And I was certain that if Hillary Clinton didn’t get the nomination, then we probably wouldn’t have a female president for another 100 years. So we were dating and it was a time where the election was happening and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were competing for the Democratic nomination. How ‘Daily Show’ Contributor Jordan Klepper Became the King of Humiliating Trump FansĪt some point he started working at The Daily Show and then you started contributing there or how did that all happen? So you and your husband have collaborated a bunch over the years, right? Including on The Daily Show ? And I was like, “Hey dudes, congratulations!” It was very friendly. And at one point, I think I was presenting something and Matt and Trey were probably getting an award and we crossed each other in the wings and they were like, “Hey!” They recognized me. And to answer your question a few years down the road, when Comedy Central was having the comedy awards, everyone was there. He said, “You’re going to get fired, you’re going to get hired, it’s fine.” And then I flew home and-jeez, this year was incredible!-I flew home and then I met my husband on this Adult Swim show called Snake N Bacon that he was executive producing. And he was like, “Ah, fuck it.” He gave me good advice. So I was devastated, but I remember I talked to James Bobin, the co-creator of Flight of the Conchords, the day I got fired. So I was like, “Tig, I just got fired! Do I have to cover the rent?” She was like… yeah. Tig Notaro had this garage that she turned into a little guest house that I was crashing in.
When I got the call that I’d been let go, it was devastating. Have you reconciled with Matt and Trey? Or is there any bad blood there? There were a couple of things, but I can’t remember specifically and I would be afraid if I said it they’d be like, “No!” But there were a couple of things where I was like, “Oh, I think that was my idea, actually.” Is there anything that you pitched that actually got on the show? How ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Star Kristen Schaal Learned to Love Her ‘Special’ Voice I could do a writers’ room now, just for everybody listening, but I was too nervous and too excited to be in there. I couldn’t go there, so I just kept pitching another thing.
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Because at that time too, South Park was doing a ton of movie parodies and my movie knowledge is not good. Yeah, I wasn’t going where the room was going. I was like, “How about this? How about this? How about this?” And that’s not how it works. I’d never been in a writers’ room before. I was there for like a month and I was told-I got a warning that I was talking too much.
And I grew up in Colorado, I went to school at the University of Colorado for a year. I think people have taken it for granted at this point.
I think South Park is honestly one of the most underrated cultural shows. I was like, yeah! And then I got to the South Park offices and that was-I mean, I am such a South Park fan. And I got asked to be a writer on the show. And while I was there, the South Park team had seen the Penelope Princess of Pets web videos that Kurt Braunholer and I had done. Because I got Flight of the Conchords and it was premiering, but while it was premiering, I was doing my one-woman show in Edinburgh, which is a month long. I totally forgot, yeah, I did that! God, that was a crazy year when everything was happening. What was that experience like, dropping into that world? So the same year that you got cast on Flight of the Conchords you were hired as a writer on South Park. It’s a position, she reveals in this interview, that she found rewarding but ultimately limiting.īelow is an edited excerpt from our conversation and you can listen to the whole thing-including stories about getting cast on Flight of the Conchords, the early days of Bob’s Burgers and more-right now by subscribing to The Last Laugh on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts and be the first to hear new episodes when they are released every Tuesday. Within about a month, she would get fired by the creators of South Park and then the next year hired to join her new boyfriend at The Daily Show, where Jon Stewart made her the Senior Women’s Issues Correspondent.
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“I did not know how to handle fame,” she admits years later. It was during that trip that she got recognized by a fan for the first time. When she got a call out of the blue that Trey Parker and Matt Stone wanted her to write on season 11 of South Park, she promptly picked up her life and flew to L.A.