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Why 'Brooklyn Ix-9's' Chelsea Peretti Wanted to Practise Stand-Up for Dogs on Netflix

"In my one-half-60 minutes special
[on Comedy Primal], I had talked about how I wished the whole audition was
puppies," she told Indiewire, "and in this special, I was
able to actually make skillful on that fantasy and throw some actual dogs into the
audience."

The
special, "Chelsea
Peretti: One Of The Greats," which debuts today on Netflix, has more
weirdness than just dogs in the audience. At that place's a sad clown taunting her from
off-stage, cuts to people distractedly typing on their smartphones and other
unusual crowd shots. Just it's likewise a solid hr-plus of fabric that discusses
topics similar how comedians talk well-nigh sex, her addiction to social media and her
penchant for staying home whenever she can.

Information technology'southward
been an eventful five years for Peretti, going from the writing staffs of
"The Sarah Silverman Show" and "Parks and Recreation" to
playing wise-ass precinct ambassador Gina Linetti on "Brooklyn
Nine-Nine" (produced by her onetime "Parks" bosses Mike Schur and
Dan Goor). Peretti talked to Indiewire well-nigh the special, the fun vibe of the
"Brooklyn" set and why she loves watching documentaries on Netflix.

What fabricated you desire to sign with
Netflix for this special?

Well,
you know, I think the most obvious, simplest answer is that I'k a Netflix user,
and I merely love the convenience of information technology, and the other answer is that, since I
started, basically, the advent of social media and my stand up-upward career accept kind
of been parallel in many ways. So I've been able to use all these different
tools to have more of a direct connectedness with the people that similar my comedy,
and so, to me, Netflix is perfect for that, because I tin can tweet something, and
then someone tin immediately watch it.

Is the fact that you tin observe
the special and simply watch information technology whenever y'all want a reason why a
lot of comedians are signing upward with Netflix right now?

A
hundred percent, considering if y'all accept a podcast, which many comedians do now, if
you have a Twitter account — it's a comedian's medium, Twitter — and so yous can
basically promote it at any time of the solar day, 24 hours a twenty-four hour period, and someone can watch
it right then and there.

What'southward your favorite thing to
lookout man on Netflix, by the way?

God, I
mean, I but watched this documentary about a king, and I forget which king it
was, honestly, but I was watching it, and I'm just like… I like watching
random documentaries on in that location a lot, like that ane. I recollect he was married vi
dissimilar times, and then the funniest [affair] was he killed 1 of his wives.
He had her beheaded for cheating on him, and then the historians were trying to
arrive relatable and pathetic maxim, "Oh, and then he went through a period
of depression. It's like, oh, I'yard lamentable, does beheading people bum yous out?"
But information technology was pretty astonishing.

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When you commencement started thinking
about cloth for this special, did you think that you wanted to do something
different than y'all'd washed in the by?

Well, I
wanted to be equally innovative as I am with social media, and I wanted to experience
excited well-nigh it and non feel that it was a cookie-cutter kind of meat and
potatoes stand-upward special. Merely I still wanted the stand-upwards to exist really potent
material and material that could be a stand-alone matter. It's ever driven me
basics when I'm watching stand up-up specials, the reaction shots that they insert
into them. It takes me out of it every single time. It's just the weirdest
tradition in which you lot're in the heart of a bang-up joke, and then you cut to
some person looking dislocated, or staring into the distance, or high-fiving
their friend, whatever. It always just seems generally very odd, and so I
wanted to play with that.

Sometimes the reaction shot's
non fifty-fifty to the joke that's being said…

Yeah. I
mean, that'due south the thing. It's actually something that was born out of necessity. I
hateful, you tape 2 shows when you do a stand-upward special, then you pick your
favorite reception and your favorite delivery from each show equally you edit together
the special. And so those things are put there so yous can switch from ane testify to
the other, go to a dissimilar angle or whatever. It merely sometimes seems like
they're completely picked at random now, or you're similar, at least someone could
be laughing in it, you lot know? So I just was excited when I started thinking
about… In my half-hour special, I had talked nearly how I wished the whole
audience was puppies, and in this special, I was able to actually make good on
that fantasy and throw some actual dogs into the audience.

You lot take dogs. Yous have people
not paying attending. Y'all take someone taking tea. You have people laughing
uncontrollably. At the end, you lot had everybody falling comatose. How did you
coordinate all that with only doing the special?

