Diving into that experience and sort of sharing the screen with such sort of legends, what was that like? Well, you have to imagine you’re me, and you walk into a room and it’s Vanessa Bayer, Molly Shannon, Jenifer Lewis, and then you’re also sort of expected to be there and perform, and it’s sort of out of body. Vanessa Bayer, Molly Shannon, Jenifer Lewis, and yourself.
Starring Vanessa Bayer, starring just some casual people.
I want to dive in and talk about your fantastic new show on Showtime, I Love That for You, created by Vanessa Bayer. The comedian sat down with Vanity Fair to chat about I Love That for You, Fire Island, and what might happen if his two characters were to ever meet.Ī guide to Hollywood’s biggest races Arrow “So to see these people sort of come up through the entertainment industry and now be movers and shakers, it’s so great to be involved in that.” “Coming through the New York comedy community is a real badge of honor for me,” Rogers says affectionately, name-checking other comedians of the moment like Yang, Booster, Patti Harrison, and Catherine Cohen. Written by and starring Rogers’s close friend Joel Kim Booster and also costarring Yang, the film represents an emotional milestone for Rogers, who began his career “screaming in basements in New York City,” he says. Along with his scene-stealing turn as Darcy Leeds, Rogers stars as Luke in Searchlight’s upcoming Pride and Prejudice–inspired comedy, Fire Island , which hits Hulu on June 3. These days Rogers has a lot more to look forward to. Even just getting something in the mail-especially during a time like the pandemic, sometimes it would be all I was looking forward to.” “The thing about retail therapy and why it works is it helps us feel like we’re filling a hole, you know what I mean?” Rogers tells Little Gold Men about QVC culture. “It helps us feel like we’re fulfilling something. Rogers plays Darcy Leeds, a senior associate-not assistant-to the CEO of SVN, a QVC-style home shopping network. On Showtime, he currently costars on Vanessa Bayer’s new series, I Love That for You. A cohost of iHeartRadio’s incredibly popular Las Culturistas podcast with close friend and Saturday Night Live cast member Bowen Yang, Rogers-who arrived with his own microphone already set up-is now taking his talents to multiple kinds of screens. “My setup was already set up, in fact, from this morning,” he admits. Matt Rogers came to Little Gold Men prepared to podcast.