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BOBBYCAST - Melissa Peterman Talks 'Reba' Sitcom Legacy, Why a Reboot Never Happened & Still Dreaming About SNL
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Melissa Peterman
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Melissa Peterman
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Bobby
Is it about hooker number two?
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Melissa Peterman
No. That was my first job out of college. That was my first. Yes. Dang it,
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Bobby
everybody, it's Bobby on this Bobbycast. I'm talking to Melissa Peterman. You may know her as Barbara Jean from Reba, which I think I've seen every episode at least twice. Maybe you know her as Brenda on Young Sheldon. Now she has reunited with one of her best friends, Reba McEntire, on the NBC comedy Happy's Place, which is really cool. She's toured with the country legends. She's hosted game shows. She's done it all. She's so funny. Here's my conversation with Melissa Peterman. All right, Melissa Peterman's on, and she's so funny. And so we almost started talking, and then this started. So we haven't met, but we were at the same place at the same time. Do you know that place we were
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Melissa Peterman
at the Kennedy center awards. Was it 2017?
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Bobby
Yeah. My years are bad, but, yeah, it was when Reba got the award and we were both part of the presentation for Reba.
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Melissa Peterman
Yeah. And it was absolutely so out of my, like, box and, like, zone. And I was so thrilled to be there. I was one of the. That was one of the shows I would watch every. Every year because I just love learning more about, like, artists and watching other artists celebrate them. And. And it was the year that Cher was there, Lin Manuel Miranda. Who else was there that year? Oh, my gosh. Was it Ira? Not Ira Glass? What was it?
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Bobby
I remember Lin Manuel Miranda, for sure. And Cher, because I looked. So what I remember from that show was I got a call from Reba going, hey, will you come out and do the very beginning of my intro? And so I'm like, sure, whatever Reba wants. I love Reba. And so, yes, I'm in. Whatever you want. It's like, go tell a couple jokes and do this lead in. And I didn't know she was first off and that. And I do enough standup that I'm not so intimidated by people in the crowd. But there were, like, Supreme Court judges. Cher and Reba were sitting right up there in front. That, to me, was a heavy room.
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Melissa Peterman
Oh, yes. And, you know, I'll tell you another. On my way there, as I landed in Washington or in D.C. i had an email that said, would you like to do the presentation at the state dinner the night before? You know, when they get. When they get the necklace and you have to go up and speak. And I was. I thought, oh, all right. And, you know, you're in. You know, you're in the room. It was. It was like the Martha Washington bathroom was down the hall, you know, which I probably stole some paper towels from. There's Cher there. It's like, you know, you're at. You recognize the room you're in. And I had no notes. I just made it up and got up there, and it was so terrifying. I believe I said something like. And shares looking at me, and if I look at her, it'll be like looking into an eclipse. And, you know, I just. It was so much. It was just a different room. And, you know, you're. Yeah, we've been in rooms. I've been in front of a lot of people, but it's a different thing. You know, people are like, oh, it's just like. It's just like the people's choice. No, it's not. It's not like the people's choice. Not at all. There's somebody who just got back from the G7 summit. So, no, it's not the same thing. So, you know, it was this very strange mix of just politics and entertainment. And then, like, I was. Do. Do you remember being downstairs before the actual. The televised event? Were you down underneath?
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Bobby
I was.
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Melissa Peterman
Yes, I was there. And I heard all of the Schuller sisters that were coming to sing from the. From Hamilton were warming up in, like, a room next to me. And I thought, how. Why am I here? How am I even in the same room as these amazing voices? I feel like I should write them a check and just slip under the door, because that was just the price of admission. To hear them sing like that. It was just. It was very intimidating. It was an intimidating audience. But of course, you say yes, because it's Reba, and. And I wanted to honor her because she deserved it. And it was a thrill. It was truly a thrill to be there.
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Bobby
Yeah, it was A special night. And then I think if I were betting money, I think CBS piped in laughter for a couple of my jokes, because I don't remember getting the laughs that I got in the room. I really don't. And I thought, man, I'm gonna be embarrassed because I went up and I told a couple jokes, and I thought, eh, opening stiff room and also Supreme Court justices. And then they aired it back. I swear to God, they piped in laughter. And I was so thankful that they did that.
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Melissa Peterman
Well, you know what? I was there, and you were funny, and you were great, and you were perfect, and you were very funny. And you probably don't know if you got laughs because it was a weird. It's just such an odd. It's just a weird room. But you were great. You really were.
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Bobby
That's true. So you and Reba go back to Reba. Is that when you guys first started? Did you know each other pre Reba, the show in, like, 2001?
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Melissa Peterman
No, we did not. The first time I met her in person was the first day of the table read for the show.
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Bobby
And so you didn't audition for her or with her?
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Melissa Peterman
No, I didn't. I had auditioned. When I auditioned, the show was still called Sally, I believe, because they didn't know she wasn't attached yet. So at that point, I was auditioning for this show, Sally, and I believe by the time I got to like that callback where you're in front of network, at that point, she was attached to it. And I thought, oh, my gosh, please let her be attached to it, because I just feel like it will. She's. She's sort of like everything she does sort of works and turns to goals. I'm like, I just wanted her to do it, and I just wanted to meet her, but I never auditioned with her. Nope, I did not.