Well,
most of it was shot on a separate day. So I actually thought about this a lot in
accelerate of it and wrote out how I wanted the whole grandiose intro to exist, and
wrote up all the different bits of what I wanted in the audience, and I had a
lot of fun doing it. And then most of it was shot on a divide day, and then,
plain, the stuff with the audition… In some ways, I somewhat sacrificed
one of the shows, because I got the audience to practice a agglomeration of unlike stuff,
and it set sort of a weird tone, but I was as well moved by how great they did.
Similar the sleeping, I was like, oh my God, because I was watching information technology backstage
on a monitor, and I was like, they're really going for it, and it was cool to
have, and so many things are interactive, which stand-upward is, merely I like the
idea of pushing that a little bit.

With the parts of the routine
where you're staring at someone in the audition or starting
at the motion-picture show of yourself as a kid, is the audience going "What the hell
is she doing?" or did you tell one of them beforehand, hey, there are
going to be times where I'm going to pause and look out in the audience?

Well,
I'm glad that you're asking these questions because that seems like a good
sign. I wanted it all to feel seamless. Near of the time, those things were
shot on different days, but some of them were within the stand up-up. I had a
great editor. This daughter Brenda who simply… We sat in there for hours. I hateful, I
knew it was going to be edit-intensive because of what I was trying to pull
off, merely she really… We just sat there and but poured over the entire thing
trying to brand it every bit tight and seamless as possible.

Why practise yous think social media is
such slap-up fodder for
comedians, and has information technology gotten to the
point now where there's just as hacky jokes about social media as in that location was
nigh topics similar flying and relationships?

Well, I think
there's hacky jokes well-nigh annihilation nether the sun. I mean, anything yous tin can talk
about, in that location's a hacky joke nigh. So I think that information technology'due south just office of the cloth
of life. So, comedians are going to talk about whatever'due south happening, whatsoever
is of the moment, and so that's certainly going to exist hard to avert every bit a
stand-upwards.

I'm
fascinated by it considering I have an addictive personality, and I think it's
something where you become all these neat things from information technology, only information technology'southward kind of similar a
lottery. Y'all also lose a lot of time, and you besides go a lot of crappy things
from it. So information technology's like you lot keep refreshing things and pressing buttons, hoping
that y'all're going to land on something awesome, and sometimes you exercise, and
that's what keeps you coming back for more than.

What's the awesome thing that
you lot country on that gives you that positive reinforcement to
come up back?

I mean,
it could be anything from a single joke someone tweeted, to an entire link, to
an entire moving picture on the Cyberspace, or an article that you read that changes how
you think about life. The tricky thing is, basically, life is social media now.
The word "social media" isn't fifty-fifty quite accurate. I mean, nearly
things now are done in a completely different way than even when I was a
teenager or kid. Information technology's like, everything's virtual. So it really is life at present. I
think the give-and-take social media's too pocket-sized for what we're talking about.

If you
want to purchase groceries, you lot tin buy them online. If yous want to get some
supplies for your house, you become them online. I talk virtually being reclusive, and
there is a big role of me that that appeals to. I love only pressing buttons
and never leaving my house, but and then there's another part of me that's similar, oh
my God, I spent viii hours directly simply starting into a four-square-inch
screen or whatsoever. I don't know what size it is. Don't quote me on the size. And
then the day is gone, and you remember, God, I remember when I used to touch
actual objects.

Yes, those days are long gone.

Well,
that'due south difficult to practise in LA anyway, speak to existent people.

How practice you think your stand-up
has changed since you started? Now yous're in your 30s, what are you touching on
now that you didn't touch on five years ago, ten years ago?

Well,
I'm not sure even how much of it has to do with my age. I think that, equally I've
gotten more experienced equally a stand up-upwards, I've really wanted to be less guarded. I
feel like, early on on, I had this feeling that I had to show how tough I was,
and equally I've gotten deeper into it, I want to show more of a range. I want to
prove my silliness. I desire to show my fears. I desire to evidence my conversations. I
think the goal, really, with stand up-up is to but get this living, breathing
person and this facsimile of who you are in real life, unless you have a
persona, which I don't. Y'all're a heightened version of yourself, simply for me, I
want to show as many layers as I tin can and apply every aspect of myself that is
funny.

What'due south an example from the
special of that?

