"Read everything Julie Klausner writes and listen to everything Julie Klausner says. She is hilarious, wise and smarter than you. I adore her."
--Amy Poehler

How Was Your Week was recently named one of the best comedy podcasts by the New York Times, Rolling Stone & GQ, and Julie Klausner has been called "hilarious and insightful"" by USA Today, one of the Internet's funniest writers by Salon, "The BFF you wish you had" by gURL.com, and "One of the comedians who could follow Conan on TBS" by the Huffington Post.

Past HWYW guests include Amy Poehler, Rickie Lee Jones, Patton Oswalt, Sally Kellerman, Simon Doonan, Joan Rivers, Kristen Johnston, Sarah Silverman, Ira Glass, Sandra Bernhard and many more.

Comedian Julie Klausner's podcast is like disdainfully flipping through US Weekly with your funniest friend.
--GQ Magazine

"A winning combo of Klausner's personal musings and hilarious interviews with pop culture luminaries."
--BUST

"Her ability to blend high/low culture with her personal life and not come off as insufferably self-indulgent is to be marveled; plus, she's so goddamn funny and honest."
--Stark Magazine

"It is a tribute to Julie Klausner's wit and charm that the wandering first 15 minutes of this week's podcast are pretty much just as funny as the subsequent interview."
--The Onion AV Club

"Better than any other podcaster, Julie finds uncommon podcast guests... or interviews the more common guest in a way they never have been before."
-Jewcy.com

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JULIE KLAUSNER: Your impression style has more to do with just creating a character than mimicking the person precisely.MAYA RUDOLPH: I think that’s exactly what it’s like. Like Whitney Houston. It’s a character. The way I do her, it’s not a real person anymore. Sometimes when you’re doing an impression of a person based on something they just did, it feels kind of mean-spirited, like you’re attacking somebody. As opposed to when we did Donatella Versace: we created a world where she was capable of anything. We made her this weird vampire. We had a talk show where she was in the bathtub, and then she got electrocuted—and she loved it. 

No better time than during Maya’s first time hosting to reblog this excerpt from my interview with her! Pick up the new BUST magazine with her gorgeousness on the cover to read the whole thing.

JULIE KLAUSNER: Your impression style has more to do with just creating a character than mimicking the person precisely.
MAYA RUDOLPH: I think that’s exactly what it’s like. Like Whitney Houston. It’s a character. The way I do her, it’s not a real person anymore. Sometimes when you’re doing an impression of a person based on something they just did, it feels kind of mean-spirited, like you’re attacking somebody. As opposed to when we did Donatella Versace: we created a world where she was capable of anything. We made her this weird vampire. We had a talk show where she was in the bathtub, and then she got electrocuted—and she loved it. 

No better time than during Maya’s first time hosting to reblog this excerpt from my interview with her! Pick up the new BUST magazine with her gorgeousness on the cover to read the whole thing.

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