August 11, 2024 • 14 mins
Welcome back to the Student Pages podcast! Join host Grace Sanders as she chats with the multi-talented comedian and actress, Devon Drew. In this episode, Devon shares her journey from Los Angeles to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she is performing her comedy solo show "Devon Drew Popstar".
Discover Devon's hilarious and inspiring story, starting from her early days in Virginia, through the ups and downs of trying to break into the acting industry, and eventually finding her true calling in comedy. Devon opens up about her experiences in improv and sketch comedy, her time with the Groundlings Sunday Company, and her current performances at the UCB Theatre.
Don't miss this engaging episode filled with laughter, insights into the world of comedy, and a sneak peek into Devon's show "Popstar", which humorously reflects on her teenage dreams of becoming a pop sensation. Tune in to hear about her adventures at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and much more!
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(00:00):
Hello and welcome back to the Student Pages podcast.
I am your host Grace Sanders. Today I am introducing comedian,
actress and very, very talented lady Devon Drew. How are you doing today?
Hi, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Good.
Where are you? Where are you joining us from? Are you not to give the rest of
the podcast away, but are you somewhere in Scotland right now?
(00:21):
I am. I'm in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with my comedy solo
show Devon Drew Popstar.
Fantastic. And we're going to talk about Popstar in just a little bit.
But before we go giving all those wonderful details away, where you can catch
Devin, where you can catch Popstar in the future, I want to know all about you.
Yeah, I'm coming all the way from Los Angeles, California.
So I've been doing comedy for about, ooh, like 10 years, which just feels very long because it is.
(00:47):
And I kind of started in improv comedy, sketch comedy, but I also do stand-up
comedy as well. And my show sort of dabbles on how I started in the acting industry.
So I don't want to give too much away. But essentially, a man in the mall approached
me when I was like 11 years old and was like, do you want to be on Disney Channel?
(01:09):
And I was like, yes, I've never thought about this in my life,
but this is what I'm meant to do. And that was a big, giant scam.
And so were most things that I did as a young kid trying to get into acting.
Because originally, I'm from like Virginia, which is on the East Coast,
but kind of like middle of nowhere.
So not really a good launching pad for the entertainment industry.
(01:34):
And a lot of people definitely are eager to take advantage of that.
Young kids who just want to make people laugh and do acting.
But kind of throughout my whole time attempting like acting and singing and
musical theater, I always had a really good sense of humor and I was always
able to laugh at the situations or myself.
(01:54):
And I think I didn't realize back then, but as I got older, I was like,
oh, I think I'm supposed to be a comedian.
Like I think all this stuff is funny and I'm making other people laugh.
So maybe I should just start doing that instead. dead.
So I, after high school, moved to New York City and started just taking like
improv classes at some of the big theaters out there, Upright Citizens Brigade, Magnet Theater.
(02:18):
And then the weather was just too cold for me. I was like, it's freezing.
So I moved to Los Angeles in 2014 when I was 19 years old to start trying to
make it big in Hollywood and kind of just fell into more
improv and sketch classes out there at UCB Theater and the Groundlings Theater,
(02:38):
where through my time there, I was able to get on to the Groundlings Sunday Company,
which is their big performance company, which takes a long time.
I was on there for about a year and a half.
And then I also am currently a mod performer on Sketch Night at UCB Theater,
which is a monthly sketch team where we perform. So it's been a long journey,
(03:00):
but I have some success in the comedy world.
Yeah. And now I've been working on this show of mine for about a year,
which talks about my sort of childhood acting, but mostly the time I spent trying
aggressively to be a pop star.
And it's something I never thought I would talk about. Truly.
I was like, this is humiliating and I don't want anyone to know about this.
(03:21):
But they say that comedy is tragedy plus time. So.
Absolutely. The way that you just said, I've taken it upon myself to laugh at
it and make comedy out of it is fantastic because,
The concept of being told that you are a Disney star in a mall is so American
to me. That doesn't happen here at all.
(03:42):
I think the most lovely thing is if someone came up to you, we call them shopping centres in the UK.
Someone came up to me and they were like, you will never be a star.
That would probably be my version of that. I almost wish that someone did that to me instead.
Maybe I'd be in a better feel. But now, no, look at you. You went to New York,
you went to LA, you're dabbling in all of the different comedy types,
and now you're at the hallowed ground of the Edinburgh Fringe.
(04:03):
Just touched a little bit upon your show, Popstar, there.
Where can we find you throughout? Are you there for the entire month?
