TH: So you're doing some writing right now, are you working on a new show that you're doing?

LW: It's very embarrassing because I'm out in artsy colony land. Literally, the guy I sat next to at dinner last night is a Pulitzer Prize winning opera composer. And I'm like, "Well, I'm working on a pilot for Oxygen, and I'm also working on a TV show for Fox." As a TV writer, as much as I've been working hard to get to this level, it's so really lame. No, it's great. I'm working on an Oxygen thing while I'm out here because we're shooting a pilot. It should air in August, I think. Unless they pull the whole thing, because who knows, right now they're like "It's a little dark." They think everything is a little dark, which is fair enough. So like, no inverted nipple jokes.

TH: You have to rethink everything you've come to know.

LW: Pretty much. To the point where I'm like "What show is it?" So I'm working on that, but the deal isn't done. And I've got a book coming out in September. There are a few stories in there that will probably be developed for some TV stuff. And I still want to perform.

So I'm doing that, and I'm working on a new show while I'm out here. Right now it's going great because I'm getting harassed by a creditor. I have this guy who is harassing me to such a hilarious level. He's like, "I'm not harassing you. Does it sound like I'm harassing you?" And I'm like "No, but I only want you to call once a day." Not that I don't have tons of money, because I am super successful. But he'll scream at me and he's helping me develop this show with every phone call.

TH: So you want him to call more often now?

LW: I have now turned this corner. I kept telling him that I don't have it and he was like, "I just want to know when the lies are going to stop. When are the lies going to stop Ms. Weedman?" He goes off on me, he'll call me up and say, "I just want to make sure you're going to be home today because the sheriff will be coming by. I'm just making sure you're home. Give me a call if you want me to tell him to not stop by." It's great, it's been great material. Now I answer and I just transcribe whatever he says.

TH: Now you're probably not even paying any bills so you can get more of these types of calls.

LW: I'm now going to stop doing all that shit. I'm dropping out completely and I think I want to be a homeless person because I bet there's great fucking material there. I hope for a lot more suffering, so the more suffering that comes along my way the better.

TH: They could do a kind of VH1 "Where is she now" type of thing.

LW: I keep wanting them to do something on The Daily Show. You know how on Saturday Night Live they did a looking back sort of thing?

TH: You've got to be next in line with Colbert and Carell already making it big.

LW: I don't think so, but you're sweet to say so. They're not so much on the girls on Comedy Central.

TH: Same thing with Saturday Night Live, you never see the women really take off with that either.

LW: Guys, we don't like our girls so funny. We like them pretty, and sporty.

TH: Like a car?

LW: Like a car. You like girls like a car, that you can ride, that are sporty, and that you can leave outside when you go in for the night; when you're done riding them.

TH: Maybe you could be a car salesman, because now I want to buy a Corvette.

LW: That's fine, because it's not quite a Corvette that you want to buy.

TH: You mentioned your book, what type of book is it going to be?

LW: It's a short story book. It's entitled "A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Stories from a Life of Cringe." It's filled with humorous, semi-auto-biographical, short stories. There's stuff about The Daily Show, about going to the Emmy's and stuff. Then the rest of it is other life's shit.

TH: You have achieved good success so far; everybody that has seen your show has loved you, L.A. Weekly loved you.

LW: I know, that L.A. Weekly was a good coup.

TH: They likened you to a female Robin Williams, you know that?

LW: Yeah. You know, it depends on the show. It depends how much coke I've done. No, I get a good response for sure. I really enjoy theatre a lot. That's my main thing, and through my theatre stuff, which is not straight comedy, it's a weird mix. Even when people call me for an interview, I don't know if it's because of VH1, or it's because they think, "She's a stand-up. She's a comedian." Or is it because of my theatre performances and they think, "Oh, she's a story teller. She's a theatre artist." Like where I'm at right now, I'm a playwright, but when I go back to L.A., I'm a comedian.

TH: Is it weird to see yourself on TV?

LW: On VH1 it is because you never know when they're going to show you. If I were on a TV show I'd be like, "Oh, there I am" and you'd watch it, or you'd know when to avoid yourself if you didn't want to watch it. Because I don't really love watching myself, I mean I love everything about me, but I don't like listening or looking at myself. Actually, I prefer everyone else watching me and me in the other room listening to them filled with laughter and love in my work.

On VH1 it always catches you by surprise. I'll be flipping past and I'll be like, "Oh, Paul F. Tompkins" and then I'll be like, "That girl looks like me, but she's got fucked up hair and, eww, look at her chin." And then it's gone. I can't even hear what I'm saying because I'm talking over it with, "Is that me? That is me! Oh how weird."

TH: Do you prefer theatre then?

LW: Yes. I don't prefer the money of theatre, but yeah, for sure. I prefer live performance over anything.

TH: Is it tough doing the same thing night after night?

LW: No, because I don't do it that much; maybe if I was on some tour schedule where I was doing it nonstop. The one thing I am happy about with my career is that I do a bunch of different kinds of stuff. There are periods where I'm doing a run of a show for four weeks, or I'll just be in L.A. auditioning for film and TV stuff, or doing guest spots like on Curb Your Enthusiasm; it's all been mixed up.

TH: When did you decide that you wanted a career in the entertainment industry?

LW: I think in 3rd grade when I realized that the most beloved child is the one who can imitate all the television commercials in front of the class. And that that child would be the first one saved if there was a fire, or a tornado.

TH: It was more for personal survival then.

LW: Yeah, because I'm from tornado land in Indiana. There were lots of tornado scares and all I knew was that I wanted to be saved. I wasn't super fast, so I had to be super funny.

TH: We end all of our interviews with word association, so I say "wombat" and you say...

LW: Sex Ed.