This is The Last Laugh.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today on the show I'm thrilled to have as my guest a very funny comedian who has been writing for late night with Seth Myers for nearly a decade now, and along with previous Last Laugh guest Amber Ruffin is responsible for one of my favorite segments on

that show, Jokes Seth Can't Tell. You can also catch her new live comedy show, Jenny Hegel gives

advice later this month at Joe's Pub in New York. Jenny Hagel, welcome to The Last Laugh.

Thank you for having me. Hi. Yeah, it's so great to have you here.

I feel like I'm catching you in the middle of a long late night break.

Is that right?

That's right.

Yeah, we take little breaks in the summer, which I think we all need because it's hard to stare directly at the news for too long.

I was looking and, I mean, you've been at the show at late night since 2016, which means you're coming up on next year will be

your 10-year anniversary at the show, which is kind of insane. I mean, did you think when you

took that job that you would be there for a decade? No, I thought I would be fired immediately.

I remember my first week at work, the woman who used to run our hair and makeup and wig department

came to my desk. And, you know, I was just hired as a writer. And she said, hey, when you have a

moment, come by hair and makeup so I can measure your head for when we make you wigs for when you're

on the show. And I thought, oh, that's so lovely of her, but I'll never be on the show.

Like, I'll do it because she asked me to,

but obviously I will never be on the show.

And I think two weeks later, I was on the show,

Beyonce's album Lemonade dropped.

You know, like, there was a thing where she dropped,

like, all those videos in the middle of the night.

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