Yeah, I'm here for the whole month. I'm doing 21 shows, which feels crazy.
You can find my show at Zoo Playground in Playground 1 at 22.45,
so 10.45 at night, which is pretty late, but it's a really fun,
(04:26):
high-energy, high-paced show that doesn't take itself serious at all.
So it's a good late-night thing to see after having a couple pints.
Brilliant. You've already adapted onto the UK Great Britain culture. I have.
You have? Oh, I'm like Q for line, pint.
I'm fully in it. You know, I'm here like 15 more days or something like that,
maybe longer. So I have to fully immerse myself.
(04:50):
I don't know if you're familiar with Edinburgh's Hive till five as well.
No, I'm not. What is that? Hive is a club and it opens until five or is it seven till seven?
One of them is Liverpool, one of them is Edinburgh. an outrageously early
hour so you can do your show finish go for
a pint maybe many and then come back and do
it all again the next day definitely many yeah i know
(05:11):
somebody was telling me they were like nightlife is like open until 5 a.m out
here oh what that seems a bit excessive but hey you know maybe one of these
nights when i'm feeling really wild i'll i'll party hard after one of my shows
that that one thing about great burn we can definitely definitely party.
Or at least everybody who's done a comedy show and comes straight from that can definitely party.
(05:33):
Yeah. And I feel like some of the people at the festival too,
like it's so many beer gardens, so many like drinking spots.
People are drinking like start of the day to the end of the day. It's a fun party.
My friends in the comedy shows used to go to university and obviously we used
to be 10 people to a house in university.
It was 10 people to a room when they went to Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
This is my first time here. Yeah. It's so beautiful, but it's like my days are
(05:58):
spent just out flyering and meeting people and trying to promote my show and
then trying to preserve my energy and voice for my show.
So, but luckily I do have one night off a week. So I'm trying to like,
shove as many things like tourist things as i can in there so i can like see
the castle and i don't know maybe go see some cows brilliant yeah the two top
(06:20):
edinburgh hot spots castle and cow.
Castle and cow i've got to do both and see shows and i want to see shows too
so fantastic have you met anybody famous there yet any of like big british comedians
no i i haven't i've spotted some people walking by on the streets and i've thought
about like oh do i like do i stalk them But,
(06:41):
you know, I'm not trying to get a bad rap out of here, but it's enticing.
I mean, you're like, what if I just like, I don't know, follow them for a while.
Probably see some great shows before.
Now, not to wish your time in Edinburgh away, but when you're jetting back off
to the heights of LA, is there anywhere anybody else can catch you in your Grambling's Theatre?
Yeah, you can catch me at the UCB Theatre every fourth Wednesday of the month
(07:05):
with my sketch team Baguette.
And then around town doing improv shows at the Groundlings, sometimes with Bad
Company on Thursday nights, as well as like random bar shows and garage shows and club shows.
So you seem to do a lot of different disciplines and different shows.
Like, do you have like any idols that you look up to, like especially like women
(07:26):
in comedy as well? Yeah, definitely.
One of my biggest idols is Kristen Wiig. She's an incredible character, comedian and actress.
Actress and she started at the groundlings
theater so like you know and i'm like oh gosh i love her so much and i love
how she's able to also do like straight acting as well like dramatic acting
(07:47):
now i think she's really great i love maya rudolph melissa mccarthy a lot of
like the women of snl gilda radner those people i really look up to.
Is Popstar actually taking inspiration from Tina Fey's Girls 5 ever show?
A great parallel to draw.
It's, you know, Popstar is a autobiographical show about my life.
(08:09):
So it's literally like, you know, I tried to be a pop star when I was 14 years old.
I was in like a pop girl group. I was in a band. I had a solo career.
I had over 20 terrible songs that I wrote.
I had like these cringy music videos. I went on tour.
So my show is just sort of making fun of myself for all of the stuff that I
(08:29):
did when I was younger and kind of owning like that cringe that we all kind
of go through at our teen years, except for mine was blasted on the Internet for all to see.
But I have recently started watching Girls 5 Ever, and it's very definitely
similar vibes like those girl group vibes are so there.
And I've had people be like, oh, my gosh, your show is like so similar,
like you should make a show like that or whatever.
(08:52):
So definitely similar vibes to to that show. I think the whole like 90s girl
group and then like noughties child star talk about like Zendaya,
Selena Gomez, who came straight from that Disney pipeline.
And then Shots of Adam is so encapsulating of its time as well.
We all know who they were.
