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"    Photo: Getty Images   Just two months after finding out she would not return to Saturday Night Live for a fifth season, Abby Elliott is gearing up for a comedy tour, a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother, and a part in the upcoming movie Fun Size, directed by Josh Schwartz. But the 25-year-old tells ELLE.com she has plans that go far beyond being a comedic actress.  ELLE: You&amp;#039;re in a movie this month?  Abby Elliott: Yeah, it&amp;#039;s called Fun Size. It&amp;#039;s coming out October 26. It&amp;#039;s a coming-of-age teen story. It&amp;#039;s not scary, but it takes place on Halloween. It&amp;#039;s sort of an updated Adventures in Babysitting. I play a bitchy ex-girlfriend. Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler, and Johnny Knoxville are in it. Josh Schwartz directed it.  ELLE: Do you play a teenager?      AE: (Laughs) No, do you think I could?  ELLE: Yes.  AE: No way!  ELLE: What about the cast of the original Beverly Hills, 90210?  AE: Yeah, they were like, 37.  ELLE: You&amp;#039;re doing a comedy tour in November, right?  AE: Yes, with some pretty great comedians, but I&amp;#039;m not allowed to say who just yet. It&amp;#039;s a college tour across the U.S. with Axe Hair. I do that before I start How I Met Your Mother.  ELLE: Oh, you&amp;#039;re going to be on How I Met Your Mother?  AE: Yeah. I play a crazy girlfriend.  ELLE: Why do you keep getting the crazy girlfriend/ex-girlfriend roles?  AE: I don&amp;#039;t know! I&amp;#039;m playing against type, I guess. I just got back from Italy and met someone there that said How I Met Your Mother is the number one show there. That&amp;#039;s cool.  ELLE: Is the tour stand up?  AE: It&amp;#039;s more conversational stuff about dating and so on, with a lot of riffing. I&amp;#039;m not a stand up at all, it&amp;#039;s such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she&amp;#039;s really great at it.  ELLE: When did you find out you were not coming back to SNL?  AE: I found out at the end of August. You have the summer off and then\u2026  ELLE: You didn&amp;#039;t find out &amp;#039;til August?  AE: Yeah. It&amp;#039;s interesting. The week before, my NBC ID came off of my key chain and I had this premonition. I took it as a sign, and I&amp;#039;m not a &amp;quot;sign&amp;quot; person.  ELLE: But it&amp;#039;s not like you&amp;#039;re unemployed.  AE: Yeah, I&amp;#039;m excited for the next phase. I think you have to create your own stuff so I&amp;#039;m working on stuff for myself right now.  ELLE: Like what?  AE: I&amp;#039;m working on a book and a couple of different scripts.  ELLE: A book? Fact or fiction?  AE: Fact. You&amp;#039;ll have to wait and see.  ELLE: What are the scripts you&amp;#039;re writing?  AE: There are some different things I&amp;#039;m writing and developing, but I don&amp;#039;t know where they&amp;#039;ll go. They&amp;#039;re fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.  ELLE: When you were on SNL, did you write?  AE: We wrote every week and are there all night on Tuesday nights writing sketches for ourselves and then putting them up at the table the next day.  ELLE: But you wrote before SNL?  AE: Yeah, I took all the UCB sketch classes and I was in a sketch group at UCB in LA. I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting. My goal was never to be a sketch comedian, but these past four years I have figured out that I love to write, and can write, and I feel like it&amp;#039;s now a part of what I want to do.  ELLE: Part of the Abby Elliott brand?  AE: Yeah, actor, singer uh\u2026dancer [laughs].  Fun Size is in theaters October 26.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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