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" I'm a huge 'Bachelor' fan! "
Lauren Lapkus
Fan
Huge
Bachelor
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" My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me. "
Lauren Lapkus
Humor
Good
Myself
" I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school. "
Lauren Lapkus
Clown
School
Think
" The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion. "
Lauren Lapkus
Comedy
Passion
Storytelling
" The audition process for 'Are You There, Chelsea?' was overwhelming and exciting. It was my first pilot season and one of the first pilots I auditioned for. "
Lauren Lapkus
Process
Pilot
First
" Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are. "
Lauren Lapkus
Funny
Women
Know
" I feel like that would be pretty strange to meet a voice actor as a kid. "
Lauren Lapkus
Feel
Voice
Kid
" I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it. "
Lauren Lapkus
Joy
People
Moments
" I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters. "
Lauren Lapkus
Get
Kind
Personal
" So many of my characters have really crazy physicalities, so it's really fun to be able to say, like, 'I'm an elf who's the size of a dollar bill!' "
Lauren Lapkus
Like
Crazy
Say
" I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure. "
Lauren Lapkus
Spot
I Love
Like
" That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself. "
Lauren Lapkus
Time
Fun
Character
" Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me. "
Lauren Lapkus
Best
Confidence
College
" I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah. "
Lauren Lapkus
Love
Mall
Stern
" Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true. "
Lauren Lapkus
Come
Dream
Getting
" I'm really thankful for my improv background. "
Lauren Lapkus
Improv
Thankful
Background
" I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up. "
Lauren Lapkus
Teacher
Chicago
Kind
" I was invited to do an all-female improv festival in Portland called All Jane, No Dick. The person running it asked me if I had a female improv team, and I just said yes and then figured out who I would want to bring with me. We had such a fun show together that we decided that we should keep doing it. "
Lauren Lapkus
Me
Together
Fun
" You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it's going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing fully to a character, it's not as funny. It doesn't have that clear point of view, and you find yourself wandering all over the place, whereas committed characters make strong choices that are clear to the audience. "
Lauren Lapkus
View
Myself
Character
" Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy. "
Lauren Lapkus
Love
Life
Comedy
" Doing 'Comedy Bang! Bang!,' you have to play at the top of your abilities, so it is so fun to get that opportunity. I've grown a lot as a performer just working with those guys. "
Lauren Lapkus
You
Comedy
Doing
" I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems. "
Lauren Lapkus
Forget
New York
Love
" When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable. "
Lauren Lapkus
Growing Up
Sitcom
Up
" I think that by doing the podcast, I've grown to actually enjoy hosting a little more and realize that my role is a bit of a host, even though I thought I was totally avoiding that by creating this construct. But hosting a late night show has never really been a goal of mine in particular, but it could be fun. "
Lauren Lapkus
Enjoy
Thought
Think
" I live for watching TV and partying with my book club. "
Lauren Lapkus
Club
Live
Watching
" I'm more of a tomboy - I fall into the jeans-and-a-T-shirt style, for sure - but I have a girlie side to me. "
Lauren Lapkus
Style
Side
Fall
" I've done 70 different characters on my podcast. But in terms of characters that I revisit a lot, I think there are 10 that I know more in-depth. "
Lauren Lapkus
Done
Different
Think
" Doing improv really got me started in my whole career. "
Lauren Lapkus
Got
Started
Me
" I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person. "
Lauren Lapkus
Play
Think
Sweet
" Most people have kind of done something that could put them in jail at least for one night. "
Lauren Lapkus
People
Done
Jail
" The secret to podcast success is sticking with it and making it fun for yourself. "
Lauren Lapkus
Yourself
Fun
Success