Life changed actress Jennifer Coolidge, which occurs four shows this weekend at Donnie B's Comedy Club, when she connected the Groundlings, the legendary Los Angeles improv comedy group.
"The moment I started with the Groundlings, the seas and so many nice things have happened," Coolidge said Monday in a telephone interview. That among her first television appearance on "Seinfeld," playing a masseuse who refused to give the screen a massage friend Jerry Seinfeld. Then there was "SheTV" and, finally, the teen sex comedy "American Pie" (more on that later). "I think I would still today as a waitress if it were not for the Groundlings," Coolidge said. Instead, she had what appears to be a steady career as an actor on television and in movies. Now she's an act on the road. Coolidge said she began performing stand-up comedy clubs relatively recently, in Province town, Mass. In the beginning she was just reading from a notebook, but since then her show has become something between a traditional stand up act and a one-woman show. "It's my commentary on life in Los Angeles - and my disappointment in recent times, with all the strange reality world what is happening," Coolidge said. She also talks about sex, the strange experience of dating after confirmed for a long time, and some of the auditions she was strange since the economy tanked. "It's real story format - no lines, laugh lines, smile - more Kathy Griffin style," said Coolidge. She and Griffin were in the Groundlings together in the year 1990.
"I happen to have a great time there: it was Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Griffin, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, myself, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer, Will Forte - some really good people," said Coolidge.
It reads like a who's-who of "Saturday Night Live" alumni. But comedy was not the first career of 48-year-old actress
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