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Bobby
What was your process like, even auditioning for Sally? Because she's told that story before about how it wasn't about her until, you know, she accepted it. So was that initially just a large casting where you went in with a bunch of other people that look like you and, you know, had. Had your characteristics?
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Melissa Peterman
Yeah, I mean, you know, I went in, and to me, it's. It sticks in my mind because it was one of those auditions where the script was really funny. I love the idea of this character that they were creating of the. The other woman, the new wife. And I just. But I didn't quite know how to attack it. You know, I was like, usually, you know, when you. You Know this when you have, when you get it, you're like, oh, I see who this person is. And it wasn't until I was, I remember sitting in the parking lot about to go in and I just went, I got it, I got it. I have, I, I have to play her that she has no idea that they are not best friends. I, I have to play that I have no idea that whatever insult or anything she throws, it's like, I don't, I wouldn't, I, I, it doesn't register with her because I have to think that of course we're going to be best friends. We have so much in common. You know, we like the same guys or whatever it was. But I just go, you, she has to be, she can't fight back. She has to just know like, oh, she, we're going to be best friends anyway. So I just remember having that click and go, oh, that's what it is. And then going into the audition, I leave and one of the producers followed came out after me, which never happens unless they're like, oh, you know, we don't validate. That's usually what it is. But he came out and said, you know, he knew I was going out of town. I said, he's like, where are you going? I said, I'm just going out of town for the weekend and I'll be back in LA on Monday. And again, that doesn't happen. And I, when I, by the time I landed in Seattle, I'd gotten a callback. So I go back to, I think a network callback and then it was studio. But if I'm remembering correctly, and I feel like again, it's clear to the people that we didn't, you know, research this before we talk because otherwise we'd have better idea of when the Kennedy Center Honors was. We were at. And I would remember this, but I believe that, that the three at the final was Rachel Harris, who's a brilliant, a funny comedian actress who's very successful, and I think Suki, who's married to Kevin Nealon and I'm going to butcher her last name, Suki. It was the three of us, I think we were the three women that were last up for Barbara Jean and very, very funny and sort of just different flavors of that character. And by the time I went in, I did the final test, which is nerve wracking. And when I was driving out, I got a call from my agent that I booked it, which I didn't think I would because I was standing next to two other actresses who I knew were hilarious and very funny.
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Bobby
At what point can you feel a shift in a sitcom where, you know it's being taken by the audience and that there's probably a good chance that it gets renewed?
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Melissa Peterman
I don't think you. I don't think as an actor, you really know that because you sort of do your thing and then you put it out there, and it's sort of up to the other. The other things that are out of your control. And also, the time we did that show, there wasn't a ton of, like, that initial feedback we can get now on social media. It was there, but it wasn't quite like it was today. So, you know, you're doing this show and you kind of put it out there. It felt right while we were doing it, you know, it felt like there was this chemistry there. And specifically for season two, I remember there was this click with the cast and with the. The characters of Barbara, Dean and Reba were like, oh, okay, this is the show. But I. For me, anyway, I don't think I even understood what it was until we were off the air for how many years, and it was in being syndicated and the love that it got there, that's when I sort of went, oh, you know, I truly sort of felt the. The. The audience love for it and how people were taking it. So I think during the actual shooting and running of it those first six seasons, I don't know if I ever really had a grasp of what it was going to be or what it was to audience. I mean, obviously, new people liked it. They loved. They loved meeting you in person and talking about Reva. I felt the chemistry of the cast, and it felt like we were doing really good work. But I don't know. I was also just sort of. It was my first series regular. I felt like my job was just to come in and do my work. And, you know, I didn't know a lot either. I was. I was really young and naive, too.
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Bobby
For me, I would watch the show, but I never watched every episode until it was syndicated. And that's when I really felt like I had a relationship with the show. It was on usa. It was on cmt, because it was on a lot, so you could catch all the episodes. Did you feel that when it went into syndication that you could feel the show's popularity and even your star rise because it was just so present?
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Melissa Peterman
Yeah. I mean, when something's on every day and people are consuming it. Yes, I definitely felt that. And it was. It was. You know, it was where you got recognized a lot more. I felt like in that syndication there, there was so much more love and consumption of the show just because it was, it was there all the time. And then people really loved it. It was fun to see that. And then tick tock. When would they now cut to, you know, even years later where there's this other resurgence of it. And ultimately I do think that all of those things, if the writing wasn't great, if the, if the, if they hadn't created these characters that people wanted to be around, that wouldn't have mattered, but they did. And I can watch it. I hate watching things that I'm in unless I have distance from it. You know, distance is a lot easier for me. And I can watch those episodes now of that show and just think it's really funny and it. A lot. It holds up. And it was, we did do some really fun and great things and I love watching the chemistry between everybody. So, yeah, it's, it's been, it's, it's sort of, it's, it's a. I feel very grateful that, you know, I'm in one of those shows that people still kind of watch today.
