. And I love looking at foot. I love looking at them walking around in London with their little dog, |
| 0:21.4 | and he's a little short king, and she's a tall queen, and it just looks so right. |
| 0:25.1 | It just looks so right. |
| 0:26.3 | And it's like, why, Hollywood? |
| 0:28.1 | Why? |
| 0:28.6 | It looks good. |
| 0:29.5 | We can do this. |
| 0:30.0 | We can do this. |
| 0:36.7 | This episode of IMO is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. |
| 0:42.2 | Howdy. |
| 0:43.2 | Craig Robinson. |
| 0:45.1 | This is very comfortable. It looks like a pajama top. |
| 0:48.2 | Well, that's what it's supposed to. It's fashion, as I say. |
| 0:52.2 | Really? |
| 0:52.8 | There's the look. It's the pajama. No wonder kids are wearing pajamas to school. Who's giggling about pajamas? It's like. Crystal, it looks like a pajama top and she said. Well, what's so funny? I'm just making an observation. It's just you not knowing things about the world and fashion. I didn't know that you could wear a pajama's top. It's not a pajama's top. It just looks like it mimics a pajama. It mimics sort of the comfortable. |
| 1:19.1 | But if it actually looks like a pajama top, why couldn't you wear a pajama top? |
| 1:24.8 | There's, you could. And some people do actually wear the pajama top as fashion. |
| 1:30.5 | This just happens to be a blouse that is fashioned after pajamas. And there's also, now, I don't know whether this had bottoms, but a look would be this exact same bottom, matching the bottom. |
| 1:43.5 | Right. Have you seen people walking around the airport like that? |
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