Joey Lauren Adams (2015)

Workout tips: It's important that you're on the crank for anywhere from 10-24 hours a day, straight.

It's also important that your crank is hooked up to a large power generator for best results.

You will see improvements.

And the gif - a friend emailed it to me! It made my WHOLE Easter weekend.

I was VERY intimidated at first.

But she's great to work for.

She's SO kind and super professional and just really knows comedy. It's been an amazing experience.

It's a total dream! Haha!

HOLY CRAP!

I am totally freaking out!!

That is amazing!!

VICTORIA NOTE: If you send it to me, I'll make sure she receives it.

And I will take a selfie with it, and I will POST IT BACK!!

UH. SHOUT OUT TO ALAMANCE COUNTY. BIG UPS TO ALAMANCE. That's where Elon is.

This may polarize some people, but North Carolina bbq is my favorite kind of bbq.

I like the vinegar-based sauce. It just doesn't feel as "heavy" for some reason.

I booked KIMMY SCHMIDT almost 10 years from the day I graduated college.

And for most of those years I was working in the restaurant industry.

Quitting my day job was really scary. But a lot of people who had done it before me said "If you make space, then the universe will fill it in with something wonderful." And that was very true for me.

Almost from the second that I quit, I started booking acting work on a regular basis.

NOT that I'm advocating that people quit their day jobs - but if you have the financial stability to do so, go follow your dreams!

Fbbbbt.

Depends on the cult, really.

I like to think - because I"m a Leo, and I'm an oldest child, and I'm somewhat bossy - that I would maybe fall into a little bit of a Kimmy role, in trying to keep everyone together, keep everyone happy, and keep survival happening.

I would get very sick of beans.

I like to think that I would be more skeptical. I don't think I could totally drink the Kool-Aid. I might take a sip, but I wouldn't chug it.

I have no idea.

It's totally all up to our writers (who, as you can tell from season one, are crazy geniuses. They're incredible).

And whatever they plan to do with season two is going to be awesome.

That's really awesome.

I had not seen that. I missed some that i DEFINITELY knew. I'm disappointed in myself.

If you have Tina Fey or Robert Carlock's email addresses, please feel free to pitch this to them!

I can probably name all of them, just out of order.

Okay.

• Caviar
• Mid-size car
• Oh so close and yet so far
• Roseanne Barr
• Terry Garr
• Listen to Tom Beringar
• Find out who your true friends are
• These are 70's TV stars

That's all I've got. If anyone knows the rest (NO GOOGLE) I will give you one hundred bugs.

And the correct spelling is "Peeno Noir" because it is an ode to black penis.

He is... as handsome as you would imagine.

He's a VERY handsome gentleman.

And I was so surprised that he IS so tall. I thought they were just making him look like a giant on MAD MEN. But he's very tall.

He's a total pro. First take, so good.

Whew.

Tough question.

I would try to get her out of the cult, for sure. That's step one.

Step two: I'm going to try to get her to update her 'do.

And step three; I think this is really the source of all the problems, and just doing this might solve problems 1 and 2, but just getting her some good self-esteem.

Trying to get her to enjoy any sort of fun pop culture would maybe do it. So a RuPaul's Drag Race, or maybe a Real Housewives, or trying to get her to love a Beyonce video... also just giving her over to Titus (the character) might be a good thing.

I DO watch Game of Thrones.

And...I think Arya's my favorite character.

She's a tiny badass.

And Needle is the coolest name. It's such an unassuming but powerful tool - just like her!

It's so good!

It's hard to pick though, there are so many great characters.

Do I answer honestly?

Yeah.

I check out the subreddit pretty regularly.

I don't mind reading what people write about me or the show online because... it's feedback. So if it's good feedback, great, if it's bad feedback, I can say...

¯_(ツ)_/¯

sings

COS-TA RICAAAAAAAA!

