Handsome - Lisa Kudrow asks about being in the mood

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

Lisa Kudrow asks about being in the mood to perform! Plus celebrity crushes, "Downtown", and dramatic acting tips, as we complete the triumvirate of Friends!Handsome is hosted by Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune FeimsterFollow us on social media: @handsomepodMerch: handsomepod.comWatch on youtube: youtube.com/@handsomepodEmail the show: [e-mail] Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi there, it is your very good friend Tig Notaro wanting to thank everybody who has watched my brand new stand-up comedy special called Hello Again on Amazon's Prime Video. If you have not checked it out, please do, let me know what you think, and rate it, and share it with a friend. Now please enjoy this ridiculous episode of Handsome. Handsome Pod. Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Cheers. That was really good, Fortune.

This is your friend Tig Notaro, and I'm sitting here with my very handsome co-hosts may martin and fortune feimster and it's the handsome pod oh yeah this is a handsome pod also we can see thomas who i'm a little distracted because it looks like he just lifted up a giant glass of milk to drink from are you drinking milk thomas what is that it's a protein shake but it's mostly. I didn't have time to make the full shake, so it's kind of just milk and protein powder. Thomas

drinking protein over there. Come on now. You working out? You getting your body building on? A little bit, yeah. Before the big wedding. Yeah. Gotta get in shape for that. I'm really cute if you were just drinking milk, though. Just a milky boy having a nice milky snack.

Now I drink oat milk, but not just plain. I don't drink it plain, though. I'm about to gross you out. Okay, what do you do? I drink unsweetened soy milk. Ooh. And I also have it in my little homemade lattes. Yeah.

But yeah, completely unsweetened soy milk. I also have it in my little homemade lattes. Yeah. But yeah, completely unsweetened soy milk. And you do that because it tastes good or it's good for you? Because it's good for me. And then I developed a taste for it. You know, it's that thing of like once you remove something from your diet, you get used to not having. i wonder if it's like similar like if if you removed watching any tv or movies from your life then which i have yeah right yeah then then you see something like a tom and jerry cartoon you're like this is incredible because you've removed exactly yeah i'm at the silent movie theater

my kids watch tom and jerry i have not watched them in decades you're not checking back in what those guys are up to the only animated stuff i watch would be like animated movies i can't connect with animated characters except when those little clips of this podcast, when they were animated, you know, that we post on Instagram. Those I could really get. I would love a full. Yeah, I'm like, won't we like some more of those? Yeah. They're so good.

This takes three months. I'd watch an animated show where it was like under the ocean and we were characters and I was like little shrimp nose. And then you were like. Wait, what? I don't know. I just, I don't know. That would be the character Mae is. Little shrimp nose.

I cast myself as shrimp nose. Oh, I thought this was something you saw that somebody made. Oh, no. And I was like, send me a shrimp nose just another thing i want to pitch to netflix speaking of shrimp noses how's your nose fortune oh yeah oh my congestion yes how are you feeling how do i sound like you have a shrimp nose um i feel fine. I just, this is the lingering. Taylor Tomlinson. That's left.

I may or may not have caught whatever Taylor Tomlinson had when we did. I think you for sure did. Because you guys were making out. God, no. Just kidding. Not thatlor's not a lovely person tig would know how dare you how dare you anytime there's any like talk of flirtation or hooking up with someone else you both are the sweetest you're both like i would never after you're both like may i remind you i'm happily married it's really i mean listen very taylor's very attractive i'm just yes

well i i told stephanie that i was accused of flirting with um oh yeah what was the what did stephanie say were you in the dog house she just she gave me a side-eye glance of like what are you talking about like it's like i wasn't flirting i was just telling you i was told that and i want to get ahead of this rumor and let you know yeah before it gets around this town yeah before it gets to you i'm just imagining this one episode of after midnight ruins our lives my marriage falls apart my mind falls apart how'd you get sick standing next to taylor we're like but it was a great episode it was worth it oh my god i'm feeling yeah i'm feeling better um i just will be glad to sound normal again

i'll be glad for you, too, as well. Well, we can't wait for you to say, I'm sick and tired of this. I'm over here hearing shrimp nose over here. Oh, shrimp nose. Shrimp nose. And what is shrimp nose? Does that mean like a high-pitched tiny nose?

It means like your voice is like this, right? I'm a little shrimp nose. Yeah, I'm picturing that my nose actually is a shrimp right i'm a little shrimp nose yeah i'm picturing that my nose actually is a shrimp like a curly little kind of like oh that's disgusting oh it's rancid yeah you just gotta sleep fortune are you that's like really the only thing i didn't sleep last night after i did an improv show and then i went to alana johnston's house we all know and love who i do improv with with step Stephanie. And she's so fun. And I just sat, she's got this big dumb dog,

like a big pit bull dog called Mia that just wants to hug you. It's basically Alana in dog form? Yes. Does the dog do cartwheels around the house? Pretty much, full of enthusiasm for life. I just met Alana for the first time. I didn't know her.