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Bobby
Can you educate me and us on especially that show because there's an audience what a week is like of doing that show and what would happen on a Monday versus a Saturday and what day it actually was recorded.
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Melissa Peterman
It's multicam, is a five day. It's one episode is in five days. And what we're doing right now in Happy's place is the exact same sort of schedule we did on the original REBA show, which is we're a Wednesday to Tuesday show, which means Wednesday is our table read. We come in, that's our day, one of our five days. So we come in and we do our table read in front of the studio and network and we read it out loud for everybody in the writers. And then we would go away and maybe go to a costume fitting or hang out in our dressing room for a while while they get notes from the studio network. And then we would come back in after they all give their notes. And our director would usually say, all right, this is going to change, this is going to change. So some changes here, but we're going to put it on its feet. And we'd have a light day of rehearsal on that first table read day. So, you know, we got in there at 10 o' clock for table read. We were probably done by two, so it's a great schedule for that way. And then the Next day is we come in, they probably got a new script overnight. They address the changes from studio, network. We get there at probably nine and if we need to, we might read it again just for the writers or maybe just for the cast if there was a lot of changes. And then we'd start rehearsing it, we'd start blocking it with our director and we'd rehearse the whole show, have a lunch and a break, maybe have fittings during that day. And then. Then you do a studio or. Which is first? Network or studio? Oh my gosh, I've been doing this how many years? I think it would be a studio run through that day. So then the writers come down the studio and we do the whole show as we rehearsed it that day. And. And then we would get notes and Kevin Abbott, who was our showrunner, him and Matt Berry were the two leaders in the first REBA show. And Kevin Abbott's our showrunner this one. And Matt Berry has been there since the original REBA show. And what's great about Kevin is that a lot of times you don't get to like sit in with the producers or have an opportunity to ask questions. So after that first run through, we sit with the. After they. This network would leave, we'd sit and Kevin would say, these are some. And maybe ask us if we had any ideas or anything that was bumping us and. And blah, blah, blah. And then we would go home, get a new script that night coming on Friday, read it, rehearse it, and then do a network studio run through with the writers. And then they would give maybe even more notes. And then over the weekend, the writers might address those coming on Monday. You camera block the whole show in front of the cameras so they know exactly what we're going to do. And then you might do some pre shoots. If there's a set that's way far away from the studio audience or. Or a set that's only there for a few days or an outdoor scene. You would do a pre shoot that day that you would plug in in front of the studio audience. Is this boring? This is so long.
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Bobby
No, I won't cut it down at all. I'm super interested in like all the nuance of it, so I'm paying attention here.
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Melissa Peterman
Okay. And then so Mondays is camera blocking. Maybe some pre shoot days, and then you go home and then Tuesdays are show day. We tape it. We're at a Tuesday night show, you come in maybe later than the other days. You come in and camera block Refresh, they call it camera refresh. Refreshed. So you refresh all the scenes that you're going to do that night in front of the audience with your camera guys. So you know where we're going to be, where you need to get for your camera or how this is going to go. Then you would cast would be sent away to hair and makeup. We'd get ourselves glammed up and have dinner and then we would meet in the makeup room for touch ups and we'd usually do a quick speed through of the script which is we just quick do it as fast as we can off book and just do it as a cast. And then we have a little cast and our director, we have a little prayer, hands together, hands in, pray. We go out, have cast intros and we tape that show in front of a live studio audience. And usually for us, Kevin Abbott's pretty that he keeps things running. We usually do maybe two, three takes per scene, sometimes more if there's just a different something we need to pick up. And we're usually, we start at 6 o' clock in front of the audience and we're usually done, we're usually done by 8:30 or 9. And then maybe you have a little glass of wine with the cast and then you go home and then you show up the next day for your table read of next week's episode.
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Bobby
You just start all over again.
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Melissa Peterman
Start all over again.
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Melissa Peterman
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Melissa Peterman
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Melissa Peterman
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Melissa Peterman
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Bobby
back on the bobbycast. Is there ever a moment where you're in front of the studio audience, and a joke really doesn't hit, and then you just. You rewrite the joke or do you just repair it in, like, post?
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Melissa Peterman
Oh, yeah. You find out right away. That's the beauty of this medium, which is why I love multicam so much. There's. It's the closest thing to live theater you've got, so they'll tell you, oh, that didn't work. And our writers usually will have a line for you. Sometimes the actors will have a pitch. And that's, again, what's so great about Kevin is that he lets us pitch stuff or try stuff. I love it when that happens. I mean, I don't love it when a joke doesn't land, but I do love it when you get to try five different jokes in front of that same audience and see which one lands. But, yeah, they let you know if something works, and they'll let you know if it doesn't either. And I love that part. But, yeah, the writers are usually there with another blow, ready to go.
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Bobby
With reboot. With Happy's Place, those are shot very similarly, but young Sheldon was not. Is that just a different mindset going into a show like that? Are you prepared differently?