I went twice in 2014. It... is... beautiful. It has great beaches. Rainforests. Beautiful national parks. Good food. Everyone I encountered there was kind, and welcoming. And it look like JURASSIC PARK.

When we flew in the first time, my boyfriend had the JURASSIC theme song prepped on his phone when we were landing, so it was like ba-na-na-na-na, ba-na-na-na-na.

I have good friends from Indiana, and they've never expressed any disdain for the way Indiana is depicted. I think they can laugh at the way Indiana is depicted as much as anyone can laugh about the depiction of their state. Feel free to put some good Maryland burns in response to this! I can take it!

True to the script all the way.

Tina, Robert, and our writers write a really tight, incredible script that is so joke-driven and has so much good material in it that there is NO room for whatever nonsense I have to say.

He's pretty great!

He made me watch JURASSIC PARK for the first time last year.

It was scary!

That movie is NOT for kids! It's too scary! It's so scary!

But I liked it.

But it's scary. I don't know if I can see JURASSIC WORLD in the theater - what if I pee my pants?

That was a surreal experience. I was sitting in the actual guest chair.

Across from David Letterman.

I know I"ll never get to actually go on the show WITH David Letterman, so it felt really good to get to do that, even if it's as a character.

OOOH!

What celeb would I want to get in a screaming match with!?

You could have 2 schools of thought here. Who would be a good person who'd fight back. Someone who's no-bullshit.

Judge Judy. Cuz she would just hand your ass to you. It'd be a fair fight.

Or would it be fun to... get in a fight with Oprah? If you caught her during a Deepak-Oprah meditation challenge, she'd be totally chill, but if you caught her in-between those...

Good question.

I love pizza.

If I'm REALLY going for pizza, I'm just doing a straight cheese.

If we're doing toppings... prosciutto... I like artichokes... I like peppers and onions... there's not a lot I won't say no to other than anchovies.

Don't tell the Ninja Turtles.

I'll do one for Gretchen and one for Lauren.

If Lauren Adams is starting a cult... "The Congregation of Like Minds."

And then it's just a bunch of like-minded people basically having a cool pizza party.

For Gretchen, "Savior Rick's Spooky Church of the Scary-pocalypse."

Because she's brainwashed.

I found out the day after we wrapped shooting season 1. So it didn't really change my role in the show at all.

We also found out at the same time that we were getting picked up for a second season, so it was super thrilling - like, THE BEST news.

I loved when the Mole Women got trapped back in the bunker. It was such a great heightened way to finish up the season, and I just though the jokes they wrote for all of us were really excellent - just spot on for each character. And it felt really ensemble-y to have the four of us working off of each other.

I hate Haunted Houses.

In fact, I hate being scared altogether.

It's really... if I know that there's a surprise coming up, it makes me super-anxious.

So knowing I'm walking through a house, and there are things that are going to pop out at me, is SO anxiety inducing for me.

I peed my pants at the last haunted house I went to.

I was an adult.

I have been to Cleveland. Loved the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Had really good guacamole at a Mexican restaurant there that had goat cheese in it.

HAHAHAHAHA!

I think I know who you are.

So watch your back.

Ha-ha-HA!

Well, now it's stuck in my head, so thanks for that.

I heard it for the first time when I saw the episodes at our screening we had. And I danced to it in my seat then. And then when I saw all the episodes on Netflix, I never skipped the credits.

When we're in the airshaft, trying to re-break out of the bunker, it's two separate shots. So one shot is each individual with a stunt person wearing the appropriate Mole Woman's pants pretending to step on their shoulders, and the wide-shot is Sarah Chase (aka Cyndee) up in a rig (like on a crane) standing on Sol Miranda's (aka Donna Maria's) shoulders, and Ellie (aka Kimmy) sitting underneath her feet. So they could get a wide crane-shot of the stack of women. Sarah was up there in that harness for... quite some time.

She was an awesome sport about it.

