Paula Pell
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
As we prepare to launch our second season at iHeartRadio, we’re revisiting some of Alec’s favorite episodes from the archives. In this episode, Alec talks with writer and actress Paula Pell – who made people laugh at Saturday Night Live for 18 years. Pell landed her dream job as a writer at SNL after working at a Florida theme park. Her agent told her that Lorne Michaels wanted to meet her – “it is not an audition, but he wants to fly you up and talk to you.” Pell wasn’t sure what she was headed up for, but she got a job writing for the show. Because of her longevity on the show, Pell calls herself “Nanny SNL,” but she’s the first to admit, “if you have a good night there you feel like you’re 20 again.” Today, Pell can be found writing and producing movies and television, in addition to her starring role in Peacock's “Girls5eva.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, it's Alec Baldwin. We're going to rebroadcast an episode from our archives this week. |
| 0:11.7 | You'll hear my conversation with Paula Pell, who I met when she was a writer on Saturday Night Live. |
| 0:17.5 | We'll have new episodes of Here's the Thing, beginning March 15th. Until then, |
| 0:22.5 | enjoy my talk with one of the funniest people I've ever met, Paula Pell. |
| 0:30.8 | This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from IHeart Radio. |
| 0:41.3 | Not long ago, there used to be two types of comedians, |
| 0:44.3 | comedians and female comedians. |
| 0:47.9 | Today, there are so many women making us laugh that the qualifier has been rendered obsolete. |
| 0:51.4 | Saturday Night Live deserves a lot of the credit for this development. The show has |
| 0:56.1 | introduced us to Gilda Radner, Jan Hooks, Maya Rudolph, Tina Faye, and Kristen Wigg, to name |
| 1:03.2 | just a few. But there's been another woman at SNL, a woman who's been quietly working |
| 1:08.6 | day after day for 17 years, |
| 1:11.7 | often without sleeping, to usher in this reality. |
| 1:15.4 | 17 years I've been there, yep. |
| 1:17.2 | Paula Pell was working at a Florida theme park |
| 1:19.8 | when she got her dream job as a writer at Saturday Night Live. |
| 1:24.0 | Because the show has such a wide comedic range, |
| 1:26.9 | it's the perfect challenge for Paula. |
| 1:29.2 | You've got the hard-hitting news parodies, and then on the other end. |
| 1:33.2 | You know, it's got fart jokes, it's got everything in it of the low parts of comedy, |
| 1:36.9 | mostly me being responsible for Tylen-LBM of Alec Baldwin taking a shit in a bed while he's sleeping. |
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