Wendi McLendon-Covey
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It’s season seven, babe! We’re here with actor Wendi McLendon-Covey. You Might Know Her From St. Denis Medical, The Goldbergs, Reno 911, What Men Want, Paint, Think Like a Man Too, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, and Bridesmaids. Wendi opened up to us about leading the cast of the indie drama Blush, “playing defeat” on St. Denis Medical, and navigating The Goldbergs post-George Segal and Jeff Garlin’s departures. ALL THAT, plus, the real bridal shower that inspired Bridesmaids, auditioning for Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy TV special, and the Goldie Hawn/Darren Starr series that...
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Live Show in New York City!
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Get your tickets here: You Might Know Her From LIVE! Saturday, February 28, 2026; 7pm (doors at 5:45pm) The Laurie Beechman Theatre 407 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036
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Actress Adjacent with Jeff Hiller
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Special summer episode with actress-adjacent darling and new author AND Emmy-nominee Jeff Hiller. Yes, Jeff is only the second self-identified man on the show but it’s important! Anne and Damian talk to friend of the pod, Jeff Hiller about his new memoir Actress of a Certain Age, his star-making turn as Joel on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, and his love of celebrity autobiographies and great ladies of the theatre. We just LOVE, Jeff, and we know you will too! Patreon: Follow us on social media: || || Discussed this episode: Anne thinks Ben Platt is evolving but the only man...
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Top 5 Gay (But Not Gay) Movies...According to Us
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Happy Pride, babies! We love you all from the bottom of our queer little hearts. For June's episode we are doing a "talking shet" kinda-manic-mind-meld-wormhole-brain-rot-mindgrapes- episode where we are narrowing down OUR list of the top 5 gay (but not gay) movies, according to us (Anne and Damian, two geriatric millennials, so set your expectations on what kind of wild ride this is.) But FIRST, we have a few quick orders of business: We are taking a bit of a summer hiatus as it relates to actress interviews. We know, we know, we're already only feeding you once a month but trust that this...
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Faith Prince
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Achoo! We’re falling in love with the one and only Faith Prince. You Might Know Her From Modern Family, Emily in Paris, Melissa & Joey, Spin City, My Father the Hero, The Last Dragon, and Broadway productions of Guys & Dolls, A Catered Affair, Bells Are Ringing, and BOOP! Faith talked to us about grounding her character, Valentina, in the cartoonish plot of BOOP!, coping with fame during her star-making turn in Guys & Dolls, and leaning on her co-star Gerard Depardieu in one of her first leading roles on camera in My Father the Hero. Faith also shared stories from...
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Miriam Shor
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It's Miriam Shor, y'all! You Might Know Her From Younger, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Magic Hour, GCB, Shortbus, Swingtown, Maestro, American Fiction, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. Miriam gave us all the scoop on grounding the zaniness of Diana Trout on Darren Star's Younger, leading the indie comedy Magic Hour, and appearing in "brilliant but canceled" series like GCB and Swingtown. All that, plus Miriam talked to us about being one of John Cameron Mitchell's "players," appearing in Shortbus and, of course, originating the role of Yitzhak in the Hedwig universe; popping up in prestige...
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L. Scott Caldwell
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"I DIED?!?!" We are here with Tony-nominated actor, L. Scott Caldwell. You Might Know Her From Insecure, Lost, The Fugitive, Bad Monkey, How to Get Away with Murder, Waiting to Exhale, The Net, Soweto Green and the Broadway production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. L. Scott gave us all the scoop on acting opposite Crystal the Monkey in Bad Monkey, bringing her personal story to Rose's story on Lost, and working with August Wilson on the Broadway production of his 1988 play Joe Turner's Come and Gone. All that, plus being killed off as Molly's mom on Insecure (she forgot!), working with Uta...
