Mary Lynn Rajskub: ‘Fame-ish’

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

You know Mary Lynn Rajskub’s face even if you don’t necessarily recognize her name. That conflict is at the center of her new book of essays about an unconventional career that started with cult comedies like ‘Mr. Show’ and ‘Larry Sanders’ and took an unexpected swerve into drama with her role as Chloe O’Brian on Fox’s ‘24.’ In this episode, Rajskub shares wild stories from her Hollywood journey, including what she learned about acting from Garry Shandling, her make-out scene with Tom Cruise that was cut out of ‘Magnolia,’ the origins of her Gail the Snail character on ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,’ a very public unwanted kiss from Rush Limbaugh and why she’s “not sure what happened” to her insurrectionist co-star Jay Johnston.

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0:00.0	My guest on this week's show has been performing comedy for close to 30 years, and yet somehow she is still best known for playing computer genius, Chloe O'Brien.
0:11.3	When they come through the door, you tell them that you found me at the sniper rifle.
0:13.9	I turn on you and you open fire.
0:15.4	Don't ask me to do something I can't do.
0:17.0	Damn it, Chloe, pull the trigger.
0:18.9	We are running out of time.
0:20.4	They're going to find us soon. You said you would do exactly what I would say that you would follow this through.
0:23.6	Now pull the trigger.
0:24.6	I can't!
0:25.6	Yes, you can, and you will.
0:26.6	Now pull the trigger.
0:28.6	No!
0:29.6	Damn you, Chloe, pull the trigger!
0:30.6	We are running out of time.
0:32.6	Pull the trigger.
0:33.6	Please don't make me do this. Boy, I know how hard this is for you, but if you care about me at all, you will pull the trigger.
0:37.9	Do it.
0:38.3	Sorry, I can't.
0:39.1	Chloe, pull the trigger.
0:40.4	No, Jay.
0:40.8	Pull the trigger.
0:41.6	I'm not going to do it.
	...

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