Uzo Aduba

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Ted Danson feels like he’s found a kindred spirit in three-time Emmy winner Uzo Aduba. They get into the surprising gifts that came out of Uzo’s experience of writing a memoir about her late mother, playing Shirley Chisholm, her track and figure skating past, what it was like pivoting from sports to acting, and what was happening in her life when she got cast as Crazy Eyes on “Orange is the New Black.” Bonus: Uzo and Ted trade their experiences dealing with sudden fame.   Uzo’s book is “The Road is Good: How a Mother’s Strength Became a Daughter’s Purpose.”   Like watching your podcasts? Visit http://youtube.com/teamcoco to see full episodes.

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0:00.0	Do do. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows.
0:06.0	Now I'm doing the harmony. Welcome back to where everybody knows your name. I am so thrilled for you to meet my new friend
0:24.0	Uzo Aduba. She's a three-time Emmy-winning actor whose work spans the
0:29.5	stage, TV, and big screen and you of course know her from Orange is the new black in which
0:35.8	she played one of the best TV characters of all times Suzanne Crazy Eyes Warren
0:41.0	the world has seen this, but if you haven't, really, you must.
0:46.4	It's just an amazing performance.
0:48.6	More recently, she authored a new memoir that's in bookstores right now. It's called The Road is Good.
0:55.2	How a Mother's Strength became a daughter's purpose.
0:58.5	The book tells the story of her late mother who immigrated from Nigeria to the US. It is powerful, tender, and smart.
1:07.0	Just like Uzo. Can't wait for you to meet her.
1:10.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Uzo and Duba. And Mary, she's seen, Virgin, she sends her respect, love.
1:25.0	She's met you.
1:26.0	Yes.
1:28.0	And I don't think you guys work together.
1:30.0	We have not, but she has an icon, a legend, a gift gift what a pair of the two of you together well we are very lucky all we do is laugh
1:38.8	That's that's that's that's the that's the gold star for marriage.
1:43.0	I mean she is just wonderful and just I mean truly just a brilliant
1:48.0	brilliant actor and has an incredible range sidebar, just I love her.
1:55.2	Did we also say Kranzler?
1:56.8	Yeah, Eric Kranzler who I called on boy into work.
2:00.1	Oh my God, did he sing your prices?
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