You guys both have blonde curly hair and you're both raised with sunshine. And how do we not know each other? I know. I know, girl. She was a writer on my show Under a Rock with Tig Notaro. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, she was, yeah. So we ended up, I was with her and um we were sitting doing something i haven't

done in years which is just like youtube karaoke not singing but like we each take turns showing funny youtube videos which is such a weirdly anti-social thing but it was so fun and i discovered some new ones like i don't know if you have time look up solid potato salad and it's i don't know if i'm going to have time. No, you're busy. You're right. You're right. If you can squeeze this into your schedule,

look up. Yeah. It's these three women from like the 1950s or something. And they're dancing girls. And they're like, solid potato salad. Like that. And then they start doing contortionism like bending their whole

bodies in half i do love seeing women from the 50s be silly yeah but did they know they were being silly what about women in the 40s did you like do you like when they're not as much into that yeah yeah yeah it's not as fun when i was at the groundlings back in the day we used to you know the groundlings is a sketch comedy school out here in L.A. And Stephanie went there. That's where I met Stephanie. And I was in the sketch that these girls wrote where we all played 50s housewives. And we all talked like we were from the 50s.

Like, what are you doing, Doris? I'm just here borrowing some sugar oh what a grand day and like that so they're doing these talking to each other and they go um i just wanted to talk to you about my husband randall he's been giving it to me something awful what does that mean fortune you're about to hear and goes, I don't know what to do when taking it in the back door. She goes, oh, Doris, don't you know? Fortune. We all pop out.

Fortune Marie. In our 50s gear. And we go, back door, butthole. It's the same as a front hole. But it won't put a baby in your oven fortune marie fortune marie you sing this whole song about singing backdoor butthole in 50s oh my god it was so fun there's a conception that i'm the filthy one on this podcast i think we're learning it's fortune there it is definitely fortune there is a side to you

fortune and you get away with it because you're so innocent seeming yeah and just laughs and just don't you think that song's catchy front of course it is but but it is so unfortunate. It's the same as your front hole. First of all, that's incorrect. It is not the same. It is not at all this very different house. We should have filmed that for YouTube. It was too good.

I would have been watching it last night and delighted. Why don't you recreate it? We should have filmed that for YouTube. It was too good. I would have been watching it last night. Why don't you recreate it? We might have to. I'll have to call them and say, let's get the gals back together. I had one of those wigs that goes out and the glasses. I don't even know.

It was so funny. In my teens, I would do a character called Joanne. Her last name was no mother i think and she had no mother but anyway i don't know i was like 19 and she was called joanne no mother and she would wear she wore a long pink gown and she always had new roommates and now i think i gotta bring her back i think i when i got stressed about my gender i for a while was like i gotta be handsome and then now oh now that I feel good about it, play with it all.

Now you're legitimately handsome. Thank you. On the handsome pod. Until we had this pod, none of us were legit handsome. Why does everyone read into my kindness? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I go pretty little lady with with um costumes yeah yeah i

think it's so funny to be like the most feminine version of myself yeah i go grandpa yeah you go grandpa i would love to see parvati in drag like go full boy it would would you be attracted to that well i would be attracted to the uninhibitedness that that led to that like i'd be attracted to the and who knows yeah maybe i'd find him hot i'd be yeah just fine she's so like effortlessly feminine just in the way she moves like it's not an affectation she just yeah like not feminine like just she's like a sort of amazon woman to me i finally started watching traitors and she's like a sort of Amazon woman to me. I finally started watching Traders and she wears headbands. Yes.

Is that a normal, like is she a headband gal in everyday life or that was for the show? No, no. It was like she wanted to be a kind of character on Traders. And so she wore all these headbands. And now everyone in her life is like, you should start a headband brand.'s like i don't know i think i have a good question okay um may you were a fan of survivor yeah or still are famously so you liked parvati from a distance and you're like this is an awesome lady she's smoking hot yeah she has the sexiest voice in the world yeah this is all stuff you've said yeah this is not me being inappropriate yeah i am not hitting on parvati now she is your girlfriend well we're heavily

involved yeah heavily involved you you live together yeah is she now just your girlfriend or do you roll over and go oh my god parvati is in my bed good question thank you i had a feeling it was a good one that is a great question i feel like the correct answer would be to be like she's just my girlfriend i completely see her as just a three-dimensional in your bedati's in your bed. Parvati's in my bed. And I'm still, but you know what? It's like a place I can go in my head and tap into that is so fun for me to, if I remind myself that

that's who I'm involved with, I'm just so heavily involved with her. I'm trying to think what celebrity I would, oh, Keri Russell. That's who I think is attractive. think carrie russell's attractive yeah i was not expecting to be carrie russell let's see who do i think carrie russell i'm trying to think carrie russell carrie russell we gotta get that come off the tongue too fast? Me?

