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I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

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Girl, Very, Pure Heart, Earthly

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

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Heat, Handsome, Parking, Flirt

Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.

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Strong, More, Always, Ladies

At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.

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Stairs, Torn, Pantyhose, Confirmation

Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.

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Her, Very, Mine, Tina

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

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College, University, Tennessee

My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

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Similar, About, Mine, Journal

I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.

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Big, Maybe, Putting, Christmas Album

I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.

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Late, Embrace, Going, Bloomer

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

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Door, Think, Very, Convictions

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

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Small, Born, I Was Born, Midwestern

I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.

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Positive, Always, Use, Positive Thing

Twitter is really - I got very addicted to it just because it's so simple, and it's like a video game for comedy writers to just do a one-liner about something.

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Game, Addicted, Very, Video Game

My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.

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Woman, Like, Looked, Journals

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

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Always, About, Felt, Sketches

I grew up where the repercussion of you having an opinion was being 'cocky,' or people would be mad at you. And I have finally learnt that it is better for them to be mad at you and disagree than you be so mad at yourself all of the time for not speaking up.

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Cocky, Finally, Having, Learnt

Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.

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Marathon, Some, Maybe, Toast

If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'

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Trust, Think, Next, Hired

When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.

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Finally, Getting, Lots, Hired

'Hudson Valley Ballers' is just the joy of my life.

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Joy, My Life, Valley, Hudson

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

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Think, I Think, Which, Women Are

All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.

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Work, Other, Assertive, Women Are

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

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School, Florida, Before, Catholic

You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.

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Dress, Gun, Terrifying, Live Tv

I was always a bit of a class clown.

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Clown, Always, Class Clown, Class

I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.

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Dedicated, Worked, Many, Talented

I think, as a woman, you have to really make sure that you're taking care of yourself and make sure that you're covered and you have enough material written for you.

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Woman, Think, I Think, Covered

I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.

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Back, Always, Going, Sister

My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.

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Woman, Always, Looked, Sister

My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.

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Doing, Big, Specialty, Give Me

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