This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week on the show, we have an actor who has quietly managed to give some of the most consistently funny performances on TV over the past 15 or so years.

You probably know Zach Woods as Gabe from the office,

or maybe Jared from Silicon Valley.

Now he's added a new deeply uncomfortable character to his repertoire.

Public radio host Lauren Caspian on a new series premiering this week on Peacock called In the Know.

The show, which Zach co-created with Mike

Judge and Brandon Gardner, mixes stop-motion animated characters with live action footage

of actual celebrities like Mike Tyson, Ken Burns, Jonathan Van Ness, and others who play

themselves as the interview guests on the fictional radio show that's sort of like

a third-rate fresh air with Terry Gross. As I tell Zach at the top of our conversation,

this parody of what it's like to interview famous people on Zoom hit a little too close to home

for me, you know, in the best way. Zach and I spend a lot of time in this episode talking about how intimidating it was to join

the office in its sixth season and the experience of getting to help define a show like Silicon

Valley from the very beginning.

But I want to start with a scene from In The Know, in which his character, Lauren, greets

intern Chase, played by Charlie Bushnell, and clashes with

his boss, Barb, who was voiced by Jay Smith Cameron, aka Jerry from Succession.

Chase, interns are supposed to get here by nine. We've talked about this. Dude, it's crazy

I even came in. Last night, this couple I was banging accidentally locked me in their home sensory deprivation

tank.

And I was freaking screaming all night.

Well, they didn't hear you?

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