way to do it.

Yeah.

And I even asked some logistical question and our producer wrote back like, oh, that shouldn't be too hard because you'll be in a potato that day.

Sure.

And I'm like, what is this potato? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then we rolled up to this place that was just like a big, gorgeous potato.

Yes.

How did that come about?

OK,

well, so I went to this college in Oregon called Southern Oregon University, which was like a real theater-y theater school, like a real Shakespeare and like all the classics.

And then I immediately moved to New York to do theater right after I graduated, you know, you kind of moved to New York the way you do in the movies, like with two suitcases and a, and a bright coat and you just spin around and a dream, you know? And, um, and I just was like, not, you know, I, I, there's Broadway and then there's like little theaters all over the city.

And I just was like a little overwhelmed at where my place was.

And I was kind of just auditioning for things and feeling a little like, what am I doing here? And then I think the second year that I lived in New York, I found UCB, which is the Upright Citizens Brigade, which is a comedy theater in New York and LA.

Tell me why you changed the spelling of your name because you were not born with an apostrophe.

I was not born with an apostrophe.

That is true.

What was on trial?

Oh, this is really funny.

This is really funny.

And can I take one second to say that my whole life, this particular lyric, I just told my sister this, that I would sing Eskimo pie in this lyric.

Eskimo pie.

Okay, so on trial.

Tattoos of memories and...

You didn't tell each other?

Mm-hmm.

Like, I'm so glad I did my two years.

And Amy, then a friend took me to a UCB show, and it w- and I knew what UCB was from the TV show.

I knew who you were because I was a big fan of you from SNL.

But I didn't really know what UCB was in, in, as far as like, you know, the live theater of it all, and I had seen some improv that was more like short form-y and always enjoyed it, but it wasn't like calling my name.

And I, my friend took me to an Asssscat, which is like the big UCB show every Sunday night.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, it's harder

than I thought it was going to be.

Yeah.

Like, like this is really something they weren't kidding.

And, um, and, and had like, um, I think I had hit the two year mark and I was like, I love it here, but I think I don't want to like keep temping.

Like I probably just have to, I'll move back home or whatever.

Um, but I loved it.

It doesn't feel cool sometimes, but I think it's like the coolest thing in the world and the coolest people do it, I

Yeah.

I was just like, "Okay, and I have that, and I have that, and I have that.

No problem." And Jason's like, "You get to do a Good Hang with Amy Poehler." And I was like, "And it's just a job." And he was like, "Well, I wanna come see it." And I was like, "Why would you come see it? It's just a job I'm doing.

You'll see it on the podcast on the, on your Instagram someday." And he was sort of like, "Oh, she's, like, really compartmentalizing this." Like, and he, he, he told me this last night post.

He was like, "I'm just gonna come to it.

I think this is actually really important."

Sure.

And I can't remember who it was.

Jason.

I suppose this outfit will do.

Are you sure? I mean, wearing a floral print to an infinite void at this time of the nothing? So where are we exactly? We're not on Earth, right? That's correct, Chidi Janet, you're not.

Your real bodies dematerialized when you entered my void, and your essences reconstituted themselves in this form.

Cool.

Cool.

And when you say void? Oh, I mean a sub-dimension outside of space and time at the nexus of consciousness and matter tethered to my essence.

Mm-hmm.

All good]

...

I, w- I did this show with the, the wonderful Cheri Cola called Wild Vacation Rentals.

It was a HGTV show where we had to, like, go to different Airbnbs and say if they were good or bad.

I couldn't say one negative thing about any of these houses-

Yeah.

Excuse me if I've said this before, but I think it's just kind of funny.

It was so long ago that it was like you'd have to, like ...

everyone has a massive career behind

them.

And so the way...

Yeah, so it was like we all got to know each other at the same time, at the same speed.

And it was really...

Rehearsal? Not really rehearsal.

It was like, so, you know, like I got cast a couple of days before we started shooting.

Sorry.

Yeah.

And it really does...

I- if you're a fan of Pen15 and you read this, you'll go like, "Oh yeah, of course." Or I guess the other way around, if you read this and then you go and watch Pen15.

Like, the way she d- the, I mean, when I watched Pen15, I was, like, marveling at an adult's ability to even, like, remember these things.

You know? Like, sh- they would put things on screen that I, that I was like, "Oh, I know this, but I haven't thought about this in 20 years," or whatever.

Yeah.

Um, so again, this book is just, like, an inside peek at that.

Like, my, my name, Darci, doesn't have an apostrophe in it, but I put it in because of the Smashing Pumpkins because D'arcy Wretzky has one in her name.

And thankfully-

thankfully-There's more coming.

Season two of The Five Star Weekend was announced, and I feel like I'm not alone when I say that Brooke was one of the favorite characters for all of us.

Her storyline, her story arc, her, her storyline.

I'm on Housewives.

Her story, her arc, her character's arc, and everything that happened with that character was just so great, and she, D'Arcy Carden, who plays Brooke, is so great.

So D'Arcy Carden is here today to talk about The Five Star Weekend.

Yeah

Carmella discussed this with her boyfriend tonight, but could you stay with someone who had been unfaithful, yes or no? Darsie.

I mean, yes, but I hope to hell I never have to.

