Riki Lindhome: Going Solo After Garfunkel and Oates

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Riki Lindhome spent her 20s and 30s as one half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates. Now that she is solidly in her 40s the comedian is finally going solo with a debut album ‘No Worries if Not,’ which tackles the unique challenges of being a “middle aged” woman, as she put it. In this episode, Lindhome breaks down the process of turning real-life struggles into comedy songs and shares what it has been like to perform music for the first time without her longtime bandmate Kate Micucci. She also talks about the surreal experience of attending ‘SNL50’ as a “plus one” with husband Fred Armisen, the moment in her career where she had to choose between pursuing ‘SNL’ or sticking with Garfunkel and Oates, and how bizarre it was when the first movie she ever appeared in won the Oscar for Best Picture.

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week on the show,
0:11.1	we are talking to comedian, actor, and musician Ricky Lindholm. For much of her career,
0:17.0	Ricky has been best known as one half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates.
0:22.1	The tall blonde one, she was quite obviously the art Garfunkel to her bandmate Kate McCoochie's John Oates.
0:28.5	Over the years, she's branched out as an actor on shows like Another Period,
0:32.2	which she co-created with previous Last LaF guest Natasha Legerro,
0:36.6	as well as roles in huge projects like Knives
0:39.3	Out and Wednesday, both for Netflix. Now, Ricky is about to release her first solo comedy album,
0:46.9	called No Worries If Not, which is just as hilariously profane as some of her early
0:52.7	Garfunkel and Oates stuff, but also deals with
0:55.7	some seriously grown-up topics like fertility, motherhood, and as you will hear in this clip,
1:01.7	what it's like to have sex as a middle-aged person. You wear asleep apnea machine. I'm in early menopause. Let's fuck.
1:29.7	You've got lots of extra skin And every vein in my body is visible
1:31.7	Let's fuck
1:33.1	Let's do it all night long
1:38.9	Or maybe just once
1:40.0	So we can go to bed early
1:41.5	Yeah
1:42.5	You can go real bed early, yeah.
1:48.0	You can go real deep if it feels alright, since your hernia surgery, baby.
1:53.0	Fuck me like an animal if the animal's a turtle.
1:57.0	You can come inside me, it's okay. I'm infertile. Yeah, that's right.
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