Rachel Bloom

Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Alison Rosen

Funny, Comic, Interviews, Women, Celebrity, Grief, Psychology, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.6 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) stops by the show to talk about the inspiration for her somewhat obsessed and lovesick character Rebecca Bunch, making "a romantic comedy that shits on romantic comedies," how she once was an "irresponsible asshole," growing up in Southern California, therapy, anxiety, OCD and looping thoughts, spirituality, Love and Limerence, Unrequited, discovering musical theater, the pitching process and how Crazy Ex-Girlfriend came to be, real life analogues for some of the characters and relationships on the show and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen. Welcome to another episode of Allison
0:27.1	Rosen is you new best friend. Very exciting day for me because I am sitting here with Rachel Bloom,
0:32.3	star of show you've heard me talk a lot about crazy ex girlfriend. I'm a huge fan. Thank you.
0:39.2	Hello and welcome. Hi. Thank you so much for coming here. I love the live audience. I know, it's
0:45.0	amazing. You fit so many people in there. Yeah, I know. They're either in you can even see them. Oh my
0:50.6	god, I can't even I just hear them. Yeah, a lot of people feel like it's impractical to do a
0:58.1	podcast from your dining room with a live audience. No, it's like a it's immersive theater to me.
1:04.9	Oh, I'm blowing up the speakers. No, you're good. Oh, really? You're good. Okay, so for the
1:10.2	handful of listeners who potentially are not familiar with crazy ex girlfriend and I don't
1:16.0	even know if they exist, but I'm just saying if there are any, let's set this up for them.
1:21.3	Can you describe the show? Sure, it's a romantic comedy that shits on romantic comedies. It's a musical
1:28.5	that shits on musicals, but also loves them both. And it's about a high powered lawyer who had a
1:37.1	great career going on in New York, but he wasn't happy. Yeah, who runs into an ex and decides to move
1:44.5	to West Covina, which as someone who grew up in Southern California, I or Orange County. Oh, great.
1:51.0	And then I lived in New York for years and then I came back. I love I love that you chose West
1:57.2	Covina. It's so and I feel like I spent I don't know, I get just the whole like why would someone
2:04.1	choose West Covina? I've it all makes so much sense to me. Yeah, like I think I because I grew up in
2:10.3	in Southern California and I spent a lot of time being at and beach when my grandparents lived in
2:14.5	Torrance. I spent a lot of time in in southern California. I've spoken about previously a guy that I
2:19.7	was desperately in love with in high school did in fact live in Glendora, which is the city over
2:24.5	from West Covina. And I would try to like find excuses to go to Glendora just to maybe run into him.
2:30.5	And so that was really interesting to us. And we wanted to do a show that explored the part of
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