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Show Host

Let me feel that. Welcome to the other show. I'm Michael Us that we've got so much to talk about. Tonight, the news gets a chance to scare us again. John Leguizamo takes on the Supreme Court. And if you're watching this on the toilet with diarrhea, what a great audience. If you're watching this on the toilet with diarrhea, you're not alone.

Co-host/Interviewer

Hey, let's get into the head. Hey, America, how you feeling?

Michael Costa

Good.

Co-host/Interviewer

Is your tummy okay? Well, enjoy it while it lasts. This is not a happy morning topic.

Guest/Commentator

Explosive diarrhea afflicting more than 3,000 people.

The parasite is called cyclospora. So far, 3,000 cases have been reported in 32 states. The symptoms are nasty, to say the least. Expensive explosive diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, muscle aches, debilitating fatigue.

Co-host/Interviewer

You know, honestly, you could have just stopped at explosive diarrhea. Muscle aches aren't an issue at that point. I'm not gonna be sitting on the toilet shitting my brains out like, and my biceps are sore. Seriously, this is not a helpful list. These are also all the symptoms for being over 35. I had a piece of cake at my kid's. I had every single one of these. But I will say, butthole Covid really does sound awful.

Molly Shannon

It was really bad. There were moments where I was literally just camped out in the bathroom.

John Leguizamo

And, like, I don't care.

Narrator/Advertiser

I'm just gonna lay on this floor.

Co-host/Interviewer

Uh, anyway, you're gonna blur my face and change my voice before this airs, right? I'm not gonna be the face of lying on the floor pooping to death, right? I'm just joking. She's actually sharing her experience to raise awareness. She shouldn't be embarrassed. It's these clout chasing Tiktokers who should be embarrassed.

Molly Shannon

I eat healthy and I end up

Guest/Commentator

getting diarrhea for seven days straight. Like bam. All day on the toilet.

Molly Shannon

The cramping, the stomach pain.

Co-host/Interviewer

The worst thing about this was I felt disgusting. Yeah, that's. That's how diarrhea works. It's disgusting. It'd be even str. I had diarrhea for five days and man, did I feel sexy. By the way, we shouldn't even be talking about how you felt when you had diarrhea. Tiktokers, can I have a quick word with you over here? Hey, Chat. You don't have to share everything. You can always ask yourself, did anyone ask me if I had explosive diarrhea? If the answer is no, do what you couldn't do last week and hold it in. Now you might be wondering, where does this parasite come from? Well, one company is taking responsibility.

Guest/Commentator

Taco Bell, saying they have voluntarily removed some ingredients at select locations as the foodborne parasite cyclospiriasis rapidly spreads across the

Co-host/Interviewer

U.S. yeah, well, I guess we should have known. They did just come out with their new Dioritos locos tacos. So Taco Bell's been giving people the parasite. I'm glad we cleared that up. Case closed.

Guest/Commentator

The company stating public health officials have not confirmed a link to Taco Bell or any specific ingredient supplier, restaurant or retailer, adding they will closely monitor the situation.

Co-host/Interviewer

Wait, so Taco Bell didn't cause this? They just heard explosive diarrhea and they were like, yeah, that must have been us.

Show Host

We'll take

Co-host/Interviewer

actually, turns out no one is sure where it's coming from. And our media isn't helping us figure it out from using these terrifying red outbreak maps highlighting basically all the states high tech graphics of the supposed parasite cell. And when that seems scary enough, filling an entire screen with just four words, Weeks of severe diarrhea. I'm so scared by these graphics. By the time I get the parasite, I'll have already shit myself. By the way, how come every time there's a pandemic or outbreak, they show us these close up headshots of the virus like it's a wanted poster. Like I'm gonna see the parasite on the street and be like, hey, it's the guy from the news.

Show Host

Get him,

Molly Shannon

please.

Co-host/Interviewer

News? You don't need to convince us that explosive diarrhea is bad. We're on board already. Just tell us what we can do to avoid getting this parasite. We'll do anything.

Molly Shannon

Wash the lettuce under running water.

Co-host/Interviewer

Yeah, I'm Out. I'm not doing that.

Show Host

I'm not doing that.

Co-host/Interviewer

You're adding chores to eating a salad. Eating a salad is the choreography. I'm not washing lettuce. I'll give fruit a quick rinse. Will that help?

Molly Shannon

I would let it run over these.

Guest/Commentator

How long?

