Pretty in Pink w. Julie Klausner
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Is Ducky a comedy writer these days? Is Iona the Daddy? What literal genius thought to put Harry Dean Stanton in a teen comedy? We get into the weeds of Pretty in Pink with the incomparable Julie Klausner.
You can find Julie on Twitter and Instagram.
We made a playlist to accompany this episode! It's comprised of songs that come to mind when we all think about this movie.
Why Are Dads is a show in which hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as they do with all difficult subject matter, they do so by looking through a pop culture lens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Alex Steed, cohost of Why Are Duds. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:12.6 | My cohost Sarah Marshall will join us for the proper episode in a couple minutes. In the |
| 0:17.0 | meantime, I just wanted to welcome you to Why Are Duds, which is a show about figuring |
| 0:23.6 | out what it's like to be kids of a dad. What it's like to have grown up with or without |
| 0:31.2 | dads with good dads with bad dads with dads generally. It's an excuse for us to talk |
| 0:35.2 | about feelings and to do so by way of talking about movies that we love and that you love |
| 0:41.7 | or maybe, you know, maybe that we just all know about. So for this week's episode, we |
| 0:46.3 | talked about pretty in pink with our friend Julie Klasner. |
| 0:49.6 | Julie is an author, a comedian, an actor, a podcaster, a writer. She was in the great sitcom |
| 0:55.0 | Difficult People with Billy Eichner, just absolutely fantastic. And she helped birth |
| 1:00.2 | Billy on the street, which is one of the greatest, greatest shows. Julie has been podcasting |
| 1:07.0 | for years with the great How is Your Week, which Julie Klasner. And she's written Art |
| 1:13.9 | Girls Are Easy, which is a young adult novel that came out a while back. She's done it |
| 1:19.4 | all. She's fantastic. We were so lucky to have her and so lucky to have her talk about |
| 1:23.8 | among other things comedy writers. I know that plays into pretty in pink. So like I said, |
| 1:30.6 | we talked about pretty in pink. Lots of conversation about Ducky, lots of conversation about Andrew |
| 1:35.6 | McCarthy, lots of conversation of course about Molly Ringwald, the legacy of the brat back, |
| 1:41.3 | the legacy of John Hughes. We covered all sorts of bases. This is an episode we're talking about |
| 1:46.1 | because as Sarah will talk about in a couple of minutes, it's prom season, |
| 1:50.6 | thread around prom season. We wanted to get into prom. And here we are talking pretty in pink. |
| 1:57.2 | I had a wonderful time. It was so incredible to have Julie on the show. She was a fantastic |
| 2:03.0 | presence. Before we begin, I just want to let you know that Why Are Dead is made possible |
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