It’s a big day for Anne and Damian as they welcome one of their childhood heroes onto the show: actor and comedian, Melanie Hutsell. You Might Know Her From Saturday Night Live, Lady Dynamite, Transparent, Bridesmaids, The Real Live Brady Bunch, and Mother’s Little Helpers. Melanie talked to us about finding her people in the queer community, being on SNL when the women were criminally underused, and coming face to face with Mayim Bialik years after her controversial impression of Blossom on SNL.

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Discussed this week:

Melanie’s IMDB + Twitter

Oscar nominations

The L Word: Generation Q and Work in Progress renewed

Chicago pals: Jill Soloway & Faith Soloway (Transparent), Becky Thayer (Strangers with Candy), Kate Flannery (The Office), and Jane Lynch (Glee, Christopher Guest films)

Annoyance Theatre and The Real Live Brady Bunch (Jan Brady)

Transparent season two had Anjelica Huston, Melanie, and Cherry Jones, Indigo Girls 

Marci Klein recruited Melanie

The Brady Bunch Movie (Jan Brady went to Jennifer Elise Cox)

Melanie loved these folks from SNL: Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn,  and Dana Carvey

Best pals on show were Beth Cahill, Ellen Cleghorne, Sarah Silverman 

Beaches scene with Mayim Bialik & past guest Lainie Kazan (one of the greatest scenes in all of cinema)

Blossom SNL sketch

Mayim Bialik: “I release you”

Glenn Close lesbian sketch on SNL

Fuck Chevy Chase! (Melanie’s pick for worst host during her tenure.) Melanie in sketch with nightmare, Chevy Chase.

Margot’s Bush sketch group + Very Nice Cat YouTube

Bridesmaids outtakes (Melanie’s full bloopers are no longer on YouTube.)

Grown Ups 2 

She picnicked with Eve Plumb (original Jan Brady from TV series)

Lady Dynamite (season two car scene written by Pam Brady & Theresa Mulligan)

Paula Deen impression v good

One woman show, Party Mom

Mother’s LIttle Helpers (2019)