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Melissa Peterman
Yeah, because that's a single camera, so that's shot like a movie, you know, so it's. And often you're not, you know, if you don't have a scene with an actor that day, you might never see him, you know? Like, the difference between multicam is you're with your cast all day, usually rehearsing and playing and playing around. So in single cam, it's a completely different mindset where, you know, you either, you know, the writing is funny and there's a laugh there, but you're not going to get that feedback from the studio audience. I don't know. My read is if you see one of the gaffers or a camera guy, if somebody. Maybe if you get a tiny little something, you're like, all right, that worked. But, yeah, it's as much smaller. It's. You know, it's. Everything's just a little bit smaller, a little quieter, and you don't have to. It's just a different mindset. It is a different mindset. Yeah.
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Bobby
With Happy's place and with Reba coming back and you guys are all together again. How long ago did this bubble up as an idea and did you think it would manifest itself into, like, version two of you guys?
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Melissa Peterman
You know, after the Reba show ended? Immediately. I feel like we knew we wanted to do Something together again. You know, she. I think she made up jobs for me sometimes just so we could hang out. You know, she took me on the road, and I did stand up. I opened for her and for her and Kelly Clarkson, then her and George Strait when they were on the road, which was such a wonderful experience. But, you know, we were sort of always looking. It was sort of out in the world. Like, we'd love to. You know, some time would pass, we'd love to do a project together. And some came and went. Some were like, you know, and the reboot was always sort of in that world, too, like, could we get a reboot? And, you know, that never seemed to come to fruition, whether it was, like, who owned the rights, who was going to do this? So that didn't come. And, you know. You know, Reba and I always trust her because she's so great about this business, and. And she has such a great perspective of, you know, when the time is right, it'll happen. When the project's right, it's yours. You don't. If you don't lose a job that wasn't yours to have, you know, so she was very. I just sort of trusted her that, you know, it will come when it's supposed to. I mean, I had no idea it would be this many years later. But there were some ideas that were floated. They weren't the right ones anyway, so Julie Abbott, Kevin Abbott's wife, who is our original showrunner, the first show, and this showrunner on Happy Place, came to Kevin with this idea about sisters, someone finding out they didn't have a sister. So Kevin took that and ran and brought it to Reba and I, and we loved it. I mean, I don't know how much sway My love happened, but I loved it, too. And. And, you know, we sort of. That's where it was born. It was Julie Abbott, Kevin's. Kevin's wife, who has been, you know, part of. We've all known each other for. Since the original Reba show. And. Yeah, I had no idea. And then. Even when that happens, you know. Even when that happens. Yes. Kevin's gonna write this idea. Okay, great. Well, that doesn't mean anything. Well, he's gonna go pitch it. Great. That doesn't mean anything until someone buys it. Then someone does, and then you make the pilot, and then, you know, you don't know if that's going to get picked up. So, you know, another good thing that Reba's great about is saying, you know, I'm excited, but I Won't get excited yet. I'll get. I'll get as excited as need be, as every level has passed. So you sort of go, well, that was great. That's one hurdle. And now we have to get to that one. And. And here we are, you know, here we are just in the middle of season two airing and. And a pickup for season three, which is a crazy sentence to say in this. In this day and age of, you know, where the industry's at and to be working. And we are very grateful to be working and doing what we love.
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Bobby
Your background is in improv. When did you start doing stand up? Like, what were you doing in high school?
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Melissa Peterman
High school, I was doing theater and some improv. Then I went on to college and did. Got a theater degree, and improv was part of my life there. And when I graduated from college with a theater degree, I went to Minneapolis, which is a great theater town, and I did improv at Brand New Workshop, Dudley Riggs, which is very similar to Second City, where you write five. Five or five shows, original shows a year, and every night you do improv with your. With your cast. And then I did Tony and Tina's Wedding, which was all improv, which I did for I don't know how many performances in Minneapolis. And then Stand Up. Where am I? I'm on a tangent. So many. I, after college was doing improv, doing theater, and then it was standup. Really didn't come into place until Rebus sort of gave me that chance to do it. You know, I feel like, you know, I. I would emcee a lot of stuff, and in improv, you know, you. You learn to think on your feet. I was always writing stuff too. Part of what we did at where I was doing improv was you had to write stuff all the time. And so she sort of said after the Reba show, said, what you want to do? And I'm like. I say yes, and then you hang up and you go, oh, my God, what did I. You know, I have to have 25 minutes and I have to have, you know, be ready to go. And sort of got the luxury of a learning curve on the road with her. And frankly. And I know you're. You're so good at it and you do it and you have to do it all the time. But there's nothing scarier. To me, improv does not terrify me. Stand up is, to me, the most terrifying of all. All way. All. All mediums at all. All. Any sort of form of. The most terrifying form of Entertaining ever is stand up.
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Bobby
When did you decide then from Minneapolis to move to Los Angeles? What was it that triggered that?
