Molly Shannon

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Molly Shannon (Superstar, The White Lotus, I Love That For You) is an actress and comedian. Molly joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how she really loves being a mother to teenagers, how she dealt with the passing of her mother and sister when she was a child, and how being Catholic affected her perspective on sexuality. Molly and Dax talk about how weird stuff always seems to happen at hotels, how similar their experiences with loved ones getting sober are, and how they try to set boundaries with the public as celebrities. Molly explains how she developed her famous character Mary Katherine Gallagher, what she gets embarrassed about, and why she decided to move on from Saturday Night Live. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm in the wrong chair and I'm joined by the right chair.
0:07.0	Still looking tiny and that big old lazy guy.
0:11.0	Yeah, I think I would get sleepy if I sat in this one. I do. Yeah. That's why I'm
0:16.5	pounding coffee, tea, diet coke, nicotine. I guess if I just got a new chair, I probably wouldn't need to do any of that.
0:24.4	Okay, one time you should try my chair because it keeps you awake.
0:28.4	It is a different feel. Yeah.
0:30.0	Keeps you alert.
0:31.0	It does. Uncomfortable and alert. That's right. This has happened embarrassingly, especially with David's new show. I have fallen asleep. Yeah, it happened. It only happened one time. I think unless you kept the other one to yourself.
0:44.0	One time you couldn't hide it, your mouth was open.
0:47.0	Not because this show was boring.
0:50.0	No, I just was like...
0:51.0	I was so just lulled.
0:54.0	You're sitting in on those, by the way.
0:55.6	You're sitting in.
0:56.7	I'm sitting in on those.
0:57.7	Also, what I'll do, because I'm just sitting in
1:00.4	is I fucking put that thing back.
1:02.3	I recline it, I kick the legs out.
1:04.5	And that's too much comfort for me.
1:06.5	And part of me, like I'm embarrassed,
1:08.3	but then another part of me remembers that John D Rockefeller
1:11.0	fell asleep in meetings all the time.
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