Molly Shannon

Probably for about five or six minutes.

Show Host

Five to six minutes?

Co-host/Interviewer

It's a kitchen, not an AI data center. Okay, so fruit's out, lettuce is out. I guess I'll be grocery shopping at the gas station until the CDC gets a handle on cyclospora. By the way, why hasn't the CDC gotten a handle on this cyclospora?

Comedy Central Announcer

The CDC is also tackling the outbreak with fewer staff because it had cuts to its funding. Last year, the CDC actually scaled back a decades long federal state partnership that monitors foodborne illnesses, including those caused by cyclospora.

Narrator/Advertiser

Hmm.

Co-host/Interviewer

Okay, let me see if I can track this. We cut the funding for the program that tracks forever diarrhea, and now people are getting forever diarrhea. Let me see if I can figure this out. I don't see any connection. All I saw were these complicated math equations. But hold on. If we're cutting the funding that prevents Americans from getting the disease that turns our guts inside out, where exactly is is our money?

Narrator/Advertiser

An internal Pentagon estimate puts the cost

Molly Shannon

of the war with Iran at between

Narrator/Advertiser

80 and $100 billion.

Guest/Commentator

That marking a significant increase from the

Narrator/Advertiser

roughly $30 billion estimated just three months ago.

Co-host/Interviewer

Oh, I see. Looks like our military budget also has diarrhea. Well, America, I'm sorry to say, but the money it takes to blow up Iran is the reason we're blowing up our own bathrooms. It's like how our grandparents grew their own crops to support the troops during World War II. Except our version of this is power washing the toilet with our butthole.

Show Host

So

Co-host/Interviewer

when you hit week three of Hell Squirts, remember, you're doing it for Uncle Sam.

Show Host

When we come back, John Leguizamo gives us his opinion. Don't go away.

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Show Host

Welcome back to the other show.

Co-host/Interviewer

We all know I've got great opinions, but I'm not the only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions. So here with another installment of In My Opinion is our good friend, John Leguizamo.

Show Host

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

John Leguizamo

Yo, yo, yo. What's up? What's up? I'm John Leguizamo, theater legend, civil rights icon, and breakout star of the Odyssey, and most importantly, proud American by way of Colombia.

Show Host

Gracias.

John Leguizamo

Gracias. Now, I came to Los Tados Unidos as a very adorable child and then became a citizen. But one of the cool things about this country is that if you're born here, no matter where your parents are from, you're automatically a citizen. You're free to do all the things that Americans are allowed to do, Like both, like serve in Congress or light a bus on fire when the Knicks win in five. Wait, you're not allowed to do that. All right, my bad. Now, not everyone thinks this birthright citizenship is a good thing, but luckily it's in the Constitution. And I was certain that when it got challenged recently, that the Supreme Court would uphold it 9 to 0. The Supreme Court, with just a narrow

Guest/Commentator

majority, ruled that Donald Trump's effort to undo birthright citizenship was unconstitutional.

John Leguizamo

The decision was 636363. How was that not unanimous? This is the kind of thing you want everybody to be aboard with, like a threesome. Y' all are dirty. Or in the case of the Supreme Court, a nine sum. Okay, I'm sorry I put that in your heads. Alito sits in the cuck chair. You know, it's called birthright citizenship. Either you're born here or you're not. There's no gray area. It's not like the duty free shop at LaGuardia. Birthright citizenship has been in the Constitution since the 14th Amendment in 1868. It's literally older than the light bulb, the zipper in Mitch McConnell. Barely. But when the ruling came down, Constitution loving conservatives started freaking out.

Co-host/Interviewer

It's the legalization of an invasion of America.

Guest/Commentator

It is an attack on this country, its borders and its people.

Co-host/Interviewer

Demographic destruction.

Comedy Central Announcer

It essentially just handed out birthright citizenship to millions of Chinese birth tourists.

John Leguizamo

No, wrong. It didn't just do anything. It's continuing a right that already existed. It's like if they ruled that Jersey is still a state. I mean, I'm not happy about it either, but there's nothing. Nothing's changed. Look, it's not like the 14th amendment is confusing. It says all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. Forget hooked on phonics. You could understand that sentence if you were hooked on crack. My God, you don't need to translate it into a modern language like that. Some kind of ancient Greek text that's getting an incredible adaptation, in theaters this weekend. But the. The point is, America works on the Olive Garden rule. When you're here, you're family.

