With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus: The host who's always her own guest

"It was all based on a window commercial, basically, that the two characters were doing. He's the guy giving a commercial for his window company, and I was his brother — what he decided on for me. And it ended up being so funny because, I think one of the things that makes it stand out as favorite episode, is that right when we were starting, I was thinking, 'How can this continue for an hour? We're going to talk about windows for an hour and have it be funny?' And we did! I felt like we really pulled off a feat with that one, and Joe's just so talented that he made it easy."

"The episode was based on Skee-Lo, the song, 'I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller.' So he played Skee-Lo in the episode, hosting an episode about wishes, and he made me Frank Dorito, the world's all-time record holder for most wishes granted. So it was a very absurd premise, and also based on something really familiar to people, so I think that made it really fun to do."

"I personally love how surprising it continues to be. I think that's something that I didn't expect about doing improv. I think I thought that, at a certain point, you kind of know what to expect out of your castmates and the people you're performing with, and I'm just continuously blown away by what people come up with."

"That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself. And I have a lot of fun doing that. It's even better than just doing an improv show on stage, because you can do the character for a full hour and really get to dig deep into what makes this character tick. So that's been something that's been really enjoyable for me, is getting to pay an old man, and not just have it be a quick bit for a scene, but something where it's like, no, he's a fully actualized person, and I would never get to play him on screen, so it's really enjoyable."

"I think that'd be really fun. What's interesting about my show is that one of the reasons I made the guest be the host is that I don't like hosting, so I don't know if it's something that I would eventually want to do over time, but maybe someday. I think that by doing the podcast, I've grown to actually enjoy hosting a little more and realize that my role is a bit of a host, even though I thought I was totally avoiding that by creating this construct. But hosting a late night show has never really been a goal of mine in particular, but it could be fun. I mean, it'd be great if the other person did all the work, so yeah!"