It would have been Keri Russell. What was she in? Felicity? Yeah. Felicity had famously cut her hair off and ruined the show. Was that a big scandal? Yes. It was a huge faux pas. People lost their minds. I didn't watch the show but uh in recent years i was

driving down the road and there was a picture of her on the side of a bus and i was like whoa who is that and stephanie was like that's carrie russell and i was like oh my god she's attractive she's number one just because of that bus yeah i haven't seen her in anything i saw her on the side of a bus that's what your car did we've been talking about it on the podcast i've been treading water lately. Just a few minutes out of my day that I take for myself to do something that's good for me. I wake up feeling better. I have more energy. And, you know, small actions like that can have big benefits.

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It's on Max. You can catch up. And I highly recommend that you do so before season three starts. There is also an official Hacks podcast. In each episode, Hacks creators Lucia Agnello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky speak with cast and crew members to unpack the Emmy winning comedy series. So check out that podcast, but watch Hacks streaming exclusively on Max and listen to the official Hacks podcast on Max or wherever you get your podcast. So she she had this long, beautiful locks in Felicity. She was like that girl next door kind of look.

And then one day she just appeared with like a short, curly, kind of not a bob, but like a kind of this. Kind of what I'm doing. She was like, give me the fortune. But like curlier. And people just are like, nope. Oh nope oh my god we are canceling your show oh my god is that insanity where you think i don't know that i had anything to do with it but everyone fortune it must have yeah it wasn't that a popular show yeah people were like absolutely not how like when

you're like i have this devoted fan base and they and they're like we love you and then like what if we grew our hair super long all three of us and we started wearing dresses our fan base might be like you know what did they turn on us yeah yeah i think i don't know but It was a cultural shift. Everyone came together not wanting this haircut on her. That's why I am a wonderful partner because I don't care about any of that. I can see her for who she is on the side of a bus. Until haircuts do us part. I remember when my dad shaved his beard, I that's like a common thing with kids right like

okay well when when you said when my dad shaved his but i wasn't sure what you were gonna say you thought i was gonna say but his shaved his butt no the front. Yeah. Dig. Me. Dig. Poor Jen. Dig. Come on. Well, it's like then as a small child, you cried. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Ta-da. Wah. I love Jax's long hair. She's like, what if I cut it? I go, I would love you for sure probably don't cut it probably of course i would love her no matter what but also like don't cut it i did have and i'm sure she won't mind me saying this my my ex um lindsey one time showed up to surprise me and had dyed her beautiful long blonde hair bright red.

And I was I was 21. I was not a child and I burst into tears. And I couldn't I couldn't hide it. I went I went Oh my god, I love it. And then I start my bathroom. I was like, I just got to go pee and i went to the bathroom i'm gonna be really quick out of my eyeballs you just started crying she was like are you fucking kidding are you crying i don't even know who you are anymore how do you even talk and hang out in that moment at when your girlfriend is redheaded and you're and you're crying about it like a baby i hope she broke up with you right away i she was pretty pissed yeah we had a pretty awkward night and then i hope you got dubs and then i got on board with it and then after a month or so she she did dye it back years ago i was with somebody i used to have you know

my long dave girl hairdo yeah and this girl i dated she was like don't ever cut your hair i will not be into it if you have short hair and i was so itching to cut my hair short because she said that or no i was just i think i was already kind of mentioning like i think i'm gonna get my hair cut short and she was like don't and then our relationship was really starting to go down the turlet yeah and so i was like i'm to get my hair cut. Yes. I'm going to nip this in the bud. It sends a clear message. Yeah. It's wild what power a haircut has.

Yeah. And this is still like after I cut my hair, I've still just had short hair since that relationship. Yeah. Yeah, I've looked like this since I was 18, so people kind of know what they're getting with me. If not birth, right? I mean, my face has been very similar forever, but in high school I had a triangle haircut.

