Riki Lindhome never intended to go solo. Since 2007, the actor, actress and musician has played like half of Garfunkel and Oates, a torrid comedy duo with Kate Micucci. But while the Covid era settles down, Micucci has become a new mother and started writing music for children, and Lindhome began to reassess her own path. At first, she felt frightened. But Lindhome is, naturally, naturally predisposed to find the positive in everything.
“Before, it had to be something true for both of us,” Lindhome told Times. “So I started to think:” What applies only Me? '”
The answer turned out to be right in front of her. Now 46, Lindhome, who began to act professionally in the early 2000s with Bit roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gilmore Girls” and has since appeared on “The Big Bang Theory”, “New Girl” and “Wednesday”, had been over a long time, often shifting the journey of fertility.
It started at the age of 34 and decided to freeze his eggs, an experience of chronic Lindhome in Song (the eponymous IFC program of Garfunkel and Oates, which worked for a season in 2014. “I think we were the first show to make realistic stories of eggs with shots and stuff”, “she said.” Let's not find the shots for IVF at the accessories house.
Lindhome ended up writing the rest of his fertility story in a woman's musical, “Dead Inside”, which was created during last year Edinburgh Festival of the fringes and has currently operated on a semi-house basis at the Elysian theater When she worked the show around comedy clubs and small scenes, Lindhome also realized that she had a solo comedy record with her hands; Now, his first album, “No Worriers If Not”, was released on April 4.
Through her 11 tracks, which have contributions from Fred Armisen (the husband of Lindhome since 2022), Nicole Row, Eric Jackowitz and the polyglam production trio, Lindhome retraces her “Hero's Journey” labyrinth to maternity when making fun of others when quadrage. For example, on the “love” of Barry's white style, Lindhome joking about sex after 40 years (“F – Me like an animal, if this animal is a turtle / You can c – in me, it's ok – I am infertile”). Elsewhere, on “Don't Google Mommy”, Lindhome imagines her future child who spread her one day (“because mom writes comedy songs that are a little obscene of adolescence”).
Lindhome also includes a few songs that have not entered “Dead Inside” – “90% sure,” A back and forth duo with his colleague actor Ken Marino, returns to the comedian's break with an ex-little anonymous friend. After trying to conceive naturally, make a miscarriage and spend thousands for some unsuccessful IVF attempts, Lindhome and his ex separated when he told him that he was not ready to have more children. (Lindhome's ex had two children of a previous relationship.) “(My ex) said that he was only 90% that he wanted to have a baby and that he deserved to be 100%,” explains Lindhome. “So I wrote a song on all the things that I am only 90% sure that I will do. But don't worry, because it's not 100, so it could never happen! “Meanwhile, on” Infertile Princess “, Lindhome adopts the objective of a Disney heroine:” Pocahontas has just spent pregnant by speaking to a tree … If I was like Ariel, I'm fine, because it is 20,000 eggs at the same time. “
While Lindhome Solo retains her delivery of singer and gentle and acute delivery, the themes of her work have deepened to reflect a more complicated stage of life. For example, Garfunkel and Oates wrote explanatory satirical pop dittedies on “gaps” and pregnant women and self-satisfied pregnant women, religious “gaps” and self-satisfied pregnant women. But Lindhome goes further from the formula by obtaining an ultra -bandid (but no less acerbic) on social isolation around the test – and failure – to design.
“There is so much blame,” she says. “When I crossed all my things, many reactions from most people were to give me advice. Like, here is what you do with it. Despite their best intentions, they made me feel that it was my fault. It shouldn't be that.
“I felt so overwhelmed (by advice) that I stopped telling people what was going on,” continues Lindhome. “Then I felt super insulated. I tell myself, where is the common ground? From that moment, I said to myself: “I refuse to be ashamed about it. »»
While she was preparing to make her “Dead Inside” debut, Lindhome remained uncertain that her album or her accompanying album would connect with an audience that had not suffered fertility struggles. This is why she called the album “No worries otherwise”. “My old music was more crowd, not in the wrong direction. It was just for more people, ”she says. “And this one concerns menopause and the trauma of fertility – such specified things that (I feel), like:” If you don't like it, I get it! “”
To his surprise, however, a range of audiences responded to the “dead inside” and his music with extremely positive comments. “When I started (playing) in Edinburgh, I was a little surprised at the beginning, because it would be a lot of women sharing their experience, and I was very touched,” explains Lindhome. “And it was raining all the time. So I have always found myself in the rain, hugging and crying with people. ”
In addition, Lindhome was fascinated to learn how the audience she was not expecting to be bound was connected to the equipment. “(A) A number of heterosexual men without the children who felt included in this area were like:” I understand the feeling of not having any information and not knowing my way. And I say to myself: 'Oh, it's good that East universal.' I speak in a sense of fertility, but everyone has the impression that there is a key that they do not have, that they cannot cross the door they need. “”
The personal history of Lindhome also has a happy ending. In March 2022, Lindhome welcomed a son, Keaton, via a substitution maternity and a sperm and a given egg. And even if she fully expected to be a single mother, she reconnected with an old friend, Fred Armisen, while turning “Wednesday” from Netflix in Romania. In summer after Keaton's birth, they got married.
“My life has changed so quickly,” says Lindhome. “It was funny because when I fell in love on the set and I had a baby and all it happened at the same time, I said to myself:” It was so fast “. And my Costar “Wednesday” Jamie Mcshane was like: “Well, if you look at the principles of physics, you have lost everything in a day and you won everything in two weeks.
For the future, Lindhome always refines “dead inside”, which she wants at least a year to develop. (“Dead Inside” will take place in New York on April 3; Austin on April 12; and back in Los Angeles on April 23.) “Things change each performance,” says Lindhome. “I want more time to get there. My goal would be to make a race outside Broadway or Off-Off-Off-Broadway. Then, maybe remember to try to film it.”
For the moment, Lindhome hopes that “no worries otherwise” will help people laugh at things that are out of their control. “I hope people feel seen,” she says. “When I listen to comedy music, I just want to have a good time. And then if they come to see the show, I want them to feel less alone, especially women who have crossed this thing. I want them to feel like it is not your fault. I think it's true with most things in life. So lucky … But you continue.”
