Sam Jay Returns: SNL, ‘Pause’ and ‘You People’

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Since leaving her gig as a writer at ‘Saturday Night Live’ behind in 2020, Sam Jay has become an increasingly prolific force in the comedy world. From her debut hour-long Netflix special ‘3 in the Morning’ to her unique take on the late-night variety show ‘Pause’ for HBO to co-creating the sitcom ‘Bust Down’ for Peacock, the Atlanta-born, Boston-raised comic has already shown audiences that she contains multitudes. And all of that was before her breakout performance opposite Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy in Kenya Barris’ new Netflix movie ‘You People.’ In her return to the podcast, Jay talks about how she landed her key role as rom-com bestie and responds to the backlash the film has received for perpetuating racial stereotypes. She also opens up about her decision to leave SNL, reveals the fate of ‘Pause’ and addresses those who felt “hurt” by her jokes comparing trans women to X-Men.

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0:00.0	My guest this week was just way ahead of the game when it came to hating on Elon Musk.
0:07.3	This nigger, Elon Musk be going to space by his cell.
0:09.5	What the fuck is that white man doing his space alone?
0:12.7	That's not suspicious to anybody by me?
0:15.4	And this motherfucker goes to space without the government, without NASA?
0:18.8	Which I didn't even know you could fucking do.
0:21.8	As far as I knew, they were the space niggas.
0:24.3	They run space.
0:26.7	You want to fuck with space, you got to fuck with them.
0:30.0	This motherfucker built a spaceship like as a go-cart goes on Tuesdays.
0:34.7	This space day is Saturday.
0:39.0	Everybody know that. You can't leave midweek to go to goddamn space
0:43.1	It's an event
0:44.2	It had been Saturday, the TV's on, this thing will be going Wednesday night
0:47.1	What?
0:48.7	From Sacramento at that bitch, space place is Cape Canaveral
0:52.4	That's where you go from
0:53.4	Ain't no entry point to Mars from at that bitch. Space place is Cape Canaveral. That's where you go from.
0:59.1	Ain't no entry point to Mars from fucking Sacramento.
1:13.6	This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from the Daily Beast, and that was Sam Jay from her 2020 Netflix special, 3 in the morning.
1:20.1	Sam was actually one of our very first guests on this podcast all the way back in the spring of 2019.
1:26.9	But so much has happened in her life and career since then that I could not wait any longer to have her back.
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