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- Hi, I'm Taryn Killam
and I'm here with AV Club.

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There are a couple of new
physical skills I had to learn.

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I'm on stilts. I'm on what's
called painter stilts when I'm

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the night of knee, and I ride
a ladder as the enchanter Tim.

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So there's a lot of physical stuff there.

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I hadn't done like real
choreography in a while.

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And, and the number of
Camelot, there's a couple

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of big musical numbers
that I get to actually like

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attempt some true dance choreography in.

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And sort of like some
of my happiest memories

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through this process is leaving
rehearsal, walking down,

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you know, like Park Avenue, like listening

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to the soundtrack, trying

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to remember the steps I
just learned that day,

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and just walking and then
suddenly like shuffling

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to the side and doing
a, you know, doing a,

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a shuffle ball change.

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And like, then immediately
having to avoid traffic

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because there's a 41-year-old
man myself practicing dance

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on the sidewalk of Manhattan.

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The Amanda Show was like my
first gig out of high school.

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I, I literally booked the
Amanda show my, my last week

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of high school and almost
couldn't accept the job

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because it, it, it interfered
with rehearsal for graduation.

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But the producers of the
show were so generous.

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They said, we, we will make sure

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you can make your graduation.

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We'll even book a car

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to take you there, so
you're there on time.

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And they were just, you know, and it was

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what I'd been training to do.

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I went to an arts high
school in Los Angeles.

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I went to Laa and

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so I'd been training
to work professionally.

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So yeah, the, the Amanda
Show was such a lovely,

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pleasant experience and
they were so accommodating.

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And I was like, well, yes, I'll say yes,

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but I still had to miss the rehearsal.

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And the rules of the high
school at that time were

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that if you weren't there for
rehearsal, you couldn't walk.

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So the Amanda show sent me in
a limousine to my graduation,

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and then I sat in the audience

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and watched, watched my
graduation from the audience

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of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

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Favorite host for me
is probably Jim Carrey.

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He's my comedy hero.

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And, and I got a sketch on the
first time he hosted when I

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was there and we got to perform
physical comedy together.

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And that's like a memory I will carry

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with me for the rest of my life.

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Emma Stone was another favorite.

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I got my first sketch on
that I wrote with Emma Stone

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and she just hosted recently,
which is really cool.

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So she has a special place in my heart.

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And then when Michael Keaton hosted,

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that was a really big deal.

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It was my birthday week, Bobby

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and I ended up being
co-authors of his monologue

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where we forced him to play
Batman and Beetlejuice with us

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'cause we're adult children

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and in a constant state
of arrested development.

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But that was another great one.

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But, but probably favorite
all time. Jim Carrey.

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Yes, I would do more
single parents in a minute.

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I feel like story-wise, we
ended on a pretty like, fun and,

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and and hopeful cliffhanger.

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That, that certainly
feels unresolved to me.

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And again, similarly to spam Aott the cast

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of single parents, I just, I
loved being with those people.

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I would do, I would do
single parents forever if,

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if they let us, and I'll say
that it was a casualty of,

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of the pandemic,

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but still have not given up
hope for a revival of that.