Permit me
try to retrieve. It's hard because, largely, what I'm talking about is an free energy
and an mental attitude, and I feel like I started stand up-up in New York, and I did information technology
at that place, and there's so many truly inspiring, incredible comedians in New York,
and a lot of them are very much like a "tough guy with a middle of gold,"
in my experience. Those are the people that encourage me, these comics who are
gruff and tough, simply and then they would say the kindest thing that would continue me
going when I want to requite upwardly. So, in some ways, I felt like I was trying to
emulate what they do, and I think I've but moved more towards doing what I do,
my own thing, and I just feel better when I tin can practise that. I retrieve most comedians
beginning out in some way or some other trying to emulate someone they adore, and
then hopefully those layers autumn off as you observe yourself more than.

How easy or tough is it for yous
to transition from doing your own thing with stand-up, where you're the 1
who's simply responsible for what's on the page, to a writer'due south room, to filming a
sitcom, that collaborative atmosphere?

I
always think of information technology… I need to research wolves more, just I always think almost
wolves, and I don't even know if it's accurate, but I think of them every bit loners
merely likewise pack animals, and there's a pack mentality in a writer's room that
very much appeals to me. At "Parks and Rec," we would accept all these
debates about things. My first job that I got hired at to leave New York and
come here was to write for Sarah Silverman's evidence, and it was crazy. You're
like, "I'thousand getting paid, and nosotros're going on these crazy tangents, and
bizarre things are happening, then, I love it." There'southward a way in which
beingness in a writer's room feels like being in grad schoolhouse or something, you
know? Yous're surrounded by incredibly intelligent people, and you're having
very heady conversations as well equally completely ridiculous, absurd distractions
that come up up. So I really loved information technology.

At the
same fourth dimension, there's the immediacy with stand-upwards where you lot don't go through
anyone. Y'all don't have to debate anything. You but become direct on stage, and
yous get to say whatsoever you want. At present, you still take the audition as a
collaborator in a sense, and I think that's also what I was trying to highlight
in my special.

It's a unlike comedy musculus,
I would imagine.

Well,
yeah, it's different. I hateful, information technology'southward less exciting I recollect. Being in a writer's room
can be very heady because you're raveling and unraveling stories, and you take
this slice out and try it over again, and you put something else in. Then it's very…
Sometimes there can be logic problems where you're strategic, and y'all're
post-obit something through a thread all the way to the cease, and stand up-up, you
tin be a bit more impulsive I call back. But again, information technology depends on the writer's
room. I call back there's probably writer's rooms where you lot can be less strategic
than that.

Once you went on "Brooklyn
Nine-Ix," did you have any time to go back and write for "Parks and
Rec," or is that part in the by now?

No,
that's in the past. Aye, I wrote in that location for two seasons, and and so I really felt
like my stand-upward was coming along, and I wanted to continue performing, and
that chore is a dream task, apparently, for whatsoever comedy writer. I but experience like
it'southward something you lot desire to give your all to, and I was finding my performing
and the writing, [it was] a little bit challenging to do both. And then I got
re-hired back in to be on "Brooklyn Nine-Ix." So it all worked out.

Patently, your experience with
Mike Schur and Dan
Goor must've helped there, right?

Yeah. I
was lucky enough that they were very familiar with my voice and my personality,
and and then when they were writing the show, I recollect they had me in mind on some
level. But I definitely auditioned, and tested, and went through the process. We
still had to convince everyone else that I would exist a adept part of the
ensemble.

Did they consider anyone else to
play Gina at all? The role seemed to lucifer your personality from day one.

Yeah. I
mean, I think it was essentially written for me. Yeah. So I think information technology was mine
to lose kind of thing.

How are Mike and Dan fostering
an surround where everybody bonds as a grouping so rapidly?

I don't
know the exact alchemy of it, just I but know that, even at "Parks"
when invitee actors would come in, they'd e'er be remarking on the vibe on set up
and saying how friendly and nice it is. I'm like, what are other sets like?
Because I tin can only speak to what I've experienced, which is "Kroll Testify"
and things where it'south really fun and warm. So I don't know. I don't know how
you set a bad vibe, but it sounds like, from the scarred people that I've
talked to, that information technology definitely happens.

Merely
yeah, I don't know. I think that the truth is they're nice guys. They have an
humility to them. They care nigh their actors, and they write with
sensitivity, and then they draw people to them that accept those aforementioned attributes.

When I had Dan on my podcast,
he'd completely think I was jinxing him when I told him that something was
working well. Whatever time I complimented him, he'south like, "No, no, man. I don't desire to hear information technology."

