Name: Natasha Leggero | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes #podcast
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Natasha Leggero | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes #podcast' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-04. Transcript available.

Natasha Leggero | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes #podcast

You made it weird, yes you did, you made it weird, yeah. You made it weird,
with Pete Holmes.
Yes you did, you made it weird, yeah. What's happening weirdos? So glad you are
here. I am in
a hotel, clearly, which is why this doesn't look amazing, or and maybe even
doesn't sound amazing,
but yeah, here I am. Here I am introducing you to a wonderful episode with
Natasha Leggero,
one of my favorite comedians of all time, one of my favorite people of all time,
and she is amazing in this chat. It's her second time on, and she's here to
talk about her new book,
The World Deserves My Children, which I read, is incredible, so funny, so good,
so honest, so real,
and Val, I got home and noticed that she had a copy on her bookshelf as well.
So it is awesome,
check it out, and she's also on The World Deserves My Children tour. You can
get tickets
at NatashaLeggero.com, she's going to be in Providence, Dania, Florida, where I
was, Boston,
Philly, all of those are coming up very soon, so go see Natasha Leggero on the
road. I am also
currently on tour, as I am right now, I'm in Pittsburgh right now, followed by
Buffalo, New York,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, that's going to be one night in Minneapolis. I hope
everybody can be there at the
Pantages Theater, and then Denver, coming back to Denver. This is a new hour,
guys. I hope you can
be there. It's the Feelin' It tour. I'm really proud of it. Hope you can make
it. Also, Largo,
here in Los Angeles, on September 5th, is the next one. We've got some amazing
guests,
myself and myself as well. It's going to be a great show. Hope you can be there.
Largo-LA.com for tickets. All right, everybody, enjoy. Natasha Leggero, get
into it.
Okay, we're starting now, but we're still going to talk in this tone. Don't,
like, put on some
affectation. Just keep talking to me. I wanted to say that I, when you went, no.
A good cut point. I come in here, I am my real self, and now you want...
The affectation? No, now you want to say everything I said in privacy.
No, we'll use none of that. I was spilling beans, too.
Okay. You really do look great.
Thank you. Great look. Thank you.
Save it. Save it.
Why, thank you. I don't normally... Katie will tell you. I'm not, like, about,
like, complimenting
the gas. It's not like a... You know how, like, talk show hosts are supposed to
be, like,
stop, like, for five minutes? So, you must really look nice.
Thank you. Well, I remember I was on your talk show as well.
You sure were. You've done a lot of... We've done a lot of things together. You
were in the
crashing writer's room? I feel like we started comedy together.
That's not true. Well, I started in 2000.
I like that you just moved. You did, too. I feel like everyone in our...
I started in 2001.
Started in 2001. Me, too. It was 2001.
I swear to God, I'm not just saying that. But I do feel like everyone in our
class kind
of started around 2000, 2001.
Well, let me ask you this. Even though we were all in different places.
Where were you?
LA. New Orleans?
I was in LA. But, like, Moshe started in... My husband, Moshe, he started in
2001 in San
Francisco. You can just say Moshe. By the way, in your book, when you're like,
and my husband... I'm like, bitch.
You read my book? The World Deserves My Children?
What a great title.
Thank you.
We could talk for 30 minutes about... I really... I think there should be an
award for titles.
Well, actually, the cover won an award. Does that... Maybe the title
contributed...
Who shot that? It's a great photo.
Her name's Elizabeth Karen, and it was actually shot...
Bleep it out.
Pardon? Bleep it out.
We're going to bleep her name. I'm not here to big up Elizabeth Karen.
But here's what was funny about it.
Maybe Elizabeth Warren.
Okay. You're nice to laugh at that.
This day, she came over. It was deep in the pandemic, and it's in my kitchen,
and our nanny
quit, because there was too many people in the house.
Wow.
That laugh was golden.
So it did push her over the edge.
Wait, so that's not staged?
I mean, no, it's staged, but it's my kitchen.
It's... I love that you really used your child.
I know. Well, she's kind of in the back.
Actually, can I tell you something? So in the... I... Can your daughter read?
A little bit.
Mine can read a little bit, but I'm not looking forward to her being able to
read more.
When you asked me that, by the way, I was like...
You didn't know?
No, I'm better than Moshe. That's what I learned from reading your book.
I love that you're like, you can have a perfect man, and still... And I'm like,
that's
not a perfect man. If he's getting up, you tell him I said this. Of course, we're
recording it. Vaping, eating his own breakfast while a baby's crying?
I mean, there was some... There was some learning curves he had to get through.
Yeah. Moshe's the king. I love him to death. He's one of my best friends, and I
forgive
and forget every single thing. But, you know, it's just a neuroses... It's a
different...
It's the difference between the mother and... But you're like more of an active
father who's
like clocking in more...
I have a lot to say about this, and I'd rather hear what you have to say about
it.
I just wanted to tell you that I told my daughter that I dedicated the book to
her. And I said...
She can't read, so I said, "It says to my mother, my children, and my children's
children." And
she was like, "Well, what if I don't have a child?" And I said, "Well, your
kids can be
your children." And she's like, "Well, what if I don't have any..."
Wait, your kids?
Oh, no, I'm sorry. I said one day. I said, "Your animals can be your children."
And she's like, "Okay." And she's like, "What if I don't have animals?" And I
was like, "I don't know, maybe the...
You know, the plants in your yard can be your child." And she goes, "My phone
will be my child."
Oh, no.
Yeah. How does she know? That's what I'm so like...
I have a guess.