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Melissa Peterman
I always knew I was going to do it. I mean, I felt I needed to try. I wanted to. I knew I was going to do. I sort of had a New York or la, but ultimately it was la. I love tv. I wanted to be on a sitcom. I wanted to make people laugh. And I thought LA was a place to do it. So I knew as I was doing improv and theater in Minneapolis, I was trying to save money to move to la. And within the form of that improv troupe, we came out to Los Angeles to do a showcase at the HBO Workspace. And our improv troupe did this showcase and I got some interest in me there and some meetings were set up and I was like, great, I have to go back to Minnesota. I'm getting married. So I did that. Married John Brady, who was. I did. Was doing improv with who's the Funniest Human and got married to him and put off those meetings. Went to do Tony and Tina's wedding in Baltimore to save up more money so I could go. We could go to la. So we saved up money and then went to LA and then followed up on the people that wanted to have some meetings with me there and then just started hitting the ground and auditioning and trying to become an actor.
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Bobby
What was your first?
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Melissa Peterman
Yes, in LA or in.
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Bobby
Yeah, in la, when you get to la, what is your first? Yes.
- [30:43]
Melissa Peterman
I think it was a sketch show for Oxygen that I don't think it ever aired, but it was really funny and really funny people. Maya Rudolph, Seth Rogen. I'm trying to remember all of these. It was a sketch show and I may be confusing. Two sketch shows that I was casting called Running with Scissors. And that was my first yes. And I knew that it was. It was really funny people that are all working now. And that was my first yes. And then it never aired. I don't know why. I don't even know what happened to it, but I know that it was really fun. And yeah, that was. I guess. And then I got a Kia commercial. That was another first. Yes. Oh, my gosh. Guest spot on Just Shoot Me.
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Bobby
Oh, nice. I love that show.
- [31:33]
Melissa Peterman
And I was living. I was subletting at an apartment right across the street called the Starlet. And if you're ever in la, you'll see it. It's was still there. And I was at. We were. Were we still subletting at this tiny apartment right across. Was Warner Brothers Studio. And you know, you could look out your little window and you'd see like, you know, that's where they're shooting Friends. And I booked this guest spot on Just Shoot Me. And it was like one funny scene. I think it was like the check in girl for somebody's high school reunion. And I was terrified. I was so excited to drive onto that lot. And George Siegel, who was so kind to me and he was kind to me twice in my career in such a way that I will never forget and I hope it's what I bring. I bring to. To every show I'm on. I didn't even have a scene with him. I didn't have a scene with him. I'm trying to remember who my scene was with. I don't think it was David Spade. I don't. Who was it anyway? Everyone was very lovely. But he made a point of walking up to me and he said, is this your first, like, thing in la, like in front of an audience? And they said, yes. And he says, you're really funny. Go out there and have fun tonight. It's supposed to be fun. And he shook money and he was so. And I'll never forget that. And then I. Years later I did another show called retired at 35 and. And he was on that show and I went up to thank him and I said I was. I was so terrified. I was so nervous. And you were so nice to me and you. And you reminded me that what we do is really fun. And I was doing what I dreamed of doing as a kid in Minnesota. And it was happening tonight and it may have been a couple lines, but to have fun. And I. So I went up and thanked him and he couldn't. And I just said, I'll never forget it. You just made that such a wonderful experience. And he did the same thing for me on the show. He just said, you were so funny. You're just. And he. I don't know. It was. I'll never forget it.
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Bobby
This is the bobbycast. When you were a kid, who did you look at and either mimic or think I want to do something like they do because they do it so well.
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Melissa Peterman
Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, Catherine o', Hara, Andrea Martin, those were my like kid ones that I just absolutely. I would watch sctv. I would watch that, I believe it was on PBS is when it aired for me. And I'd watch it on the phone with my friend Jenny Howell because we both would laugh together watching SC or Second City tv. Sctv, which is where I saw Catherine o' Hara and Andrea Martin. And then I would stay over at my aunt's house on Saturday nights when my parents were like gone and they would let me stay up and watch Saturday Night Live. And I loved Gilda Rad, I loved Jane Curtin. I just knew. But Carol Burnett was one that I could watch all the time and just knew that I wanted, I didn't know what I just wanted to do that I wanted to do that.
- [37:42]
Bobby
You know, so much of what we turn into is because of things that we're exposed to. And I think I grew up in the south, so I didn't get to watch anything Canadian. And there were so many funny things that as I got older I was like, man, I really missed out because I had no, no influence on me was Canadian. However, you lived in Minnesota where you actually got the best of America and you got the Canadian, like the sctv. Like that feels pretty fortunate looking back, right?
- [38:06]
Melissa Peterman
Oh yeah, absolutely. And by the way, how many people, how most of the funny people we know are Canadian.
- [38:13]
Bobby
Yeah.
- [38:13]
Melissa Peterman
Martin Short, John Candy, I think about that entire SCTV cast was just geniusly funny. And then Mike Myers, like I think about it. But I feel very grateful that I got that. I don't even know how I found it. I just, I just remember finding. And this is the funniest thing I've ever seen and I love it so much and I'm really grateful that I saw that and I'm grateful that my parents let me sleep over at my Aunt Susie and Kathy's and be unsupervised and watch Stay Up Way too late to watch and listen. And my aunts too, by the way, were very instrumental because they had Steve Martin comedy album and I would listen to that. And I. They exposed me to a lot of things that I would probably not have found on my own, you know. And, yeah, we are a product of that. So I feel really lucky about that.
- [39:03]
Bobby
Did you ever have dreams or did you ever audition for snl?