Oh, that's nice. What is a triangle haircut? You didn't ever have a triangle haircut? I don't think so. So it was before I knew what Layering was I went to my grandma's Beauty parlor for a long time

And those ladies Those ladies did not layer Okay So you just let your hair fall as it Would and you just kind of They would trim it They didn't layer it to make it Curve in You know what I mean wood and you just kind of they would trim it they didn't layer it to make it curve in yeah yeah i

mean so we got a layer going on here it's curving in so when you don't tripod it's just a triangle should we get into our question sure yes because it's a big deal this is a very big deal it's huge i don't think any other podcast has done what we are about to unveil not one not a single one we are completing a trifecta of greatness not that these people are like pokemon cards that you collect but this is huge to have all three and my good friend and the uber talented Lisa Kudrow asking a question on the pod. Can you believe? Cannot believe. Of the most handsomest ladies ever known in a sitcom massively popular called Friends.

Yeah. And it was like, oh, here, I'll get Jen Aniston to get a question. And then it was like, oh, should we also get Courtney Cox? And then May's like, oh, I could get Lisa. And I just was like, cool.

I've got Alf on speed dial. I will say, like, all three of these women, like when I was maybe 12 or 13 and watching Friends, they were so inspiring. They were so, I mean, we were talking about like beautiful women who were also very silly and not afraid to be completely ridiculous.

It was such good role models. All three of them, such amazing performances. That was like the best, just seeing these cool people be so fun and silly and do ridiculous things. Yeah, yeah. What's better than ridiculousness? She played my mom on Feel Good, and I'm a huge fan of the comeback with the HBO show,

which was so ahead of its time. So funny. There's no delivery like lisa kudrow oh there is no delivery like hers smelly cats smelly cat okay well first of all that's i remember one of my favorite singers is chrissy heine from The Pretenders. And I remember a friend of mine brought me a VHS. They had recorded the end of Friends, where Lisa and Chrissy Hine are singing Smelly Cat. And I was like, oh, my Lord. Oh, my Lord. Very exciting day for me. Big Chrissy Hine fan. I think she also, a couple of of years ago i think she went on stage

with taylor swift and sung it oh that's right yeah do you remember that lisa did yeah yeah what i love about her is she's so highly intelligent we'll get to the question in a second but i'm just singing her praises right now so she plays these wild characters but she approaches them with like such intelligence we we kind of wrote the part of my mom and feel good with like with her in mind but we never thought she'd even read the scripts and then we said that if she said yes we were gonna this is a call back to shrimp nose in a way we said if she said yes we would celebrate this is me and my writing partner by going to this restaurant prawn on the lawn which was like a shrimp restaurant in england and so when i got the call i got to call up my writing

partner and i went see you at prawn on the lawn tonight and we were like wow what a celebration well she's an icon and she's here on the handsome pod yeah you know her from friends of course she also created produced wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed hbo show the comeback you know her from romeo michelle's high school reunion so many other amazing things uh feel good uh she played my mom it's lisa kudrow asking today's question hi handsome podcast it's lisa Kudrow here. So I had a question that is when you're performing or doing a show, you know, in front of people or even this podcast, for example, and you are just not in the mood for it that day, night, how do you get through it? How do you make it work?

I love that question. It's a good question. Because that happens probably a lot. Really? All the time. I would imagine just you get burnt out at some point, right? Well, and also life is going on. So you get bad news, you're going through a breakup, you're not feeling well, maybe you have shrimp nose or something, you know, and it's I remember maybe have shrimp nose or something, you know, and it's I remember years ago, when I was first starting out, I was opening at comedy clubs, and I was managed by somebody that worked at the funny bone comedy club, you know, and he he managed me and a couple other people. And so I would tour with his other clients and one of those clients died. And I was told that right before I went on stage, you know, and I remember being like, here I had toured with this guy. He was so young, so funny. with this guy he was so young so funny brett clausen was his name and um yeah and then i just was introduced on stage and had to compartmentalize yeah i know because i feel like now that you guys have these huge profiles and your audience is there to see you like if you get

bad news you could even talk about it on stage and people have patience for that and they're interested. But when you're starting out, you can't go on and be like, well, I'm depressed. You know what I mean? There isn't that same like, and you don't have control of the craft.

So you don't know you could bring them out of it. I mean, I guess I also had a more famous experience when I had cancer. Yes. And my mother died. That, yeah, I was, but I was kind of in the mood to perform because... Just get out of your head?

Yeah. And wait, Fortune, did we talk about this? Weren't we at a dinner right before I did that show? At Carrie Dornetto's house? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and Jamie Babbitt when they were together. Yeah, the four of us had dinner together because they were like,

we want you to meet our funny friend, Tig. I'm like, I know Tig, so funny. That was the same day as that set at Largo? It wasn't the same day. It was, I think it was right before. No, no, that stuff I think had happened. Or no, it had just happened maybe? It had happened.

