I'm an actress, singer, dancer, host, producer, entertainer.

I'm gonna be opening up my little black book

and introducing you to some very important people

and pretty much showing you

some behind the scenes of my world.

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Today we're gonna be talking about comedy

and a little bit of sketch, and then you're gonna meet

my good friend and writing partner Max.

So I feel like I always kinda had

that very goofy personality, but I didn't really see it

as a part of my career until I did Scream Queens.

Boone was in here trying to seduce me

with the oldest line in the book.

He says he's a ghost.

When I did Scream Queens, I realized,

"Okay, this is an opportunity for me to really

"kinda dive into that comedic side of myself in TV,

"in television, in a way that I hadn't done before."

Ryan really allowed us the opportunity to improv

and pretty much take advantage of every moment,

and so after that opportunity, I really started studying

improv and really wanted to try to just make myself

as most comfortable as I could with pretty much

laying it all out there

when I got the opportunity and chance.

Max was working with a different company

and we were doing a lot of digital stuff for Scream Queens.

But everybody else kinda wasn't into the digital stuff,

so it ended up just being Max and I because I was obviously

very into digital and so was he.

And over the course of us doing little skits and stuff

for Scream Queens promotion, we were like,

"Okay well, let's start doing stuff with me."

And so, over the course of him knowing my personality,

he came up with our first character,

which was Lady Miss Jacqueline,

who is in the series Southern Belle Insults.

Janet!

- [Max] Oh hi!

- Oh I just love that rainbow eyeshadow on your face.

- [Max] Oh thank you!

- It's a perfect distraction from that nose

and crooked teeth.

Have a good day at church.

He's the other character on the other side

that Lady Miss Jacqueline is always talking to,

which is Janet, and we pretty much did one

on the set of Scream Queens and the kids loved it.

When I posted it on my page, they were like,

"Oh my gosh, this is so crazy."

At first, they were like,

"What's going on?

"What are you doing?"

'Cause I had done sketch stuff before my Instagram

but I had never truly introduced a character, per se.

And after a while, I was like,

"Max, I would love to continue it."

And so Max and I literally just started connecting

more and more and more, and Southern Belles kinda became

our first series on Instagram

when it comes to my characters and my sketch comedy.

- Oh, that dip was too low, call the house doctor.

- Max, we're not on a cruise ship.

House doctor?

Get yourself together, love.

So Max and I, we work together many different ways.

Sometimes it'll be he has an idea

or sometimes it'll be I have an idea,

and then we flesh it out.

We create a story or idea

or the heartbeat of what it is about.

Like with Southern Belles, it's about insults.

It's about her insulting this one particular lady

and it's also about the style in which she throws shade.

She's a Southern Belle.

Then we have Chelsea Barbie Taylor,

she is this kind of Valley girl

that's a little bit identity-less.

You don't really know who she thinks she is,

but you do know that she really loves herself

and it's funny because even though she's a little bit weird,

a little bit quirky, you're like,

"I like what you're saying,

"I like what you're having to say."

So she's very, she's more very positive kind of character.

Don't let those haters online get you down

'cause you have beauty, you have class,

and I mean, Post Malone slid into your DMs

and that does not just happen to anyone, babe.

Yeah, I love seeing the engagement.

A lot of people do the hashtag Southern Belles

and play off of that concept.

I love all that stuff because again,

it inspires me creatively.

It excited me to know that they're enjoying it.

I think, especially right now, it's so important

that we laugh and that we have fun

and that we put a smile on one another's face.

So the fact that in the comments, I see people laughing

and playing and I can respond back and they get the jokes,

that's fun to me 'cause I think that's what it's about.

That's what we have to give to each other,

is fun and just lighthearted good.

Max and I are gonna meet up and brainstorm

about Chelsea Barbie Taylor and some other fun stuff.

So this is Max, my really good friend and writing partner

and we are about to just start going over some material.

- Y'all ready?

- Max and I will meet, it can be three to four times a week

or a couple of days out the month,

so it ranges, I feel like.

- [Max] Totally.

- This last week, we saw each other every single day

because we're preparing for a Turnt Up with the Taylors.

- Exactly.

It's really about, I think, whenever the moment strikes.

You don't wanna do it just to do it.

You don't wanna be cheesy.