- [39:08]
Melissa Peterman
No, but I will say that when I was doing this sketch show that we were shooting and Maya Rudolph, I remember we were doing a sketch and I think this was at the time that she was maybe about to like, fly out for her an audition or maybe it was her callback. I'm not sure. But I remember that that was in the process. I remember sitting across from her and just thinking how funny she was. And. And she had said something like, well, are you're going to be auditioning soon? Aren't you? And I just, like, I don't know. I thought, who knew? And so, no, I never did. And then I remember about the time that I had gotten maybe a few. I believe my manager had said, you should get a tape together for SNL that we can start sending in. And at that point where we started thinking about that, I was maybe in that sort of. That window of time that that would have been appropriate. I booked the sitcom. And once you book a sitcom, you're no longer really. They don't really want to see you, I guess, at that time. But, yeah, it was one of those, who knows? And I ended up where I was supposed to. But, yeah, I dreamed of SNL is. I mean, I don't know if you can see behind me that's still, like, I. Oh, that didn't turn off. I still have that, the album. And I still listen to my Gilda Radner, like, Live in New York album. But, you know, I'm not dead. Maybe someday they'll let me do a walk on. I work for NBC Universal. I mean, I'd be happy if they let me just sit. You know, I'd be. I do anything. I just. That show is huge to me. And I still. I still fight with people who go, oh, it's not good anymore, or this wasn't good, or now this cast. I'm like, no, no, no, no. It is always. It's always good because what they are doing, yes, there's ebbs and flows, there's casts that you might connect with more, and there's Maybe years that there was more sketches that you remember. But the reality is it's always good because what they're doing is they're doing a live show and they're creating, like, this amazing. This amazing variety show every week. And you real fans, you don't. You don't leave them in any year. You watch it every year, all the time. And I love it because I love watching just how things change, but yet they stay the same. And I'm loving, like, Ashley Padilla. And this new cast I think is brilliant. So I still dream of snl, even though I realize that train has probably left the building.
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Bobby
I often will do a thing where I'll go through and try to. Try to guess what the most asked question is to the people that I talk to. And I never really want to jump into the most asked questions. But can I try to predict your most asked question?
- [41:44]
Melissa Peterman
Yeah.
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Bobby
Is it about hooker number two?
- [41:47]
Melissa Peterman
No.
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Bobby
It isn't?
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Melissa Peterman
No.
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Bobby
Okay, so then I don't feel guilty asking it. So. I love Fargo.
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Melissa Peterman
I do, too. I mean, again, that was my first job out of college. That was my first. Yes, dang it. I need to walk around with my mom or dad behind me who actually keep track of my career like, I have no idea. I am so bad at it.
- [42:12]
Bobby
Tell me that story.
- [42:13]
Melissa Peterman
Oh, my gosh. That's. I was a kid. I was working at TGI Fridays. I finished. I got my theater degree. And Jane Brody, an amazing casting. Casting agent who I believe is still based in Chicago, came and taught a semester at my college. And I took her class. I think she was teaching, auditioning for film or maybe cold readings. She took. She was amazing. I took her classes. She liked me. I graduate. She's in town in Minneapolis casting for Fargo. And at first, she hired me to run camera for her to. To earn some extra money, which was a lovely skill to learn. I run camera for a few days, but then she calls me into audition for the Coen Brothers. True story. I'm in the lobby. I want to get a Mountain Dew before my audition. I don't have change. I ask who I think is. I don't know, somebody who works there. I ask for change for a dollar so I can get a Mountain Dew. By the way, all of those are poor decisions before an audition. Drinking a Mountain Dew. I don't know all of it. And I get in the room, and I had asked Joel Cohen for change for the vending machine to get a Mountain Dew. Because I. Again, this is pre social media. I had seen, you know, Raising Arizona. I knew who the Cohen brothers were, but it wasn't like they had, like, this, you know, hot instant, like, you know, I didn't know what they actually looked like. So I go in, I audition. I don't hear anything for quite some time, and I think it's done and it's over. Because it's a small town, you hear people that have been going in for this big Coen brothers movie. I get called back in, maybe. Like, I feel like it was a month later. But again, don't trust me in any timeline because clearly I have no idea what I've done in my life. I go back in and this is for hooker number. This is for when the pair of hookers and they start to match us up with other girls. So I go in and read, and I read with a couple different people. And then when they put Larissa and I together, I felt like, oh, this works. It's that thing, you know, we're like, oh, where this is supposed to be. So once they paired us together and we read this scene, I felt like, oh, that felt pretty good. That felt right. And then I leave. And I think. I still don't think. I hear for maybe another week that I got it, and then I got it, and I went in. And my first day. The first scene we shot was, I believe, the scene where it's the. Oh, yeah, we're at the scene with Frances McDormand, which she's so was. So even. Only in hindsight would I realize how generous she was as an actor. I just remember she treated Larissa and I both like we were peers, which she. We were. But in my head, I was just. I was going. I had a shift at TJ Fridays the next day, you know, and this was Frances McDormand, who was well into her career, but also just such a brilliant actress. But she was so kind. And just. I remember she. I felt like we were. We were equals. We were equals in a scene which was just, in hindsight, a lovely gift to give a really young new person who had no idea what she was doing and who, at the wrap party at the bowling alley, asked William H. Macy what party was in the movie. Because I hadn't. I didn't know the whole script. I mean, I just. I asked. I asked so many questions. And in. In that. In hindsight, I never would have asked. I would have been too nervous. Like, if I was doing a Coen Brothers movie today, I would be a nervous wreck. But back then, I'm like, hey, Steve Buscemi do you remember when you were Mr. Pink? I was like, chris Farley in that sketch. I was like, remember when you were in you're awesome. Cool. Like, I was such an idiot. And Ethan Cohen, people have heard this story, but true story, I just graduated, so I was living with my parents. Parents while I save money for my apartment. And Ethan Cohen called my house to talk about a scene or something. And my mother answered and was screaming upstairs going, missy. Calling me Missy, by the way. Which I'm like, I'm Melissa, I'm an actress, and Missy, the phone's for you. And I'm like, who is it? And she said, ethan Cohen. And I was mortified. Mortified.
