Lennon Parham
Lennon Parham
Lennon Parhamis an American actress and improvisational comedian from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. With frequent collaborator Jessica St. Clair, she created and co-starred in NBC's Best Friends Forever and USA Network's Playing House. She also co-starred in the CBS sitcom Accidentally on Purpose from 2009 to 2010...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth26 October 1976
CityMarietta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
From the Twitter responses we got with 'Best Friends Forever' and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is.
We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.
You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.
When we're on Twitter, we're not only live tweeting episodes and talking about behind-the-scenes stuff, we actively try to respond to everybody.
My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.
In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.
I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.
I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
I can eat Chipotle all day long for years.
Don't say yes to something just because it's an opportunity.
In the summer of 2012 - and we do as we do when we get together to brainstorm an idea - we were both probably eating grilled cheese and watching 'Oprah's Favorite Things,' so it will never end, and we both brought a few things to the table of what we wanted our next project to be. And Jessica said, 'What if we raised a baby together?'
The thing is, if you follow whatever meal you have with Coke, it eats up the other things. It helps with the digestion of it.
Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.
I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.