Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 09 - Julie Klausner (Difficult People / SNL / Mulaney)

This time, I'm letting Julie Klausner talk.

I’d never interviewed Julie before, but we found ourselves following each other on Bluesky as a result of my AV Club Set List interview with They Might Be Giants. It turns out that she's a huge They Might Be Giants fan, which is something I didn’t realize, but I clearly should’ve, since – as a realized during a rewatch of her Hulu series Difficult People – there’s an episode where her costar, Billy Eichner, is hanging out in Julie’s childhood bedroom, and there’s a very prominent They Might Be Giants poster on the wall.

Yes, we talked about Difficult People during the course of our conversation, as well as how she found herself collaborating with Billy Eichner in the first place. We also chatted about the small part she played in a classic SNL "TV Funhouse" segment, her work on John Mulaney’s short-lived sitcom, the thrill of getting to write for the recent revival of Kids in the Hall, and the fun of working on the Apple TV+ series Schmigadoon!

Oh, yes, and she also has a Sabrina Carpenter connection in her back catalog, which we talked about that as well, and we talked about Juiie’s own music, specifically an amazing Kate Bush homage that you should check out as soon as you’re done listening to the podcast.

Okay, that’s enough of an intro. It’s time to let Julie Klausner talk.