Kate Berlant and John Early: ‘Would It Kill You to Laugh?’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
If we lived in a just world, Kate Berlant and John Early would be the most famous and successful comedy team on the planet. So that’s the reality they manifested for themselves in their new Peacock special ‘Would It Kill You to Laugh?’ In this episode, the pair reveal how they got Meredith Vieira to host their emotional reunion after an imagined falling out and look back on their years as “chief collaborators” from the early videos that took off on YouTube to their breakthrough performances in Netflix’s ‘The Characters.’ Later, Early shares how “surprising” it was to dive deep into Elliott over five seasons of ‘Search Party,’ Berlant explains why she had to reel in her comedic instincts on the set of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | The pair of comedians on today's show really do deserve to become the most famous and successful comedy duo on the planet. |
| 0:07.8 | And in their new special, they already are. |
| 0:11.1 | Good evening. I'm Meredith Fierra. |
| 0:13.8 | In a world divided more and more every day, there's one thing we can all agree on. |
| 0:19.1 | Capellant and John Early are funny. |
| 0:22.2 | From their hit television series that started it all, |
| 0:25.3 | he's gay, she's half Jewish, |
| 0:27.3 | to their record-breaking blockbuster films, |
| 0:30.2 | they are arguably the most iconic |
| 0:31.9 | and influential comedy duo |
| 0:33.7 | in the history of entertainment. |
| 0:36.5 | So what happened as they tap-dance their way into the hearts of entertainment. So what happened? |
| 0:38.5 | As they tap, dance their way into the hearts of billions, behind the scenes was a story of discord, |
| 0:44.8 | deception, and artificial insemination. |
| 0:48.1 | Tonight, the two of them will sit down together for the first time in almost 20 years |
| 0:53.2 | for this exclusive POV. |
| 1:00.5 | This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was the actual |
| 1:06.2 | Meredith Vieira introducing comedians Kate Burlant and John Early in their new peacock special, |
| 1:12.0 | Would It Kill You to Laugh? |
| 1:14.5 | Since they started collaborating on videos less than 10 years ago, Kate and John have quickly |
| 1:19.3 | become two of the most sought-after comedic actors in Hollywood, often managing to be the |
| 1:24.3 | funniest people on screen in already hilarious projects like |
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