And I think I was about to do my show in like a few days. Oh, the Largo show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha, gotcha, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But I was excited to perform because I didn't know if I was going to be alive, you know? And so I really wanted to do stand-up and have that experience again because I loved it so much. Yeah, I feel like I also, I always know, like,

that once I'm doing it, I'm going to have fun. But it's that getting to the, like, when you guys are doing big tours and night after night, like, fortune do you ever get, really? Just, like, how do you snap out of it? I mean, life happens is the thing, you know, when you you ever get, really? Just, like, how do you snap out of it? I mean, life happens is the thing. You know, when you're touring constantly, there's going to be things that happen during that.

Like, my dad came very close to dying. Recently. Yeah. And I had shows, like, during all of this. And so people kind of knew this was going on. And then I'm like, hey, you know. Yeah, yeah. So you just had to kind of knew this was going on and then i'm like hey you know yeah yeah you know so you just had to had to kind of acknowledge the elephant in the room of like you guys know that this is going on um yeah everybody i appreciate you know everybody being so lovely we're hoping

for the best and you just kind of have to push through you know because your audiences love you so much it's kind of you're're like, if you're down, it's like, okay, I could go get this huge love injection. But yeah, if you're just going to some club doing an opening spot and no one knows you and you're like, oh, I could also bomb today, like on top of everything, that sucks. I had a thing happen early on in my career. I was doing this tiny club and um i was dating someone it wasn't

serious or anything but i was into her and everything was like good but she kind of was like shifting and i could tell that like maybe she was kind of one foot in one foot out but um she was waiting waiting to you know so i was kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop but i didn't know when or if we could salvage this or whatnot and she was gonna get um like a she possibly was gonna get a job somewhere else and i was um on stage and i had a bit at the time where i had to get out my phone and read um a message on saved in my photos yeah um a screenshot and i got up my phone mid mid show and now the text from her popped up like she got that job and like didn't want to see me like basically broke up with me even though we were in a relationship we were dating yeah

she just was ending things did you tell the audience i don't remember if i i really i think i just went to another planet you know yeah yeah and so was it uranus yes just eat my ass just eat my ass call Just eat my ass. Call back. Call back. Call back. So I had to like let my brain kind of go into autopilot. Yeah. Where like my emotions were like hovering above me, but my brain was like doing the words. Yeah. I don't know.

It was like an out-of-body experience. I cancel a lot lot which is bad like i often give in to the feeling and when i when i should probably push through it because if i go to the show or or do the thing i'll i'll enjoy it but um i i have my story like that is uh i was dating a comedian and who was i was a very bad like it was in England we lived together it had been hell like she was very uh closeted and no one knew and and then on the day so she breaks up with me in the morning and I was pretty sure she there she'd maybe cheated on me with this guy but I didn't I I wasn't 100% yeah and so she breaks up with me so I pack my little suitcase

and I'm like hysterical like really crying crazy amounts so I go to my friend's house and that night I had to host a fundraiser for her because she she'd organized it and she was like can you still host the fundraiser

and I was like I guess and she was gonna be there she couldn't just hold off you still host the fundraiser? And I was like, I guess. And she was going to be there. She couldn't just hold off one day after the fundraiser. I know. I know, yeah. I mean, it's that pressing. Like, oh, my God, I got to get May out of my life immediately. She probably liked the chaos, right?

Probably. It was extra cruel. And a lot of our friends still didn't know we were together, even though we'd been living together for like three years or they knew but they were like in their travel companions travel companions yeah so i show up to the show and i'm just like a shell and she shows up with the guy oh that's cruel i know and she sits and and i i go up to her I go are you you just arrived with him she goes oh come on I'm not we're not together like I'm not and then she sits with him and puts her

head on his lap like lies down and I'm on stage being like well I'm just a weird gay Martin she was definitely effing with you I think so fortune please I purposely try to keep it fortune marie but yeah but you just

do get through it like adrenaline kicks in and you're like i guess you go on autopilot a bit but it must have been i imagine for for lisa like the schedule of filming friends like oh my god when they're doing 20 episodes a season or something and or whatever it was and that is a but didn't they only film one day a week not to take anything away from all the hard work you did lisa but wasn't it once well i think those schedules were like you have a table read one day then another day's blocking then another day's like rehearsal it's like a yeah kind of like a theater thing every week yeah but they were dealing with a lot of chaos a lot. Cause they were like,

they're all their lives changed like overnight. Yeah. They became like the most famous people on the planet. That's like us with handsome. That's like us guys. Yeah. We're the LGBTQ version of friends. A hundred percent.

We should have called our podcast friends. Chatting with friends on the handsome pot get hear it chatting with friends friends oh we are literally chatting with friends yeah three weeks i know it seemed like from their interviews they all started to rely on each other a lot like they were they knew what each other was going through more than anybody. So they would just like really lean heavily to get probably to, they probably got each other through some of those performances. It is nice with, with standup when you know there's a couple of pals on the bill.

