‘The Other Two’ Star Heléne Yorke

The Last Laugh

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Despite playing the often monstrously narcissistic Brooke Dubek on the criminally underrated comedy series ‘The Other Two,’ Heléne Yorke finds herself able to relate to her character more than she would like to admit. In this bonus episode, Yorke previews Season 3 of the show, which returned on HBO Max this week, and reveals how she ended up at the center of the one the funniest shows on TV. She also shares hilarious stories about making the leap from Broadway to the screen on shows like ‘Louie,’ ‘30 Rock’ and ‘High Maintenance’ and that time she almost pooped her pants on stage as Glinda in ‘Wicked.’

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh.
0:06.8	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and joining me today on this bonus episode of the podcast
0:12.2	is the star of one of the hands-down funniest shows on TV, the other two, which just
0:18.7	returned for its third season on HBO Max.
0:21.9	Welcome to the podcast, Helena York.
0:24.3	Hello.
0:25.2	Thank you for having me, Matt.
0:26.6	Thank you for being here.
0:27.8	Yeah, I'm so excited because, yeah, the other two is really just one of my absolute favorite shows on TV,
0:34.3	and I'm just very, very excited to have it back.
0:36.7	I agree. It's pretty pathetic when I was watching White Lotus in the fall, I would like,
0:42.4	at the end, it was like more like this. And it was like the other two, right away. And I was like,
0:47.2	don't mind if I do. And I watched episodes of my own show as a fan, pathetic admission.
0:58.1	That's really funny. Yeah, I like that. I could see.
1:02.1	I guess they were the Molly Shannon connection maybe they were going for. I guess so. Yeah,
1:08.3	they were like more bizarre, pathetic, completely selfish people. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it was,
1:12.1	it was really just instantly one of my favorite shows when it premiered in 2019.
1:22.8	I don't know if you remember this, but I came to the Comedy Central offices and talked to you and like the rest of the cast in some sort of weird like round robin thing where we were just like shuffling back and forth.
1:25.2	So that was that was very early on.
1:26.2	But yeah. I do remember that in L.A. Yeah, in L.A. Yeah. So that was that was very fun to get to
1:31.3	talk to everybody at the beginning. But now, yeah, it's like it feels like it's been a very long time since
1:35.7	then. Yeah. I feel like I like, yeah, I've like lived three lifetimes. Like I broke up with one
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