Hi everybody welcome back to the three questions I'm your host Andy Richter

today I'm talking to Nesim Pedrad

Nesim is an actress comedian and writer you know we're from SNL new girl or her current show

Chad which she also created, rights, and stars in.

Season 2 of Chad is out now on the Roku channel.

Naseim joined me live in the studio, we had a great conversation and she's really a lot of fun. Here she is

Nesim Padrad. What was the genesis of the show?

What was the genesis of the show?

Like what?

Well, I, so after I left so I did

SML like 2009 to 2014 did you not know?

No, nobody told me that and I I left here, I left with Malaney actually to do, yeah, his

sitcom which honestly was like such a great lesson early on in my career of you could just have

the most incredible pedigree around a project and sometimes things just don't last

and they don't come together and and at that point I'd already left

S&L where you know I was just starting out of so much fun there and I was like well

it doesn't make sense to go back I think I'm really ready to like create

create my own things so Chad has been in the work for new in the work for many years of my life

I got a development deal after Malini ended and yeah basically they were like well what what

show do you want to write and I'm pretty sure it was with 20th with Fox and I'm pretty sure they

expected me to write a show where I'm a girl in my

date you know 30s dating in a big city and I was like what about this totally

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