Pamela Adlon on ‘Better Things,’ Louis C.K. and More
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Pamela Adlon has had to reinvent herself several times over the course of her unconventional career. From child star (‘Grease 2’) to Emmy-winning voice actor (‘King of the Hill’) to creator and showrunner of her own phenomenal autobiographical series ‘Better Things,’ which premieres its fifth and final season on FX this coming Monday, February 28th. In this episode, we talk about all of that and more, including her audition for ‘Friends,’ a darkly hilarious story about Redd Foxx and why she’s still “proud” of the work she did on ‘Louie.’
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and with the fifth and final season of one of my favorite shows Better Things, premiering on FX and Hulu this coming Monday night, I want to share with you my incredible conversation with the star and creator, Pamela Adlon. |
| 0:21.6 | Oddly enough, this episode originally aired exactly two years ago today, but it feels like it's been a lot longer. |
| 0:28.6 | That's because Pamela was the very last guest I talked to in the studio before everything went remote in March of 2020. |
| 0:36.6 | And I really could not have had more fun getting to hang out with her in person |
| 0:40.4 | and talk about everything from the origins of better things |
| 0:43.7 | to her extensive voice work on shows like King of the Hill |
| 0:47.1 | to some truly wild stories about her early days as a child actor. |
| 0:51.8 | And yes, we did also get into her very complicated relationship with Louis C.K. |
| 0:57.4 | So while you wait for better things to return next week, |
| 1:00.6 | please enjoy my conversation with Pamela Ablon. |
| 1:04.0 | Yesterday I did Big Mouth at Margarita Mix, |
| 1:06.6 | and then I went from one room to two rooms down, |
| 1:12.8 | and I did my bumpers. |
| 1:15.0 | Is that your first time doing Big Mouth? |
| 1:16.1 | Have you done it before? |
| 1:17.5 | I haven't done Big Mouth. |
| 1:18.7 | Oh, that's so fun. |
| 1:19.9 | I have no idea. |
| 1:23.7 | I know they're working on like, yeah, they're working on multiple at the same time, because they got picked up for like three more. |
| 1:26.1 | They're working on, oh. |
| 1:28.1 | So I think they're working on like four and five at the same time right now sound good oh do you want me to have this is |
| 1:34.5 | only if you want only if you like it all i know is that i was dying to do it like i i know that like i was up |
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