Name: Jeff Hiller - Paying Homage to Celebrity Memoirs in "Actress of a Certain Age" | The Daily Show
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I love having to stand on my tippy-toes in heels to hug you.

I'm such a fan of yours, and I enjoyed this book so much.

It's all about my sort of humiliating experiences in my career.

And I thought, but you know, I've made it.

And then, when I opened the book, there's a typo on the cover of my book.

Listen, I grew up in Kentucky, public school, so I thought this was how you spell certain.

Oh, see, I grew up in Texas, where everything's fine.

I love how each of your chapters in your book is titled for a different actor's memoir.

Because I read a lot of celebrity memoirs.

And then there's a footnote at the bottom of the front page of the chapter that says when that actor has met mainstream fame.

Because I always read the celebrity ones, and they don't always say exactly how old they are.

Then I have to go get a calculator, look up IMDB, and then check it out, and figure out how old they were, and then compare it to how old I am when I'm reading the book.

And spoiler alert, it was never a consoling math equation.

Well, when I got this opportunity to write a celebrity memoir, with the really loose definition of the word celebrity, I wanted to rely on the fact that I have read all of these memoirs.

And I also wanted to write it for other people who maybe committed the cardinal sin of aging past 40 without realizing all of the dreams that they wanted in their life, and have a little bit of hope in it.

So I talk about how compare invites despair.

Yeah, and I did come up with that on my own.

So your IMDb reads like a comedy sizzle reel of all-time great comedies.

But I think most people know you from your beautiful work on Somebody Somewhere.

If people haven't seen it, tell us what it's about.

And it's about people in Kansas who have found their family.

And it's also about being queer in the Midwest and being someone who isn't giving up on yourself, which is a lot of what the book is about, too.

And it's not like re-watching Grey's Anatomy.

One season is less than an Avatar movie, seriously.

And you talk about it in your book as well.

Tell us what was behind that moment in the show.

Well, that was just an improvisation I did that did make it into the final edit.

And I'm not bragging about it, but I did do that.

And it felt right, because it was this scene about these friends who were hanging out and were joyful and were finding each other.

And my character is involved in the church, but is having some weirdness with church.

This moment where we're hanging out together and being together and having community, that's what my church is.

And I think that that's true of me, too, and beautiful, I think, for all of us, right?

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