Maya Rudolph, WSJMag’s 2022 Comedy Innovator, discusses her signature sense of humor: “I’ve never personally been interested in scathing comedy. It doesn’t sit right in my body.”
Audiences first fell in love with Rudolph—WSJ.’s 2022 Comedy Innovator—on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Two decades later, the writer, producer and Emmy-winning actor continues to bring her signature sense of humor to television, film and beyond.
“I learned through experience that I’m funnier when I find something funny,” says Maya Rudolph. “When I’m not feeling that, it feels like a lie.” The Row turtleneck, $1,450, TheRow.com, and Rudolph’s own earrings .Oct. 28, 2022 8:30 am ET Maya Rudolph doesn’t need to say anything to make us laugh. Audiences around the world want to watch her perform, and only the slightest twitch of her face begets giggles. She can impersonate an elusive chanteuse or an over-the-top Italian designer or make a phrase like “bubble bath” sound luxuriously burlesque. But years ago, when it came to public-facing parts of her job—interviews, talk shows, red carpets—she would find herself unable to be funny.
“It would always feel like someone was stealing my soul,” says Rudolph, 50, sitting comfortably in a velvet armchair on a late September afternoon. “That’s where, over the years, I created a persona to protect myself.”
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