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Theres been certain ones that are easy, likeSarah Koenig.
I just listened to so muchSerialthat it was just in my body.
We cant move down.
So its like, Tucker, I think now Im gonna throw up red wine all over Colin.
Thats how we approach it now.
Very academically like that.
On Audience-FreeSNLShows
A Zoom show, its just difficult.
I didFallonlast night, and I kept saying, I feel like theres blank spaces.
And Im such an anxious person; Im like,Fill the blank space!
Fill the blank space!So I dont really know.
It felt like [withSNL at Home] its important what were doing, and were still having fun.
But there was also something that was bittersweet in it all.
I know this isnt the way we normally do it.
Id love to be doing it the way we normally do it.
So Im doing this as an homage until I can do that again.
So maybe its just easier for me.
And Im not smooth like Judy.
Im kind of jazzy like Liza.
So Im shocked and appalled and delighted by people who arent.
Like I said, I love reality TV.
Im always wearing big fake tits, fake nails.
Thats always been in my closet.
And thats what makes it funny and worthwhile and sort of old school.
Im not sayingold fashioned,but in drag theres a vaudevillian, slapsticky kind of thing.
Its that kind of big, broad comedy thats so funny.
When I want to play a big character like that, I think thats where the crossover is.
Ive sort of been using him as a navigator for this time and trying to find magic.
He told my uncle at one point, This is the best year of my life.
And that was living with brain cancer and doing chemo and polio therapies.
So in my head, it felt like a little gift from him.
I think even justdoing the article in Vulture, so many people read it.
So Im taking it that way, a little bit, anyway.
And Im choosing to, because its a nice way to think about it.
