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What was the impact of 'Mike & Molly' on Billy Gardell's career?
Never going back. What do you need me to do, dude? What do you need me to do?
But she was, to her credit, dude, she came in. Even the night after she got nominated for an Academy Award, the next day she came in, she had coffee on her shirt, her hair's up in a bun. She's bitching about the pickup line at school. I go, we're fine.
Yeah.
We're fine. And she stayed that way the whole time. And we still all get together like once a month to have a little lunch and talk about where everybody's at and where everybody's kids are. And it's nice.
God, see, I mean, I can think of like five times just off the top of my head. I wonder sometimes if I enjoy female comedy more. Especially like sketch, sketch or acting. I feel like women like Kate McKinnon. Kate McKinnon's a killer too. Yeah. I don't know her. I just know her work. Melissa McCarthy in that movie with Jason Bateman, fake ID or what is it called? Yeah. Stolen identity.
Stolen identity theft. Yeah. No, she was wonderful, man.
There's a scene where I think she hits him over the head with a guitar.
Well, she's violent by nature. That's all she loves. And what we did, the way they capitalized on her improv talent, the third year was really cool because we would do a couple takes the way it was written. And then they would say, okay, let's give her one to see whatever she's going to come up with.
And then I would just tell her, don't tell me anything you're going to do so that I can have a natural reaction to it. And man, she was just fun to watch and fearless, dude. She would do the stunts. She would fall down the steps and she would slip and fall in the corner. And I'm like, get a guy. I'll be over in the corner with my coffee. I'll thank him for coming in, take a picture with him.
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