Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

When I was in 12th grade when I was like 17 or maybe 11th grade so it would have been 16 but we read a book called The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

but I read it for the wrong reasons like I read it like oh my god indulge in all of your feelings like I was like I'm Teresa I'm her and I'm going to indulge in all my feelings and dump them on everybody else.

And so I was like annoying and an emo for like you know I'm probably still annoying and email emo but I like it's embarrassing but I also am very grateful because I came I my parents are Nigerian Muslim immigrants you know there's a lot of like not taking your emotional self seriously there's a lot of go to school we got hard work to do toughen up suck it up you know.

And like so I think that was the first time I let myself in a real way indulge in as in how emo I actually am and uh and you know I was also old enough to articulate for my mom why it's okay that I'm more emotional than everybody else in the family and like my mom is learning super late now but like she's learning how to be indulging herself too because she doesn't have to be our mom anymore because my youngest sister is 25.

Yeah and that's you know maybe I'll give that to my mom to read one day.

When I was in 12th grade, when I was like 17 or maybe 11th grade, so it would have been 16, but we read a book called 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'.

I read it for the wrong reasons, like I read it like, oh my god, indulge in all of your feelings, like I was like, I'm Teresa, I'm her, and I'm going to indulge in all my feelings and dump them on everybody else.

And so I was like annoying and an emo for like, you know, I'm probably still annoying and an email emo, but I like it's embarrassing, but I also am very grateful because I came, my parents are Nigerian Muslim immigrants, you know, there's a lot of like not taking your emotional self seriously, there's a lot of go to school, we got hard work to do, toughen up, suck it up, you know.

And like, so I think that was the first time I let myself in a real way indulge in as in how emo I actually am, and uh, and you know, I was also old enough to articulate for my mom why it's okay that I'm more emotional than everybody else in the family.

Yeah, and that's, you know, maybe I'll give that to my mom to read one day.

My Life as a Goddess comes out July 31st.

I'll be doing a launch show at Union Hall.

But you guys should all come to my launch show and buy my book.

Especially Patti so she can learn how to make a comedy that is rooted in truth.

My Life as a Goddess comes out July 31st.

I'll be doing a launch show at Union Hall.

But I don't know what the day is.

You guys should all come to my launch show and buy my book.

Especially Patti so she can learn how to make a comedy that is rooted in truth.

Instead of reading like fucking cool authors, I was literally reading a book called Redeeming Love about a prostitute who decides she accepts the Lord and then like is worthy of marriage.

What was that book called? Read, Weak Lame. So much undoing. Redeeming Love.

Instead of reading like fucking cool authors, I was literally reading a book called Redeeming Love about a prostitute who decides she accepts the Lord and then like is worthy of marriage.

What was that book called? Read, Weak Lame. So much undoing.

Redeeming Love, honey. There's so much shitty Christian cultural like music in books that's just like horrible.

Those are Robert, she wrote it under the suit. No, right, right. Like they are fantastic. It's better than the casual vacancy. It is like truly great, great detective writing. In a sort of pulpy, but she's like a very, very great literary writer.

But they're straight for their mysteries, but like super well done, very British. They're like- And she like pumps them out almost. The first three were one a year I think in the midst of everything else. She's putting a play out and writing a screen. She's incredible. It's really like-

Those are Robert, she wrote it under the suit.

Those are fantastic. It's better than the casual vacancy.

It is like truly great, great detective writing.

In a sort of pulpy, but she's like a very, very great literary writer.

The first three were one a year I think in the midst of everything else.

She is writing for the upcoming show on TBS, Miracle Workers, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

The premise is basically Heaven is a company and God is the CEO and he's out to lunch trust fund and he decides he doesn't want to keep Heaven open anymore when he finds out that people on Earth he doesn't want to keep Earth open anymore because he finds out people on Earth aren't very happy and don't like him very much so angels from the prayers department make a bet with God and if he can make a miracle happen he'll keep Heaven open and he's like yeah sure the miracle is to make two humans who prayed to be with each other kiss so it's like very sweet and wacky and fun it's a really I had such a good time and it's based on a book so I think I'm not ruining anything

She is writing for the upcoming show on TBS, Miracle Workers, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

The premise is basically Heaven is a company and God is the CEO and he's out to lunch trust fund and he decides he doesn't want to keep Heaven open anymore when he finds out that people on Earth he doesn't want to keep Earth open anymore because he finds out people on Earth aren't very happy and don't like him very much so angels from the prayers department make a bet with God and if he can make a miracle happen he'll keep Heaven open and he's like yeah sure the miracle is to make two humans who prayed to be with each other kiss so it's like very sweet and wacky and fun it's a really I had such a good time and it's based on a book so I think I'm not ruining anything

I grew up on the book, 'The Coldest Winter Ever'.

I grew up with the book, The Coldest Winter Ever.

Wasn't she in that movie?

Oh, she was in Oscar Wilde. Yeah, The Importance of Being Earnest.

Which I love that play.

And she was in that. I was like why is this play in this movie?

