Jenni Konner (encore)
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Alison Rosen
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Girls showrunner, writer and director Jenni Konner (Girls) stops by the show to talk about the final season of Girls, being the "Mrs. Garrett of Girls," growing up a "fast kid" in Los Angeles, boarding school, her relationship with Lena Dunham, advice from Judd Apatow, working with her ex on Lenny Letter, protest marches, the power of speaking out, her career path, trolls, nudity, the nuances of power, what she was like in her 20s, having no sense of direction and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone. (original airdate: February 12, 2017)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. This week I wanted to revisit an episode from 2017. It's with Jenny Connor, |
| 0:07.8 | who was an executive producer, writer on the show Girls. And she's been on my mind quite a bit because |
| 0:14.2 | I just finished reading Lena Dunham's new book, FAMSick, which I enjoyed a ton. And she spends a |
| 0:20.6 | decent amount of time in the book talking |
| 0:22.3 | about Jenny. I knew that the two of them had had a very, very close relationship. And then |
| 0:29.3 | something happened and they stopped working together. And I think that that had already happened |
| 0:35.2 | when Jenny came on the show. But when I was reading the book, |
| 0:39.0 | I found the parts with Jenny to be the most interesting. And I don't know if maybe that's because |
| 0:44.8 | Jenny had been on the show. Um, so I felt a little closer. I don't know. I felt I loved the whole |
| 0:49.7 | book, but I was especially interested in reading about her relationship with Jenny. |
| 0:57.2 | It's interesting. |
| 0:58.1 | I saw this, I don't know what it was, some kind of list where it was like people that come |
| 1:04.4 | off well in the book, people that come in Lena Dono's book, people that come off poorly |
| 1:09.2 | in the book and people that come off |
| 1:10.9 | neutral. And Jenny was on the neutral list. And I think you walk away from the book still |
| 1:19.6 | having questions about what happened, but it does talk about the intensity of their relationship. |
| 1:26.5 | And my feeling is that you can tell that Lena Dunham is sort of |
| 1:34.1 | heartbroken over what happened. And there was so much love there. I'm talking out of school. I don't |
| 1:42.8 | know, but that's what I took away from it. |
| 1:47.1 | So I had had Jeremy Connor. Jeremy is Jenny's sister. Jenny is Jeremy's sister. I'd had him on the |
| 1:55.7 | show. He did drunk history. And he's also a writer, director, producer. And then I had Jenny on. I don't remember |
| 2:03.7 | this interview that well, I haven't gone back and listened to it. I read the description and |
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