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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
the Lee Matthews Podcast more what you hear

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weekday afternoons on the Drive. You
know Kate Flannery from a lot of great

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sitcoms, also Dancing with the Stars, Brooklyn nine nine nine, American House

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Yeah, Brooklyn ninety nine, ABC's
American Housewife, and most notably on NBC's

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The Office as the fan favorite.
She is also in a new movie that

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is out now called The Prank Kate
Flannery Welcome, Hey, how are you

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good to have you along today?
This movie is out now and it's got

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a lot of star power along with
the great Kate Flannery. Yes, I'm

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proud to say that I'm doing a
movie with Rita Moreno, the great Oscar

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winning, amazing legend, ninety two
years old, hilariously funny and smart.

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Yeah, I'm the luckiest person I
know this week. Well, there's also

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a lot of other great talent too
that is in this film, including Keith

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David, Meredith Salinger. We haven't
seen a lot of her in a long

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time, and also Betsy Soidoro,
so we see her everywhere. But your

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role in this film is as Loretta. Who is Loretta in relation to the

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characters. Well, Loretta is the
lunch lady, and this is a high

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school dark comedy horror movie. And
let me tell you, you don't want

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to make the lunch lady mad when
you're in high school because it will be

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in your experience not at all.
Yeah, so there's Yeah, this is

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a really fun movie. It's kind
of a buddy movie with two platonic friends

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in high school who are angry at
their physics teacher played by Rita Moreno,

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and they're trying to figure out a
way to get back at her for being

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really nasty to everybody in class.
So yeah, it's a really fun ride.

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The whole thing. It's kind of
a little bit of everything that the

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crowd was. You know, if
you see this movie, people get very

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vocal. It's really fun. They
clap and there's things that are scary and

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funny, and it's kind of like
a Long Island iced tea. It's got

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everything in it. And Kate Flannery. The name of the movie, by

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the way, is The Prankts Out. Now Kate Flannery is and you know

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her from the office. When you
you're very good at playing kind of an

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anti character and all I can think
of is you must pay attention to everybody

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you come in contact with to steal
a little bit of that of that idiosyncrasy

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to put into your characters. Well, this is You're not wrong. I'm

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from a big family. I'm one
of seven kids. My dad owned a

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bar. There were a lot of
characters at my dad's bar, so it

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was a great place to learn.
And yeah, and then I was so

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fortunate to go to Chicago after college, and I had five great years in

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Chicago, and I worked at Second
City with some of the greatest people on

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earth and just had great training and
great fun. And I don't know,

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I'm really really lucky. I love
improv, and I love all of the

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folks that come out of Second City. I was watching and paying attention to

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Second City years ago, So I'm
glad to hear that. Is that where

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you ran into Jane Lynch. I
know you've done a lot of work with

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her. Yeah, Jane was one
of the first people I met when I

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got to Chicago. And now Jade
and I have a Christmas album, so

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we actually do a live tour every
Christmas. We also have a non Christmas

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show We've done at the Carlisle of
New York and we've played the Kennedy Center.

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We've played a lot of places,
but we definitely do a big tour

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every Christmas. And you can get
our music on iTunes. It's called a

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Swinging Little Christmas. It's really fun. Kate Flannery with us and the movie

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that is she is in now is
called and Out Now, It's called The

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Prank. What did you know that
Marita Morena was going to be in the

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you would co starring with her in
this before you took the job or was

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it a nice surprise? It was
a nice surprise. They were trying to

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get her. And I've worked with
this director before, Maure and Brucha we

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worked on a movie, a female
comedy about arm wrestlers, female arm wrestlers

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called Golden Arm. It's on Netflix. So Lareen's she's such a great director,

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and we were so excited that Rita
Marino was willing to join this project

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and a spearheaded she plays the most
evil physics teacher and she's so funny and

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so scary. She's fantastic. I
remember my physics teacher from high school.

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He wasn't evil, he was just
quirky, and to this day, I

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say to my wife, how far
is it from such and such to such

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and such. Let's find out.
Let's use the distance formula, because that

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was my physics teacher's favorite thing to
do. And it always stays with you.

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I mean, yeah, yeah,
so awesome. I always say the

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Office is very much like being in
a classroom where Michael Scott's kind of like

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the teacher and you're second to desk
next Dwight. You know, it's somebody

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did all the same room all the
time. I was going to ask about

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that because the Office was kind of
an import from Britain. And you go

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and watch the British version, and
then I watched the American version. I

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find the American version funnier. Maybe
it's because of the cultural references being American,

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maybe, but I think that the
I think the American version is a

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little kinder. I think we Michael
Scott has more heart than the British David

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Brent. I think David we only
got thirteen episodes of the British, so

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we never got to see David Bran's
heart, but Michael Scott we had.

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You know, he was on for
seven seasons. You saw him fall in

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love, you saw him get hurt, you know, in all those you

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know human he was more of a
human being. I think that that sort

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of fake reality show, the way
they shoot the Office and other Yeah,

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yeah, that. I don't know
if that changed comedy or refined it.

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But you've been in a lot of
common money over the years. What do

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you think. I think it changed, especially just the half hour. You

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know, Abbot Elementary really speaks to
It has some roots in the Office for

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sure, and I think my family
and there's a lot of shows that that

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have a similar that kind of I
took it to the next level because of

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the Office. Well, and my
lovely wife is she can't watch some of

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the episodes because of the cringe worthiness
of many of the of the content.

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I find it vastly entertaining because I've
been through enough of those myself, and

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I think that's why everybody else feels
that way and enjoyed the show so much.

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Absolutely, I think I think younger
kids really plug in. I think

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they're really smart, and I think
they understand the subtleties of the comedy and

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the discomfort and the cringe. I
think they there. I mean, if

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you're smart enough to get it,
you can watch the same episode of the

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Office over and over again and find
something else funny that you missed because maybe

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you were laughing one moment. You
know, there's all these kind of little

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Easter eggs and things going on in
the background, and you know it's it's

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it's a great show to rewatch.
Kate Flannery is with us. Her newest

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that you will want to watch is
called The Prank. It's out now everywhere

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you get your movies and in theaters. A lot of your characters have to

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be made down, not made up, made down, Kate Flannery. I

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think it's the mark of a true
actor or actress if they don't mind being

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made down and can can get into
that character. Does it Does it bother

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you to be made down? Absolutely
not. I'm happy to represent the Unford

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people on planet or let's do it, you know. I think The Opposility

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was one of the first shows to
show people really Also, you know,

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that's why I did Dancing with the
Stars, so I got tons of makeup.

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I was like, yeah, I
want the opposite experience, so I

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I that was really fun. And
uh, it's fun to wear a lot

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of makeup and sparkles. But it's
really fun to wear, you know,

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really boring clothes. Kate Flannery,
The movie is The Prank at Stars,

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also Rita Moreno, Meredith Salager and
many other greats. You'll enjoy it.

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It's a great way to enjoy and
start spring out now everywhere you get movies.

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And thank you for joining us,
Kate Flannery so much. Thanks for

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listening to Later with Lee Matthews,
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