Maya Rudolph
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | Thank you so much as always for clicking. |
| 0:07.4 | We've got a great one to share with you today. |
| 0:09.4 | One of my favorite people, Maya Rudolph, charming, hilarious, the SNL star for seven seasons. |
| 0:16.4 | And now the star of a new series on Amazon called Forever, where she teams up with her |
| 0:20.9 | old SNL pal Fred Armiston. |
| 0:23.0 | They play a married couple. |
| 0:24.6 | That's about as much as I can share with you. |
| 0:27.6 | There's a slow burn through a couple of twists in the first two episodes that establish |
| 0:31.8 | what's actually going on in this series. |
| 0:33.6 | And man, it is so good. |
| 0:35.7 | And she is so fun to talk to. |
| 0:37.2 | And we got to sit down inside Studio 8H where they shoot SNL and have from the beginning |
| 0:43.0 | since 1975. |
| 0:44.5 | Of course, you know, Maya from SNL, her person, nations of Beyonce, Oprah, Donatella Versace |
| 0:51.7 | among her most famous. |
| 0:54.0 | And man, she just has such reverence for the room and reverence for the place. |
| 0:57.7 | And it's fun to sit in that room with someone who was really formed comedically there. |
| 1:03.8 | And also to get into her life a little bit. |
| 1:05.5 | Her background is so interesting. |
| 1:07.4 | The daughter of musicians, her mother's mini-ripperton, the late mini-ripperton died when Maya was |
| 1:14.8 | only six years old, saying the song, Love and You. |
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