You know? Like, I, I haven't been in that situation.

But she's, she's, she, I don't think she can get over this.

In your book, is Carmella a developer or a flipper, and why do you think the distinction manner, matters so much to Vicki?

I, ugh, you know, I, I think she's a developer.

Vic- uh, Vicki has, like, decided she doesn't like her to start off with, so I think she's, like, looking for any reason to get, get in there.

It's a whole other lens to look at this through, though.

Yeah, that's right.

But again, it's like an Australian show.

We felt like we w- we, we were hoping anybody would pick it up out here, and Hulu did and, and that was super exciting.

I think, you know, yeah, there's only so much you can do.

Okay, here's what it is.

I have realized that over the years that the whole point is doing it on the day.

Yeah

And you're in the steam room with Gemma Chan.

Yeah.

You knew Matthew.

What? Yes.

I saw a picture of you together on your phone in the little- Oh, my God ...

the little m- memories part.

You, you were together.

And you have that great moment where you're like, "Blah, blah, blah, Gigi, if that's even your real name."

Mm-hmm.

And I'm, and I know that sounds...

I mean, it sounds lame 'cause it is lame, but it's also, like, amazing.

They have this, this big Shakespeare Festival there, and it's just sort of like a town stuck in, [laughs] in, in a different era.

And, um, you know, to be, like, a, an, a, like, a, an acting student in that town is really amazing.

I got to see a million Shakespeare plays, and I would get to see them over and over again and study it, and I think there is...

Yes, I think the plays are good.

Yeah, yeah.

More

... after we...

Yeah.

After we, after the Emmys, meaning after, like, we cl- they, they, the camera guys took the, the monitor away, my...

Jason had, like, tears in his eyes, and he's like, "I have to tell you something." And I was like, "What?" And he was like, "Our nephew was in an accident."

Yes.

And you can see, I don't know if it's, like, your competition.

And this is so s- well, actually, this is actor specific, but this is also just, like, person.

Yeah.

So we're standing [laughs] unseat belted or whatever, just, like, standing up on either side of the, of the window, and we're playing these kind of characters, kind of ourselves that are, like, taking you on a tour, but we have, like, a little bit of, like, a, maybe there was, like, a little romantic storyline.

Yeah

...

Steven Spielberg and Conan's house and so- Um, yeah, so there was a meeting where he and his amazing, lovely wife Liza came in, and that was an- and Conan is very formative for me.

He was like-

Yeah.

And so now what? So now, okay, I have to, like, learn how to love writing, 'cause that seeming to...

I keep getting jobs, like, in that world.

I am gonna teach improv.

I love doing that.

I'm gonna keep performing at UCB.

I love that.

[laughs]

Like something old to you is new to them.

Yes.

I know.

And then it's just theirs.

Then you're like...

It's really cool.

Okay.

Please.

That's wonderful.

Also, I realize that a thing that I hate is the first time you see a new hair cutter or the first time you meet a therapist or the first time you sit in a makeup chair if you're an actor.

These small talk moments...

I'm so, they make me like, they make me a little itchy and that's what a first date would be.

I mean, yeah, yeah.

So I didn't, yeah, I just didn't do a lot of first dates.

I really didn't.

You know what I mean? So it's, yeah.

the best age

...

this was like ...

It is the best age.

Um, I'm gonna see her this weekend.

But okay, so like little tiny baby infant, and she w- she kept getting this one little knot in the back of her head, like this one little, these hairs that would just like knot up and you couldn't brush through them.

And so my sister and her husband, this was her first haircut.

You're like, "I also don't wanna know what to do." [laughs]

Did you chew? What is this about?

That's- I'm gonna cry.

[laughs] My niece, whom I love so much, my, like...

I, I, I have some really great nieces and nephews.

How many do you have? I have, on my side, my, my side, I have two, four, six.

Oh.

And on my husband's side I have two, four, six, eight.

There's like that sleepaway camp vibe.

[laughs]

Girl.

A little different.

Girl.

Girl.

Girl.

I'm not that girl.

That's cool.

were there a varieties of levels of, cause I am, because you know, there's plenty of women who play adult baseball, but there's also plenty of women who've played, you know, softball through college.

Right.

Right.

There was a wide variety of sort of skill level from like never having picked up a bat before to like, you know, maybe I would say maybe Abby Jacobson and Kelly McCormack and I had played the most, you know, through high school, through high school.

And then sort of beyond that was like, uh, What do they call them? I was supposed to say pickup games, but it's not really that.

It's like when you're on a, when you like work in an office or you're on a show.

Exactly.

And at the end of the day, it's a class on how to do voiceovers and talk a little faster without changing your intonation.

I think it just speaks to the quality of those albums.

Yes, totally, totally.

And sometimes we'd be like, can we listen again? Yeah.

A Fleetwood Mac album, I guess it would be, which one? There's one where there's, like, kind of a horny song on it that I'd always be like, I'm sleeping.

Like, where they're sort of making, like, oohs and ahs.

What is it? I mean, I'm not going to do them for you guys, so stop asking me to do them.

But it was just, like, a little bit of a horny song, and I remember being really embarrassed by it.

And by the time you see it, you're like, oh, okay.