We all know that they had a top laid over a tank, laid over a waistcoat,
(09:15):
laid over a million bangles, maybe a skirt, some jeans. I mean,
literally, I was in a girl group.
And most of our time was spent picking out outfits, like we would just pick
out outfits for hours, we would take photo shoots.
And I'd be like, are we gonna like do performances? And they're like,
we've got to do photo shoots for what?
So and like, I even have a little bracelet on now from my show.
(09:38):
So it is very much of the time. Fantastic.
What does it what does it say on it? It says, man, take your balls out your purse and.
Crying which is it's a lyric from one of
my songs so that gives you a little taste of how
absolutely insane my music is or was
I guess so give these out at the show it's really fun so you can make bracelets
(10:00):
you can take photos you can sing you can do comedy you can act I'll put a question
mark next to dance probably as well is there anything you can't do I can't read
or write very good No, just kidding.
I am dyslexic, but I'm great at writing. I'm a good writer.
Just maybe my spelling is bad, but my writing is good.
All in the same boat here. Definitely a numbers person through and through.
(10:23):
I was actually on that topic, to be fair. I've actually been watching the Olympics.
Have you been keeping up with it?
I've been trying to. It's been a little tricky being here and doing my show
because I feel like everything's on when I'm out.
But I have been trying to watch when I can or if I'm in a bar,
catching it on the TV. be.
Like, I've been thinking about what I would actually do if I went to the Olympics.
(10:44):
And the answer is probably none of them. I think I would get in horrific injuries
very quickly compared to these people. Yes.
There's also so many sports that you don't realize are sports until you're watching the Olympics.
And you're like, what is this? Like, I was watching one the other day. I.
Canoes but they're like racing down this hill
(11:06):
and it's canoe slalom is that
you know what i mean gold i didn't know i wanted to do that
until i saw it yesterday yeah and i'm like
where do they practice that like they're going
to rivers like what is this and they are they just
and they have to like flip upside down it's the most intense looking sport
i've ever seen and i don't know how you get into something like that
(11:26):
but they did how do they think of the
sport before they do it to the point where it can
be an olympic sport like who was like i think i
can go down a water rapid turn around
do a 360 and then still make
it to the finish line faster than you i get running i get
jumping yeah i can throw further than you can yes
(11:47):
i know i don't know or like i i was
thinking like what sport now are people making up
that they need to get a couple more countries on
on board with then then we'll see it at the olympics in
the next like four years i think the only olympic sport
that will be any good at is curling up and dying probably
yeah yeah sitting on a couch i would be good at that okay so we'll assume that
(12:11):
pop star doesn't have any sporting adventures in it no but i also know that
you've had a background in acting a background in tv i believe where you are
where you're not in an episode of keeping up with the kardashians I was. Yes, I was.
Tell me everything. How? When? What? Why? So I believe it was,
oh my gosh, I think it was maybe in 2021.
(12:33):
It might have been 2019. My brain doesn't work very well anymore.
But basically, they were coming to take an improv class at the Groundlings Theater.
And at the time, I was in their performance company. So they had asked some
of us if we wanted to be in the episode.
And so we showed up to do improv. And then Kim Kardashian and just like walks
in and she is so stunning.
(12:56):
She looks exactly like her Instagram posts. Like she looks like an Instagram filter in real life.
Like you're just like, wow, that's you look amazing. And yeah,
We got to do improv with her and she was so shy and nervous.
It was really sweet. And she like didn't really want to do it.
She was like, you guys are so good at this. Like, I don't like doing this.
(13:16):
And then she told us actually that she had been asked to host Saturday Night
Live a couple times, but she kept saying no because she was like so nervous to do it.
And then all of us like gave her this pep talk. We're like, you're Kim Kardashian.
Like you should host SNL. Like They do all the work for you.
You just show up, you read a cue card, and you kill it.
(13:39):
And then that next season, she ended up going on as a host.
So I don't know. I think it was me that helped encourage her to finally host SNL.
The inspiration to Kim Kardashian is definitely a line for your resume.
I believe it. So I can't imagine that Kim Kardashian is very much of a yes and sort of person.
I think she wanted to be. She was so nervous. She literally did like maybe five
(14:03):
minutes of improv with us and then was like, I just want to sit down and watch.
We were like, I think she knows what she's good at and that's not improv.
That's fair. I mean, if anybody else walked into that improv studio tomorrow,
who would you love to work with? Probably Lisa Kudrow. Fantastic.