Show Host

Like these breadsticks. Garlicky.

John Leguizamo

Now, the Trump administration says that we're not talking about all children of immigrants. We're only saying birthright citizenship doesn't apply to children of people here illegally or temporarily. But how far back do you want to take that? Because at some point, every white person was here illegally. So Trump's case got shot down for now, but it's pretty clear that his people plan to make another run at this and to sway public opinion. They're conjuring up some pretty wild scenarios.

Guest/Commentator

The idea that you could have a cruise ship filled with foreigners and they just dock at a port for an hour and someone has a baby. Jesse, the baby's an American citizen.

Show Host

What?

John Leguizamo

Having a baby in an hour? Forget birthright citizenship. I don't think you understand how birth works.

Guest/Commentator

It's.

John Leguizamo

That's not a cruise excursion. You can't just pop into port and squeeze out a baby while getting cornrows. And their fear mongering over birthright citizenship isn't just about taking white people's jobs or exposing them to food that has flavor. They're also claiming it's about national security.

Comedy Central Announcer

So this is a huge national security threat. And births, rights, citizenship. It's not random. It's organized. Chinese birth tourists come to America, have their kid in America, on American soil, have no allegiance to the United States.

Guest/Commentator

They could populate Detroit, or they could populate a swing state and swing an election with just a few hundred thousand votes.

John Leguizamo

Yeah, swing this.

Show Host

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

John Leguizamo

If you're concerned about democracy, don't worry about 100,000 Chinese kids swinging an election in 20 years. Worry about the 1 trillionaire with 100,000 kids doing that right now. And this, this isn't even a cost effective way to steal an election. Do you know how much kids cost today? The Chinese government's gotta be like, we just wanted to. To take over America, and now we're on the hook for 100,000 private piano lessons. That's not even the craziest theory they're putting out there either.

Guest/Commentator

We have people from all over the world, from third world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel, and they can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby's automatically a citizen. That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you, and sit in judgment of me, and sit in judgment of our loved ones.

John Leguizamo

Okay, okay. First of all, I do like knowing that Stephen Miller worries he might actually be put on trial someday. Oh, I can't wait to know him, Burke. That mother. But also, a baby who sits on a jury when he turns 18 is not a baby anymore.

Show Host

Okay?

John Leguizamo

Although that could be pretty cute. We, the jury, find you adorable. We sentence you to the erectic chair. My God, these conservatives are just making up the most ridiculous anti American plots. The Chinese could take over Detroit. The Mexicans could all come in a cruise ship. The Greeks could send a giant wooden horse as a gift and then leap out at night. I'm telling you, you gotta see this on imax. It's incredible. The point is, these people call themselves conservatives, but they're actually kind of radical. They wanna change the way we've understood citizenship for nearly 200 years. So we're now wasting the Supreme Court's valuable time on birthright citizenship when they could be doing better things like going on a billionaire funded golf junket. The tragedy of this is that we're rehashing questions that were already answered, looking backwards when we should be looking forwards. Because we have more important questions to answer today, like how do we speed up the naturalization process? How do we help people seeking asylum? And most importantly, how do we get tickets to see the Odyssey opening this Friday in a theater near you.

Show Host

But hey, that's just my opinion. John Lozago, everybody. We come back. Molly Shannon will be joining the show. Don't go away.

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Show Host

Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a comedy legend,

Co-host/Interviewer

an Emmy nominated actor who stars in the new Netflix series the Hawk.

Show Host

Please welcome Miley Shannon. Come on. I will

Co-host/Interviewer

cut your dick in two on a brioche bun.

Molly Shannon

Oh, my God. Word for word. That's what they wrote for me because people asked me if I improvised, and

Co-host/Interviewer

I was like, nope, not that one.

Molly Shannon

Will Ferrell and his team of writers. That is exactly what they wrote. And it was fun to perform also.

Co-host/Interviewer

What an honor for them to write those words, knowing you're gonna be excited to say those words.

Molly Shannon

I know exactly the Hawk.

Co-host/Interviewer

You know, you play a very mean wife.

Molly Shannon

Yes.

Co-host/Interviewer

I've only known you for 35 seconds, but you seem. And you have a reputation of being a nice person. How were you able to play mean so well? Is. Do you hate Will that much?

