Name: Aubrey Plaza Met Donald Trump as Noddy the Elf | Letterman
Uploaded: 2022-02-01T16:15:52.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Aubrey Plaza Met Donald Trump as Noddy the Elf | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-02-01. Transcript available.

thank you very much for being here it says here you just flew in today is that
right you just
got in today was it because of the storm and stuff you couldn't get in earlier
uh yeah actually i
think so the flights were kind of all messed up so i was uh i actually came
right from work i did
a scene where i stole a car and then i got in another car and then i went to
the airport and
then i had a connecting flight in minneapolis and then i got here just in time
and i uh i haven't
slept oh i'm sorry it's it's virtually impossible to sleep on an airplane isn't
it yeah it is i
actually usually just knock myself out but um you have to time that out if if
you're on a longer
flight you can like take a pill or something but i was but they were um it was
like three a three
two three hour flights so i was like licking my xanax and just trying to get
enough does that does
that help if you just look this i don't know actually yeah i feel like i'm in a
dream state
so well if you're not sleeping and then traveling and everything it's just
awful i feel i feel bad
for me oh this is the most normal thing i could be doing where are you from
originally uh i'm from
wilmington delaware wilmington delaware i don't i don't know many people from
delaware thank you yeah
what what is wilmington like nice town yeah it's great it's um it's a place to
be somebody
that's the town motto it um really it is it actually says that on a on a wooden
sign
when you enter the town and when when you were a child is is that where you uh
realize oh i want to
be in uh show business or comedy or tv or something is that where you get the
bugs yeah yeah definitely
um family encouraged it family uh yeah yeah i think they encouraged it yeah i
did a lot of i was
a weird kid i did a lot of weird uh things i was always dressing up in costumes
and um running around
the woods and um so you lived in in the woods in wilmington kind of well one of
my houses uh backed
up to the woods to a cemetery actually um so i did a lot of things in there uh
i actually don't
know what i'm talking about right now but he's kind of making stuff up yeah um
no no no i appreciate
that no i uh all right
but did you have did you have early show business experiences um yeah i did
like you know community
theater stuff like that what kind of what kind of productions plays i did i was
um i was a duck
no i was a chicken in uh in the ugly duckling and um wow tough gig
i know right chicken in the ugly duckling that doesn't go anywhere
but now i'm here so let me ask you about this duck yeah exactly this is uh i
think later in your
uh nascent career this is a 2007. that's right here in new york city that's you
uh donald trump and i
think donald trump's uh uh son young son there that is me yeah and what what is
it what's the story
behind this photo here well um that actually um had nothing to do with me
trying to be an actor or
anything that was just me trying to um make money to eat and uh i found a job
on craigslist um to be a
mascot to play that character which is actually a british i think uh children's
book character named
naughty that's naughty the elf is what it's right naughty the elf naughty the
elf i actually have never
read any of those books i don't know anything about that character but i did
dress up as naughty the elf
you remember what the the gig paid how much did you make for that i believe it
was like seven dollars
an hour and um and the objective was to have your photo taken with donald trump
that night it was was
that easy no um a lot of times it was just to walk around and try to get people
to be interested in
me as that character but um that night they they really wanted me to get a
photo op with donald trump
and um he he was very popular so i was kind of like and i was in the costume
and it's really sweaty
and really hard to maneuver yourself so i was the whole time they were just
really pressuring me like
just get in there get in there with him and uh and i was he wanted no part of
it no i mean he wasn't
being you know mean or anything but he was busy he is i mean in all fairness he's
very camera shy yes
but yeah so i had to be really aggressive and um but also pull it off like i'm
like a cool little elf
so i was like kind of bumping into him and then eventually he just said all
right one picture
and then i got in there and i was like thanks man i want to tell you something
you did a great job
you did a great job now here's the other thing and i hope you don't mind
talking about this at 20
you had kind of a medical thing happen in your life at 20. yes um that's right
i had a stroke
when i was 20. that doesn't happen usually at 20 does it no it was kind of a
freak thing um
do you have a history of it in your family no i don't it's i really the doctors
actually a lot
of them have different theories on why it happened for example what what's the
theory that you have
embraced um oh i haven't well i haven't really embraced any single one of them
more than the
other some of them say it was hormonal like um maybe related to the birth
control pills some of
them say it was migraine related um when i was a kid i i never really had any
symptoms or any kind
of weird signs other you have you have migraines did you have migraines then
yeah when i was a kid
i had migraines so they they thought i had a brain tumor once but i didn't um i
had a weird
personality and uh i was weird but but nothing physical that wouldn't in and of
itself that
wouldn't trigger a stroke no no i don't think so well but you're fine now right
yeah how long ago
was the stroke it was in 2004 it was really a crazy it was the scariest thing
that's ever happened
absolutely do you remember the symptoms of it i actually was living in new york
at the time i took
a train out to meet my friends in astoria and uh in mids i went into their
apartment and mid-sentence
um the right side of my body stopped working and um i like looked down at my
arm and i was like whose
arm is that it's not connected to my body um and i and i i kind of blacked out
and then i wasn't
able to talk i had expressive aphasia um for the next couple days and um when
the paramedics came like i
couldn't talk to anyone it was really a crazy thing um and my friends actually
thought i was kidding
because i was always doing like weird jokes and they were like cut it out and i
was like
you know it was really weird and the paramedics thought i was on drugs because
i was so young
they just weren't thinking stroke and and and inside of of your head you're
panic stricken yeah i was
like going through my the rest of my life thinking like well i won't be able to
talk anymore so now
what um and uh and but i was also just trying to communicate with people like
and weirdest things
were coming out i could say some words like um when i was in the hospital like
they kept asking me
how old i was and my older much older boyfriend at the time uh was there with
me kind of fielding these
questions from the doctors and every time they asked me how old i was i would
go 16 which was the only
number i could say i don't know why um and uh and he would go she's not 16 she's
20. and they would go
how old are you how long was there must have been some rehabilitation for you
um yeah well i eventually
talk spoke talked again i'm talking how how long did it take to regain speech
and was there therapy
involved there was well like three days after it happened i started talking i
remember in the middle
of the night i just in the hospital bed i just said aubry plaza and i said my
name and then i said that's
a good start and then um and then uh yeah so then i was fine really i went back
to school and um and
they they registered me as a disabled student which was weird because i didn't
have any like residual
things wrong with me but i did have a learning specialist um that they made me
meet with once a
week who uh was also a drag queen so um we talked about that mostly now did
this really happen or is
because it's part of the stroke i don't know you're not sure i'm not sure if i'm
having one now no
no just uh but uh uh uh i find this fascinating are you on medication some sort
of uh oh i'm on
uh oh no not for sale
good but you're feeling fine your health is just fine i feel great dave okay
good
you