- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're big 'Game of Thrones' fans, so we call our house King's Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working at 'New Girl' when I found out there was going to be a 'Pitch' sequel.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right?
- Green Bay
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'
- About An Hour
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got to literally write my own ticket.
- Improv
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saturated myself with the improv community.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that feeling, that feeling of team.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.'
- Mentor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.
- Different Areas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020