They know. But I'm just saying, I don't give her the phone. I don't give her an
iPad. Like, I'm never like here, just look at my phone.
What's your screen time? What's your screen time? There's no shame here. It's
just we're all... You can't help but be on your phone a little bit.
No, someone had to explain to me who the Hawk Tui girl is today.
Hawk Tua.
Hawk Tua.
I'm really enjoying... Your kids can be your kids. I'm the Hawk Tui girl.
But I guess my point is, I'm kind of offline.
Me too. I didn't know who the Hawk Tui... Can we step this out? I'm also... I
have a person that doesn't... Jake.
Who's amazing. Does my socials.
Laura, shout out to my podcast producer. She helps me do my social media. I can't
do it.
Do what?
I don't want to put pictures of myself on Instagram.
Yeah. Good for you.
I mean, I will and I do, but living...
You just said.
But I don't want to.
Okay, that's good.
It's like going to an audition or something.
I understand. But do you... It doesn't... Somebody is running it for you for
the most part. Anyway, here's my experience.
This is my... I want to share two things with you and I'm going to throw it to
you.
One, the Hawk Tua girl. What the fuck?
What mass hypnosis is the world under that that was anything?
Like I had a lot of people explain that to me. They were like, it's her charm.
She's charming. She's like drunk. She's got a great drawl.
I watched it. I was like, this is nothing. That only makes sense if you're
eating the internet for 12 hours a day and then that comes through.
Exactly.
It's a good relief hitter. If you're just in reality and consuming... I'm sorry.
I'm going to get on a high horse here.
But if you're watching good television, good film, reading good books, talking
to good people, looking at fucking real shit and someone shows you the Hawk Tua
girl, I'm fucking proud that I'm like, this is zero. This is zero.
You've been... You know those old Apple commercials where they're like walking
in a dystopian future? Those are the idiots that are like, ho, ho, ho, Hawk Tua
girl. Like they're wearing like gray flower sack onesies. They're all shaved.
They have numbers on their eyebrows. Those are the fucking dinguses.
That can't be everybody.
No, I know. I'm exaggerating. She was on Bill Maher.
I'm exaggerating, but that only makes me sad that Bill Maher was like, I don't
want to stay engaged with the young people. Give me the Hawk Tua girl.
So people...
Like fucking don't. Just be old Bill. Say it's dumb. Get out.
People love her because she...
People don't love her.
She said that you spit on a...
When you give a blow job, I believe. I hate that we're talking about this.
Okay, well...
No, I secretly don't. I secretly don't. I want to like posture that I hate it,
but I'm loving it.
I mean, it's no mystery that this has taken the world by storm. I mean, this is
where we're at culturally.
I hear that.
This is what we are.
But it could have been anything.
And Moshe, my husband is eating the internet and he's always... I don't
understand most of the things that he finds really hilarious online because I'm
not on there.
You and I were having the same conversation. If you're not getting a steady
diet of it... I just did after midnight and Maria Bamford showed a video of a
taper getting its chin scratched. And I was like, this is less than zero.
This is like...
Wait, Maria Bamford? She's not on the internet all the time. Do you think?
You don't think she's scrolling?
I'm gonna say it. Yes, she is. You don't think Bamford's scrolling?
I love her.
Do you think she just happened to find one taper video?
No, but she's always doing her own thing. Like I took a figure drawing class
with Maria Bamford at this place called Wizard of Art. And there was a naked
woman in front of us and we're drawing.
Yes.
And I looked at her page and she was just drawing her pugs.
I'm just saying she's on her own trip.
She is on her own trip.
Like she paid to be in a class.
Look, you caught... Like I glitched because I was thinking of riffs and then I
was like, which ones are appropriate? Which ones are... You know? So I stepped
out for a second, but that's a great little anecdote. I mean, that's a grand
slam anecdote.
Into her, into her as like a very unique artist.
That's what I mean. It's an amazing story. Like when she wins the Mark Twain
award, which she should, because she's incredible.
She really is.
You'd say, "Maria's one of a kind. I took a figure." And you tell that story.
It's amazing. The second internet story I wanted to tell you, and then I'm
really putting it to you, if you're not consuming it on the regs, we are sort
of like, I don't know, we're out of...
I'm very proud to be out of the loop, but one of the After Midnight writers
showed me a couple of clips that she loved. One of which was a woman feeding
ducks and the ducks start attacking her.
Have you seen this? Of course we haven't because we're all just fucking
satellites. We used to live on the same moon and now we're all just satellites
in the big black dark.
And you don't know what my algorithm is showing me. Anyway, it's a woman
feeding ducks and the ducks start biting her and she's like, "Oh, oh no, oh no,
oh no, oh no." And I'm like, "This is fake."
- They can't tell it. - They can't tell. That's, you know what I'm saying. Then
she shows me, I'm like, look, I don't even have to--
- Everyone's waking up every day being like, "If I could just get a viral video."
- That's what I'm saying. Even an old lady in Italy, apparently, because she's
like, "Oh, ducks, ducks." And then as soon as the ducks start...
First of all, she's holding that hand out. She knows these ducks. She knows
these ducks. And she's holding her hand out.
The ducks start biting her and she's like, "Oh no, oh no, oh no." And doesn't
pull her hand away and keeps filming. Do you know what the fuck is happening?
- And who's filming? - She's filming. And she's like, "Oh, just keep shooting?"
That's fake. And what's troubling to me--
- Or it's like her grandson told her to do it and is kind of helping her. -
Maybe, yeah. Just keep filming.
Keep filming. Thos