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If orange is the new black, funny is the new hot.
And speaking of funny AND “Orange is the New Black”, we had Lauren Lapkus on the podcast this week!
Lauren started doing improv in Jill’s hometown in the Chicago area (spoiler, lots of Chi-town nostalgia in the episode). Since then Lauren has since then starred in the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black and started her own podcast, “With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus”. On Lauren’s show, each week her guest is the host of their own podcast, and she is appearing as a character on their show. Brilliant? We think so. And let's not leave out the fact that she's been with Comedy BangBang before she started her own show. I'm especially excited that she's set to play a regular on Pete Holmes new HBO show, Crashing. If all that isn't enough, you can just get out.
Recently, Lauren wrote and starred in her own 30-minute episode of the Netflix sketch show called “Characters”. On the special, she included a few of her characters she introduced on the popular “Comedy Bang! Bang!” podcast. Our personal favorite was the reality-TV disaster Whitney Peeps, who reminded us of a Paris Hilton/Kim Kardashian hybrid.
We had such a blast talking about “funny business” and Lauren’s snack tendencies. Tune in for the whole convo!
J+E
Lauren as "Whitney Peeps" on her episode of "The Characters" on Netflix.