Molly Shannon

I know. That's so funny. Well, when Will asked me to do it, I was on the phone and he goes, molly, can you play my wife in this TV show? And you have to yell at me? And I said, yes, of course. Because it's Will Ferrell. Like, of course. You just say yes. You don't look at a script, you say yes. But in all honesty, I was like, really? You think I'm right for that? And it requires real acting ability because Will and I are so close in real life that we are thick as thieves. We've been friends for 30 years. We're such good, good buddies. And so it's. It's hard.

Co-host/Interviewer

What's the key to you guys being good teammates together? Because, I mean, I remember watching you together in snl.

Molly Shannon

Yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

And that in this whole series, is it that you support each other?

Molly Shannon

How do you do that exactly? Very, very. We really support one another. We knew one another years ago when we were first starting out in comedy doing, you know, little gigs at comedy club sketches. And, yeah, he came into my restaurant. I waited on him. We met through a mutual friend. So We.

Co-host/Interviewer

You were working at a coffee shop.

Molly Shannon

I worked at a coffee shop.

Co-host/Interviewer

And was Will a famous actor yet?

Molly Shannon

No, he was just doing the Groundlings Comedy school. And I worked across the street at Mellon Rose Baking Company. And a friend said, I really think you're gonna like this guy Will. And I go, yeah, bring him over to my restaurant. And he came in.

Co-host/Interviewer

And it's funny. When I go to coffee shops in la, I think, look at all these losers. But really, I should be saying, these could be the next Molly Shannon and Will Ferrells hanging out here.

Guest/Commentator

Yeah.

Molly Shannon

That's so funny.

Co-host/Interviewer

You write about a lot in your book.

Molly Shannon

Yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

Which? Man, I love your memoir. You're so open and honest. There's so many funny stories. So many of your characters have this physical toughness attribute.

Molly Shannon

Interesting, right?

Co-host/Interviewer

Even that clip, you're going like this. I love Mary Kathryn Gallagher. I mean, she's constantly.

Molly Shannon

Thank you. Yeah, yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

It's hard not to just. Just do superstar when I see you.

Molly Shannon

Yeah.

Show Host

Oh, good.

Molly Shannon

I love that.

Co-host/Interviewer

Do you approach a character wanting to use your body in a physical way?

Molly Shannon

I think it was the smartest question

Co-host/Interviewer

you've ever heard from anybody.

Show Host

I love that.

Molly Shannon

Do I approach it wanting to use my body? No, I don't really think about that. But I do think that after our. You know, my mom died when I was little, we were in a car accident, and I think I had a recklessness when I did comedy where I just didn't care. I would be so wild when I did Mary Catherine Gallagher. I did it in my stage show, and I would definitely hurt myself. My legs would bleed. I would. In the stage show, I would climb the rafters. I would do crazy improvs, and I felt nothing. And then I would wake up in the morning, I'm like, oh, my God. I'm like, bruised and cut. And I kind of treated it like punk rock. But I had a recklessness. Cause I think I went through trauma when I was little, so I just didn't care. I thought of it like, just. I just didn't care. But I would say, and Sally o' Malley is kind of me imitating my dad. It's like a character who looks kind of like she's limping, she's weak, but then she can kick. You know, it's like she has power. So it was basically.

Show Host

Thank you. Thank you.

Co-host/Interviewer

Are we still able to act with that physicality? I mean. I mean, look, my back hurts. Sitting here for 30 minutes, my back hurts.

Molly Shannon

That's so funny.

Co-host/Interviewer

Are you still able to Superstar It.

Molly Shannon

And yes, I can still do it. But I was gonna say, so that character is basically because my dad had a brace on his leg after our car accident. It's kind of like I'm doing an impression of when I was little. My dad couldn't walk fast. I couldn't jump on his lap because he was injured. So I think it's like, it's supposed to be kind of like I may look, I look weak, I look like I'm limping. But it was like my wish for him to kick the braces off his legs. Like, be strong. Like I can you all.

Co-host/Interviewer

Yeah, I mean, you know what I mean?

Molly Shannon

Kind of like he's a powerhouse. Sorry to swear.

Co-host/Interviewer

Even tying this trauma from your childhood into a character years later at snl, it's like when we watch you, it has a therapeutic release. I don't know if it's for you. It is for us, but they're so grounded in reality.

Molly Shannon

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. But to answer.

Co-host/Interviewer

Is that the second most important question?

Show Host

I love it. I love it.