And even if you're down, you're like, I just sit and vent in the, in the greener. But with acting, that's, that's tough. Even,

I mean, I haven't acted that much, but with feel good, like i'm not a good enough i've acted a lot if you have any questions yeah tell me if you're like if you're filming a big breakup scene like i had to film this big tearful breakup scene and my co-star is a professional so she we're hanging out she's laughing she's singing but i'm like okay we're filming this scene in the afternoon like around lunch i had to start distancing myself and just like getting in my head and she's like are you mad at me and i'm like not no i'm like trying to think how i'm gonna act

at all mad at you because i'm i love you and then like we're such good friends and then i i don't know it's tough yeah but i guess it's just your job, right? It is. It's your job. And I couldn't have said it any better. I mean, Tig really hit the nail on the head. Well, somebody said recently, which I really loved, that's what the money's for. Like when you have any complaint about work, that's what the money's for

oh i know who said it rory albanese do you know him i love rory yeah rory oh my god oh it's from madman oh okay oh okay well rory that's what the money's for so shut up yeah that does sound like madman it's such a good thing to remember when uh when you're complaining or frustrated about work it's like right well i get money for this yeah gratitude is yeah is key i had i had been taught with act in an acting class early on that when you're having to do like a sad scene or something, I used to think like, oh, let me just channel something sad. I'm going to think about something in my life that's sad. And they were like, don't do that because then it cheapens that real thing for you.

Oh, that real life experience. Uh-huh. If I was always thinking about like my grandmother or something when i needed to be sad for acting then i'm cheapening that grief that feeling you know i know good actors are just like well i'm in the character thinking about their experiences and what's happening in the scene but i'm like no i gotta i'm going to breakups in my head i'm listening to sad music i'm not good enough to... Do you guys have a... Sarah McLachlan song.

Yeah, do you have a sad song that would put you in the... I'll say mine, but it'll cheapen it for me. But I want everyone to feel how sad they can get. Okay, it's called Downtown, but not... Downtown. This is the saddest song. Oh, my gosh. Don't get me crying again

when you're alone and life is making you know it's uh that would be amazing downtown i get the director to blast it um no it's uh it's called downtown by magical clouds and i think magical is spelt like M-A-J. Is this a Canadian song? Yep. M-A-J-I-C-A-L. And then clouds with a Z, of course. But man, it gets me.

And I can't listen to it because I don't want it to lose its power because it's really useful. Oh, yeah. Well, listen, it's okay to keep it a song. You know what I mean? That's okay to cheapen a song. You know what I mean? That's okay. Yeah. When I was about to film, I said to my mom, I'll use one of those tear sticks sometimes.

Tear sticks do help. I'm not opposed to tear sticks. And my mom goes, do you think Tom Cruise uses a tear stick? And I was like, I don't know, maybe, probably. And she was like, he doesn't. By Tom Cruise, do you mean Tig? Tig Notaro. I am like, he doesn't. By Tom Cruise, do you mean Tig? Tig Notaro.

I am not above a tear stick. It's like putting vapor rub on your eyes. It just gets you going, and then you have to still do the rest of the work. Downtown. Downtown. When you're alone. Oh, man, sad song.

Bonnie Raitt. Because you can't make me. you can't make me love me. If you don't. Okay, wait, fortune. I don't remember the words. Was that your go-to if things weren't working out with a lady? Yeah. Would you crank that up? Go into the shower and cry and say,

Turn down the bed. Wait, turn down the lights. Turn down the bed. Turn down these voices. Oh, man, the Bonnie bird. Turn down my head. Lay down with me. Is everyone crying right now?

I love that I couldn't remember any of the words, but i know all the words i couldn't remember any of them fallout boys should do a version of downtown oh my god they do a good version when you're alone and life is making you laugh. Like that. Yeah. Go downtown. Downtown. But, you know, the thing is, if this is your job, which it is our job to perform, and it is our job to act, it is our job to make people laugh, it's like a lot of people don't feel good or go through things, and they have to go to their job. Yeah.

They have to do their job. So we kind of, at the end of the day, that's what you have to do their job so you we kind of at the end of the day that's what you have to do you just have to kind of push through and do your job that's what the money's for that's what the money's for then you go home and cry or stare at a wall or whatever it is and just yeah deal with it then also i'm look i'm a hug i'm a hugger i uh i really do find uh i'll just ask a crew member for a hug there you go i like i was premature i was in an incubator i wasn't touched enough you need touch i gotta get hugs it's your love language i feel like you've you've been touched enough at this point i think i feel like you it'll never be enough i feel like you've tapped out

with touches i don't think may's tapping out with touches you still gonna like the touches you know what song i really like i know you don't like the beatles um but it's i do i don't i know you do but fortune hey come on cork it, shrimp nose. In My Life. Oh, yeah, that's a fucking great one. In my life, I love you still. When I got kicked out, I listened to She's Leaving Home by the Beatles and got real emo. Also, Elliot Smith will get me there.

