June 23, 2023 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Rick Tittle and this is the Rick Tittle
Podcast on the eight Side Network. Join me as I
get busy with the biggest names in sports and entertainment. Hey,
thank you for that. Welcome back to the show, Rick
Titta with you coast to coast and around the world
on the American Forces Radio Network. Five hundred out that's
one hundred and seventy seven countries. And if you're watching
(00:21):
our twitch dot tv feed, you see the lovely and
talented Marylynn Rice Cub. She is here at the Punchline.
She's got sets all weekend. Make sure to come down
and check her out. First of all, Mary Lynn, thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Thanks for having me. Yeah, the Punchline Historic Club. You know,
I used to live in San Francisco before I lived
in La you start here, I did. I went to
art school. I was a performance artist. So it's so
fun to be on that stage and kind of like
I get to revisit those times a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
People here when you did those mics where they like
Holy City Zoo.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And yeah, you know I I was going to art
school for painting. Then I started doing performance art and
so I was just meeting comedians at that time. So
a lot of those places I had just heard about.
What's that other the Purple Onion Ely City Zoo. I
always heard about the Holy City Zoo from people.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Cobbs was in Fisherman's Wharf back then. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I've actually played Cobbs, but I've never played the punchline.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So this is wow.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it's such a great room.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You think about Robin Williams and Dana Carvey and then
it almost went away a few years ago. Yeah, because
of COVID. No before COVID, they were going to just
sell the property and they were gonna keep a punchline,
but they had to find a new venue. And of
all people like Dave Chappelle, who's a DC guy, he flew.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Out, did he really? Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, w Kamal Bell, who's a local guy. We just
I say we but I had comedians in here like
saying keep the punchline and it's in a weird place.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
But we're used to that weird place. Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah. Now, Mary Lyne, I got to ask you, my
favorite show ever is the Larry Sanders Show. And you
were Mary Lou on that show. Us Ah my gosh,
And I try to tell people, I'm like, I love
kurb and all that, but if you really want to
see the best show ever and the characters when Rip
Torn and Jeffrey Tambour and everybody else, and then the
(02:10):
celebrities playing themselves, Yes, a lot of times self deprecatingly. Yes,
that was the show. That one.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, that was the show. Yes, and it really it
really blurred a line because it felt like you were
it really felt like you were watching behind the scenes
of a real talk show. And that's how he set
that up, Gary Shandling, was to have a live audience,
you know, so on those days when they were taping
the live talk show, it was a live talk show.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah it was. And then also I think one of
my first ever favorite shows was mister Show. You really
know You're Yeah, and I got to finally meet Bob
Odenkirk he did. Yeah. Dana Gould, who I've become friendly
with over here is he took me backstage one time
at sketch Fest and he's like, hey, Bob, it's my
friend Rick and he's like, are you stand up? I
(03:01):
go I'm a radio host. He goes, oh, well, welcome,
and then people said, oh, he didn't bite your head off.
I'm like, what is he supposed to be mean? Like
Bob was very nice, Bob is very nice, and then
David Cross is insane but insanely funny.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I dated David Cross? You did, yeah, in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Wow? How long was that?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
He was my first of many comic boyfriends. I don't
even know if I would call him boyfriends. Really, incidents.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
With Kimmedians run in.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Read my book Famish My Life at the Edge of Stardom?
Hear all about my escapades? Am I talking to the twitch?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Internet? Hey, one hundred and sixteen countries all over the world.
Don't you want to hear about it?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Got the shoulders going, all.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The all the comedians I slept with. Paperback there should
just be my second book is just going to be.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It'll just be Mary Lou's hookups. Yeah. From Abram's Press,
Paperback fame Ish my Life I've at the edge of stardom?
Any since you brought it up? Any other famous comedian
boyfriends or.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Calm Man read the book to find out? No, not
not really, not really, I'm just exaggerating, but yeah, there's
a lot. There's a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I have hair when you went out with him.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
He was adorably bald on the top, had some sideburns.
I love that you asked that though that's so caddy.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's a deep cut. Well, I just think weep cut.
