Natasha Leggero
Natasha Leggero
Natasha Leggerois an Italian-American actress, comedienne and former frequent roundtable panelist on friend Chelsea Handler's late-night talk show Chelsea Lately...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth26 March 1974
CityRockford, IL
CountryUnited States of America
love people
In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
good people shows strangers
Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
became clueless dating few glamour life money obsessed people rich sort
I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
audiences chelsea majority
There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
comedy lucky seen stage
I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
future men produced shows successful women written
If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.
five pants wore
I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
whenever
You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing — is there anything you can do?