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i've always liked maya and thought she was one of the best durin' her time on snl 
great to hear raphael saadiq is her new show's bandleader
here's the interview/article on her new show on nbc
In a matter of hours, the first—and possibly only—episode of The Maya Rudolph Show will begin filming in front of a live audience on Stage 44 of the Universal Studios lot, and despite the fact that she has some serious doubts about what will transpire once rehearsals are over (at this point in the day, “the show has the potential to suck hard”), Maya Rudolph has gone off script.
“You need to go do some crack?” she breaks character to ask Andy Samberg in response to a line about wanting to use the bathroom. A moment later, she turns to Fred Armisen, who wears his signature look of profound befuddlement.
“We-eeell,” she says in her character’s crazy voice. “I think he just took a deuce.” This time, the set erupts in laughter.
Of course, it’s unlikely that any of this silliness will make it into the final product. But this silliness is very much behind Rudolph’s reasoning for wanting to do a variety show in the first place—an undertaking that seems so earnest and archaic that, in today’s entertainment landscape, only a comic with Rudolph’s experience could hope to pull it off. In fact, she’s wanted to pull it off for years, having initially broached the subject in a meeting shortly after leaving Saturday Night Live in 2007. “Everyone said, ‘I think people love the idea of a variety show, but every time people do them they’re not received well,’ ” she tells me later. “Like, if you say ‘variety show,’ then people think you’re going to come out in a Cher headdress. And I love a Cher headdress—don’t get me wrong. But I didn’t even know how to get it started.”
Instead, she gave birth to three of her four children, voiced a few animated characters, starred in the TV show Up All Night, and appeared in various feature films, including the comedy event of 2011, Bridesmaids. Still, she’d sometimes be watching TV with her kids and stumble across old clips from The Carol Burnett Show, the viewing of which caused a pang of jealousy, even if they were filmed over 35 years ago. “When I left SNL,I wanted to work with my friends,” she says. “That’s what I missed the most. I saw her cracking up with her friends. They seemed like people you wanted to hang out with.”
Which is exactly how Rudolph herself has often seemed. From her first appearance on SNL, playing an MTV VJ in a leather bikini top (“In those days, my boobs were boobs, and not milk sacs that just kind of hang from the front of your body”), her knack for committing to the utter wild-eyed weirdness of her characters allowed for a rabbit-hole experience. Plus, she could sing. She could dance. She cavorted, to hilarious effect. So when Up All Night was “dying a very slow, painful death,” subject to low ratings and an ill-fated attempt to go from being a single-camera show to a multi-camera one, Rudolph went to executive producer Lorne Michaels to raise the subject of her variety show yet again. After the success of The Sound of Music Live, Rudolph says, “I was hopeful they’d be interested in giving it a shot,” and network chairman Bob Greenblatt “is very deeply rooted in musical theater, so he already loved it.” Even so, NBC put the idea in a kind of holding pattern. “Lorne talked about it as a thing we would do with Bob after pilot season, because it was a show that had to be created and wasn’t exactly a sitcom that you could write and then have everyone read. So we waited until NBC got all their ducks in a row with all their other programming. Then they let us do this,” Rudolph says. “And I also had to have my baby. That was the other part. I had to pop out a person.”
Eventually, said baby popped and NBC gave the green light for a one-off, hour-long special to air Monday, May 19, with the possibility of additional episodes in the future. (Unlike The Sound of Music, Rudolph’s variety show won’t be live, although most of it was filmed before an actual audience.) A couple of months ago, Rudolph got an office, started meeting with three writers, and began rounding up a cast that includes SNL cohorts Samberg, Armisen (“My comedy husband”), and Chris Parnell, as well as Craig Robinson, Sean Hayes, Kristen Bell (“My new favorite person”), and musical guest Janelle Monáe. But the cast didn’t gather for a table read until April, and rehearsals have been almost as manically fast-tracked as they were in Rudolph’s SNL days. Part of her fear that this show might “suck hard” is her knowledge that the best bits don’t come together until the cast does. (One sketch was born from an inside joke Rudolph and Armisen have shared for almost a decade.)
great to hear raphael saadiq is her new show's bandleader
here's the interview/article on her new show on nbc
In a matter of hours, the first—and possibly only—episode of The Maya Rudolph Show will begin filming in front of a live audience on Stage 44 of the Universal Studios lot, and despite the fact that she has some serious doubts about what will transpire once rehearsals are over (at this point in the day, “the show has the potential to suck hard”), Maya Rudolph has gone off script.