At what point did he.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You got a great head of hair. Let's talk about
it a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
For this hairpiece, and it's it's hard getting the hair
out of the Ukraine right now. But did I put
it on backwards? Because sometimes I sweag? It was the
part on that side good. It's big foot, yes, it
is bigfoot chestnut my favorite color.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's really good. Wow, And you know the name of
the color I do. People try to act like guys
don't know this stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You know, I'm an autumn, so.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Wow, that was another level.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you remember that I was highly enjoyable in the nineties?
Are you a spring or are you remember that whole thing?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Here's what so, of course I do. Here's what's so
funny is I'm walking here going I'm going on sports
radio and my friend, my friend, uh name drop Kate,
Kate Flannery from the office. She's fantastic. Who who you
know a lot of these people I know her from
back in the day, like way before she was on
the office. She was an improv person known her forever.
(05:28):
So I'm leaving her a message. I'm like, yeah, I'm
going to do sports radio. She goes, Vegas just won
the Stanley Cup, Denver just won basketball, Kansas City won
the Super Bowl, Houston won the World Series. You're good.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We were laughing about it on the way here and
then come to find out you're talking about the chestnut
brown of your hair and the fact that you're a
summer Like I couldn't be happier right now. Yeah, you
know what, you know, what to talk to the ladies about.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, well that's the thing, is like this, where.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Can I get this JELFI am? I right.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
This this show over the years has been like the
first hour I did it with a film critic and
it was just entertainment.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Guess that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And my favorite part of the show, because as you
might notice I'm a comedy nerd, is the stand ups
over the years, and especially the ones who will headline
the punchline and then get too big to ever do
press again, you know, because they're just I mean, it's
like Eliza and Nicky and I mean I'm some store
people too. Bobby Lee would always come in and Saint Marill, Mark, Norman,
(06:27):
Joe that now they're all too big, which I'm I'm
happy for him.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It wouldn't even come because they know you.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, because no, because when you sell, Yeah, I feel.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Like I would remember. I'd be like Rick, he's the
summary as Chestnut.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, there are some guys foot.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Hair, and I'm just gonna go see him.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know, there are some guys who come anyway, which
is which is very nice, like Chris Porter and John Dorr.
You know those guys, Dana Gould, They'll come just because.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know Dane I've known forever.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He love him. Yeah, he goes back to my er.
I'm in my later fifties. I hate to say so, the.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Going back to Larry Sanders. And I replaced Janine as
the booker because she was kind of like on the
way up and had been doing she was making a
decision to leave the show, and she hosted. I was
doing very alternative comedy, like I was socially awkward. I
didn't know how to have my own opinion, speak my
(07:24):
own mind, and so it would come out in spurts
and weird abstract phrases. And she was hosting an alt
show for Comedy Central where her friends went on and
did sets, and my friend Jeremy Kramer shout out, who's
like a long time SF guy from years ago. I
was like, I don't know, they're not going to get me,
like this is too weird, and he said, just tell
(07:45):
them that you're a performance artist and you just took
ecstasy before the set and then everything. And that was
such a lesson in comedy because it's like they just
want to know that you're okay. They give them the
framework to your character or whatever is going to to
let them in on what you're doing. And I didn't
even really know what I was doing. So he gave
(08:06):
me that sort of like insight into how to, like,
you know, help the audience understand where you're coming from.
And then I just did this weird eight minute set
and it was so much fun and I was a character,
but I almost didn't even mean to be. I just
really was like exploring how to. You know, now I
actually talk on stage and say things, but it's taken
(08:28):
years and years, especially becoming a road comic, because you know,
when people come out to five shows, you got to
you can't just be that experimental. But anyway, at the
time I had that tape and my manager he really
sold me to be on that show and was like, Hey,
look at this, this weird lady.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
The opportunity. We're going to run a quick break. We'll
come on back. We have one more segment with a
highly lovely and talented mary Lynn Rice Cub who's at
the punchline. We'll continue talking with Mary Lann come on
back on Sports violent. You're listening to the Rick Tittle
podcast on the eight Side Network. Stay tuned for more. Ah,
there's some doubt in your voice there. Welcome back to
the show Rick Tittle right here on sports Bio in
(09:10):
USA with Marilynn Rice Cub, stand up comedian actress. She
is at the punchline. She has a new book called
fame Ish My Life at the Edge of Startum. You
can see here tonight at the punchline, a couple of shows,
a couple of shows tomorrow. And I was I was
just mentioning during the break. I saw you at the
comedy store a few years ago. Very very funny, a
lot of mom jokes, yeah, which really resonated with the crowd.