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Bobby
So that was your first yes?
- [46:36]
Melissa Peterman
That was my first yes.
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Bobby
What was your last yes?
- [46:42]
Melissa Peterman
My last yes. Well, getting a. Saying yes to a third season of Happy's Place, I guess that's. That's a giant yes. And in today's world where, you know, TV's changing and I know so many people not working, that's a. Feels like a really, really big yes that we get to do a season three.
- [47:02]
Bobby
Do you still cook?
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Melissa Peterman
Oh, yeah.
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Bobby
Oh, so you, with your reaction, you must still cook a lot.
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Melissa Peterman
Yeah, I mean, I'm just. My reaction is, why do you think I have someone cook for me?
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Bobby
Well, I know you from cooking on television a bit, and so I didn't know if you really did that a lot or if you're just good at it and you kind of break it out occasionally for on camera.
- [47:22]
Melissa Peterman
No, I like to cook. I mean, I don't cook as. I mean, my husband actually cooks a lot of this stuff, but I do like to cook. I love to, like, be able. And our. My son is 20 and so he's moved out of the house. He's actually in going to culinary school, so hopefully he'll cook for me. But yeah, I love to cook. I like to. I'd rather, you know, stay in and eat at home than I want. I guess that's not true. I like both. But I do like to cook. Yeah, I like. I like it when I don't have to. I like it when I can putter around and go, oh, I'm going to make soup. I love making things where I can just throw whatever I have and see if it works. And it usually does, actually.
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Bobby
What is your signature dish?
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Melissa Peterman
Oh, wow. I make really good. This sounds like a dumb one, but I make really good. Like, I can do, like, I really, really good homemade, like black bean dip. I make really good soups. I Make a really good garden vegetable soup. I don't know if I have a signature anymore. Oh, you know what? This is going to make me very Midwestern. I can do a really good hot dish. I can do a really good tater tot hot dish. I'm really good at it. But as far as, like this, I don't know if I have a signature. I mean, roast chicken, that's easy. But no, I don't have a signature.
- [48:37]
Bobby
You got to talk me through a tater tot hot dish. I'm from the South. I don't know what that means. I know what tater tots are. But what's a hot dish?
- [48:43]
Melissa Peterman
Tater tot, you'd call it a casserole, right? Yeah, it's the same thing. It's where you take ground meat of any kind, maybe a cream of mushroom soup, some green beans, some onions, whatever. You mix that up, maybe you put some cheese in it. There's a debate between the cheese and a hot dish sometimes. And then you would layer tater tots on top. So ours would be ground beef, browned ground beef, cream of mushroom soup, green beans. I like to go, I like to sass it up with some onions, maybe some real mushrooms in it. Then you put that lined tater tops on time, build it, bake it, and you've got a hot dish.
- [49:23]
Bobby
So hot dishes cast is Midwestern casserole. Do people often think you're from the South? Yeah, I did until I started researching you.
- [49:33]
Melissa Peterman
I just met somebody actually yesterday somewhere that was like, so wait, you weren't from Texas? I'm like, no, I just, I did. My barber, Jean. I just did it. So I think there's something like vibe wise that's very similar. I think Midwest and South has a similar vibe that I think connects people in a way where we like to hang out with our friends and family. We like to eat, we like to, you know, we like our neighbors. We, you know, I don't know. I think there's a little more of a laid back vibe that I connect with with people from the south maybe.
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Bobby
Well, congratulations on getting renewed for a third season again. That is such a big deal. I bet it's so fun to do Happy's Place because it's new.
- [50:13]
Melissa Peterman
You need to come out to a lot. You need to come to a taping or be on it.
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Bobby
Yeah, I guess that was not the
- [50:22]
Melissa Peterman
reaction I was hoping for.