- Yeah, no.

- You wanna do it if it's gonna actually entertain

and really speak to you and speak to your brand

and where it makes sense.

- We got so much stuff coming

from Chelsea Barbie Taylor, honey.

She's really...

- She's really strong.

- I'm happy about how she's come about.

Oh you, my sweet little you.

You know, I was thinking of you and your name,

your flawless name.

Much like the flawless freckles on Common's face,

you know, the second thing you get lost in after his ass.

(laughs)

- Keke came up with this character and the voice,

and when you hear this voice, you literally think

it's a voiceover done by someone completely else.

And that's what I think is so funny,

is that I think people, every time that they see Keke

do something, they have no idea that she could do it.

And it's like yes, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

And when you brought that voice of Chelsea,

everyone, they're like, first of all the comments were,

"Who's doing this voiceover?"

It was you.

- I came to Max and I told Max I had been working

on this other script that I was trying to write

based off this character, I don't wanna go all the way

into it but it was, she had this whole world

and I was trying to figure out how to make this character

jump off the page and I said,

"I think I would really have to dig into my acting chops

"and really create a voice and an attitude

"and a sound that's absolutely totally different from me."

And so I was playing on my voice memos and I just started

doing all these, I'm like, "Hi, it's me Barbie."

I didn't say the name but I was like, "This is me, oh daddy"

and I just started doing this voice.

And I was like, "I don't know if this is right."

But that's when I went to my boy Max.

I said, "Max, listen to this voice.

"Tell me what you think we can do with it.

"Tell me if you think this is a new character

"that we can try to see what we can write about."

And immediately, I was so happy you were into it.

And from there, that's when we just started doing

what we titled Mirror Affirmations.

And after the third one, we're like,

"We still don't know what we're calling her.

"We've just been calling it #MirrorAffirmations."

And then Max was like, "Why don't we let the kids name her?"

You are an individual, just like Barbie,

Chelsea Barbie Taylor.

You are a star.

Love you babe.

(hisses)

Hot.

I'm so excited for Turnt Up with the Taylors, love.

- That's gonna be, that's gonna be really great.

And you know, what the plan for that is,

I'm gonna pull that up.

- Yeah, because we have all that footage

that we shot that day that I think is gonna be great

in terms of introducing each character.

- Well yeah, and how many characters are you playing?

- Okay so yeah, so.

- Just give a little backstory.

- I'll give a little bit of a sneak peek.

- A taste.

- So Chelsea Barbie Taylor, I guess we ended up

getting a lot of good feedback and so I ended up

creating a mini series show with Facebook

and a production company,

the production company Kids At Play.

And so we've done this series where I ended up playing

not only Chelsea Barbie Taylor, but her mom, her dad,

her grandma and her brother.

And I'm so freaking excited about it.

- [Max] Five times the Keke.

- I always love when Max is here because Max has always

believed in my voice in comedy, from the beginning,

from when he came to me with Lady Miss Jacqueline

and was like, "Hey, I think this is a cool character."

From that moment on, I was like, "Okay."

Us together, it always gave me just the excitement that,

hey why not?

Why can't I just try it?

And it was the same thing with these characters.

We went over them a million times, over and over again,

filmed them, heard 'em back until we got 'em perfect.

And then when the wardrobe came, it was just like...

- It really hit it.

And I mean, I love the experience

of just like with this last one,

doing for Turnt Up with the Taylors, how they were able to,

having the eight episodes we did for your Instagram,

they could really see the audience reaction.

I think that was such a valuable tool of looking at

how can you use your digital to then really fine tune it

and then say, "There's more need and want for this world."

- Right, and let's build it up.

So give us the cash.

- [Max] Just a few dollars, and by dollars, extra o's.

- Here it is, here it is.

Let me see.

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I hate it, I hate me.

(Max laughing)

- Okay that's it.

- That's it, sorry.

- That's it.

- No time to spare, dear.

I'll grab a sage while you pick your jaw up from the floor.

(crying off camera)

- Maybe just, should you do just one?

- Oh yes, the fan.

Oh my gosh, we've gone through so many of the fan.

Let me see what you got.

- [Max] Oh yeah, you have to do another one.

- You gotta be Janet too.

People gotta fight, you know people always...