(09:32):
So my question is, as a store person, how far
do you go back to the Mitzi days and did
you have to get passed by her?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I do not, because I am from the alt days.
So it's so it was, you know, Janine and Bob
Odenkirk and David Cross when they friend my former boyfriend,
thank you for not forgetting that. When they migrated to
LA there was those backlash against comedy clubs, and I
(10:02):
also think the comedy clubs were closing and the and
sort of the tide was turning in terms of that
whole era of well did.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You try to get into like Second City like Bob
or the Groundlings in La.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I auditioned for the Groundlings and I got told that
I needed to take the class. Before the class, I
got rejected from the Groundlings, and then I ranted about
it in a stand up set and it turned out
the person who was in the audience was the one
who rejected me, and I just like went off and
I saw him afterwards and he his face, he said,
(10:39):
I'm so sorry. I didn't know. I said, that's okay,
because I got a great stand up set out of it.
But it was sort of navigating. I just was more
inclined to, you know, but we did a lot of
like theme shows back in those days, and there were
a lot of there was a lot of character stuff,
but it was just this click of us that would
(11:00):
do shows almost anywhere that wasn't a comedy club, you know.
So it was that time and and and at that time,
the store was really slow, and the people that I
was hanging out with sort of looked down on the
store in that in those few years.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Wow, what about the improv? Laugh Factory?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Did the improv? I never did the Laugh Factory. I
do them all now and I love them all. And
it's fun to reconnect with people at the store who
stayed there through that the you know, the dark years
of the store.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Like Argus Hamilton and oh yeah, and all the people
that were door guys that then went on you know
there's there's and yeah Bobby Lee, Yeah yeah, and that's
where punched Bobby Lee.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Actually, see I knew, you knew, and you know, all.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Of a sudden, the guys have been here's been in
here like four or five times. Yeah, Bobby Lee used
to be in here all the time. And Bobby Lee
one time at the punchline stop the show and had
them turn on the lights to say Rick Tittles here,
and the whole crowd went, who.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He's a majestic Italian, He's a genius.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Wow. That resonated with you there, I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Is that a great head of chestnut bigfoot colored hair?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Because I'm an autumn.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Bigfoot Chewbacca chestnut colored hair.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
That's pretty good. I also saw you the other day.
You did a bit. I don't know how old this
bit was, but you saw perfect blonde, hot blonde, and
you said you hated her and she was a B
word because you wanted to be her.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah. Those were that some old material, but it is true.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Is that still true? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Of course, and I still you know.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You're still jelly, so jelly.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No, it's just how you look back at how I
look back at how how much anxiety and social awkwardness
I had. I'm sure everybody goes through their own version
of oh, there was nothing wrong with you. I just
I wasn't of that. I didn't know how to be
super feminine and hang out with the ladies and you know,
(13:14):
wear a tiara and go it's neigh birthday like, I
just didn't know. I never had that. I was sort
of more of a loner. You know, art school kid.
I just had a backpack and tennis shoes and a
sour look on my face. That's how I flirted with guys.
But then in the alley behind the club, backpack full
of books I'll never read. Aw, gotta read the Fountainhead,
(13:37):
you know, right.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But the glasses accentuate the stereotype of being intelligent, and
it's cute.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right, yeah, but stereotype I'm trying to look intelligent.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, no, it's it's when I was younger, like to me, like,
I always thought that was very attractive when you had
like smart girls, you know, or I liked athletic girls too.
But this is in the eighties I'm talking about. Now,
let's get back to you. The transition to serious acting
on twenty four and that show you're.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Going to say, the transition to realizing you are that
hot blonde.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh now, I'm going to say that. I think he
said I'm in transition right now? Another one right now too.
