Jillian Bell Returns: From SNL to ‘Summer of 69’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jillian Bell has a bad habit of talking herself out of acting jobs. She was supposed to play a much bigger role in Adam Sandler’s ‘Murder Mystery 2’ and almost starred in one of Netflix’s biggest hit shows. So when it came time to make her directorial debut ‘Summer of 69’ (now streaming on Hulu), she decided to stay (almost entirely) behind the camera. In her return to this podcast, Bell talks about casting SNL’s Chloe Fineman as a stripper fairy godmother-type character opposite newcomer Sam Morelos in her surprisingly sweet teen sex comedy. She also gets into her own complicated history with SNL 15 years after she spent one season at the show as a writer who desperately wanted to be in the cast. Plus, Bell reveals what it was like to reprise one of her first TV roles in the series finale of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and tells a deeply embarrassing story about the first and only time she met Justin Timberlake.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. And this week, I am thrilled |
| 0:10.8 | to welcome back on the podcast, comedian, actor, writer, and now director, Jillian Bell. Jillian |
| 0:18.2 | was one of our earliest guests on the show in the summer of 2019. Back then, |
| 0:22.8 | she was promoting her first real lead movie role in the very funny and heartfelt indie comedy, |
| 0:28.4 | Brittany runs a marathon. Six years later, she is making her directorial debut with the equally |
| 0:33.9 | funny and heartfelt teen comedy summer of 69, which is streaming now on Hulu. |
| 0:39.2 | I really wanted to have Jillian back on the show now to talk about achieving this huge |
| 0:44.1 | milestone in her career, which comes 15 years after her formative experience as a writer on |
| 0:49.8 | SNL. She not only built on her experience on that show for Summer of 69, but also tapped current cast member Chloe Feynman to star in the film as a stripper named Santa Monica, who serves as a sort of sexual fairy godmother to a high school senior named Abby, played by newcomer Sam Morelos. In this scene, Abby explains to Santa Monica |
| 1:11.9 | what's so special about the boy of her dreams. |
| 1:16.8 | So you're doing all this for some guy? |
| 1:18.9 | Not that I'm complaining, but like, why this guy? |
| 1:22.4 | What do you mean? |
| 1:23.2 | Like, why is he the one? |
| 1:26.1 | I mean, a million reasons. He's he's Max Warren. He's super hot and he like, he plays soccer. |
| 1:33.3 | Oh, and he has such great hair. |
| 1:36.3 | You're spending $20,000 to get with the guy because his hair is good. |
| 1:41.3 | Did you have a crush when you were my age? John Paul Giordano. |
| 1:46.0 | What did you know about him? |
| 1:48.0 | He was obsessed with Disney World and his brother drowned in a pool. |
| 1:52.0 | Jesus. |
| 1:53.0 | All right, homework. Deep Dad Max's Instagram. |
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