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Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast: Natasha Leggero!

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And welcome to another exciting edition of Are You Garbage?
The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals
or absolute trash.
Now, here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H. Foley.
Hey, everybody out there, and welcome back to everybody's favorite new podcast.
This is Are You Garbage?
It's our little show.
We sit down with your favorite comedians, and we find out they're going to be
classy after just a big old piece of trash.
I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day.
We're down here at Aunt Tootie's basement.
She just picked up the Thanksgiving turkey off the local drug dealer.
Nice to hear.
And I got to tell you, by the size of the birds, pretty good year this year for
the boys.
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So, shout out to Ice Pick.
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We've got some classy.
We've got some classy here.
A little bit of classy here.
Sharp-dressed lady.
That's what I'm talking about.
Gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean incredibly,
special guest here with us today for the first time.
She is a very funny, very successful stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, and
now author.
And you might have seen her in, but not limited to, do yourselves a favor, gang.
Get comfortable, because she's an earner.
She's got a rap sheet on her.
We got It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
You got Reno 911.
You got the Sarah Silverman program.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Till Death.
Pretend Time.
Free Agents.
Ugly Americans.
I have 90 credits.
Don't read all these.
Whipping.
Community.
Arrested Development.
I have more credits than Meryl Streep, but none of them are hits, so just stop.
Comedy Bang Bang.
Key and Peele.
Neighbors.
Inside Amy Schumer.
Let's Be Cops.
Mulaney.
Modern Family.
Okay, but it's just too many credits.
It's all good shows.
Then we got Ellen.
We got Kimmel.
We got Tiger Belly.
The Tonight Show.
This is not happening.
Stop it.
Chelsea Lately.
69 episodes of that.
Let's go.
Hachimachi.
Cut the check.
Here we go.
Was it really 69 episodes?
Yes, it was.
Oh, my God.
You got James Corden, WTF, Seth Meyers, The Daily Show, Joe Rogan, Colbert,
Conan.
You got Brickleberry, Drunk History, Superstore, BoJack Horseman, American
Dad Dice, Teachers, Alone Together.
This is bad.
Adam ruins everything.
This is so many credits and no one, people don't know who I am.
They're like, oh, she seems familiar.
You're nuts.
What are you talking about?
You also got Hoops.
You got another period.
You got 33 episodes of that.
You got Monster High, the movie.
You got Craig Kilbourne.
You got Carson Daly.
World's Dumbest.
27 episodes of that.
Jesus.
Last Comic Standing.
You got 11 on the piece for that.
Let's go.
Wait, you wrote all this in your journal?
Why don't you just read it off your phone?
YMA.
She has her own comedy special presents.
She has multiple stand-up specials out, including Live at Bimbos and the Honeymoon
Stand-Up
Special.
And of course, you can hear her every week on Netflix and you can hear her
every week on
the amazing podcast, The Endless Honeymoon.
And also, she is here with her-
Endless Honeymoon Podcast.
Brand new book.
Look at that.
The world deserves my children.
The world deserves my children, yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, Natasha Leggero.
I mean, come on.
Let's go.
How about that?
I'm sorry I interrupted.
How about that?
Everybody does.
Yeah.
That's not all my credits, though.
Now you missed a couple.
Just to say.
There's a couple of ERs in there I forgot to mention.
No, because I looked it up once and I had more than most actresses who are very
famous,
but that's not a good sign.
No.
What are you talking about?
That just means you did a bunch of bit parts.
Sure, but I mean, it's a lot, though.
If you're in a show that goes for five seasons, you only have that one credit.
It just says one thing.
But if everything gets canceled, then you don't have as many.
You have way more credits.
Okay, yes?
Congratulations on the book.
Thank you.
Gang, do yourself a favor.
Go out and pick it up.
Yes.
Absolutely amazing.
We're so happy to have you here.
Give us the backstory.
Give us the origin story of Natasha Leggero.
Of my book or of me?
Of you.
Of you.
The origin story of me.
The origin story.
Where are you from?
Where did you grow up?
Give us the whole deal.
Okay, well, I have to say, I'm from Rockford, Illinois.
Okay.
And a single mom.
Okay.
Three kids.
Okay.
I had a brother who kind of traumatized our life.
He was a bad kid.
Okay.
So that kind of overcame a lot of our thing.
I was like the mom because my mom was working all the time.