Molly Shannon

But I was gonna say, to answer your question, like, when I went back for the 50th, I thought they might want me to do Sally O'. Malley. Cause she's 50. It's the 50th. And I was like, oh, God, can I still do this? And so I definitely exercise and stretch and swim. And I want to make sure I can still do that because it's not. It's, you know. Yeah. It takes physical ability.

Co-host/Interviewer

I'm from Michigan.

Molly Shannon

Oh, my gosh.

Co-host/Interviewer

You're from Ohio.

Molly Shannon

I'm from Ohio.

Co-host/Interviewer

I'm always rooting for all Midwest people to make it in show business.

Molly Shannon

Oh, my God, I love it. Yeah.

Show Host

Yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

The hardest I ever saw my father laugh. Okay, I know the two times. And I'll share with you the two times. And you have not asked, but I'll be happy to share.

Molly Shannon

Ok.

Co-host/Interviewer

The second hardest he ever laughed was when we were watching A Fish Called Wanda together.

Molly Shannon

Yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

And he fell off the couch laughing. The hardest I ever saw him laugh was when you did Jeanie Darcy, the stand up comic in the old person's home, who has this confidence even though she's not really good at stand up comedy and people are literally dying around her.

Molly Shannon

Dying, dying.

Co-host/Interviewer

I just want to share with you how much joy that my father's no longer with us. But I think of him laughing like that and isn't that cool? I get to talk to you. You're Jeannie Darcy. Yes, yes.

Show Host

The great men of The.

Molly Shannon

I love that your dad. That's really cool that he loved that because that was kind of toward the end of my run on snl and I was so tired of getting laughs all the time. I was like, it's hard.

Co-host/Interviewer

That's bomb.

John Leguizamo

On purpose.

Molly Shannon

Comedy's hard. I think Conan said it once. He's like, do you know how exhausting it is to constantly be thinking of comedy bits or to be funny? I'm actually a little more serious in real life. But that character was a reaction to. I want to do a character that's like a terrible comic. She does not get laughs. I did it almost as a creative exercise, like a bad stand up who's really awkward and should not be in the field of show business, but she keeps trying. And so it was based on that. And I really just did it to make Will Ferrell and Jimmy Fallon laugh. And so Scott Wainio wrote that sketch in the old age home where people are dying and she doesn't even care. She keeps doing her act.

Co-host/Interviewer

Yeah. I mean, as a stand up comic myself, I've done hard work and I think, well, it can't be as bad as Jeannie Darcy.

John Leguizamo

I mean, that's.

Molly Shannon

Let me ask you a question.

Co-host/Interviewer

Do you feel you're not allowed to ask me questions?

Molly Shannon

Do you feel, Michael, like, comedy and joking is a way to. Do you look at it as, like, wanting to bring people closer or to push people away?

Co-host/Interviewer

Well, I think for me, I mean, if we're gonna do this shit, let's get into it. I'm the youngest of four, and I truly think, even at this age, I'm just trying to get my parents to pay attention to me.

Molly Shannon

Aw, is that right? Both of them?

Co-host/Interviewer

Yeah, both of them. And I think it was a busy house. A lot was going on. You felt loved, but there's just a lot going on. Molly?

Molly Shannon

Yeah. Four kids. Sure.

Co-host/Interviewer

Yeah. And I remember, like, the very first time I ever got a laugh, I was like, oh, this is good. They're actually looking at me and want me to talk. Awesome, right?

Show Host

So.

Co-host/Interviewer

But comedy takes on a therapeutic element.

Molly Shannon

What was your first joke, though? Where you got them to laugh or what, when you were a little kid,

Co-host/Interviewer

like, the first joke that got them to laugh.

Show Host

The first time.

Molly Shannon

The first time you made them laugh and realize, like, ooh, that's good.

Co-host/Interviewer

On stage or. My family.

Molly Shannon

In your family?

Co-host/Interviewer

Yeah. My. My brother and I used to do Michael Jackson moonwalk impersonations. And I remember. I remember seeing them be excited and laugh with us, so that was fun. But enough about me.

Molly Shannon

That's sweet.

Co-host/Interviewer

Do you feel the Midwest shaped you at all?

Guest/Commentator

Yes.

Co-host/Interviewer

Where you're at, Tell me how, because I love sharing. If there's anyone from the Midwest listening, I want them to know, like, you can still make it in showbiz.

