Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Thank you so much as always for clicking. We've got a great one to share with you today. One of my favorite people, Maya Rudolph, charming, hilarious, the SNL star for seven seasons. And now the star of a new series on Amazon called Forever, where she teams up with her old SNL pal, Fred Armisen.

They play a married couple.

That's about as much as I can share with you.

There's a slow burn through a couple of twists in the first two episodes that establish what's actually going on in this series.

And, man, it is so good.

And she is so fun to talk to.

And we got to sit down inside studio

8h where they shoot s and have from the beginning since 1975 of course you know maya from

s and l her impersonations of biance opra donatella versace among her most famous and, she just has such reverence for the room and reverence for the place.

And it's fun to sit in that room with someone who was really formed comedically there.

And also to get into her life a little bit.

Her background is so interesting.

The daughter of musicians, her mother, Minnie Rippipperton the late mini ripperton died when

Maya was only six years old saying the song loving you i'll spare you the impression of that song

but you know it you can hear it my also talks about running into her now husband for the first time

paul thomas anderson the great director of Boogie Nights,

and there will be blood in that SNL studio many, many years ago the first time she met,

talks about her pals, Tina Faye, Amy Polar. You get all of it with the great Maya Rudolph right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast. Thank you for doing this, Maya. Appreciate it. My pleasure.

So what's it like walking back in here?

You left the show, I guess, 11 years ago or so. 2007, ish. Yeah, ish. What's it like being in this room?

I love this room. Like even just getting out of the elevator and smelling the hallway is such a familiar and wonderful smell.

But this, yeah, this place is really comfortable to me.

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