Rachel Saya Jacobson (writer / producer Desus & Mero)

<p>Rachel Saya Jacobson joined me to discuss her tweets, early influences including Laurel &amp; Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, and vaudeville; always performing and creating; Kurt Vonnegut; going to The Tonight Show offices and seeing that&#39;s what she wants to do; the immediacy of late night; having a Jewish comedy writer dad and a Japanese mom; her father&#39;s always doing bits; going to Emerson; writing for the Hyena, its satirical newspaper; writers room vs. the isolation of writing alone; her duties as an associate producer; advice from the head writer; her first sketch, a parody of <em>Last Week Tonight</em>; not getting an internship at <em>Samantha Bee</em>; her dream dinner with Eleanor Roosevelt and O.J. Simpsons; not speaking Japanese; working overseas; <em>Benny Hill Show </em>and Yakkety Sax; podcasts; younger generation knowing Buster Keaton; working in copywriting during the strike; the days of a writer making a living on one show are over; picketing; Bill Maher; writing for the Independent Spirit Awards and having a joe go viral; her favorite shows now - <em>Succession</em>, <em>Severance</em> and <em>Beef</em>; working on animated series like <em>Big Mouth</em>; meeting hero Mike Drucker on the picket line and Joe Mande doing stand up; working with Josh Gondelman and Opus Moreschi; buying &quot;too much tuna&quot; for Nick Kroll; Chelsea Perretti; Adam Sandler; Alice Ju; Jews in Hollywood; Zach Effron; Adam Sandler&#39;s bat Mitzvah movie and &quot;80 for Brady&quot;; her dad is semi-retired but still writing; replacing a late night show with a game show; not thinking she would accept</p>