It's been absolutely lovely to speak with you, Devon. You can catch Devon at
(14:23):
the Edinburgh Fringe doing her very own pop star show.
And you can also catch her out there in LA if any listeners are there either. there.
It's been absolutely lovely to speak with you. Goodbye, Devon.
Have an amazing run at Edinburgh. Thank you so much for having me, Grace.
And once again, I've been Grace. Thank you very much for listening to the Student
Pages podcast. I will catch you all next time.
Hello and welcome back to the Student Pages podcast.
I am your host Grace Sanders. Today I am introducing comedian,
actress and very, very talented lady Devon Drew. How are you doing today?
Hi, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Good.
Where are you? Where are you joining us from? Are you not to give the rest of
the podcast away, but are you somewhere in Scotland right now?
(00:21):
I am. I'm in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with my comedy solo
show Devon Drew Popstar.
Fantastic. And we're going to talk about Popstar in just a little bit.
But before we go giving all those wonderful details away, where you can catch
Devin, where you can catch Popstar in the future, I want to know all about you.
Yeah, I'm coming all the way from Los Angeles, California.
So I've been doing comedy for about, ooh, like 10 years, which just feels very long because it is.
(00:47):
And I kind of started in improv comedy, sketch comedy, but I also do stand-up
comedy as well. And my show sort of dabbles on how I started in the acting industry.
So I don't want to give too much away. But essentially, a man in the mall approached
me when I was like 11 years old and was like, do you want to be on Disney Channel?
(01:09):
And I was like, yes, I've never thought about this in my life,
but this is what I'm meant to do. And that was a big, giant scam.
And so were most things that I did as a young kid trying to get into acting.
Because originally, I'm from like Virginia, which is on the East Coast,
but kind of like middle of nowhere.
So not really a good launching pad for the entertainment industry.
(01:34):
And a lot of people definitely are eager to take advantage of that.
Young kids who just want to make people laugh and do acting.
But kind of throughout my whole time attempting like acting and singing and
musical theater, I always had a really good sense of humor and I was always
able to laugh at the situations or myself.
(01:54):
And I think I didn't realize back then, but as I got older, I was like,
oh, I think I'm supposed to be a comedian.
Like I think all this stuff is funny and I'm making other people laugh.
So maybe I should just start doing that instead. dead.
So I, after high school, moved to New York City and started just taking like
improv classes at some of the big theaters out there, Upright Citizens Brigade, Magnet Theater.
(02:18):
And then the weather was just too cold for me. I was like, it's freezing.
So I moved to Los Angeles in 2014 when I was 19 years old to start trying to
make it big in Hollywood and kind of just fell into more
improv and sketch classes out there at UCB Theater and the Groundlings Theater,
(02:38):
where through my time there, I was able to get on to the Groundlings Sunday Company,
which is their big performance company, which takes a long time.
I was on there for about a year and a half.
And then I also am currently a mod performer on Sketch Night at UCB Theater,
which is a monthly sketch team where we perform. So it's been a long journey,
(03:00):
but I have some success in the comedy world.
Yeah. And now I've been working on this show of mine for about a year,
which talks about my sort of childhood acting, but mostly the time I spent trying
aggressively to be a pop star.
And it's something I never thought I would talk about. Truly.
I was like, this is humiliating and I don't want anyone to know about this.
(03:21):
But they say that comedy is tragedy plus time. So.
Absolutely. The way that you just said, I've taken it upon myself to laugh at
it and make comedy out of it is fantastic because,
The concept of being told that you are a Disney star in a mall is so American
to me. That doesn't happen here at all.
(03:42):
I think the most lovely thing is if someone came up to you, we call them shopping centres in the UK.
Someone came up to me and they were like, you will never be a star.
That would probably be my version of that. I almost wish that someone did that to me instead.
Maybe I'd be in a better feel. But now, no, look at you. You went to New York,
you went to LA, you're dabbling in all of the different comedy types,
and now you're at the hallowed ground of the Edinburgh Fringe.
(04:03):
Just touched a little bit upon your show, Popstar, there.
Where can we find you throughout? Are you there for the entire month?
Yeah, I'm here for the whole month. I'm doing 21 shows, which feels crazy.
You can find my show at Zoo Playground in Playground 1 at 22.45,
so 10.45 at night, which is pretty late, but it's a really fun,
(04:26):
high-energy, high-paced show that doesn't take itself serious at all.
So it's a good late-night thing to see after having a couple pints.
Brilliant. You've already adapted onto the UK Great Britain culture. I have.
