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I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.

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Some, Another, Very, Improviser

You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'

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Green, Singing, Imagine, Green Bay

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.

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Embarrassed, Made, Lives, Tina

Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not.

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Mentor, She, Whether, Tina

I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.

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Mentor, Show, Slot, Tina

I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

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Small, Town, Half, Hour And A Half

'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.

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Door, Think, Allow, Bridesmaids

I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.

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City, Took, Became, Contagious

I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.

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Pretty, Like, Ingenue, Goofball

I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.

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Think, Like, I Think, Goofball

I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.

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Distance, Want, Away, Arm

On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.

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Kid, Weekends, Seen, 30 Rock

I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.

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Rock, Writer, Six, 30 Rock

I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.'

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Rock, Loved, Involved, 30 Rock

I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.

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College, Basketball, Track, Volleyball

Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

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Will, Movie, Like, Manage

On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.'

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Boss, Doing, Hi, Runner

I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right?

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College, Other, Weddings, Ran

I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.

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Love, Song, Fan, Base

When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.

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College, Some, Away, Right Away

I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.

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Different Kinds, Kinds, Bonded

No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it.

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Perfect, Might, Could, Sitting

'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.

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Doing, Perfect, Last Year, Different Things

Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.

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New, Very, Las Vegas, New Material

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

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Gig, Could, Putting, Hired

Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.

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Play, Audition, Would, Kay

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

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Purpose, World, Lot, Depressed

Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.

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Business, Mind, Tell, Astronaut

I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times.

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Bring, Like, Times, Thousand Times

When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.

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Moved, Classes, Grad School, Chicago

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