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Hilarious comedian and a cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Please welcome the very funny Heidi Gardner.

Hey, Heidi.

How are you?

I'm well, How are you coming?

I'm doing really well.

Thanks so much for being here.

You know, I love your work.

And I have to say I'm getting a lot of points from my daughter and my daughter's friends because they adore you.

Okay, that feels good.

That feels like genuine points for me.

No, it really does.

They could care less about anything.

I'm ever up Thio because you know, obvious reasons.

I'm 95 years old, but you they adore.

And they were really excited that I was talking to you today and I think a cat just creep up behind you that I thought all the cats had exited the room.

I apologize.

No, don't apologize.

Um, what's the cat's name?

This is Twiki.

Twiki.

Yes, as in someone's a little tweak E because they've been on math for a while.

That kind of tweak e exactly.

Well, you're lovely of a lovely way with animals.

You know, I'd ask you a question.

I did some research on you and you were a hairstylist before you got into comedy.

What?

And, uh, you still do.

You still do it.

Do you still, like work on people's hair?

And I'm asking for a reason I've grown mine out.

As you can see, it's It's really there we go.

It's got a flop.

It's got a flop.

Is that what the technical term is?

It's a flop.

Well, you know what I would actually say.

The technical term is, and the last time I cut Hey, are was last year pre quarantine.

I gave my husband a haircut, and I gave him Brendan Fraser.

Mummy cut.

And I think that's what you have, right?

This is like, this is that it is This is the Brendan Fraser Mummy cut?

Yes, because it was like it was kind of a bowl.

But, you know, dinner partiers is a little off center, but it kind of did that like little mushroom to the sides, which was cool in 97 or eight.

I was cool in 97 98.

You were perfectly yes.

E like it.

Let's talk about Bailey Gibbs.

Mert, this is, I think, a testament to your talent.

So many people do try and do teenage characters.

I think it's impossible to nail.

And, uh, and then Bailey is just when I watch her, it almost gets under my skin.

It's so accurate.

As you guys know, I'm currently quarantining by choice, not because I like have Corona or whatever, but yeah, mostly because, like, my parents were being awkward, they're like doing that like, push up, challenge my dad like House of being now.

So I'm like, staying in my room.

Did you just watch a ton of teenagers for a while before you attempted that character, or did you just always know how to do?

Bailey?

I think I always knew how to do it because I think it's, um it's always lived inside me like I was always the type who, like, you know, like kinda hide behind your hair and, like, um, you know, make you feel weird for even existing.

Like, you know, she would probably be like, Hi, come on in.

Like Thanks for having me on your show or whatever.

E Don't Don't watch it like I mean, my dad like pleasure, genius, but like Sorry, I don't like Watch it on then you just feel so bad about yourself.

Yeah, yeah.

No, it's funny.

Uh, I mean, I don't think I'm over analyzing it, but her discomfort, weirdly about herself, somehow makes anyone she's talking to.

Uncomfortable.

Yes, and that's what I think.

Um, teenagers do like they make you feel like you shouldn't exist.

Yeah, And then the other thing you do that I absolutely love as Bailey is, you'll be talking and everything's fine.

And then your mood ships completely.

And it's hilarious.

And also frightening because it's so accurate.

You'll just go from happy to in the depths of the most soul crushing despair.

I know.

And it's like soul crushing despair that now after we've lived like adult lives, is so not a big deal.

But like too young.

I remember I remember when Brad Pitt didn't get nominated for legends of the fall like toe my mom, I was like, This is a problem like just it was my whole week.

Like just that I, like wish like, not still right.

Let's talk about Angel.

I love this character because I'm a fanatic for boxing movies.

I just I've watched all of them even the most boxing movies and Angel is every boxers girlfriend.

So you've got some good news for us.

Well, you know, Tommy's fighting tonight, so I've been better.

Well, I hope he wins.

Yeah, well, I hope he stays alive to see how kids grow up.

So how many more hits?

Still, it's enough.

What, Were you going to the fight, at least?

No, no.

I told him if he fights again, I'm taking the kids to my sister's.

But where did this character come from?

Because again, the specificity of your characters is you've got, like, such a laser focus.

It was really just, uh it was when that Jake Gyllenhaal Rachel McAdams movie came out Southpaw and I like, I heard a preview on the TV for it.

And, you know, she said something like, You know, you think you're the fighter on the fighter And I was like, Wait, I think Amy Adams said that two years ago in the fighter on then and then you just start going through all of them and it's the same scenes every time.

And I just got excited like maybe other people noticed this, too.

So just get on that like, right in the right.

I thought you because when I worked on certain live long time ago, back when it was just a puppet show, Um, but it was still we would have this thing and we would have to go in and pitch ideas.