You have? Oh, I'm like Q for line, pint.
I'm fully in it. You know, I'm here like 15 more days or something like that,
maybe longer. So I have to fully immerse myself.
(04:50):
I don't know if you're familiar with Edinburgh's Hive till five as well.
No, I'm not. What is that? Hive is a club and it opens until five or is it seven till seven?
One of them is Liverpool, one of them is Edinburgh. an outrageously early
hour so you can do your show finish go for
a pint maybe many and then come back and do
it all again the next day definitely many yeah i know
(05:11):
somebody was telling me they were like nightlife is like open until 5 a.m out
here oh what that seems a bit excessive but hey you know maybe one of these
nights when i'm feeling really wild i'll i'll party hard after one of my shows
that that one thing about great burn we can definitely definitely party.
Or at least everybody who's done a comedy show and comes straight from that can definitely party.
(05:33):
Yeah. And I feel like some of the people at the festival too,
like it's so many beer gardens, so many like drinking spots.
People are drinking like start of the day to the end of the day. It's a fun party.
My friends in the comedy shows used to go to university and obviously we used
to be 10 people to a house in university.
It was 10 people to a room when they went to Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
This is my first time here. Yeah. It's so beautiful, but it's like my days are
(05:58):
spent just out flyering and meeting people and trying to promote my show and
then trying to preserve my energy and voice for my show.
So, but luckily I do have one night off a week. So I'm trying to like,
shove as many things like tourist things as i can in there so i can like see
the castle and i don't know maybe go see some cows brilliant yeah the two top
(06:20):
edinburgh hot spots castle and cow.
Castle and cow i've got to do both and see shows and i want to see shows too
so fantastic have you met anybody famous there yet any of like big british comedians
no i i haven't i've spotted some people walking by on the streets and i've thought
about like oh do i like do i stalk them But,
(06:41):
you know, I'm not trying to get a bad rap out of here, but it's enticing.
I mean, you're like, what if I just like, I don't know, follow them for a while.
Probably see some great shows before.
Now, not to wish your time in Edinburgh away, but when you're jetting back off
to the heights of LA, is there anywhere anybody else can catch you in your Grambling's Theatre?
Yeah, you can catch me at the UCB Theatre every fourth Wednesday of the month
(07:05):
with my sketch team Baguette.
And then around town doing improv shows at the Groundlings, sometimes with Bad
Company on Thursday nights, as well as like random bar shows and garage shows and club shows.
So you seem to do a lot of different disciplines and different shows.
Like, do you have like any idols that you look up to, like especially like women
(07:26):
in comedy as well? Yeah, definitely.
One of my biggest idols is Kristen Wiig. She's an incredible character, comedian and actress.
Actress and she started at the groundlings
theater so like you know and i'm like oh gosh i love her so much and i love
how she's able to also do like straight acting as well like dramatic acting
(07:47):
now i think she's really great i love maya rudolph melissa mccarthy a lot of
like the women of snl gilda radner those people i really look up to.
Is Popstar actually taking inspiration from Tina Fey's Girls 5 ever show?
A great parallel to draw.
It's, you know, Popstar is a autobiographical show about my life.
(08:09):
So it's literally like, you know, I tried to be a pop star when I was 14 years old.
I was in like a pop girl group. I was in a band. I had a solo career.
I had over 20 terrible songs that I wrote.
I had like these cringy music videos. I went on tour.
So my show is just sort of making fun of myself for all of the stuff that I
(08:29):
did when I was younger and kind of owning like that cringe that we all kind
of go through at our teen years, except for mine was blasted on the Internet for all to see.
But I have recently started watching Girls 5 Ever, and it's very definitely
similar vibes like those girl group vibes are so there.
And I've had people be like, oh, my gosh, your show is like so similar,
like you should make a show like that or whatever.
(08:52):
So definitely similar vibes to to that show. I think the whole like 90s girl
group and then like noughties child star talk about like Zendaya,
Selena Gomez, who came straight from that Disney pipeline.
And then Shots of Adam is so encapsulating of its time as well.
We all know who they were.
We all know that they had a top laid over a tank, laid over a waistcoat,
(09:15):
laid over a million bangles, maybe a skirt, some jeans. I mean,
literally, I was in a girl group.
And most of our time was spent picking out outfits, like we would just pick
out outfits for hours, we would take photo shoots.
And I'd be like, are we gonna like do performances? And they're like,
we've got to do photo shoots for what?
So and like, I even have a little bracelet on now from my show.