Wasn't she in that movie? She was in Play with She In? Oh, she was in Oscar Wilde. Yeah, The Importance of Being Hearse.

I feel like it just because I don't know the show.

I was remembering the plot to the Bible, the plot to the Bible as it was going along.

I have no idea.

I never have any idea what's going on because I don't know the plot of the Bible.

All my Christian friends are like, I can tell you what's going on.

Jesus Christ Superstar is great. I've never seen it either.

It's good. It's good. It's like, I mean, that movie is actually one of the better. I think one of the better. It's all about it.

Which I mean, I think selections off of for my show last year um in his car and my dad would often drive me To school on his way driving to work. So A lot of a lot of music on the way to work um And that just ingrained loaf was was definitely a recurring star

Which I mean, I think selections off of for my show last year um in his car and my dad would often drive me To school on his way driving to work. So A lot of a lot of music on the way to work um

In the category of the era's award for best era the nominees are speak now

Fearless was solid and then what was after that? Speak now, which people now all three of those albums and this isn't it. This is a lost culture.

Horse Girls, and somebody I used to know are the three films that I've written and produced.

I was really taking all that stuff so seriously, and I became the intimacy coordinator essentially, which was strange because we shoot this super... Like, that's the weirdest sex scene I've ever shot. It's like a dream sequence sex scene with these two different actors.

John Reynolds, who plays my love interest, and Matthew Gray Goobler.

So we had planned this elaborate camera move, and then, of course, immediately on the day, realized that we don't have a budget to do this.

The book is great. You finished the book, right? The book is incredible. I finished the book so, so, so good.

She's just like, not only is she so incredibly entertaining to speak to, it's just always such a ride, but also she really is smart and she's seen a lot.

Patricia is something completely different.

The book is great. You finished the book, right? The book is incredible. I finished the book so, so, so good.

She's just like, not only is she so incredibly entertaining to speak to, it's just always such a ride. But also, she really is smart and she's seen a lot.

Patricia is something completely different. And yeah, I'm sure that Jennifer still finds her way in somehow, but it's so not like Jennifer Lewis.

Jennifer's promoting her new book 'Walking in My Joy in These Streets'.

Fantastic, fantastic book, a follow-up memoir to her best-selling memoir, 'The Mother of Black Hollywood'.

I Read through it, loved it, so many wonderful stories.

It's undeniable that it's just coming from her truth, like she, it's it's her voice like throughout the whole thing.

And if you haven't read 'The Mother of Black Hollywood' or for me, better yet, listen to the audiobook because she is a performer, then enrich yourself and be doing all of that.

Which by the way, her publicist need to send the book.

Which is called Walking in My Joy in these streets.

Fearless was solid and then what was after that? Speak now, which people now all three of those albums and this isn't it. This is a lost culture.

And I'm going to add a song will be the opening... on the amazing Grammy-winning album, Fearless by Taylor Swift. And it is the title track. It is Fearless by Taylor Swift because it's another country song. It's about not having fear.

It feels like a Sally Rooney book or some shit like it sounds so nice

Oh my God, I read the first 20 pages at Nicole Silverberg's house and I couldn't put it down then she made this amazing dessert.

It's a horny fucking book.

It's like see like what people are thinking and switching places every chapter right?

Yeah, it's really it's a raw book. No condoms anywhere.

It's just exactly what I wanted but didn't know I could want exactly and like God the the build up to it. I mean I had no idea.

Your last book you'll go out of it was like my last great like subway read.

You move to those songs you just get up So emotional and recover of I'm every woman when that beat.

And in the book, it's a little bit less ambiguous that she's died maybe?

Or no, she's in the hospital at the end of the book.

I think it's more ambiguous in the film.

I really enjoyed it. Loved. I loved it.

She just is my favorite type of character in the film.

The doll missing really was giving me anxiety.

Something really smart that I thought that Maggie Gyllenhaal did in order to create tension and like irritation in every scene is in this anatomy of a scene that they did, that I watched on YouTube, she was talking about how like the crying of the babies, like the volume was never lowered.

Oh, this movie made me never want to have a child.

You need to read John Waters' essay about Provincetown

I think you should read, I think you should read like Role Models by John Waters or I'm finishing Joy Luck Club.

She has a book coming out, 'Tears of My Mother: The Legacy of My Nigerian Upbringing'. It's out in May of 2022 and pre-order now, pre-order now.

In my book, 'Tears of My Mother', I talk about how first generations, we often straddle two worlds to the point that I propose that we create a new name for the third world in a sense, right?

And this is something that we wanted to capture With Jane in the book that she was writing Where there is such The thing about The Silmarillion Is it's of course So beautifully written all the books are But they're so detailed That it really You really have to be in a certain mindset To absorb that information And not have it totally Bog you down

And not have it totally Bog you down So I did want that to be part of Jane's book Is that the history is so Detailed that anybody Who is kind enough to ask her About it will immediately Regret it and get lost And not be able to follow anything she's saying Because it's so specific And there's too much going on

Oh, you read The Silmarillion.

Yeah, yeah. And now but now like I can barely remember Lord of the Rings at all. I read those books all the way through multiple times.