Laraine Newman
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Alison Rosen
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🗓️ 1 March 2021
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Legendary comedian, actor and writer Laraine Newman joins the show for the first time! She's an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, a founding member of the Groundlings and a prolific voiceover actor and author of the forthcoming Audible original audiobook, May You Live in Interesting Times which comes out on March 11 and is available for preorder now. We talk about her formative childhood, studying under Marcel Marceau in Paris, working with Chevy Chase (her experience runs counter to the current narrative about him), her friendship with Gilda Radner, drug addiction, creating the "Valley Girl" character, the Exorcist 2 sketch with Richard Pryor, plastic surgery, trust falls, motherhood, Coachella and more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone. Full video at youtube.com/alisonrosen
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Hi. Hello. Welcome to another episode of Alice. |
| 0:03.3 | Hey, no. Greg, what are you doing here? Hey, what do you mean? What |
| 0:07.0 | do you come from, Greg? I came from the world of childish and I just want to make sure |
| 0:12.8 | that your listeners know that you're just as wonderful on the on the other podcast you |
| 0:17.3 | do. What if they don't have kids? Don't eat them. You don't eat them. A lot of our |
| 0:23.9 | listeners actually tell us they don't have kids. We talk about sex. We talk about all sorts |
| 0:27.9 | of dirty stuff, but also parenting stuff. Yeah. So the checkout childish new episodes every |
| 0:32.7 | Wednesday, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:03.3 | Hey, everyone. Hi. Hello. Welcome to another episode of Alice and Rosen is you new best |
| 1:07.2 | friend. I'm delighted to be here today with legendary comedian actor, author, Lorraine Newman. |
| 1:14.5 | She was an original cast member of SNL. She was one of the founding members of the groundlings. |
| 1:19.9 | She's voiced characters that your children have definitely seen on shows and movies. And |
| 1:26.0 | now she has an audible original memoir coming out March 11th called May You Live in interesting |
| 1:31.3 | times. Hello, welcome. Hello, Alison. Thank you for having me. It's so nice. I'm delighted |
| 1:36.9 | to be here. So I wanted to ask the process of doing a memoir, which you said you tried |
| 1:46.0 | to do like nine or ten times, but knowing that it's just audio, what was that like? Well, |
| 1:52.9 | it was a whole different thing, but the chronology of how this worked in my in my preface, |
| 1:59.5 | I talk about how many times I try to rewrite. But the process was different once I was writing |
| 2:05.9 | it for audible because it had more practical needs, you know, organize it chronologically, |
| 2:13.4 | you know, a fact check decide what I really don't need in it, which was plenty. And then |
| 2:22.4 | from there, you know, you work towards having a working script. It takes a long time because |
| 2:26.4 | they they they do vet it. They do fact check it. They do punctuation and grammar and spelling. |
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