You know, we grew up seeing boners under pants constantly in movies always for so long. I didn't know if people would laugh with us. How have you watched comedy change in the last five years-not just scripted comedy, but the comedy world as a whole and everyone you know in it? Where do you see it going?Įrskine: Our first season was done on a really low budget and it felt like we got a lot of people together who did their work and worked really hard to tell stories that we found funny. That's not a good card." Then I went back to the kid and was like crying and asked if he would trade back and he never traded back. So I was like, "Hell yeah." So I traded and went home to my brother and he was like, "That's so messed up. So he was like, "Oh, you want to trade me your Larry Bird card for this fucking cartoon card?" And it was silver and had like sparkles around it. And this kid had an X-Men card, and I saw that and I wanted it. I had a rookie Larry Bird card that I knew nothing about. Konkle: Then this asshole in my from this first grade class tried to trade with me. Then I bought a trapper keeper and the clear sleeves.Įrskine: I'm literally freaking out right now because this is bringing me back. Konkle: But I didn't care about sports, but it was so cool. I remember like the sports cards being big for people. Konkle: I also had this binder of, I didn't like sports at all but, my older brother was very into basketball and he ended up giving me all these cards. So, we wanted things that would make you go, "Oh my God, I haven't thought of that in 20 years." Are there any references that you cut because they were too obscure or specific?Įrskine: Anna always talking about it as feeling like a memory. Your show faithfully recreates the culture and tenor of the times when you were 13, with references to Spice Girls and B*Witched. Now I can be like, "Okay, I’ll just bleach it."Īnna Konkle and Maya Erskine on the set of Hulu’s Pen15. At that age, if someone said, "Your mustache is really dark," I would cry for days. So it's not just your teens that is painful, but life is painful throughout and you just learn to deal with it?Įrskine: Everyone that you talk to is like, "I felt like a reject inside at thirteen." As adults, we become better actors. I feel like this is why Maya and I connect about pain and awkwardness and rejection being funny.Įrskine: We laugh about the darkest things because there's so much pain there and it's our way of coping with that pain. It's really funny and fun and sad and fucked up, but at that age you don't have those coping skills. If I'm self conscious of my stomach, I'm going to do in a better way. Like I'm not gonna put my arm over my stomach constantly. Maya Erskine: As an adult you learn those tools. Seeing these mid-tweens engage in these really mature activities but not kowing how to do it-it's pretty funny. So, what's so funny about going through puberty? We ask Erskine and Konkle on the very next line of this article.Īnna Konkle: You are going through physical changes that are happening at different speeds and different times for everyone-and so you're acclimating to new emotions that you just don't yet have the skills to cope with. If you don't recognize why a show called Pen15 is funny, you probably didn't have a friend who asked you to join a club during lunch period in between the years 19. If you don't recognize Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle from the photo atop this article, that's probably because you're used to seeing them in character as their teenage selves in the hit show they created for Hulu called Pen15. You can read the full package here, as well as in our October 2019 issue. This Q&A originally ran in Esquire's Guide to Funny,2019.
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