Today on the podcast jD, Matt, and Thomas are joined by Nicole Brady,

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[0:42] All right, thank you so much, Doug Donats. It is great to be back with you all once again in the hallowed halls here at the SNL Hall of Fame.

My name is JD and it's my pleasure to welcome you inside, but before doing so, reminding you to please wipe your feet.

We keep this place spick and span.

The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and weadd them to the ballot for your consideration.

Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall.

That's right. This is a forever game.

We do this forever. We are joined by a first -time guest today.

It's going to be pretty thrilling, uh, to listen to Thomas in conversation with Nicole Brady, who is a morning news anchor out of Denver, uh, for the ABC affiliate, uh, we'rethrilled to have her here.

And, uh, we're also thrilled to be joined by our friend, Matt Ardill to talk about Ana Gasteyer.

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[2:00] Hey, Jamie. Thanks. Uh, I am really excited. Love this performer.

One of my favorite sketches is by her. Really? Probably can't guess which.

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[2:10] I'm not even gonna try.

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[2:12] That's right, sweaty balls.

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[2:14] Oh, I should have guessed that.

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[2:15] Who doesn't love a good sweaty ball?

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[2:17] Right.

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[2:17] They're salty and very, very glistening.

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[2:22] Good God, man.

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[2:24] Okay, I will stop with that. But yeah, so Anna Gasteier, Height 5 '5", born May 4th, 1967.

She was a political brat. She was born in Washington, D .C.

To her mom, an artist, and her dad was a political lobbyist who later went on to become the mayor of New Mexico City, the mayor of the New Mexico City of Corrales.

She grew up on Capitol Hill, and one of her friends growing up was Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy.

[3:03] For much of her childhood, she actually wore an eye patch, and she has said that she believes that influenced her to become a comedian, because, you know, all of ourgrowing up as a kid with the health thing, a lot of the times, that's how we react to it. I know I did.

That's how I dealt with my epilepsy.

Now, she later attended Northwestern University as a music major and graduated from Northwestern University of Communications with a Bachelor in Speech, Theatre,and Performance Studies.

While at Northwestern, she was part of Paul Worshauer's improv comedy Meow before going on to join the Groundlings.

Before getting into acting, she worked as a temp, switchboard operator, and a hostess, like many people having to toil away in those really crummy jobs before hitting theirbig break.

She is a trained violinist and a singer who draws heavily from jazz influences.

She even has recorded a Christmas album called Sugar and Booze, because let's honest, that is the core of Christmas.

The joy of man and sugar and booze.

[4:30] She's a trained violinist and a singer drawing heavily from jazz influences.

In fact, she has even recorded a Christmas album called Sugar and Booze, because what says Christmas more than sugar and booze?

And, you know, family strife.

She has 86 acting roles, three producer roles, and two writing roles.

She's a former groundling who performed in small roles in Seinfeld, Party of Five, Frasier, and many more roles as a working actor.

Her first acting role was actually, you know, talk about starting at the top, she was a patron of a soup restaurant on the show Seinfeld.

[5:23] After leaving SNL, she actually found success on Broadway way, and has had starring roles in Wicked and the Three Penny Opera, as well as a voice actor on showsincluding Bob's Burgers.

She's also published a cookbook called Cooking with Anagasteyer, Recipes and Delicious Dishes Celebrating the Season.

That really sounds like something that would come in a sweaty ball sack.

Now, she's said her favorite spices are cinnamon and smoked paprika, and as a philanthropist, she has done work to support Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS, andhelped support Planned Parenthood.

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[6:33] Yes, J .D. Matt, that was awesome. Thank you so much.

Today, we are talking about a wonderful cast member from the late 90s and early 2000s.

And my guest today, I have the honor of welcoming my favorite news anchor in the United States, my friend, someone who's witnessed me do hours of karaoke in a wholelifetime ago.

I want to welcome Nicole Brady to the podcast. Nicole, How are you?

I'm great, Tom. Thank you. You are my favorite radio slash podcast broadcaster of all time from the days when we used to toss to you for traffic in Albuquerque.

[7:17] Yes. And now moving up doing way more fun things, I guess, getting to talk about Saturday Night Live.

I love talking to SNL. I love doing traffic too.

Back in the day, in the mid 2000s, Nicole was a news anchor in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I did traffic for a radio station, so I would do traffic for the TV station, andwe had a lot of fun times, as much fun as you could have at 6 a .m.

Talking about the traffic on television, but it was a great time, I loved those days. Yes, it was.

It's crazy to think how long it's been.

Sometimes it seems like a different lifetime ago, like you said, and then we're both still involved in it, And I know you were always really into broadcasting and comedyand so was I and so I'm glad we're both still talking about this stuff.

This is wonderful. It's all coming together. You have to remind me.

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