They're leaving home. They're leaving home. All my life when I'm with you. Hey, Fortune. Is that how it is? If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all, okay? If you can't sing anything nicely, don't sing anything at all. Also, Shelter from the Storm by Bob Dylan.

Oh, yeah. That's good's good yeah or don't look twice don't look twice i think i might have said this before on the podcast i think that's the best song don't think twice if you're going through a breakup or a broken heart listen to don't think twice either the bob dylan version or the dolly parton version which is a peppier version or the Dolly Parton version, which is a peppier version. But the Bob Dylan version is when you're really in it. It is. It is. Did I call it? Don't think twice.

I got the title wrong. Yeah. You can look twice, but don't think twice. Yeah. Don't think twice is the perfect song to get you out of your funk. If someone's broken up with you. And can you guarantee this? I'm telling you, listen, if you listen to the words. If Stephanie leaves me, you're saying I just put that you guarantee this i'm telling you listen if you if stephanie

leaves me you're saying i just put that song on i'm telling you you'll still be sad because that's i'm talking about a more like a relationship that's more like you're just dating and not like a marriage like me and the woman i'm involved with yeah like that and It's a casual word. It's like, ain't no use in calling out my name, girl. Or something. Gal. Gal. Ain't no use in calling out my name, gal. I don't remember the words now.

Neither does he. But it's like, he never knows his own words. You just kind of wasted my precious time. Don't think twice. It's right it's it's just saying like i'm bummed and hurt but also like it sucks but i'm gonna be fine there's one line in in don't think twice that always disturbs me a bit that takes me out of it a little when it's like i once loved a woman a child i'm told i'm like, well, if people are telling you that's a child.

No, he's saying I'm going to interpret it for you. Let's interpret. Fortune Feimster interprets Bob Dylan. That's a new segment on handsome. He's just saying that he thought it was a woman, but she was immature. It was acting like it's not an actual child. She was immature. Yeah. Acting like an actual child. I'm just joshing. Or something else.

Don't think twice. It's all right. It's all right. What about the Elton John Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters? Mm-hmm. That song. Do you know that song, Mae? No.

Oh, well, do yourself a favor and look up Elton John's Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatter's. I've said this before, but the only reason the Mona Lisa is a famous painting and people think she's mysterious is because she has no eyebrows. And I didn't realize that till this year. And then when you go on, you draw eyebrows on her. It's just a normal, pretty good painting, but good painting but nothing special my son max wanted a print of that for christmas and he got it and he hugged it he was so excited oh my god yeah he's got a little print of on lisa well speaking of lisa should we listen to lisa's answer yes please oh do I have to answer that? No. Okay. Well, for me, I mean, I don't do stand up. But yeah, I mean, I think it works for everything, though, right? That you

don't feel like doing. I make it about the other person. And that it's something that I, it's, it's bigger than me. It's not for me. So I just focus on the audience, you know, up to two people who are interested in what I have to say. And focus on that so that I can be present and do it. And then I'm not, not in the mood anymore. Yes. Did any of that make sense? Oh, yeah't get upset i guess her delivery kills me first of all of even that i found hilarious but yeah completely like you get so in your head about acting and then it's like oh there's another person in the scene first of all and then yeah the audience. They paid to be there.

They showed up for you. That's what the money's for. Yeah. Yeah. And I hate when they're not. It is bigger than you in that moment. I have such a pet peeve of when comedians tell an audience, that was funny. You should have laughed at that.

Because very rarely like one percent of the time that's true it's just like a weird dud audience or uh but that's your job like you know what i mean you probably yeah you probably said it wrong i don't know yeah i try not to ever blame the audience yeah i mean i try not to sometimes I walk out going, that was a rough one. Yes. Don't know if it was me or if it was them, but that was a rough one. Yeah, or if it was the four bachelor parties.

I did love thinking about when we had the Indigo Girls on our show asking the question. People kept quoting Tig's bit bit being like are they really gonna ask a question or is tig just messing with us that would have been pretty funny we were like and here asking the question is indigo girls and then we keep teasing it we keep getting sidetracked. Thank you for promoting my Netflix special, Happy to Be Here. That's right.

If you like the Indigo Girls, you might really like Happy to Be Here on Netflix. And then at the end of the day, if we're not feeling something, if there's a heaviness happening with us or someone's got their heart broken, you lost somebody, sometimes you just can't push through. But then other times if you do push through, then maybe by the end of that hour you've gained something too. Like there's some positive moment. You made eyes with somebody that looked happy.

