Paul Scheer

Don't Ask Tig

American Public Media

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest, Paul Scheer, is an actor and comedian, known for his roles in Showtime’s ‘Black Monday,’ HBO's 'Veep,' and FX's ‘The League.’ He also hosts the popular movie discussion podcast “Unspooled.” Paul shares with Tig the hilarious reason why she was one of his favorite guests on his other movie podcast, “How Did This Get Made?”, and they trade stories about how to navigate working professionally with a spouse. Together they give suggestions about letting children sleep in their parents’ bed, advise a woman who wants to cut her ex off from her Netflix account and discuss if and when to attend the wedding of a partner who dumped you.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Friends, we have an update from a listener that Shang Wang and I gave some advice to a few
0:06.2	weeks ago.
0:07.2	Kara, in New England, wrote to us wondering what to do about a disappointing request from
0:12.5	a boyfriend.
0:13.9	Here's the backstory.
0:14.9	Kara was running her first marathon in Virginia and her boyfriend asked if he could skip
0:19.3	out on cheering her on to the finish line so he could see his favorite West Coast comedian
0:24.8	do a rare performance in New York City.
0:27.8	Kara wrote back to say, hello again, thank you for answering my question regarding whether
0:32.9	my boyfriend should support me at my first marathon or see his favorite comedian as it turns
0:38.8	out before I even had the chance to talk to him about it.
0:42.5	He told me to forget that he asked and happily came with me to the race.
0:46.5	I crossed the finish line and he was right there waiting for me.
0:51.3	But he missed out on your pal Conan O'Brien.
0:54.5	Does that change your answer?
0:56.6	Kara, as much as I love Conan and I do, I love Conan so much.
1:02.2	My answer does remain the same.
1:04.4	Your boyfriend did the right thing by prioritizing your big milestone ahead of life comedy.
1:11.2	And I also know that even if it's a rare appearance, something will pop up.
1:18.8	Comedians and performers are always taking gigs.
1:22.6	Trust me.
1:23.6	I mean, I won't even go into the details of the weird gig that I have coming up a couple
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