I know it canceled myself, but to be on twenty four,
which was of course a massive, massive hits season after
season after season, and once again playing Chloe. You played
(14:32):
Chloe in something else too.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I'll tell you the story which I've told, but it's
a good story and it's in my book, but it's
I had done a movie called Punch Drunk Love, which
is Paul Thomas Anderson movie with Adam Sandler, which is
a drama, but I played his overbearing sister. And I
think one of the producers of twenty four takes credit
for this, but the editor said that he showed it
(14:54):
to the producer and said they were looking for a
computer techie type person and they saw me in the
movie and they liked my you know, some obnoxious qualities
that I had, and thanks. This was something I got
called in for, which is so rare. But all of
my best things throughout my career have happened this way,
(15:16):
where it's just somebody who I like something about you.
We're not exactly sure what we're going to do. And
that very first meeting, you know, the executive producer of
twenty four, and honest to god, I was validated just
even taking that meeting, like it's such a hard business
that I thought he'll never actually write apart for me,
because he said, you know, we don't know what this
(15:37):
is yet. There's not really any dialogue. I just wanted
to meet you, and you know, we and just the
fact that someone would notice you or taking an interest
in any way was a big deal, Like that's enough
to keep going. And then the fact that they did
hire me, and then it was something that was a
one off, you know, they hired me to do one
or two episodes, and then it just kept growing from there.
(15:59):
And I think I really stuck out. And and like
you said, it was a massive show. It was already
in season three, so it was walk entering into this
an hour long drama. I didn't. I was, and I
didn't and I didn't fit in, you know, I was.
I was trying to authentically how I would be as
(16:19):
that character. And there was a funny moment a few
episodes in where I started talking like this and the
and the my boss came down to where we were filming.
He said, yeah, I was just watching, you know, the dailies.
He said, what what are you doing with your voice?
And I said, I kind of stick out and he goes, yeah,
we like that it's working. Don't try to we don't
(16:40):
need you to talk like try to talk like other
people that are already on the show.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I tried to be really serious and measured, because I
thought that would make it last longer. Right, you said,
you're right, you are sticking out. But but also it's working.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I just think about now, like we just have a
couple of minutes left the comedy scene, the way it's
changed now, and now you have to hire someone to
put out bits on TikTok and of course you know
crowd work or a hackler, let's get that out on Instagram.
And yet you don't have to do all that stuff.
But yeah, I mean, how do you deal with all it?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Uh, you know, shout out to people like me that
are around our age that because it's a big it's
big change to go from. I don't want to burn
any material for my late night set. I mean that
doesn't even exist anymore. So it's just making these adjustments
to and I'm still working on it where it really is. Oh,
I've got to tape every set and find something and
(17:39):
keep feeding this machine that is the Internet and hope
for the best and hope to do it. And you know,
I feel like every week it's like, oh did you
use this caption generator? Oh? Did you? Is your picture
clear enough? Is your sound good enough? Like it is
just it's a beast. It's a different world.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I also like the fact that and I'm gonna I'm
going to get that your last name which looks Slavac
to me, right like Eastern European. Did anyone in Hollywood?
It is like people aren't gonna be able to pronounce it.
You got to change it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
No one told me to change it, because I don't.
I don't really think my path was so windy. Had
I known that I was gonna do this, I would
have changed it. I would have changed the whole damn thing,
as as Morelda Gunter, so much.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
More elegant, as morel the Gunther. Yeah right, all right,
we have a minute. What are people in store for it?
The punchline this weekend?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Full frontal nudity. Yeah's just whatever to keep the attention.
You know, a lot of touching because it's like this
is live, right, you're not watching TikTok, you're not watching TV.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Let's go a lot of touching. People are encouraged to
approach the stage.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
People please please uh no, I mean last night's audience
one show so far was fantastic. You know, it's always
like a small art.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well, it was a Thursday night crowd, real comedy fans.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We'll see what happens. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You have the drunks tonight. Oh no no, Marylyne Rice Coy.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Maybe you'll find husband number two. How drunk is too drunk?
We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Thanks for coming in.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
You're awesome, what a delight.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Thank you so much. As are you.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You're a stallion.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
We'll have Nick Taturle on the other side. I'm Rick Tittle.
Come on back. This has been the Rick Tittle Podcast
on the eight Side Network.
