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[Music] My next guest appeared on Scrubs. Now she plays Shelly, the daycare teacher on Raising Hope. Here's a clip of her in action. Take a look. Rusty, sometimes things can make you sad. Sometimes things can make you mad. You might be feeling mang, or your diapers might need changing, or your diaper might need changing. I don't know, but whatever it is, it's got you grumpy, a thorn in your paw, or a great big dumpy. You need to stay calm and follow my golden rules. Don't bite. Please welcome Kate Makuchi. You know, I've wanted to talk to you for a while, and I'm so glad that you're here. I sort of wanted to find out about you first of all, like for example, you consider yourself a country girl, is that right? Which I didn't, I didn't know that was true, but yeah, kind of. I mean, I grew up in what I thought was the country because I, well, I was born in New Jersey, but then when I was eight, we moved to Pennsylvania. Oh yeah, New Jersey is not the country. It's a nice state though. It gets a bad rap, but it's a nice state. But yeah, you moved to, you moved to Pennsylvania? Yeah, to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, where there really isn't much happening. Oh, you're from Nazareth? All right. But no, there's like a lot of fields, and I thought, oh, I'm going to be a country girl. I was eight. I made my mom buy me a corn cob pipe, and I would like walk around the yard like, hey, I'm Huck Finn, you know. But I wasn't, nobody has a corn, no one smoked a corn cob pipe in like 200 years. No, but oddly, they sold them at the Bagel Smith in New Jersey, so we bought them and then moved to Pennsylvania. Did you do any country stuff? Did you go hunting? Did you— Oh yeah, my dad hunts. Oh, he hunts? Okay. Yeah, he's killed a lot of things, but mostly one day he killed two deer, a girl deer and a boy deer on the same day. Oh, I know. I felt really bad for both of them, but I wrote a letter to the deer in Pennsylvania to stay away from my dad or he will kill them. It's called Dear Deer. Now, what bothered you about the boy and the girl on the same day? Like maybe they were on a date, you know, and then now they're hanging up at our house. They're together, right? They look happy now. In that clip, you were playing the ukulele. Was that the first instrument that you picked up, or have you always been musical? Oh, well, I've always played instruments. I played the piano since I was four, and then when I was nine, the band director came to school, and they let you pick an instrument, and he played like, you know, all the different instruments. And then the trombone, he played the trombone, and I was like, oh man, everybody's going to pick the trombone. That's like clearly the coolest one. But it was only me and this kid Ryan that picked trombone. Everybody else picked like saxophone or drums or something like that. Yeah, I played trombone. I even played in the marching band, but I wasn't very good, so I would just kind of like move my slide like pretending, you know. It's an easy instrument to fake. You don't even have to really know it. You don't have to. You're having a bad day, you're just like, whatever, you know, you just move your arm around. Sure. Now you do, speaking of music, you do a monthly musical show. Tell us, what is, tell us about this show. What's it called? Um, well, it's at the Steve Allen Theater, and it's called Playing with Makuchi. Mhm. But that's my name, Makuchi, your name, your name, of course, Makuchi. You weren't trying to be, you know— No, that's the dirtiest part of the whole show. I mean, like, there's cookies and puppets. It's really clean except for the title. But I didn't know what coochie meant for so long. Like, I was like 25 years old reading The Vagina Monologues, and I was like, what? Like, wait, so this is your last name and you didn't know? No. And then, so all the times the kids had made fun of me, I had no idea what they were talking about. It was like I had this flash, like all the times kids made fun of me, like, if we have a kid, we should like name him Phil, like, or like, or like Pat or Sharon. Okay. Season one of Raising Hope is available on DVD now, and you can see Playing with Makuchi April 14th at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles. Kate Makuchi, fantastic. Thank you so much for being here.
