I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.
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I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.
I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'
I was a very weird child. I was very shy, so in school I would just mimic stand-up sets of Whoopi Goldberg.
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.
I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
I did all this standup comedy in college, and from that point on, I tried to develop myself and get my name back out there.
My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.
I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.