Hi, I'm Rick Tittle and this is the Rick Tittle
Podcast on the eight Side Network. Join me as I
get busy with the biggest names in sports and entertainment. Hey,
thank you for that. Welcome back to the show, Rick
Titta with you coast to coast and around the world
on the American Forces Radio Network. Five hundred out that's
one hundred and seventy seven countries. And if you're watching
(00:21):
our twitch dot tv feed, you see the lovely and
talented Marylynn Rice Cub. She is here at the Punchline.
She's got sets all weekend. Make sure to come down
and check her out. First of all, Mary Lynn, thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Thanks for having me. Yeah, the Punchline Historic Club. You know,
I used to live in San Francisco before I lived
in La you start here, I did. I went to
art school. I was a performance artist. So it's so
fun to be on that stage and kind of like
I get to revisit those times a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
People here when you did those mics where they like
Holy City Zoo.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And yeah, you know I I was going to art
school for painting. Then I started doing performance art and
so I was just meeting comedians at that time. So
a lot of those places I had just heard about.
What's that other the Purple Onion Ely City Zoo. I
always heard about the Holy City Zoo from people.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Cobbs was in Fisherman's Wharf back then. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I've actually played Cobbs, but I've never played the punchline.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So this is wow.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it's such a great room.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You think about Robin Williams and Dana Carvey and then
it almost went away a few years ago. Yeah, because
of COVID. No before COVID, they were going to just
sell the property and they were gonna keep a punchline,
but they had to find a new venue. And of
all people like Dave Chappelle, who's a DC guy, he flew.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Out, did he really? Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, w Kamal Bell, who's a local guy. We just
I say we but I had comedians in here like
saying keep the punchline and it's in a weird place.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
But we're used to that weird place. Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah. Now, Mary Lyne, I got to ask you, my
favorite show ever is the Larry Sanders Show. And you
were Mary Lou on that show. Us Ah my gosh,
And I try to tell people, I'm like, I love
kurb and all that, but if you really want to
see the best show ever and the characters when Rip
Torn and Jeffrey Tambour and everybody else, and then the
(02:10):
celebrities playing themselves, Yes, a lot of times self deprecatingly. Yes,
that was the show. That one.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, that was the show. Yes, and it really it
really blurred a line because it felt like you were
it really felt like you were watching behind the scenes
of a real talk show. And that's how he set
that up, Gary Shandling, was to have a live audience,
you know, so on those days when they were taping
the live talk show, it was a live talk show.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah it was. And then also I think one of
my first ever favorite shows was mister Show. You really
know You're Yeah, and I got to finally meet Bob
Odenkirk he did. Yeah. Dana Gould, who I've become friendly
with over here is he took me backstage one time
at sketch Fest and he's like, hey, Bob, it's my
friend Rick and he's like, are you stand up? I
(03:01):
go I'm a radio host. He goes, oh, well, welcome,
and then people said, oh, he didn't bite your head off.
I'm like, what is he supposed to be mean? Like
Bob was very nice, Bob is very nice, and then
David Cross is insane but insanely funny.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I dated David Cross? You did, yeah, in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Wow? How long was that?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
He was my first of many comic boyfriends. I don't
even know if I would call him boyfriends. Really, incidents.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
With Kimmedians run in.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Read my book Famish My Life at the Edge of Stardom?
Hear all about my escapades? Am I talking to the twitch?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Internet? Hey, one hundred and sixteen countries all over the world.
Don't you want to hear about it?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Got the shoulders going, all.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The all the comedians I slept with. Paperback there should
just be my second book is just going to be.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It'll just be Mary Lou's hookups. Yeah. From Abram's Press,
Paperback fame Ish my Life I've at the edge of stardom?
Any since you brought it up? Any other famous comedian
boyfriends or.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Calm Man read the book to find out? No, not
not really, not really, I'm just exaggerating, but yeah, there's
a lot. There's a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I have hair when you went out with him.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
He was adorably bald on the top, had some sideburns.
I love that you asked that though that's so caddy.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's a deep cut. Well, I just think weep cut.