Toe Lorne and the performers on this show would have to pitch characters.

And it was hilarious because I was there when people pitched iconic characters that went on to become these huge staples of star Net Live.

I was there and witnessed it, but I was also there when those same performers pitched characters that went nowhere.

Jon Lovitz, who, of course, was known for so many great characters.

Uh, and I was there and he was convinced he had this character who would Who would say, You got to get to know me on, then would take a drag on a cigarette and say, That's right.

Get to know me And we all thought, I don't know.

And then he went toe Lauren.

He was like blowing Get to know me.

And I was like, No, no, no, no, no, no, no eyes.

They're a character that you pitched recently that just went nowhere Yeah, like I had pitched and wrote a woman who was a voiceover actors who voices all the hot dogs in the eighties and was like poodles Corky's.

And I really just thought like I was like, Everyone's going to get this like, Don't remember.

Like there were always those, like hot poodles and and it hasn't been on this season, So it will be It's going to get in there and it's going to surprise Everybody is gonna be your character yet you'll see.

And if that doesn't work, Lovett's old get to know me Well, um, how are your parents with your fame?

How are they?

They must be very proud of you.

Yeah, they for sure are, which is the sweetest thing in the world.

But but my mom.

So I mean, right when I got the job and this was probably remember, like, two weeks into it.

My mom and I were in a public restroom, and there were there were a lot of people in there, and I was like, Mom, I'm gonna wait for you in the lobby and she goes, Okay.

Heidi Gardner, my daughter Andi.

I exited, and of course, this was two weeks in SNL.

I mean, it takes probably three years written.

You know who you are on that stuff, but for sure, no one knew who I waas, so I I go out and I sit in the lobby and my mom comes out, and it was I came on when you send me for a second, she was like, Yeah, honey, and I go, Hey, I I saw what you did in the bathroom, and, you know, I'm just not very comfortable with that.

I don't I don't like that.

And she goes, Honey, I'm just bragging.

That's so funny.

My mom, when I had the late night show first couple of years into having the late night show, she used to really do this.

She got a bunch of late night with Conan O'Brien key chains, and she kept them in her purse on she should we would go through that.

She would go through the line a t, the local supermarket in Brookline, Massachusetts, and then the person would be bagging her groceries and should say, Do you like television on the guy?

Be like, Yeah, sure.

Do you ever watch late night television and you'd say?

Um, yeah, I watched something.

Did you ever see Conan O'Brien and the guy?

I'd be like, Yeah, I know.

I see that show.

You like Conan Brian?

He's okay.

Well, guess what.

He's my son, and you can have a key chain.

I could just picture all these people reluctantly taking a key chain, but it makes them so happy.

And that makes me happy to hear, because I think I'm always thinking like, Oh, my God, People must be so annoyed by my mom.

But if I was that cashier, I would think that was the cutest thing in the world.

E Yeah.

Is your dad brag about you?

Yes.

So my dad, he he tries to do it a little more low key.

He drives for uber and he likes Thio do like the early pickup.

So, like, airport runs.

Or but a lot of times he does Sunday morning, like picking people up from the bars or wherever they've been.

And so he'll tell stories of, like, picking up a whole, like bachelorette girls from a bachelorette party and like they'll, you know, be out on an all nighter and like trying to settle in and my dad's like So, ladies, at 4.

30 in the morning, did you guys watch just last night, like, no way.

We're on a rave.

We were clubbing.

Yeah, um, sometimes just like but some of them.

But then I say, But have you ever watched and then, you know, and then they know who that you are, and they really like your work.

Well, that's nice.

That's nice.

I'm glad.

I'm glad that you're I think it's a very nice thing.

I'm sure they're extraordinarily proud of you.

And, uh, you are crazy, talented.

You're crazy talent.

And I'm very happy for you.

I really am.

It's nice I get, uh I don't know what it is, but when When I see young people, uh, that are inordinately talented, doing good work, it just makes me happy.

I just, like, restores my faith in the whole system, you know?

Well, you know, for years I had your quote.

If you're kind and you work hard, amazing things will happen right over my bed.

So Oh, that's so sweet.

That Z Well, guess what I What I should do is amend that quote and say amazing things will happen and then you'll get your shit stolen out of the theater.

I'll just add that at the end.

Well, listen, Heidi s o much so fun to talk to you, and, um, I look forward.

You want all this craziness is over, bumping into you in person, you know?

Yeah.

I'll arrange it in a creepy way.

It's what I dio.

Yeah, You'll trust me.

The words out on me start out live.

I love that.

I'm plugging, sir.

Not live.

So not live gang.

You should check this show out here.

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30 on NBC and Heidi.

Congratulations on everything.

And thank you for talking to me.

Thank you for talking to us by.

Hey, there's Twiki Twiki.