You heard that laughter. And so at the end of the day you can come away more fulfilled from that experience as well. this podcast i mean i'm you know even if you're like oh i'm tired today then you didn't you don't know you might be talking about shrimp nose fortune might sing yeah i had no idea shrimp nose was going to be introduced to my life i mean i wasn't feeling well today and i was like like on the couch like how am i gonna get through this day? And then I come on here and we laugh and it's fun and I feel good.

Yeah. Well, feel good. There you go. you can be seen on Netflix. Thank you. You can see Lisa being amazing. And also she,

she's like, whoa, are you going to disagree? No. That's what it sounded like. Well, I don't know about that. Yeah, she improvised some really funny stuff too. Oh, that's cool.

She's a funny, funny lady. And that completes our unexpected trifecta that we were so excited to roll out. Yes. trifecta that we were so excited to roll out yes we thought how funny it would be for people to be like surely not i mean what a podcast i mean truly what a podcast what a podcast who wants to bring you the trifecta lady friends what if we find out a lot of shows brought the friend trifecta three of them yeah what if we find out that's kind of the main thing it's they only agree to do podcasts if all three of them can do consecutively and if you're watching this on youtube i just want to point out that there's

some kind of spirit around my head i don't know when this happened but there's a halo an oval like an orb there's yeah see it now god yeah like around my head do you think it's my grandma why would it might be like morgue from orc why can't it be my grandma like that's pretty cool that you don't use my memory to act and cheapen that. She's like, I'll just visit Mae. I'll just sit on Mae's face. She's like, eat my ass. Mae likes touch. Give me more touches. Wow, that is pretty trippy. It is a true orb around your whole face right now.

I'm going to pretend that it's Fortune's grandma giving me a hug. If it's not my grandma, which jury's out, who would you like for it to be? Sitting on your face. Sitting on my face? Don't say Keri Russell. No, hey, she's yours. I was going to say my grandma,

but now you said the sitting on your face thing. I'm going to go Marilyn Monroe. Whoa, okay. I think she was so misunderstood in her life, but now you said the sitting on your face thing i'm gonna go uh marilyn monroe whoa okay like i think she was so misunderstood in her life and i i've always wanted to sit down with her and have a little on her face sit and give her give her a cuddle yeah she did seem to get the short end of the stick in a lot of ways i'm a deep marilyn monroe fan well this is your chance bud oh god she's in the room with me i'm stroking she's on your face she's my stroking the orb right now i really am you guys do have to after you're done with the audio version of this episode i would like for

you to go on our YouTube page and fast. You can watch the whole thing if you want. It's up to you. But go to the end and watch what's happening right now with May's. Look at Marilyn Monroe sit on May's face. It's pretty wild. What could it? Because it wasn't there.

It wasn't there. It's just appeared. Until like a minute ago. Yeah. Yeah. There is no scientific explanation for this i feel we've come to the end of the road here on this episode and the friends the gal friends trifecta on handsome pod thank you again for joining us yes and thank you to lisa and also, if you could take just one second.

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i'll be there for you yeah i still don't know all the words but i do know that I'll be there for you. Do you guys have any... I'd like to plug my butthole. Fortune! Oh, my God. Fortune. And my stand-up dates. I don't have many left, but you can come watch me film my special in Seattle, April 13th at the Moore.

I'm also going to be at the YouTube theater in Los Angeles. Yeah. May 11th. And then, uh, Massey hall in Toronto, uh, May.

Nice. I'll be at a, a dynasty typewriter, April 19th and Largo, April 28th and go to Tignotaro.com for any other local Los Angeles shows shows or any anything tig related to be honest and also don't forget to watch my new special hello again on amazon directed by my lovely wife stephanie allen may i'm gonna be at largo at some point in april and i i don't uh just check out instagram always and uh also at the in early may i'm at doing the netflix is a joke festival with brett goldstein uh i think there's an extra night added

and some tickets available so check that out and uh yeah if you like this pod let's check out feel good on netflix to see lisa kudrow uh in action playing my mom and just being hilarious love you guys until then keep it keep it huh no one said it back oh wait oh I thought you were saying that to the fans you're saying it to us wait what did you say to us I said oh we love you guys for sure I love you yeah I thought you were like love you watch my watch feel good love you guys i thought you were saying that yeah i thought you were talking to the listeners i didn't know that you know hitting on both of us man we love you we love you too thank you thank you yeah well until then handsome is hosted by me, Tig Notaro,

Mae Martin, and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Ouellette. Email us at handsomepod at gmail dot com. Follow us on social media at handsomepod. What a podcast!

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