At what point did he.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You got a great head of hair. Let's talk about
it a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
For this hairpiece, and it's it's hard getting the hair
out of the Ukraine right now. But did I put
it on backwards? Because sometimes I sweag? It was the
part on that side good. It's big foot, yes, it
is bigfoot chestnut my favorite color.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's really good. Wow, And you know the name of
the color I do. People try to act like guys
don't know this stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You know, I'm an autumn, so.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Wow, that was another level.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you remember that I was highly enjoyable in the nineties?
Are you a spring or are you remember that whole thing?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Here's what so, of course I do. Here's what's so
funny is I'm walking here going I'm going on sports
radio and my friend, my friend, uh name drop Kate,
Kate Flannery from the office. She's fantastic. Who who you
know a lot of these people I know her from
back in the day, like way before she was on
the office. She was an improv person known her forever.
(05:28):
So I'm leaving her a message. I'm like, yeah, I'm
going to do sports radio. She goes, Vegas just won
the Stanley Cup, Denver just won basketball, Kansas City won
the Super Bowl, Houston won the World Series. You're good.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We were laughing about it on the way here and
then come to find out you're talking about the chestnut
brown of your hair and the fact that you're a
summer Like I couldn't be happier right now. Yeah, you
know what, you know, what to talk to the ladies about.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, well that's the thing, is like this, where.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Can I get this JELFI am? I right.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
This this show over the years has been like the
first hour I did it with a film critic and
it was just entertainment.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Guess that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And my favorite part of the show, because as you
might notice I'm a comedy nerd, is the stand ups
over the years, and especially the ones who will headline
the punchline and then get too big to ever do
press again, you know, because they're just I mean, it's
like Eliza and Nicky and I mean I'm some store
people too. Bobby Lee would always come in and Saint Marill, Mark, Norman,
(06:27):
Joe that now they're all too big, which I'm I'm
happy for him.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It wouldn't even come because they know you.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, because no, because when you sell, Yeah, I feel.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Like I would remember. I'd be like Rick, he's the
summary as Chestnut.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, there are some guys foot.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Hair, and I'm just gonna go see him.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know, there are some guys who come anyway, which
is which is very nice, like Chris Porter and John Dorr.
You know those guys, Dana Gould, They'll come just because.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know Dane I've known forever.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He love him. Yeah, he goes back to my er.
I'm in my later fifties. I hate to say so, the.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Going back to Larry Sanders. And I replaced Janine as
the booker because she was kind of like on the
way up and had been doing she was making a
decision to leave the show, and she hosted. I was
doing very alternative comedy, like I was socially awkward. I
didn't know how to have my own opinion, speak my
(07:24):
own mind, and so it would come out in spurts
and weird abstract phrases. And she was hosting an alt
show for Comedy Central where her friends went on and
did sets, and my friend Jeremy Kramer shout out, who's
like a long time SF guy from years ago. I
was like, I don't know, they're not going to get me,
like this is too weird, and he said, just tell
(07:45):
them that you're a performance artist and you just took
ecstasy before the set and then everything. And that was
such a lesson in comedy because it's like they just
want to know that you're okay. They give them the
framework to your character or whatever is going to to
let them in on what you're doing. And I didn't
even really know what I was doing. So he gave
(08:06):
me that sort of like insight into how to, like,
you know, help the audience understand where you're coming from.
And then I just did this weird eight minute set
and it was so much fun and I was a character,
but I almost didn't even mean to be. I just
really was like exploring how to. You know, now I
actually talk on stage and say things, but it's taken
(08:28):
years and years, especially becoming a road comic, because you know,
when people come out to five shows, you got to
you can't just be that experimental. But anyway, at the
time I had that tape and my manager he really
sold me to be on that show and was like, Hey,
look at this, this weird lady.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
The opportunity. We're going to run a quick break. We'll
come on back. We have one more segment with a
highly lovely and talented mary Lynn Rice Cub who's at
the punchline. We'll continue talking with Mary Lann come on
back on Sports violent. You're listening to the Rick Tittle
podcast on the eight Side Network. Stay tuned for more. Ah,
there's some doubt in your voice there. Welcome back to
the show Rick Tittle right here on sports Bio in
(09:10):
USA with Marilynn Rice Cub, stand up comedian actress. She
is at the punchline. She has a new book called
fame Ish My Life at the Edge of Startum. You
can see here tonight at the punchline, a couple of shows,
a couple of shows tomorrow. And I was I was
just mentioning during the break. I saw you at the
comedy store a few years ago. Very very funny, a
lot of mom jokes, yeah, which really resonated with the crowd.
