Lena Waithe
Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Lena Waithe

B1IntermediateAugust 4, 20261 hr 14 min
  • Interview
  • Entertainment

Lena Waithe is always cool. Amy hangs with the 'Chi' creator and 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' producer and talks about the best part of working at Blockbuster, falling in love with Prince, and why everyone should be watching 'Couples Therapy. Host: Amy Poehler Guests: Bill Rauch, Zhailon Levingston, and Lena Waithe Executive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson...

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. We are very excited about our guest today. It is Lina Waithe, writer, producer, actor.

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Lina does so many things so well, and she's the coolest. And we're going to get into how cool she is today. We're going to get into the way she likes to work. We're going to talk about our love of Chicago.

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We're going to talk about Blockbuster, a place where you had to go and rent videos in person. We're going to talk about the fact that she is the first black woman to ever win a primetime Emmy in comedy writing. We're going to talk about couples therapy.

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