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"There hasn&amp;amp;#8217;t been a TV show in a long time that has had me as giddy with excitement at its arrival as Best Friends Forever. Jessica St. Clair (you may know her as the perky salesgal selling Fritz Bernaise dresses in Bridemaids) and Lennon Parham (of Accidentally on Purpose fame) play themselves--real-life besties who have to re-jigger their relationship after one of their husbands files for divorce. We chatted with our new best friends (we wish!) on the eve of their premiere about what it&amp;amp;#8217;s like to play themselves on TV, the drinking game they hope to start and more! Glamour: Are you real life BFFs? How did you meet? BFFs: We ARE real life BFFs and we have the necklaces to prove it! We met at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York about 10 years ago where we were taking improv classes. We were both normal-looking girls in proper sweater sets with a penchant for doing comedy in a dirty basement. It was friends at first sight. Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s it like for you to play yourselves on TV? BFFs: It makes it much easier to write, that&amp;#x27;s for sure. We improvise the scenes and record ourselves, then transcribe our improvs, which then becomes the script. So in the scenes we are just saying what we would really say were we to be in that situation. We like to think we heighten both our good and bad qualities for comedy&amp;#x27;s sake, but our friends and family tell us that our on-screen personas are pretty close to the real thing! Glamour: So how much of the show is scripted vs. improvised? BFFs: Because we improvise when we write, most of our best bits have already made it into the script by the time we get on set. We&amp;#x27;ll sometimes improvise new endings to scenes or if something isn&amp;#x27;t quite singing comedically, we&amp;#x27;ll play around with it. Also, we wrote a lot of our guest-star parts with really talented comedians and improvisers in mind, so we would ask them do a couple takes where they could add whatever they wanted. We ended up ruining half of those genius takes because we were laughing so hard. Glamour: Fred Savage is one of your Executive Producers. What was it like working with the Wonder Year&amp;#x27;s Kevin Arnold? BFFs: Full disclosure, we had Fred&amp;#x27;s cover from Tiger Beat on our bedroom walls as tweens, but it turns out &amp;quot;Kevin Arnold&amp;quot; has grown up to be an amazing man and director. When we first met with him back in 2011--before he signed on to direct the pilot--we knew instantly that he was the only guy for the job. He is such a talented director, especially when it comes to comedy and finding the heart of the scene. We were so lucky to have him. Although, when we were driving him crazy on set, he did like to remind us that he used to be kind of a big deal. Glamour: I just about busted a gut when I heard the term &amp;amp;#8220;fur shorts&amp;amp;#8221; in the first episode in reference to a girl who needs a bikini wax. Where did this come from?! BFFs: One of our best friends, comedian Jason Mantzoukas, coined the phrase in a sketch show that he and Jessica did at the UCB Theatre in New York. He&amp;#x27;s hoping that the phrase will be given a definition on Urban Dictionary and then he can retire from comedy. Glamour: What other silly catch phrases can we expect to pop up in the show this season? And did any make it to the cutting room floor? We&amp;#x27;ll take those too! BFFs: &amp;quot;Pulling a Shelby&amp;quot; refers to what happens when somebody does something rash without thinking about the consequences, like when Julia Roberts&amp;#x27; character Shelby in Steel Magnolias goes ahead a gets pregnant even though she knows her kidneys can&amp;#x27;t handle it. We refer to each other&amp;#x27;s legs as &amp;quot;stems,&amp;quot; as in: &amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;ve got the stems, honey, and they go for days.&amp;quot; We call a girl &amp;quot;Clam Chowder,&amp;quot; because her huge smile goes ear-to-ear like a giant clam. The character was cut but there&amp;#x27;s an homage to her in our logo card at the end of the show. Our neighbor on the show, Queenetta, who is 9 years old going on 40, screams &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m nine and a half!&amp;quot; at us at least once an episode. We&amp;#x27;re hoping it becomes a drinking game. Glamour: As our resident friendship experts, do you think a girl can really have two #1&amp;amp;#8217;s? What happens if they don&amp;amp;#8217;t get along? What gives? BFFs: Absolutely. The friendship will just have to go through some growing pains as everything settles into it&amp;#x27;s new place. Everyone has to learn to compromise, which we know from experience can be hard. But we promise that if your best friend loves someone, then you will love them too eventually. After all, she must know what she&amp;#x27;s doing, I mean, she chose you as her best friend! Can&amp;#x27;t wait until tonight? Watch the promo video here. And tune in to see the premiere of Best Friends Forever TONIGHT at 8:30/7:30c on NBC. Are you excited for the show? What are your favorite comedies on TV right now? What female comedians are always good for a laugh? You might also like: *Happy Endings&amp;#x27; Costume Designer Keri Smith Takes Us Behind the Seams *Emma Rosenblum&amp;#x27;s 5 Entertainment Obsessions for April *Meet Kate McKinnon, the Hilarious Gal Rumored to Be SNL&amp;#x27;s Brand-New Female Castmember! Photo Credit: Neil Jacobs/NBC "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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