My dad was Italian.
He kind of was abusive towards my mom.
So he left.
And then she kind of raised us all herself.
Is your mom Italian too?
She is not.
She's Swedish.
Okay.
And she was a receptionist at a locksmith's office.
And I was kind of like the babysitter.
And then when I was 12, she always had me in swim lessons.
And then she like put me in a theater class because swimming was full.
And then.
Just take this girl, please.
Somebody.
Well, because she needed.
A place.
She needed like.
She didn't have a nanny or a babysitter.
Daycare.
Daycare.
So then.
The cheerleaders were all fooled up.
So you're on the football team.
And I did go to Catholic school.
So I was in this Catholic school uniform at the theater school.
You know, at the Wise Theater School.
And they just happened to have also a theater in Rockford that was a regional
theater.
And then they had remembered me from the class when they needed a kid.
So like six months later, they called St. James Elementary and were like,
Was there a girl?
They were trying to find me.
And so they found me.
And then I started to become a part of this theater.
Regional theater.
That's pretty sweet.
That's nice.
I didn't get paid.
Like regional theater is like part equity.
So it was like part down on their luck actors from Chicago.
And part like delusional townspeople.
Shout out to them.
And then me.
And I was like the kid in like every show.
No, Randy, you can't play Annie.
I'm sorry.
Come on, man.
So I got to kind of escape this life and become a part of the theater, which
became like very dear to me.
Like I remember when I was like on hiatus or there wasn't a show and I had to
like not leave school on Wednesdays for matinees.
I would like, you know, start like I would just get like hyperventilating and
like I just wanted to go back to the theater.
Like I was just like it was like my home.
You never got paid at all for any of that?
No, I think that's the idea with regional theater is like the equity people get
paid.
It wasn't like that.
That's still pretty cool, though.
It was cool.
It was it was definitely a great education.
And it, you know, set the path for me for my whole life.
And I am extremely grateful for my to my mother for doing that.
And I hope to do the same thing for my child.
There you go.
Put them in enough things to see what sticks, what they like and what they're
passionate about.
Yeah.
And what they're good at.
And, you know, I'm like extremely fortunate that that happened to me because
then for the, you know, starting at 12, I was like, I'm going to be an actress.
I'm going to be an actress.
So then I went to do I keep going?
Yes.
Oh, my God, please.
OK, well, do you want to know more about my home life?
I mean, do I know how much my mom's house cost?
Do you have the number on you?
As a matter of fact, we do.
She bought it for like $60,000.
And I think now it's worth $90,000 in Rockford, Illinois.
It's a very small bungalow.
OK.
That was an unbelievable read of what the show is.
Yeah.
But I mean.
I'm about to pull it up on Zillow.
I thought you were going to say 600 grand.
30 grand?
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, in 50 years.
Jeez.
It didn't go up much.
OK.
But it's, you know, Rockford is the second biggest city in Illinois.
It's the home of Cheap Trick.
OK.
Which, you know, but as I grew up, I had jobs in addition to the theater.
I worked.
I mowed lawns.
You mowed lawns?
You did?
Hell yeah.
OK.
I edged them.
You know, like a manual edger.
I'm a dirtbag.
Yeah.
I had paper routes.
I actually got in trouble once because I had like a few paper routes.
I had like the Rockford Register Star, which is like the legit paper.
But then I had those like other ones that were free that people would yell at
me for giving them.
Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I remember one winter, I was like standing on a corner waiting for my mom
to pick me up.
And I was just like dropping the paper.
Because people were yelling at me.
So I would like give them the paper and a woman would come out and be like, do
you see this address?
Don't ever come to this house again.
And so I was sitting on a corner, standing on a corner, and I was just kind of
dropping the papers from my little sack in front of me and then kicking them
into the sewer.
Yeah, I respect that.
But looking up like it's not happening.
Exactly.
And some old person called the city on me.
And then I got in trouble.
So I had a lot of jobs.
At what age did you start working?
Probably 12, I guess.
Were you contributing to the household with that?
No, no, no, no.
It was just like pocket money.
It was money for me to like buy my Benetton, you know, stuff and Esprit and
whatever I wanted.
Sure, a couple of Bengals tapes, I got you.
I'm with you.
I was more into the Smiths, you know, that kind of thing.
Did you have a Morrissey poster in your room?
No, in m