(09:38):
So it is very much of the time. Fantastic.
What does it what does it say on it? It says, man, take your balls out your purse and.
Crying which is it's a lyric from one of
my songs so that gives you a little taste of how
absolutely insane my music is or was
I guess so give these out at the show it's really fun so you can make bracelets
(10:00):
you can take photos you can sing you can do comedy you can act I'll put a question
mark next to dance probably as well is there anything you can't do I can't read
or write very good No, just kidding.
I am dyslexic, but I'm great at writing. I'm a good writer.
Just maybe my spelling is bad, but my writing is good.
All in the same boat here. Definitely a numbers person through and through.
(10:23):
I was actually on that topic, to be fair. I've actually been watching the Olympics.
Have you been keeping up with it?
I've been trying to. It's been a little tricky being here and doing my show
because I feel like everything's on when I'm out.
But I have been trying to watch when I can or if I'm in a bar,
catching it on the TV. be.
Like, I've been thinking about what I would actually do if I went to the Olympics.
(10:44):
And the answer is probably none of them. I think I would get in horrific injuries
very quickly compared to these people. Yes.
There's also so many sports that you don't realize are sports until you're watching the Olympics.
And you're like, what is this? Like, I was watching one the other day. I.
Canoes but they're like racing down this hill
(11:06):
and it's canoe slalom is that
you know what i mean gold i didn't know i wanted to do that
until i saw it yesterday yeah and i'm like
where do they practice that like they're going
to rivers like what is this and they are they just
and they have to like flip upside down it's the most intense looking sport
i've ever seen and i don't know how you get into something like that
(11:26):
but they did how do they think of the
sport before they do it to the point where it can
be an olympic sport like who was like i think i
can go down a water rapid turn around
do a 360 and then still make
it to the finish line faster than you i get running i get
jumping yeah i can throw further than you can yes
(11:47):
i know i don't know or like i i was
thinking like what sport now are people making up
that they need to get a couple more countries on
on board with then then we'll see it at the olympics in
the next like four years i think the only olympic sport
that will be any good at is curling up and dying probably
yeah yeah sitting on a couch i would be good at that okay so we'll assume that
(12:11):
pop star doesn't have any sporting adventures in it no but i also know that
you've had a background in acting a background in tv i believe where you are
where you're not in an episode of keeping up with the kardashians I was. Yes, I was.
Tell me everything. How? When? What? Why? So I believe it was,
oh my gosh, I think it was maybe in 2021.
(12:33):
It might have been 2019. My brain doesn't work very well anymore.
But basically, they were coming to take an improv class at the Groundlings Theater.
And at the time, I was in their performance company. So they had asked some
of us if we wanted to be in the episode.
And so we showed up to do improv. And then Kim Kardashian and just like walks
in and she is so stunning.
(12:56):
She looks exactly like her Instagram posts. Like she looks like an Instagram filter in real life.
Like you're just like, wow, that's you look amazing. And yeah,
We got to do improv with her and she was so shy and nervous.
It was really sweet. And she like didn't really want to do it.
She was like, you guys are so good at this. Like, I don't like doing this.
(13:16):
And then she told us actually that she had been asked to host Saturday Night
Live a couple times, but she kept saying no because she was like so nervous to do it.
And then all of us like gave her this pep talk. We're like, you're Kim Kardashian.
Like you should host SNL. Like They do all the work for you.
You just show up, you read a cue card, and you kill it.
(13:39):
And then that next season, she ended up going on as a host.
So I don't know. I think it was me that helped encourage her to finally host SNL.
The inspiration to Kim Kardashian is definitely a line for your resume.
I believe it. So I can't imagine that Kim Kardashian is very much of a yes and sort of person.
I think she wanted to be. She was so nervous. She literally did like maybe five
(14:03):
minutes of improv with us and then was like, I just want to sit down and watch.
We were like, I think she knows what she's good at and that's not improv.
That's fair. I mean, if anybody else walked into that improv studio tomorrow,
who would you love to work with? Probably Lisa Kudrow. Fantastic.
It's been absolutely lovely to speak with you, Devon. You can catch Devon at
(14:23):
the Edinburgh Fringe doing her very own pop star show.
And you can also catch her out there in LA if any listeners are there either. there.
It's been absolutely lovely to speak with you. Goodbye, Devon.
Have an amazing run at Edinburgh. Thank you so much for having me, Grace.
And once again, I've been Grace. Thank you very much for listening to the Student
Pages podcast. I will catch you all next time.
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