(09:32):
So my question is, as a store person, how far
do you go back to the Mitzi days and did
you have to get passed by her?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I do not, because I am from the alt days.
So it's so it was, you know, Janine and Bob
Odenkirk and David Cross when they friend my former boyfriend,
thank you for not forgetting that. When they migrated to
LA there was those backlash against comedy clubs, and I
(10:02):
also think the comedy clubs were closing and the and
sort of the tide was turning in terms of that
whole era of well did.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You try to get into like Second City like Bob
or the Groundlings in La.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I auditioned for the Groundlings and I got told that
I needed to take the class. Before the class, I
got rejected from the Groundlings, and then I ranted about
it in a stand up set and it turned out
the person who was in the audience was the one
who rejected me, and I just like went off and
I saw him afterwards and he his face, he said,
(10:39):
I'm so sorry. I didn't know. I said, that's okay,
because I got a great stand up set out of it.
But it was sort of navigating. I just was more
inclined to, you know, but we did a lot of
like theme shows back in those days, and there were
a lot of there was a lot of character stuff,
but it was just this click of us that would
(11:00):
do shows almost anywhere that wasn't a comedy club, you know.
So it was that time and and and at that time,
the store was really slow, and the people that I
was hanging out with sort of looked down on the
store in that in those few years.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Wow, what about the improv? Laugh Factory?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Did the improv? I never did the Laugh Factory. I
do them all now and I love them all. And
it's fun to reconnect with people at the store who
stayed there through that the you know, the dark years
of the store.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Like Argus Hamilton and oh yeah, and all the people
that were door guys that then went on you know
there's there's and yeah Bobby Lee, Yeah yeah, and that's
where punched Bobby Lee.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Actually, see I knew, you knew, and you know, all.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Of a sudden, the guys have been here's been in
here like four or five times. Yeah, Bobby Lee used
to be in here all the time. And Bobby Lee
one time at the punchline stop the show and had
them turn on the lights to say Rick Tittles here,
and the whole crowd went, who.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He's a majestic Italian, He's a genius.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Wow. That resonated with you there, I'm listening.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Is that a great head of chestnut bigfoot colored hair?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Because I'm an autumn.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Bigfoot Chewbacca chestnut colored hair.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
That's pretty good. I also saw you the other day.
You did a bit. I don't know how old this
bit was, but you saw perfect blonde, hot blonde, and
you said you hated her and she was a B
word because you wanted to be her.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah. Those were that some old material, but it is true.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Is that still true? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Of course, and I still you know.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You're still jelly, so jelly.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No, it's just how you look back at how I
look back at how how much anxiety and social awkwardness
I had. I'm sure everybody goes through their own version
of oh, there was nothing wrong with you. I just
I wasn't of that. I didn't know how to be
super feminine and hang out with the ladies and you know,
(13:14):
wear a tiara and go it's neigh birthday like, I
just didn't know. I never had that. I was sort
of more of a loner. You know, art school kid.
I just had a backpack and tennis shoes and a
sour look on my face. That's how I flirted with guys.
But then in the alley behind the club, backpack full
of books I'll never read. Aw, gotta read the Fountainhead,
(13:37):
you know, right.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But the glasses accentuate the stereotype of being intelligent, and
it's cute.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right, yeah, but stereotype I'm trying to look intelligent.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, no, it's it's when I was younger, like to me, like,
I always thought that was very attractive when you had
like smart girls, you know, or I liked athletic girls too.
But this is in the eighties I'm talking about. Now,
let's get back to you. The transition to serious acting
on twenty four and that show you're.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Going to say, the transition to realizing you are that
hot blonde.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh now, I'm going to say that. I think he
said I'm in transition right now? Another one right now too.
