Jessica Walter's Alter Egos

Ask Me Another

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jessica Walter talks about playing boozy, acerbic moms on Arrested Development and Archer — and shares stories from her early days on TV. This episode originally aired July 27, 2018.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:18.7	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:24.1	it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:28.4	I'm Julian Vallard.
0:29.7	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:40.4	Hello, everybody.
0:42.2	Love it.
0:44.1	Welcome to Ask Me Another.
0:48.7	So how many people here by applause are here for the first time at a taping of Ask Me Another?
0:50.7	Yeah, right, right.
0:51.4	Fantastic.
0:53.6	So let me tell you how it's going to work.
1:12.2	So right now we have four brilliant contestants waiting backstage comparing their Fitbit tan lines. And they're going to be out here playing our nerdy games shortly. And then one of them will be our big winner. And our special guest, you know her from Arrested Development. You know her from Archer. You know her from Gifts on Twitter. Jessica Walter is going to be here tonight. So excited. I think she plays my favorite
1:23.5	female archetype, right? The older woman impeccably dressed, walking around with a cocktail
1:30.1	delivering biting punchlines, right? That is something for me to aspire to. That's how I look at it.
1:36.5	I like to think of myself as the Lucille Bluth of NPR, just so you know. I do. I wander around
1:42.7	the office with a morning edition mug
1:45.4	half full of vodka.
1:47.7	Yelling at everybody.
1:49.0	David Green!
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