Molly Shannon

Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of funny people that come from the Midwest. And we grew up in a double house. We split paper towels in half. And my dad would have us sneak into the pool so we didn't have to pay. He would say. Say you're, you know, under 13. We would, you know, and then we'd go to Geauga Lake and he would want us to hop the fence so we didn't have to pay. And so it was like, you know, almonds snowing. And I just feel like Midwestern. I feel like there's good values from Ohio, and I try to bring those in Michigan, and I try to bring those. That politeness to show business. I think I treat Lorne Michaels, he probably thinks of me as a very Midwestern girl. I'm polite, you know, and grateful, I would say.

Co-host/Interviewer

And you just. Even just from watching you interact, you treat everybody with a level of respect. To me, that seems Midwest. Yes, yes.

Guest/Commentator

Yeah.

Molly Shannon

And I think when people get really miserable in show business, where they're snapping or, you know, being nasty to people, I get like, they must be unhappy. Like, you know. Yeah, that's. I don't want to be like that. I come from knowing the value of. I started out working in restaurants. I bused tables, and my dad, I remember picking me up after my, you know, restaurant job, and I was like, it's so tired. We have to bust these tables. And he was like, that's how you make a dollar. And it's important for you to understand that that hard work is. That's, you know, what it takes to make $1. He was tough.

Co-host/Interviewer

And you referenced this in the book a lot, which I was so thankful of. You were grinding out, getting people to show up to your one woman show.

Molly Shannon

Yeah, yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

And I was like, that's how a Midwesterner works.

Molly Shannon

Yes, exactly.

Michael Costa

I love that.

Molly Shannon

And also, I think it was important, too. I was like, you know, it doesn't matter what happens. I'm doing what I love. I'm doing my show. This is very meaningful. You know, I was working in restaurants, but I'm passionate and I get to do that. And I was really into creative visualization. I would write stuff in the present as if it already existed. Like I am on Saturday Night Live. I'm making millions of people laugh. I wrote it in a book. I have a book that I wrote all that. And I would buy people tickets who couldn't afford it because I truly believed that the money would come back to me. So I was very into, like a spiritual process practice with my comedy. Yes. Isn't that interesting?

Co-host/Interviewer

And then I also love. In the book, you then say, and then after a while, I realized this wasn't paying off, so I said this and I took a year off.

Show Host

And then you got snl.

Molly Shannon

Yes.

Show Host

Yes.

Co-host/Interviewer

I used to write in my tennis notebook, I will respond well to pressure.

Molly Shannon

I like that you did. I will.

Co-host/Interviewer

But then I would double fault on match point.

Show Host

So it was kind of like, oh,

Co-host/Interviewer

my God, you experienced such a tragedy at a young age.

Molly Shannon

Yes.

Co-host/Interviewer

You're age 4. You lost your mom, your sister, and your cousin in a car accident.

Molly Shannon

Yes.

Co-host/Interviewer

But thank you. You are this positive ray of light. It feels like a lover of your life. How did you do that?

Molly Shannon

That is so hard. It was very hard.

Co-host/Interviewer

How did you choose? Because people experience tragedy and maybe don't do that.

Molly Shannon

Yeah, I think it was like, it gives me, like, I was very sad. I only had my mom for four years. But it gives you a gift of life and appreciation of like, oh, I'm so glad I at least had her for four years. And it gives you a kind of resilience where you can. I could handle the punches in show business because I was like, nothing will ever be as hard as that. Like, it was just like such a loss. And it informs how I am as a parent. Like, I can't believe I'm alive in my house and I live far beyond the years of my mother. And I just think, like, I think of life really like, this is it like you're padding up. It's like a kind of urgency for life and time with people. And your time is your life. So it gives you this almost gratefulness. Does that make sense? And I was very close to my dad, and so the stories of your

Co-host/Interviewer

dad in your book are tremendous.

Molly Shannon

Thank you.

John Leguizamo

Thank you.

Co-host/Interviewer

What an awesome guy who supported you in so many ways. And I just, I am so thankful of your memoir because you were open and vulnerable and. And thank you for writing that.

Molly Shannon

Thank you. Thank you.

Co-host/Interviewer

Few more things.

Molly Shannon

Yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

You've really been generous with your time.

Michael Costa

Good, good.

Co-host/Interviewer

Your daughter just graduated from Tisch.

Show Host

Yes.

Co-host/Interviewer

She wants to be an actress.

Molly Shannon

Yes.

Co-host/Interviewer

Ok. Isn't that amazing?

Show Host

Yes. Yes.