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Cherry Jones
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Cherry, baby! We are here with two-time Tony-winner and three-time Emmy-winner Cherry Jones. You Might Know Her From The Handmaid's Tale, 24, Transparent, Succession, The West Wing, The Village, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and her numerous theatre credits including The Heiress, Doubt, Mrs. Warren's Profession, and The Glass Menagerie. Cherry talked to us about playing the real life Eileen Myles on Transparent, grounding the violence on 24, whether or not she’ll appear in the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, and she shares with us an actor’s secret: her “moment before” from the...
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June Squibb
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Here she is bois, here she is world, here’s June! We are here with Oscar-nominee June Squibb. You Might Know Her From Thelma, Nebraska, About Schmidt, The Humans, Hubie Halloween, In & Out, Girls, Inside Out 2, and Broadway productions of Gypsy and Waitress. We were delighted to talk to 95-year-old June about her role in the action-dramedy Thelma for which she absolutely deserves an Oscar nomination. From fearlessly driving a scooter to charming the late Richard Roundtree, June opened up about her very first “lead role” and the difference in being number one on the callsheet. We also...
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Roslyn Kind
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We are here with actor, singer, and entertainer Roslyn Kind. You Might Know Her From: The Look of Love/The Island, 3 From Brooklyn, The Nanny, I'm Going to Be Famous, Ladies of the House, Gimme a Break, and her over 50-year illustrious recording career. We talked to Roslyn about signing to RCA Records as just a 17-year-old girl, lampooning her famous sister Barbra Streisand in an iconic episode of The Nanny, and her latest projects that retells two of her signature songs into a short film. Roslyn also gave us the goods on blood harmony with her mother and Babs, her British invasion influences,...
info_outlineIt’s season seven, babe! We’re here with actor Wendi McLendon-Covey. You Might Know Her From St. Denis Medical, The Goldbergs, Reno 911, What Men Want, Paint, Think Like a Man Too, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, and Bridesmaids. Wendi opened up to us about leading the cast of the indie drama Blush, “playing defeat” on St. Denis Medical, and navigating The Goldbergs post-George Segal and Jeff Garlin’s departures. ALL THAT, plus, the real bridal shower that inspired Bridesmaids, auditioning for Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy TV special, and the Goldie Hawn/Darren Starr series that never came to be. Honey bees, we just loved this one. We’re just so glad to be back!
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Discussed this week:
Blush 2019 indie drama from Debra Eisenstadt
Stars as Joyce in the new NBC comedy, St Denis Medical
Reno 911 as Officer Clementine Johnson
Was a member of The Groundlings
Reno 911 was created by members of The State
Wendi brought the famous DUI stop “Step-bump-bump” to her audition for Reno 911
Wendi loves working with Cedric Yarbrough, Niecy Nash and Thomas Lennon
Has worked with Stephen Root multiple times (Paint, My Name is Doris)
Wendi’s bits as Rita in Bridesmaids kill Anne every time “smells like someone pissed in an open jar of vitamins”
Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig wrote Bridesmaids and Wendi was part of original table read
Army of One with Nicolas Cage was INTENSE bc he stayed in character after time in Morocco
The Goldbergs was “canceled” after 10 seasons
There’s a George Segal documentary that The Goldbergs crew members made and is traveling the film festival circuit
It was “mutually decided” that Jeff Garlin “left” The Goldbergs after multiple HR accusations of inappropriate behavior on set
Wendi was ALWAYS the #1 on The Goldbergs, which took place outside of Philly
Had to audition for the Dick Tracy Special in 2010 with Mindy Sterling. Warren Beatty “IP Squatting” on the Dick Tracy rights
Appeared on Celebrity Ghost Stories
Was set to star as Goldie Hawn’s daughter in Darren Starr pilot, Viagra Diaries that was ultimately
Would cast Stephen Tobolowsky as her on-screen dad
Really did the Bel Biv Devoe “Poison” rap in Think LIke a Man Too with Taraji Henson, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, LaLa Anthony
Music video for Aly & Aj’s music video, “Star Maps”
Skeevy is from the Italian word for disgusting, “schifoso”