[Laughs.] I know. I think it'due south like when we got
the Gilt Earth… Which, I hateful, as you lot might've been able to tell, none of
united states of america were expecting it. I mean, at least a fact is we weren't expecting it. I
feel similar that was the first time I was like, okay, maybe we'll take a second
flavour. You know what I hateful? Considering I think yous just are so used to seeing
things come up and go, and things that accept and so much hope, and and then they're
gone. So I recall no one feels like they can ever relax slowly in Hollywood or
things will simply disappear.

For you, it's proficient that you lot take
all these irons in the burn. You can practise stand up-up. You
can go dorsum to writing sitcoms. You tin can act. Is that something that you planned on doing, or was that just
kind of accidental?

You
know, for better or for worse, I've always had varied interests, and stand-upwardly
is a hybrid of writing and performing, and so I've always, from the very
kickoff, loved both. I used to do theatre and improv when I was younger, and
and so I moved towards stand-upward after college. Then, for me, all these things take
always been intertwined, and luckily, I've had people to wait up to, like
Christopher Guest, and Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler, and Sarah Silverman, Larry
David. People who do everything, and then I never felt like I had to choose.

By the manner, when did the writers
find out that you and Andy Samberg knew each other every bit kids?

Well,
even when we tested together for the show, we were making jokes virtually it. I
mean, Andy was being very generous when I was testing. He made me feel relaxed
and stuff by making jokes about it and stuff similar that. We were very dizzy and
played around, so I think that's what besides led to me being Gina rather than
a cop.

Did it surprise you at all that
they incorporated the fact that y'all guys had a past into your characters?

Yep, I
mean, they seem to pepper in things from real life into the scripts, and y'all'll
run into someone doing this or that, and and so you'll run across something very like pop
upwardly in a script, and yous're like, okay, so you're watching us. They definitely
incorporate some real-life stuff.

Anything you tin can tell me most
what'southward coming upwards on the testify?

Well,
you know, the Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) and Gina thing has concluded on a romantic
level, just and so continues. They continue getting snared back in on other levels. Then
that'due south going on. My friendship with Amy (Melissa Fumero) is weirdly trucking
along. There'southward a few episodes where you outset to encounter usa thrown together by
fate, and it's pretty cute, and I don't know. I dearest what they're doing with
all the characters this flavor. Since you know them amend at present, they're able to
play more. Holt (Andre Braugher), that monologue that he did [in the episode
"The Mole"], and some of the but silly things he has coming up are
amazing. Jake (Samberg) I feel is just a comedy machine now. Every line he says
makes me express joy. Then I feel similar they hit a groove.

Andre Braugher, i of the
funniest men on TV. Who knew?

I know.
I have to say, I obviously read that monologue in the table read, but the way
they shot it and the way he did it, I was simply dying. I mean, it's one of those
moments where y'all want to stand upwards and scream at your Boob tube similar, what am I
watching? This is astonishing. It's fun because yous just don't get to see it even while
you're shooting. Then there are still surprises for yous every bit an actor.

Oh, and I was going to enquire you
this too. Do people still come and say, hey, you're the girl who got in the helicopter in the "Louie" pilot?

Aye,
it's interesting. I've gone though aerodrome security, and people are like, I
like you on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "Kroll Evidence." You
know, people notice you lot in a variety of places and stuff. And so it's cool to hear
what people have seen or non seen, but yeah, "Louie," it's definitely
like, if I say I was on "Louie" and people are like, you lot were? I'one thousand
similar, "Yeah, the helicopter." I hateful, information technology's definitely an iconic
moment. I had just moved to LA, and then he basically was similar, practise you desire to
practice this part? So I flew right back.

And that was only, what, iv
years ago?

Yeah. I
mean, basically, LA has been a very productive metropolis to live in. Who knew?

So you're just going to concentrate on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" for
now, or do y'all have anything else in
the works?

Well, I
accept some ideas kicking effectually. Nosotros'll see what I do on this next hiatus, but
yes, right now we're halfway through the season. Then nosotros'll shoot the rest of
them, and and so nosotros'll have information technology from there. I know a agglomeration of us are planning to
go along a petty trip together over New Year'south. And so that'll be exciting.

Anyplace interesting?

Accept
yous ever heard of "gay Paree?" [Laughs.]

Aye. It's a little town in
France, right? Yep.

Yes.
Yes.  A little oft overlooked
city, but yes, these guys…Melissa motivated anybody, and and then we're going,
and so information technology should exist fun.

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