I know it canceled myself, but to be on twenty four,
which was of course a massive, massive hits season after
season after season, and once again playing Chloe. You played
(14:32):
Chloe in something else too.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I'll tell you the story which I've told, but it's
a good story and it's in my book, but it's
I had done a movie called Punch Drunk Love, which
is Paul Thomas Anderson movie with Adam Sandler, which is
a drama, but I played his overbearing sister. And I
think one of the producers of twenty four takes credit
for this, but the editor said that he showed it
(14:54):
to the producer and said they were looking for a
computer techie type person and they saw me in the
movie and they liked my you know, some obnoxious qualities
that I had, and thanks. This was something I got
called in for, which is so rare. But all of
my best things throughout my career have happened this way,
(15:16):
where it's just somebody who I like something about you.
We're not exactly sure what we're going to do. And
that very first meeting, you know, the executive producer of
twenty four, and honest to god, I was validated just
even taking that meeting, like it's such a hard business
that I thought he'll never actually write apart for me,
because he said, you know, we don't know what this
(15:37):
is yet. There's not really any dialogue. I just wanted
to meet you, and you know, we and just the
fact that someone would notice you or taking an interest
in any way was a big deal, Like that's enough
to keep going. And then the fact that they did
hire me, and then it was something that was a
one off, you know, they hired me to do one
or two episodes, and then it just kept growing from there.
(15:59):
And I think I really stuck out. And and like
you said, it was a massive show. It was already
in season three, so it was walk entering into this
an hour long drama. I didn't. I was, and I
didn't and I didn't fit in, you know, I was.
I was trying to authentically how I would be as
(16:19):
that character. And there was a funny moment a few
episodes in where I started talking like this and the
and the my boss came down to where we were filming.
He said, yeah, I was just watching, you know, the dailies.
He said, what what are you doing with your voice?
And I said, I kind of stick out and he goes, yeah,
we like that it's working. Don't try to we don't
(16:40):
need you to talk like try to talk like other
people that are already on the show.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I tried to be really serious and measured, because I
thought that would make it last longer. Right, you said,
you're right, you are sticking out. But but also it's working.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I just think about now, like we just have a
couple of minutes left the comedy scene, the way it's
changed now, and now you have to hire someone to
put out bits on TikTok and of course you know
crowd work or a hackler, let's get that out on Instagram.
And yet you don't have to do all that stuff.
But yeah, I mean, how do you deal with all it?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Uh, you know, shout out to people like me that
are around our age that because it's a big it's
big change to go from. I don't want to burn
any material for my late night set. I mean that
doesn't even exist anymore. So it's just making these adjustments
to and I'm still working on it where it really is. Oh,
I've got to tape every set and find something and
(17:39):
keep feeding this machine that is the Internet and hope
for the best and hope to do it. And you know,
I feel like every week it's like, oh did you
use this caption generator? Oh? Did you? Is your picture
clear enough? Is your sound good enough? Like it is
just it's a beast. It's a different world.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I also like the fact that and I'm gonna I'm
going to get that your last name which looks Slavac
to me, right like Eastern European. Did anyone in Hollywood?
It is like people aren't gonna be able to pronounce it.
You got to change it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
No one told me to change it, because I don't.
I don't really think my path was so windy. Had
I known that I was gonna do this, I would
have changed it. I would have changed the whole damn thing,
as as Morelda Gunter, so much.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
More elegant, as morel the Gunther. Yeah right, all right,
we have a minute. What are people in store for it?
The punchline this weekend?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Full frontal nudity. Yeah's just whatever to keep the attention.
You know, a lot of touching because it's like this
is live, right, you're not watching TikTok, you're not watching TV.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Let's go a lot of touching. People are encouraged to
approach the stage.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
People please please uh no, I mean last night's audience
one show so far was fantastic. You know, it's always
like a small art.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well, it was a Thursday night crowd, real comedy fans.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We'll see what happens. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You have the drunks tonight. Oh no no, Marylyne Rice Coy.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Maybe you'll find husband number two. How drunk is too drunk?
We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Thanks for coming in.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
You're awesome, what a delight.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Thank you so much. As are you.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You're a stallion.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
We'll have Nick Taturle on the other side. I'm Rick Tittle.
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on the eight Side Network.
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