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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Jane Lynch

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

Politics, News, Celebrity, Music, Broadway, Society & Culture, Interview, Movies, Pop Culture, Tv & Film, Technology, Tv

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

You may know Jane Lynch from the Christopher Guest mockumentaries like Best in Show, or as the unforgettable Sue Sylvester on the hit show Glee, or more recently in an Emmy-winning performance on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the actress to talk about her latest role making people smile in the highly-anticipated Broadway revival of Funny Girl.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:06.3

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:09.6

Boy do I have a treat for you today in my conversation with the hilarious, talented and charming

0:15.3

Jane Lynch.

0:17.6

You know where you love her from?

0:19.0

Christopher Gast Machiaventry's like Best in Show?

0:22.0

Of course, as Sue Sylvester on the crazy phenomenon of a series called Glee.

0:27.7

For recently, she's won yet another Emmy in her illustrious career for her role on the

0:33.0

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

0:34.5

She's hosted game shows like Hollywood, Game Night, a couple of Emmys even for doing that.

0:39.6

She's really done it all.

0:40.6

She comes from just outside Chicago.

0:43.6

She went to school, downstate in Illinois, and then came back to Chicago and performed

0:49.0

in the second city troupe, the famed second city troupe, doing sketch comedy with people

0:54.1

like Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert.

0:57.4

Now she is one of the stars of the Broadway revival of Funny Girl.

1:03.4

Funny girl.

1:04.4

Of course, it was on Broadway many, many years ago, and then in 1968, it was made into

1:08.6

the film, which famously starred Barbara Streisand.

1:11.4

Now, back on Broadway, highly anticipated, already really well-reviewed.

1:16.6

It's in previews and about to go full and wide.

1:19.4

Tickets available now, if you're interested in coming to New York.

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