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Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.

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I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.

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It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.

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I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

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All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.

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I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I'm really pushing myself to do these new projects. It's scary as hell, but it's fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.

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It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.

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My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.

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When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.

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I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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