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"  The worst job I ever had, I only had for one day. It was answering phones at a law office. It was the most complicated phone system you could imagine, and they taught it to me in one second and were like, &amp;quot;Okay, bye!&amp;quot;\u2014and left me there. I was in classes at [L.A.&amp;#039;s improv group] the Groundlings, not yet on the main stage, a struggling\u2014in quotes\u2014actor, and it was one of those things where you&amp;#039;re like, What am I doing with my life? It sounds so cheesy, but there&amp;#039;s something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it&amp;#039;s really hard to lie. The Groundlings was such a good place to learn. You could have a scene with two people, and the person who barely talks could be just as funny as the person doing all the talking. With improv, it&amp;#039;s a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. Never try to be funny\u2014the audience can tell. I don&amp;#039;t know if you can articulate an instinct. I don&amp;#039;t rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am. My manager encouraged me to audition for SNL. It&amp;#039;s a five-minute monologue with various characters and impressions\u2014I did the Target Lady, Aunt Linda. It was the scariest five minutes of my life. I&amp;#039;m not a standup, so I don&amp;#039;t usually perform by myself. Then you just fly home and wonder how you did. The season started and I actually didn&amp;#039;t get it, but they called after the fourth show and said they wanted me to come out. I remember at the first taping, seeing Lorne Michaels walking around and being really scared: Oh my God, there&amp;#039;s Lorne. Even now, I look at my life and can&amp;#039;t believe that I&amp;#039;m almost into my fifth season. When I first started on SNL, I made the mistake of googling myself. Oh, everybody does. I was like, I wonder what people are saying? It was the worst thing. I was crying. A lot of it was nice, but it doesn&amp;#039;t matter: You remember the bad, not the good. Doing a character for the first time is scary, but honestly, doing it a second time is scarier, because you want it to live up\u2014so I put more pressure on myself the fourth or fifth time. It&amp;#039;s always more fun to play the loser. You have more room to play. You could be the person at the party who&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;Oh my God, what&amp;#039;s wrong with her?&amp;quot; or you could be the person who has something really wrong with you. [Before] I did that character Shanna, the sexy lady who does gross things\u2014we did it with John Malkovich and Charles Barkley\u2014I remember a writer saying, &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s try something where you look good.&amp;quot; I was like, What&amp;#039;s funny about that? How do we even do that? That was a specific effort\u2014for me not to be a 45- year-old woman with, like, short hair and a lot of problems. I have moments where I&amp;#039;m like, This is my job?! Especially when I&amp;#039;m in a crazy costume and it&amp;#039;s Saturday night and we&amp;#039;re very seriously talking about, like, &amp;quot;Okay, should I do a cow voice that&amp;#039;s really serious or should I do one....&amp;quot; What are we talking about!? I think my biggest challenge is that a lot of the time, people see you as only one thing. It&amp;#039;s not their fault, because you know someone from what you know them from. But I don&amp;#039;t consider myself a comedian; I consider myself an actor who does comedy...and also drama. I&amp;#039;ve done dramatic roles\u2014I really love them and hope to do a lot more. Don&amp;#039;t become something just because someone else wants you to, or because it&amp;#039;s easy; you won&amp;#039;t be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the shit out of you. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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