Below is the next “Scratch the Surface” EJ Podcast #029. EJ has as his guest today Mo Collins from MAD TV. 

While she is most recognized by the dozens of characters she played on MADTV, she also has a very long resume that ranges from “Parks and Rec” to “Six Feet Under” to “The 40 Year Old Virgin.”

Ej talks with Mo about:

• her strict Catholic upbringing in Minnesota,
• feeling stifled by a controlling mother,
• spreading her wings in acting and comedy,
• getting kicked out of an all girls Catholic College that her mother went to,
• being the “black sheep” in her family,
• the origin of her nickname “Mo”,
• to getting “let go” from Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop where she was thriving,
• to working for Disney in Florida,
• she talks about and gets emotional about her “perfect sister” (the greatest person she knows),
• getting married and divorced,
• moving to LA,
• auditioning for MADTV with a killer Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer impression,
• having a son who now wants to be a fireman,
• wanting to be a grandmother,
• her belief in aliens and her alien sighting that she witnessed,
• getting a rare form of cancer called GIST just a couple of years ago and how thats going,
• her appearance on Sober House on VH-1 to talk to Andy Dick,
• poker,
• meeting Ed Asner and doing a Mary Tyler Moore impression for him,
• her new husband and how they met online,
• and so much more!!

Its a funny, poignant, important talk that they had together, so please give it a listen.

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