Name: Why Lisa Kudrow's Husband Hasn't Seen "The Comeback" | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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And so Paula Davis, who we were just talking about before the mics came on, who's been with me forever, who's our booker.

She is vibrating for, I would say a month now.

Talking to me about the Comeback and the new season of the Comeback.

She's doing a rewatch, but she's not the only one.

I have so many friends that are telling me the Comeback and because they know that you and I go way back, people are asking me questions about it.

A lot of people from my life couldn't watch Seasons.

And I think probably for you, even though you're too supportive to say it, but

Michelle has not seen all of season one also.

I watched both of them and thought it was brilliantly funny.

But because I'm such good friends with you and care about you, it's hard.

I just don't even know what anyone is talking about with that.

I'll tell you specifically, it makes me nervous that something's wrong with my version of reality.

For her, you play it so brilliantly, close to the bone.

And for me, anyway, there was the character of the writer, Pauly G. Who is just so mean.

And that actor did such a great job especially.

He was so good at being a type of writer.

But, you know, not supporting you at all, you know, making.

Just wearing away your confidence and so much anger and bringing so many of his own issues to that situation that because, I don't know, I've been in that world.

Just like I told you, I wanted to like, fight him.

At one point I said, I don't want to meet him because I think I want to hit him with a two by four.

Poor guy, he's a lovely guy and a terrific actor, but he needs a beating because.

Cause we had a writer's room the first season and every one of them knew that guy, so we weren't making him up.

And the thing is, is that to me, it was really obvious that this guy thought he was Having a promising career.

You know, we hear that he was a Simpsons writer, he won an Emmy, and

now he has this show, and then the network tells him, no, it has to be this.

Oh, and by the way, just to hedge our bets, there's a companion reality show, and

that would be enraging to any showrunner.

And has whatever feelings he has about her because she is annoying.

And that's been a solid five minutes of me monologuing, by the way.

But to me, it was really obvious, like, what he's pissed off about and.

I would say Valerie Cherish is valiantly unaware.

But also, I think one of the reasons she's that way is she's not completely oblivious.

She knows that she's hanging by a thread in this business.

You're excruciatingly optimistic in a way that's so forced, because you know that this isn't all going your way.

And what's amazing to me is that it really does capture something you see out here.

You see it out here all the time is the big forced smile.

I can't tell you how many times I pass a billboard and I see a big smiling face of someone who's saying, it's all great, right?

I see those faces all over the place because so many people aren't happy in themselves.

And I think Valerie Cherish is, like, the best character, in my opinion, that captures something that exists out here.

And I do have a lot of empathy for her, But

I also think she's not Peter Sellers as Clouseau.

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