This is the Last Laugh.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.

My guest on this week's show might be best known for singing

one of the strangest lines of dialogue to appear in any movie,

let alone a best picture winner at the Academy Awards.

Sucked into a bagel.

Yes, today on the show, we have Stephanie Shue,

who also landed her first Oscar nomination for playing Joy,

as well as her supervillain counterpart Jobu Tupacchi, in the 2022 Juggernaut, Everything Everywhere, all at

once.

But as I learned in this conversation with Stephanie, she actually started her career in the comedy

world, something that is very apparent in her latest project, a not quite as weird but still pretty

out there rom-com on Peacock called Laid.

Stephanie plays Ruby, a young single woman looking for love who starts to realize that

everyone she's ever had sex with is dying in the order she slept with them.

It's a bizarre premise that ends up delivering a very funny and even moving at times

eight-episode series.

And there really is no one who could have played this role quite as convincingly as Stephanie.

Before we get into our conversation, which also covers her wild, everything everywhere

experience, why she turned down the chance to audition for the role

of Glinda in John M. Chu's Wicked, her upcoming collaboration with Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson,

and more. Let's listen to a clip from Laid. Her character Ruby has decided that she needs to warn her

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