Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Thank you so much, as always, for clicking. We've got a great one to share with you today. One of my favorite people, Maya Rudolph, charming, hilarious, the SNL star for seven seasons. And now the star of a new series on Amazon called Forever, where she teams up with her old SNL pal, Fred

Armisen. They play a married couple. That's about as much as I can share with you. There's a slow

burn through a couple of twists in the first two episodes that establish what's actually going on in

this series. And man, it is so good. And she is so fun to talk to and we got to sit down inside studio

8h where they shoot s and have from the beginning since 1975 of course you know maya from

s nl her impersonations of biance opra donatella versace among her most famous and man she just has such reverence for the room and reverence for the place and it's fun to sit in that room with someone who's was really formed comedically there and also to get into her life a little bit. Her background is so interesting. The daughter of musicians, her mother, Minnie Rippipperton the late mini ripperton died when

Maya was only six years old saying the song loving you i'll spare you the impression of that song

but you know it you can hear it my also talks about running into her now husband for the first time

paul thomas anderson the great director of Boogie Nights, and there will

be blood in that SNL studio many, many years ago the first time she met, talks about her pals, Tina

Faye, Amy Polar. You get all of it with the great Maya Rudolph right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Thank you for doing this, Maya. Appreciate it. My pleasure. So what's it like walking back in here?

You left the show, I guess, 11 years ago or so. 2007-ish. Yeah, ish. What's it like being in this room?

I love this room. Like even just getting out of the elevator and smelling the hallway is such a familiar and wonderful smell.

But this, yeah, this place is really comfortable to me.

I love it.

I love it from little Maya loving the show.

I love it from, you know, 27-year-old Maya who started here at this show.

And I still love it because, like, my work family still works here. I don't know. It's never really,

it changes, but it doesn't change. It was cool to see you walk in here hugging the crew guys who

you worked with back in the day it really is like family right it's really like family i i was amazed

you mentioned little maya loving the show reading how far back your desire to be on the show went

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