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(Played by Andrea Martin in full-on maniac Jersey mom mode, no less.)
Heres hoping for a third season, whichmay or may not happen.
Theres still no news from NBC aboutGreat News renewal or not, which is very rude.Dude, I know.
We have a small but fiercely vocal and enthusiastic following.
You got to hope its enough and hope people are watching it after the fact.
We need to think of a clever hashtag to get trending.I feel like I cant come up with it.
!If I do it, it looksreallynot cool.
#GreatNewsIsGreatPleaseRenewIt?yo keep it as a really long and wordy hashtag.
As someone who grew up outside of Secaucus,Great News premise immediately spoke to me.
Which is a very good sign weve tapped into something relatable.
Two seasons in, how does it feel?Great.
I make a run at look away from it.
The truth is, its an ensemble comedy.
I cant believe Im a member of such a tiny group at this point.
I wouldve hoped, but I wouldnt have believed you.
Ill never forget this.
Its forever in my heart that I got to do this incredibly special thing.
And Im such a fan.
So Id love that, c’mon, make it happen.
I know in the past Tina has written TV roles with certain actors in mind.
More typical than smaller TV roles that Ive done, actually.
I went in and I auditioned a couple of times before I ended up chemistry-testing with Adam Campbell.
My manager kept reassuring me that I was a person still in the mix of this.
I was hanging on there.
Tina felt like I would be right for it.
I never had the opportunity to go in for anything else, which is why it was so surprising.
You also get to share the screen with Tina many times this season.
Its all very loaded and surreal for Katie, so I really had to do very little work.
I was so nervous when I did it because it was the first thing we did!
I sat down across the desk from Tina and the camera was on me and not her.
You could feel the whole crew rooting for me and I was really stumbling on my words.
It was a fun memory that I wont forget.
I have to take that hat off and separate myself to be able to be her scene partner.
Her girls came to visit the set one day.
Work that asks a lot of you long hours, preparation.
Thats some next-level stuff, to be able to do that and have that capacity within yourself.
Has your perspective on comedy changed at all since starting the show?One-hundred percent.
And to get to do so many of them in every episode is a gift.
And of all different kinds of jokes.
Or when youre up filming, I learned that you get to do it that way.
I slowly learned that.
I have more fun.
We have unexpected options that sometimes make the cut.
Would you say its an improv-friendly set, then?Strictly improv, not really.
The reasons why the jokes are so funny is because theyre said exactly as the writers wrote them.
The tiniest little change in the wording of jokes will kill it.
We do really have to be word-perfect, which is a great challenge.
Were so honored to be the very wacky TV show thats also very topical.
So them being on the same team and equals at work would be wonderful.
I have a hysterical time working with Adam so Id love to see where that relationship goes.
All right, Im going to get a hashtag trending now.
Do the right thing, NBC.Maybe thats our hashtag.
Ah, maybe not, a little too serious.