- [50:24]
Bobby
Well, I just have been. Hollywood is so. And I'm not comparing you to this, but everybody in. Anytime I do any Meetings. And I was talking to someone about this recently. I think I was talking to Tom Bergeron, who I love as a host, right? And. And he's the greatest guy. And I was like, every time I come and do any meeting in Los Angeles, they promise me the world. They tell me they're gonna make me the biggest thing ever. They're gonna give me millions of dollars right there in the room, and then I walk out, and I never hear from anybody. And so, you know, I just have that association with anyone in Hollywood that's like, you should do this. And I just should react like this. Oh, thank you. That's so nice of you. But I have this reaction. I get it. Yeah. You know, right?
- [50:59]
Melissa Peterman
I get it. I mean, I remember there's so many times like, oh, my gosh. You are. You are. You are the funniest. You know, the funniest person we've ever seen today for this. And I'm like, great, well, hire me, because that doesn't pay my rent or like, I. I get it. I hear that all the time. People say that all the time. They say, I get it. I believe you. That was. You know what? That was a proper reaction. Well, no, but no. Bullshit aside, okay? You are beloved by Reba. I. I would. I would like us to, like. I think you. You know, I don't know. You know what? Don't believe me, but you should.
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Bobby
Fair enough.
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Melissa Peterman
But I get it. I know. You know what? I bet you hear that all the time because you are so good at what you do. You have this massive following. You can do many things. You wear a lot of different hats. People say things, and it never comes true.
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Bobby
I should have reacted better to that thing, too.
- [51:50]
Melissa Peterman
Of, like, when people. That all of these things don't pay my rent.
- [51:56]
Bobby
I should have reacted to that better. I apologize.
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Melissa Peterman
No, I apologize. No, I love that. This is the best, most perfect reaction you should get to anybody in Hollywood who says you should or, you know what? Come out here. I've got something for you. Don't. Don't believe them, because you know what? I didn't come till I saved up a lot of money on my own to pay my own rent, and I knew I could try to make it here.
- [52:16]
Bobby
Well, congratulations again. I really love it for you guys. I love it for Reba. I love Reba. Obviously, she. She's been so kind to me over the years, and it's so cool that you guys are real life friends. I think that's cool because a lot of people are work friends or We've done stuff together, but you guys are like, real life friends, and I love to work with my real life friends, so that's got to be super cool to be able to do that.
- [52:37]
Melissa Peterman
It is. And people can tell. It translates into the final product. You know, people. They maybe don't know what it is or put the. Able to put their finger on it, but they can tell when there's chemistry and there's real friendship there. And. Yeah, and we have a shorthand. We don't have to explain stuff to each other because we already know.
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Bobby
What is Reba like to work with professionally.
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Melissa Peterman
She's a great example. You know, she is prepared. She treats everybody with respect, and she likes to have fun. You know, she doesn't need to do this right now, and she wants to do it because she really. She loves it. She has so much fun. You know, Reba, she's lovely, and she makes sure, like, my favorite. My. The goal is that anybody who leaves that set, they walks away. They walk away saying, I had a great time, people treated me great, and I want to come back. And she does that. And it's, you know, it's really fun watching her and Rex together. You would think that you would get tired of, you know, seeing how much in love they are and how cute they are, but I'm not yet. And they really are quite fun together. And he's great because I don't know how much time you've spent with Rex, Lynn, but he is such an actor's actor, and he loves what he does so much, and he loves to rehearse, and he makes us all better, I think, because he really respects that process, so. And he's. He's got stories you need. He's. He's fun to talk to. He's been doing this for a long time.
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Bobby
Melissa, thank you so much for the time, and thanks for the generosity with your stories. I really appreciate it, and much, much success, and hopefully someday we'll be in the same room and we'll actually talk to each other. That was a busy day. We were together. We were running all over the place.
- [54:17]
Melissa Peterman
I know. And I was really hoping to do this in person, so I hope that you'll let me do it.
- [54:22]
Bobby
Would love to.
- [54:23]
Melissa Peterman
I like to come out there, and my folks are around there, so I'll do it.
- [54:26]
Bobby
Please do. Next time you're in town, please. Hey, hey. Come on by. Next time you're in town. I hit her with that. Can't wait to see it. We got something for you. I got a show.
- [54:32]
Melissa Peterman
Here's my reaction. Okay, you bet. I'll be there.
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Bobby
Thank you. Hey, great to see you. Thank you so much. Hope you have a great rest of the day.
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Melissa Peterman
Thanks, you too.
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Bobby
Bye. Melissa.
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That's innerbalance.com this is Ashanti Plummer with a huge congratulations to the WNBA top draft pick, my friend and amazing podcaster, Az Putt. From all of us at I Heart, Women, Sports and your friends at Geico, we know your life's about to change. New city, new locker room, new home. It's a lot. But you're not doing it alone. You've got friends, family and teammates. You got all of us at iheart and you've got Geico with you every step of the way. Congrats again, Az. Listen to az's podcast FUD around and find out wherever you listen to podcasts. Okay, so can we talk about defi wear for a second? Because I'm a little obsessed. They have the cutest sunglasses and prescription frames and honestly, the vibe is like whatever you're feeling that day, there's a pair for it. Chill day. Got you going out. Got you. And every purchase gives back, which I love. Go to diffiwear.com and define your style. That's diffiware. Com. You're welcome.
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