“You need to go do some crack?” she breaks character to ask Andy Samberg in response to a line about wanting to use the bathroom. A moment later, she turns to Fred Armisen, who wears his signature look of profound befuddlement.
“We-eeell,” she says in her character’s crazy voice. “I think he just took a deuce.” This time, the set erupts in laughter.
Of course, it’s unlikely that any of this silliness will make it into the final product. But this silliness is very much behind Rudolph’s reasoning for wanting to do a variety show in the first place—an undertaking that seems so earnest and archaic that, in today’s entertainment landscape, only a comic with Rudolph’s experience could hope to pull it off. In fact, she’s wanted to pull it off for years, having initially broached the subject in a meeting shortly after leaving Saturday Night Live in 2007. “Everyone said, ‘I think people love the idea of a variety show, but every time people do them they’re not received well,’ ” she tells me later. “Like, if you say ‘variety show,’ then people think you’re going to come out in a Cher headdress. And I love a Cher headdress—don’t get me wrong. But I didn’t even know how to get it started.”
Instead, she gave birth to three of her four children, voiced a few animated characters, starred in the TV show Up All Night, and appeared in various feature films, including the comedy event of 2011, Bridesmaids. Still, she’d sometimes be watching TV with her kids and stumble across old clips from The Carol Burnett Show, the viewing of which caused a pang of jealousy, even if they were filmed over 35 years ago. “When I left SNL,I wanted to work with my friends,” she says. “That’s what I missed the most. I saw her cracking up with her friends. They seemed like people you wanted to hang out with.”
Which is exactly how Rudolph herself has often seemed. From her first appearance on SNL, playing an MTV VJ in a leather bikini top (“In those days, my boobs were boobs, and not milk sacs that just kind of hang from the front of your body”), her knack for committing to the utter wild-eyed weirdness of her characters allowed for a rabbit-hole experience. Plus, she could sing. She could dance. She cavorted, to hilarious effect. So when Up All Night was “dying a very slow, painful death,” subject to low ratings and an ill-fated attempt to go from being a single-camera show to a multi-camera one, Rudolph went to executive producer Lorne Michaels to raise the subject of her variety show yet again. After the success of The Sound of Music Live, Rudolph says, “I was hopeful they’d be interested in giving it a shot,” and network chairman Bob Greenblatt “is very deeply rooted in musical theater, so he already loved it.” Even so, NBC put the idea in a kind of holding pattern. “Lorne talked about it as a thing we would do with Bob after pilot season, because it was a show that had to be created and wasn’t exactly a sitcom that you could write and then have everyone read. So we waited until NBC got all their ducks in a row with all their other programming. Then they let us do this,” Rudolph says. “And I also had to have my baby. That was the other part. I had to pop out a person.”
Eventually, said baby popped and NBC gave the green light for a one-off, hour-long special to air Monday, May 19, with the possibility of additional episodes in the future. (Unlike The Sound of Music, Rudolph’s variety show won’t be live, although most of it was filmed before an actual audience.) A couple of months ago, Rudolph got an office, started meeting with three writers, and began rounding up a cast that includes SNL cohorts Samberg, Armisen (“My comedy husband”), and Chris Parnell, as well as Craig Robinson, Sean Hayes, Kristen Bell (“My new favorite person”), and musical guest Janelle Monáe. But the cast didn’t gather for a table read until April, and rehearsals have been almost as manically fast-tracked as they were in Rudolph’s SNL days. Part of her fear that this show might “suck hard” is her knowledge that the best bits don’t come together until the cast does. (One sketch was born from an inside joke Rudolph and Armisen have shared for almost a decade.)
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It became one of my favorite Tribe songs after that
