Kathryn Hahn's Hickory Hideout Past Comes Back to Haunt Her

-I love you, and I say this every time.
I love you in everything that you´re in.
-Oh, gosh! -And I´m not just saying that,
´cause every time I see you in anything I go,
"Oh, I love this -- I love this actor.
Who is it?" -[ Laughs ]
-I go, "Oh, it´s Kathryn Hahn, again."
You look totally different in everything I see you in.
But I love you in everything I see you in.
-Oh, that´s so sweet.
-No, I really do. You´re great.
I even love your early work in "Hickory Hideout."
Do you remember this? -Oh, yes.
You guys -- -Is it Saturday morning car--
Was that a Saturday-morning show with the puppets?
-You guys, I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio,
and this was a local act. -Whoo!
-Yes! [ Laughter ]
And this was a local --
-That "yes" was much louder than a clap.
There was like one person clap--
There was one person clapping.
-It was a local-access Cleveland tele--
It was like a kids show that was shot, literally,
in the local news station.
So it was like, we had a fake tree,
and then there was the news station.
-No! In the same room?
-In the same room, and it was called "Hickory Hideout."
-I totally -- Yeah.
-and I got to talk --
I played a character named Jenny,
and I talked to two squirrel puppets.
Nutso and Shirley Squirrely.
-Nutso... -And then when we had any ques--
-Nutso. And I love --
The puppeteers were, like, chain smokers,
and they hated each other.
[ Laughter ] -I mean, why?
Thinking about why it´s the best.
-So they were always like, "Ah, Nutso, yeah!
What was that today?"
-"Yeah, whatever. We got that take, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah."
-And then it was -- and then there was
an owl called Know-it-Owl,
that if we had questions about anything,
we would be like, "Know-It-Owl,"
and then Know-It-Owl would pop out.
[ Laughter ]
-I have a clip where they -- I have a clip of you.
-[ Gasps ] I know, I have to show it,
´cause it´s just so cute.
Here´s Kathryn Hahn as Jenny... -Oh, my God, you guys.
-...in "Hickory Hideout." -A classic.
-Cassie, I just don´t want to go.
-Just listen, Jenny.
-I am tired of listening to this.
You are being a baby, Jenny.
You want to stay sick and spoil our pet show.
-That´s not true.
-Well, then, why don´t you go on the hospital tour?
-Just leave me alone!
♫♫
-"Hickory Hideout" will return right after these messages.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-"Leave me alone!"
-"Leave me alone!"
The Criterion Collection´s "Hickory Hideout."
-The Criterion Collection.
-Yeah, that was a very special episode, guys.
-Yeah, yeah. But look at you now, man.
You´re on two hit shows. You got nominated for an Emmy.
-Oh!
-Do you have to audition for things anymore?
[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah.
-Oh, you guys. Thank you.
-´Cause everyone knows who you are now.
-Well, you know what?
I am not -- I will audition, yeah, absolutely.
-I hate audi-- I hated auditions.
-It has not been an easy --
Auditioning is -- It sucks.
-It is the worst. -Especially when you are
auditioning for, like, your idols, when you´re like --
I -- I had this -- Oh, my God, you guys.
I had this audition for the Coen Brothers.
This was a while ago.
for I think when they were doing --
and I always want to say "Inside Ellen Lewis,"
but that´s a different movie.
It´s called "Inside Llewyn --" -Llewyn Davis.
-Llewyn Davis.
-Yeah. "Inside Ellen Lewis"...
-It was an amazing casting director.
-Totally different movie. -A totally different movie.
[ Laughter ] -Awful film.
-And I literally -- I thought --
Because I wanted to, like,
get kind of down and dirty with this part,
so I was like, "Ooh, I´m gonna, like, be really realistic."
And so I brought a bunch of props with me,
which I usually don´t do. -Oh.
-And so it was this part that was supposed to be
unpacking groceries or something.
And so I literally -- -You brought groceries?
-Also, not only groceries, but we were in L.A.
I had, like, a parka on -- Like a winter parka,
a huge bag of groceries, including, like --
So heavy that I --
The casting director came out, she was like, "Kathryn."
She was so happy to see me, and then she saw the bag
and was like, "Oh, my God. Okay."
And so I knew instantly that I was gonna --
that it was just a bomb.
Open the door, they were like this close.
Like, I was like, "Hi." Like, I was standing --
Like, there´s the Coen Brothers. -It´s the Coen Brothers.
-And then I start doing --
-Legends. -Legends.
And then I start doing this scene, and, you guys,
it was like a night-- It was like a nightmare.
I thought it would be clever if I was putting groceries away,
but I had never been in there, so it was, like, a weird room,
so I was just, like, putting double-stuff Oreos...
It was just, like, weird props I had that I was just kind of
putting around while they were looking at me so patiently.
-Your face is so red right now, by the way.
-Oh, my God! I am literally going back and reliving it.
I had, like -- I had a banana.
I remember I was supposed to take a bite of a banana,
and I was, like, took a bite of it,
and then, like, it kind of was mushy
because it had been in my car all afternoon.
So, like, it fell off, and then I heard somebody go --
Someone literally was like [scoffs]
Like, so frustrated. [ Laughter ]
-Like, "Now we got to clean up this banana."
-And then, I kept plowing through.
-Oh! -I had, like, a 45 record.
It was -- Oh, my God, you guys.
It was just awful. -You had a 45 record, as well?
-For no reason. And then it was, like --
And then I had to, like, pause and turn the sides of the script
while I was trying to hold on to this bag.
And they were so kind about it, but, obviously,
it was not going --
I mean, I literally got in the car,
and my agent was like, "So, it´s not going our way."
[ Laughter ]
-It´s not going our way. -No. Clearly it´s not.
-You brought props. You brought props.
-So many props.
It was a nightmare.
-Oh, well, now they -- -Aye-yi-yi.
-Well, now they see you, and they´ll put you
in the next film that they´re doing.
-Oh, gosh, I bring in a warm banana.
It was, like, the worst -- [ Laughter ]
-That´s the name of the movie!
-"Warm Bananas -- The Kathryn Hahn Story."

Kathryn Hahn's Hickory Hideout Past Comes Back to Haunt Her

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