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Sarah Silverman, Sarah Paulson, Rickey Thompson & Denzel Dion: Influencers

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It's a Sarah-bonanza! Sarah Paulson talks about her new Hulu film Run, out 11/20, and her Netflix series Ratched. Sarah Silverman tells us how she came up with the name of her new podcast, The Sarah Silverman Podcast. Plus, Rickey Thompson and Denzel Dion join the fun!

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, it's Jonathan Colton from Ask Me Another. I am just about to call your favorite host and mine.

0:06.0

Oh, fear of Eisenberg. See if she's around. Do a show.

0:11.0

Hello!

0:12.0

Hi, Afeera. How are you?

0:14.0

Pretty good. It was just my kids' fifth birthday party.

0:18.0

Oh, happy birthday.

0:19.0

Thank you. And you know what? I got really into, you know, what can we do during this time to have a little birthday thing?

0:28.0

So I decided upon the outdoor, go to a playground, go to a playground, go to an outdoor park, and it was gonna be very low key, but I still decided on one fancy thing that a five-year-old wouldn't appreciate.

0:44.0

But to me, it was to quote Simon Dunin a way to j'je j'ai d'app.

0:50.0

Oh, yes. I brought expensive cupcakes. I called up a bakery and said I want superhero cupcakes.

0:56.0

All different superheroes because they love superheroes. Maybe a bunch of fancy cupcakes.

1:02.0

You know, I was just trying to create as much as I could out of the little we have.

1:07.0

True.

1:08.0

So I kept thinking of ways. I was, you know, at the last minute I was like, oh, is there any sort of entertainment that would be kid-friendly, that would be socially-distance.

1:18.0

And you know what? I came up with it. Still Walker.

1:21.0

I was like, can I hire a still Walker? Maybe they juggle? It doesn't even matter. They just have to be on stills six feet in the air that is socially-distance.

1:31.0

Like, you know, if you can't go-

1:32.0

They get as close as they want because they're six feet in the air. Of course they're six feet away. Look at their feet.

1:36.0

That's right. Because everyone forgets six feet. Which way do you have to go?

1:40.0

Sideway? Now you can go up.

1:45.0

So did you get a still Walker?

1:47.0

No, I so I was like, this is brilliant. And then I have a friend who actually, you know, worse a lot of circus performers.

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