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" \n Chelsea Peretti is a baller. The 35-year-old, L.A.-based comic has written for Parks and Recreation, The Sarah Silverman Program and SNL, is good friends with Amy Schumer and has inspired comparison to Silverman and Penny Marshall. But Chelsea&amp;#039;s her own bitch: Her comedy podcast &amp;quot;Call Chelsea Peretti&amp;quot; reached number-one on iTunes and her Twitter feed is genius. With gems like,&amp;quot;Is it worse to kill 15 people or wear a fedora?&amp;quot; it&amp;#039;s no surprise she has over 200,000 followers. The only thing that&amp;#039;s wack about Chelsea P is that she&amp;#039;s not super f*cking famous. Good news though: That&amp;#039;s about to change.   With her first big TV break, Peretti landed a lead role on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a new comedy on FOX starring Andy Samberg, from the creator of Parks and Rec. Memorize her face, ya&amp;#039;llz, because she&amp;#039;s about to be big-time. We chatted with the Jewish-Italian bad-$$ about worshipping Joan Rivers, working on the best comedy show on TV and dating guys who try too hard.   Cosmo:  Before we start I&amp;#039;ve just want to say we&amp;#039;re all big fans of your standup at Cosmo and we&amp;#039;re stoked that your FOX pilot got picked up.   Chelsea: Thanks so much.   Cosmo:  How did you get involved with Brooklyn Nine-Nine?   Chelsea: Well, I used to write for Parks and Rec and I decided to leave because I wanted to continue performing stand-up. With the TV writing schedule, it&amp;#039;s really hard to do both. So, I left and then when these guys (Mike Schur and Dan Goor, creator and producer of Parks) were developing Brooklyn Nine-Nine, there seemed to be a part that was right for me. So I auditioned and tested for it and I got it.   Cosmo:  This is a big step for you because right now comedy nerds (like me) know who you are, but you&amp;#039;re still unknown to the masses. A regular role on a TV show means you&amp;#039;re going to be seen by millions of people. That&amp;#039;s big!  Chelsea: Totally. I think when Sarah Silverman hired me to write for her show and I left New York that was a huge change for me. The fact that someone I was a fan of and respected was giving me this opportunity was just incredible. Getting this acting role on this pilot feels the same way, it&amp;#039;s like another huge opportunity in my life.   Cosmo:  You were a stand-up for years before you started writing for TV. What was it like going from stand-up to being a writer&amp;#039;s room?   Chelsea: I really loved writing for Sarah, I also wrote for The Kroll Show and consulted on Portlandia. I feel like at this point, I have a good sense of who I am in a writer&amp;#039;s room and I definitely enjoy it. Working on Parks was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.   Cosmo:  Was it scary to leave Parks even though it was your own choice?   Chelsea: Yeah, totally. It was definitely one of the harder decisions I&amp;#039;ve made in my career but it felt right. I just felt that...you know, when I look at stand-up I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s a lot of people out there like me and I didn&amp;#039;t just want that to fall away with the writing workload. I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.   Cosmo:  That&amp;#039;s hilarious.   Cosmo:  Do you have a comedy posse where everyone wears bedazzled jean jackets with nicknames on them?   Chelsea: Ha! Not exactly, but I definitely have my little group of comedians that I came up with: Nick Kroll, Brendon Walsh, Hannibel Burress, Moshe Kasher, Amy Schumer, Natasha Leggero. I just love these people. We watched each other come up from the shittiest rooms and now are getting to enjoy some of the fruits of our labor. It&amp;#039;s great.   Cosmo:  Was there any performer you watched when you were just starting out who really inspired you?   Chelsea: When I was in New York I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material and it blew my mind. I don&amp;#039;t remember how old she was at the time but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet you don&amp;#039;t get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.   Cosmo:  Do you find that men you date are intimidated by you being a comic?   Chelsea: I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me which is kind of annoying. It&amp;#039;s a turn-off if someone&amp;#039;s trying hard to be funny because it feels like they&amp;#039;re auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn&amp;#039;t feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that from a guy, I&amp;#039;m more looking for something sweet or romantic.   Cosmo:  Word. Besides the awesome pilot that is coming out this fall, is there anything else that fans should look out for?   Chelsea: Well, I just shot some more sketches for The Kroll Show where I get to play this character Farley and I feel like that stuff is gonna be hilarious. So I&amp;#039;m really excited about that.   Cosmo:  Rad, well we will definitely tune in. And we will also obsessively follow you on twitter and Instagram and all that other creepy stuff. Thanks Chelsea!   Chelsea: Bye!   Check out a clip from Chelsea&amp;#039;s Half Hour Comedy Central Special below:   Want more musings from Rose? Follow her on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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