![]() Do people come up and confront you about Pat a lot? In the first episode, Abby sees you in a bar, and whispers to her date that Pat ruined her life, and then there’s a confrontation. And the whole idea of me playing kind of a cartoon character of myself is hilarious. It’s really funny what happens with me in the season. I think Abby is one of the funniest people on the planet. Isn’t it good? That was like a gift that walked into my life. I was just catching up on Work in Progress on Hulu. So I had this gangbusters year, but I have no idea what the future holds. Like, I just had this amazing year-I’m going YEEEEAHHHH!! And then I’m just going to go: GRRUGHGHGH. Part of me feels like I’m this flower-you know how flowers, just before they die, they have this last bloom? OK, that’s how I feel like I am. Tickets for Julia Sweeney: Older & Wider are still available.Īfter being off television for years, you are everywhere suddenly-on Work in Progress, on Shrill. The Q&A below has been edited and condensed. Over the course of an interview that was supposed to take 20 minutes but lasted two glorious hours, we talked about comedy, Pat, the Democratic primary, Al Franken, Sweeney’s role on Shrill, the future of the planet, and her years as a University of Washington student 40 years ago. I’m just in four episodes.” In one of them, "Weird Al" Yankovic plays her husband. “They take twelve pilots, Sundance does, and Work in Progress got to be one.” Sweeney flew to Sundance a year ago, “pounded the pavement like crazy for this show, and Showtime bought it! So I became an executive producer, but I don’t write it. “Because Sundance now has TV, because TV is where everything is happening,” Sweeney explained. McEnany’s friend Tim Mason, a director, tossed out the idea filming a few vignettes from Work in Progress, Sweeney agreed to be in them, and Mason turned that material into a TV pilot, which they submitted to Sundance. “We met, we loved each other, and it was just so funny and weird that we were both there at Second City at the same time,” Sweeney said in an interview the other day. In college, Abby was endlessly teased and harassed for looking like Sweeney’s most well-known SNL character, the ambiguously gendered Pat. ![]() ![]() The earliest experiments for Older & Wider took place at Second City in Chicago, and while she was there, another comedian, Abby McEnany, was workshopping a one-woman show of her own called Work in Progress, which just so happened to be about how her life was ruined by… Julia Sweeney. She creates shows by workshopping new material in very small theaters, to see what works and what doesn’t. Julia Sweeney, who starred on Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1994 and since then has created brainy, brilliant one-woman shows about topics like surviving cancer and becoming an atheist, is coming to Seattle on February 1 with her latest comedy monologue, Julia Sweeney: Older & Wider. Julia Sweeney went to UW, is still outraged about Al Franken, and appears on the TV shows Work in Progress and Shrill. ![]()
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