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Sometimes you need a little extra help to get the creative juices flowing.
Busy Philippsrevealed she was stoned when she decided to create herown late-night talk showin a newessay forGlamour.
“I was in the desert for my manager’s fiftieth birthday,” she wrote. “I was kind of stoned, and I turned to my husband, Marc, and said, ‘I know what I have to do. I have to have a late-night talk show.’ ”
“A pilot I’d done for NBC didn’t get picked up, and I was devastated — so much so that when Tina Fey’s company reached out about a project, I was like, ‘Guys. I’ve been doing this for 20 years. I don’t know if I can put myself through this again,’ and passed,” she explained.
But during that night in the desert, she suddenly knew what her next step needed to be — and she was ready to act on it.
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“I called back Tina Fey’s producing partner, Eric Gurian, and in a crazy twist of events, they came back two weeks later, saying, ‘E! is looking for a late-night talk show,’ ” she recalled. “When we made that deal, I thought: I willed it to be so.”
“Working onBusy Tonightis exciting and scary, but I think it’s OK to be scared every once in a while,” she wrote. “People want more authenticity; I can bring that. And I still love Instagram. I use it to develop ideas for the show, ask questions, and see what people are responding to.”
So what can fans expect fromBusy Tonight?
“What I’m hoping to build is [a show] for what we see as an underserved audience. People who care about [the news], but also like face masks, and want to know which celebrities were roommates when they first moved to L.A,” she said. “I’ve been working in Hollywood for 20 years. I know a lot of people’s dirt in a fun way.Fun dirt.”Busy Tonightpremieres on Oct. 28 on E!
source: people.com