Co-host/Interviewer

Does she have to do the same things that you did to make it has it changed all these years? What advice have you given her? And does she even listen to you?

Molly Shannon

Because your mom and I want to say too, my son Nolan is in college and he's an amazing surfer. I like talking about bragging about both my kids.

Co-host/Interviewer

Also you post these awesome videos of him surfing.

Molly Shannon

I know, so cool. Yeah, he's so, so good. Stella, I just asked her, I talked to her on the phone right before I came on and I go, can you think of advice I give you? And she said yes, because it is harder now because they have to put the actors on stage, they self tape so they can cast a much wider net seeing so many more people than when I was breaking into showbiz where we had to go in in person. So she said that I tell her that, look, if you know how to write, if you're an actress who knows how to write, write because you have more power. And then the second thing I say is, you know, just keep putting yourself out there. Try not to take it personally because you never know what they're gonna look for. So just be yourself. Don't feel like you have to try to be what they want. Be yourself, do a good job, do what you think would be right for the part and then let it go because you just don't know. It could be nothing personal.

Co-host/Interviewer

How do you teach these kids toughness and grit? I got a six and a three year old. Oh yeah, I want to be rich, I want to fly first class, I want to have a ski house. But if I do all that, they're going to be soft.

Molly Shannon

Oh my gosh.

Co-host/Interviewer

You had this childhood where there's something very difficult happened that maybe influenced you and gave you some grit. But how do you give a kid grit?

Molly Shannon

I know, that is so interesting. I mean it's all I could think about is what my dad, dad would tell me. So I think he definitely, you know, I came out to LA on my own with my own money that I made from waitressing and I rented a wreck and I just rented a cheap apartment and so I really had to like go broke and you know, really live on very little. So that was a good lesson because it was like, you know, so I think that was good that he really made me learn about money on my own because just kind of threw me out there.

Co-host/Interviewer

But of course figure it out.

Molly Shannon

If I really did need money, he would help me. But, but he really did. I did try on my own with the money. I was always bouncing checks and I didn't know that much about that. And I remember going to the bank and I would ask what my balance was. I was like, what is my balance? My checking out. And. And I would be like, can you say softly? Because it was always like negative, you know, bouncing checks and, you know. Yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

I used to always pull the ATM receipts in LA out of the bank trash can because you'd see these guys getting like this expensive car and then you would see they have like $14 in the bank, you know, so everyone is. A lot of people were lying about how much money they were making.

Molly Shannon

Yeah. One thing I was going to say too, I got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recently.

Guest/Commentator

Yes.

Molly Shannon

Thank you.

Show Host

I think we have a. I think we have a picture of that.

Co-host/Interviewer

You did superstar on the.

Molly Shannon

Oh yeah.

Co-host/Interviewer

You did.

Michael Costa

Yeah.

Molly Shannon

I think I might post this speech on my Instagram because I spoke about all the jobs that I had way before I ever got SNL or started getting acting jobs. I worked in so many restaurants and dating services and hostess. And I tell this a lot.

Co-host/Interviewer

Gym memberships.

Molly Shannon

Gym memberships, self club memberships. I just, you know, so if I act normal, it's. Cause I'm always still driving by, looking at like help wanted signs. It feels like it was just around the corner. I'm not kidding. So I think that I like to share to college kids of like, you don't have to have it all figured out right away. It's really hard. It takes time. It's little baby steps and you know, these little jobs, you know, it just can take so much time. And if you want to pursue your passion on the side, that's great. But so I did that for years and years and years. I did not. I really struggled and I. So I do share that with college kids and they appreciate it. And I'm gonna put that on my Instagram because I talk about every job I had and it's a lot of jobs in restaurants.

Co-host/Interviewer

Also college kids oftentimes at the commencement they hear from a successful person and it feels like it went from commencement to success instead of the 28 years of bouncing checks and working at cravings and selling blueberry muffins or whatever you were doing.

Michael Costa

Exactly.

Molly Shannon

Yeah, exactly.

Co-host/Interviewer

The Hawk is fantastic. You're so great in it.

Michael Costa

Thank you.

Molly Shannon

It's a great show.

Co-host/Interviewer

Yeah, it is a great show. I think it's. You're just so funny and so wonderful. Thank you for spending time with us today and talking with me.

Show Host

The Hawk premieres July 16th on Netflix. Molly Shannon, take quick break. We're right back after this thank you, Molly.

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