Sherri Shepherd: Daytime TV’s New ‘Feel Good’ Queen

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sherri Shepherd has been a stand-up comedian, sitcom star, ‘The View’ co-host, and now, with her eponymous syndicated talk show ‘Sherri,’ a leading figure on the daytime TV scene. In this episode, Shepherd opens up about the inspiration and advice she received from Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters, how she wants her own show to avoid the types of controversies that still fuel ‘The View’ and how she’s learned to handle the inevitable backlash that will come her way. She also shares some hilarious stories about starting out in stand-up comedy with the Wayans brothers and Jamie Foxx, her memorable guest-starring role on ‘Friends,’ what it was really like to play Tracy Morgan’s wife on ‘30 Rock’ and how she found out she wasn’t Mindy Kaling’s first choice to play Senator Chase on ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls.’

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0:31.9	My guest this week is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, popular daytime talk show host, and, most importantly in my world, Angie Jordan on 30 Rock.
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0:47.3	Reality star, actress, singer-song reader, perfumist, IBS survivor, best-selling author of a book I didn't write.
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0:58.6	Well, they don't all work.
1:04.5	This is the Last Laugh.
1:06.9	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Sherry Shepard as Angie, Tracy
1:11.9	Morgan's reality star wife, on 30 Rock. Sherry still calls that role the highlight of her
1:17.9	comedy career. But in the 10 years since that show went off the air, she has risen the ranks
1:22.9	of daytime television, and last fall launched her very own syndicated talk show called, of course, Sherry.
1:29.9	So I was really excited for the chance to talk with her about how she went from doing three-minute
1:35.0	spots at one in the morning at comedy clubs in L.A. to guest starring on shows like Friends in the
1:40.3	90s, to co-hosting The View alongside Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, and Joy Behar in the 2000s,
1:46.6	to now hosting one of the most popular talk shows on daytime television in 2023.
1:52.3	This was a really fun talk, so let's get right into it now.
1:56.8	Here's me with Sherry Shepherd.
1:59.4	So are you, uh, you had a taping this morning?
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