Ali Wong recently won an Emmy Award for her performance in the film. beefbut I got the dress from her baby cobra The comedy feature exhibited at the Smithsonian (along with Muhammad Ali’s robe and Prince’s guitar) is also “pretty high up” in terms of her career accomplishments. Even better, while she was performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., her children, ex-husband, and boyfriend Bill Hader all came to visit and view the exhibit. ““To carry all of that around is just as meaningful as the dress itself, being in a museum,” she said of the latest episode. hot ones.
When she went to see the exhibit with a group, she said, “I was so moved and shocked. My daughter Mari, who I was pregnant with at the time, also pointed at it and got really excited. She said, ‘There it is. It’s me!’” Wong recalls. It’s a pretty hard moment to top, but “I think the moment on Halloween when people wear striped dresses and shove pillows under them is even more meaningful than that,” she says. “It’s happened every year since then, and it’s probably my favorite thing. It’s my favorite of the best things that have ever happened.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Wong promotes her new Netflix special single woman As well as the streamer’s upcoming anime series Gentry Chow vs. Underworld—We discussed previous specials, our days on student council, and our favorite scenes from filming beef. She also talked about her philosophy on failure in comedy. “Do you know how many people don’t remember their successes and only focus on their failures? So when you fail, you can’t help but think about it. I hope this motivates you to improve,” she says. “You don’t want to be one of those comics who just likes and kills people all the time and always does the same thing. And I think shame is also a very powerful motivator. Because , because I’m like, ‘God, I was so embarrassed, I don’t want to be embarrassed anymore.’