I came up in the UCB with TONS of people who are doing great stuff. In my UCB Generation, it's Sasheer Zamata, Kate McKinnon, Alison Rich, and Natasha Rothwell, who all work on SNL... Abbie Jacobson and Alana Glazer came up in UBC at the same time that I did and they're the geniuses behind BROAD CITY... I was actually an intern at UBC when Ellie was on Harold Night, which makes me sound much younger than I am!

Ellie is great to work with.

She's a total pro. SO funny. So positive! She's the best. Also, great to have her as the lead because she's definitely setting a great example of what everyone should be like at work.

Hahaha!

I wanna know who told you I'm a big sports fan!

I DID watch a couple games in the NCAA championship.

I was rooting for Notre Dame, because they're from Indiana.

^note:^my^boyfriend's^a^huge^fan.

For the final 4 Championship, I was rooting for Wisconsin, just because they were the underdogs (technically).

Cool.

Do it.

That's the main thing. Just do it.

The GOOD news is that the internet has made comedy so accessible, regardless of where you are. SO even if you're not ready to make the move to a big city right now, just start writing sketches with like-minded friends of yours. And put 'em online.

IF - and WHEN - you do move to a bigger city like NY, LA, Chicago, that has a really great comedy scene, the good news is diving into the comedy community in that city will make it feel less lonely, even if you don't know anyone else there. My closest friends in NYC came from me taking classes at UCB, then performing at UCB.

So get out there. And do it. You won't know until you try. And the sooner you can start doing it, the sooner you can make the rookie mistakes, move past them, and start doing the kind of comedy you want to do.

LOVE Old Bay!

Will put it on anything from popcorn to... chicken... french fries, you name it!

I'm from Montgomery County.

I'm guessing you were born in the early 80's, when the boom of Jessica's, Lauren's, and Sarah's happened.

I don't want to break your heart, but I've never been underground in any capacity other than the New York City Subway.

MOCO!!!!!!

That's Montgomery County guys. That's where I'm from.

How do you know I'm from Montgomery County?Who is this?

OOOH! This is a good Maryland story!

My best friend & roommate from college had her graduation party on the Clipper City, which is a sailboat that was in Baltimore Harbor.

All I remember is - I was driving, drove us back to wherever we were staying, and somebody threw up in a Giant bag in my car (Giant is a local supermarket chain in Maryland).

SO that's about as Maryland as it gets. And the Clipper City is now in New York Harbor, they moved it.

I think we call it New York Harbor, right? Down by the seaport?

raises eyebrow

I do!

I like political thrillers a lot.

I did watch a bunch of cult documentaries to prepare for the role...

I also have been a Netflix member since I was gettin' discs. And I remember going - this makes me sound so old - I remember going to the Blockbuster around the corner, because I was watching 24 at the time, because I'd finished discs 1 & 2 of season 4 and I NEEDED to get disc 3...

I'm old school.

It just smelled like a set. It's not a real bunker (obviously).

But we're never really fully closed in there - one of the walls is taken off so directors, and assistant directors, and cameras can fit in there.

So it's not as stuffy as you might think.

But if all the walls were on - it's pretty small. Especially for four people.

Hahahha!

This is the meanest question anyone has ever asked me.

It's gonna be really tough for me to never have pizza again. But I can never kill all the Corgis. They bring everyone too much joy.

Cranks so much! I'm glad you liked the scene.

Hahahah!

That's Sarah Chase who's got Hulkamania (she plays Cyndee).

I'll tell you - my brother was a humongous Hulk Hogan fan when we were kids. So I grew up with all the research we needed.

Oh yeah Brother!

I have seen 3 NINJAS: HIGH NOON AT MEGA MOUNTAIN.

YEAHHH!!!

I mean, we got the best state flag. We DEFINITELY do.

So fun and colorful!

Lord Baltimore fo-eva!

Happy to help!

I think starting is the hardest part.