Aubrey Plaza
Actor, producer, and witch-adjacent figure best known for Parks and Recreation, White Lotus, and Agatha All Along.
Circuit updated August 19, 2025
Plaza arrives at Good Hang in sunglasses, is asked to take them off, and immediately asks to put them back on, which is the whole episode in miniature, deflection layered over enormous care. The conversation exists because her husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena, died earlier that year, and Poehler asks how she is doing in the first few minutes rather than dancing around it. Plaza answers with the most precise description of active grief you will hear on a podcast, borrowing the image of a horror-movie gorge, an ocean of awfulness always right there that she can look at, dive into, or flee. The rest runs lighter, the Cinderella stepsister who stole the show and the SNL internship she faxed her way into, but the through-line is a person who cares immensely and would prefer you not notice.
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“it's like at all times there's like a giant like ocean of just awfulness that's like right there and I can like see it and like sometimes I I just want to like just dive into it and just like be in it and then and then sometimes I just like look at it and then sometimes I'm like I just try to get away from it but it's always there.”
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“it taught me like comedy is where it's at. I was like I'm getting all the laughs. I was like Cinderella sucks.”
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“what's so fun about this character is that like it's a game of not showing anyone that I really care.”
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