Riki Lindhome spent her twenties and thirties as one half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates. Now that she is solidly in her forties, the comedian is finally going solo with a debut album that tackles the unique challenges of being a “middle-aged” woman, as she put it.
In this episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Lindhome breaks down the process of turning real-life struggles into comedy songs and shares what it has been like to perform music for the first time without her longtime bandmate Kate Micucci. She also talks about the surreal experience of attending SNL50 as a “plus one” with husband Fred Armisen, the moment in her career where she had to choose between pursuing Saturday Night Live or sticking with Garfunkel and Oates, and how bizarre it was when the first movie she ever appeared in won the Oscar for Best Picture.
When Lindhome set out to write the songs for her album—No Worries if Not, out this Friday, April 4—she says she was “just trying to do an honest examination of my life,” asking herself “what’s funny to me now” after turning 46 this spring. While a lot of the songs she wrote with Micucci were about dating, now she’s a “married mom” who is focused more on fertility issues (“Infertile Princess”) and parenting fears (“Don’t Google Mommy.”)
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