An arrest. A breakup. Turning 30. With 'I Love L.A.,' Rachel Sennott made comedy from chaos

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In this week’s episode of The Envelope podcast, Rachel Sennott discusses finding the voice of “I Love L.A.” — and finding her footing as series creator — during a tumultuous time in her life.Kelvin Washington: Welcome to The Envelope, Kelvin Washington alongside you know who, Yvonne Villarreal, Mark Olsen.
Always great to have you two here and spend some time with you.We talked about it earlier, we had Emmy season — a few weeks ago we discussed it.
But now Emmy nominations are on the way.Yvonne, I’ll start with you, just maybe someone, a show, a couple of things you’re looking at saying, “Hey, I would love to see this or that person nominated.”Yvonne Villarreal: I wanna give some shout-outs to the women right now.
I was really frustrated when Rhea Seehorn didn’t get love until the final season of “Better Call Saul,” and I’m hoping — and I do have a lot of hope — that she will be recognized for “Pluribus.” [I] was a really big fan of “The Comeback” this season.I would like to [see] Lisa Kudrow get in there.
Show-wise, I would like to see “The Testaments” in there.I don’t know how much of a dark horse that one is, but that’s my pick for show.Washington: You’ve been riding “The Testaments.” What about you, Mark? Olsen: I’m sort of leapfrogging over nominations, and I’m just thinking about what would be exciting on the show.
And last year, I remember Stephen Colbert won for talk show kind of right after his show had been canceled, and that seemed like a very exciting moment.And so this year, with Jimmy Kimmel, where this is the first Emmy cycle since he had his suspension last year, and really has been in the news, I just think if he were to be nominated and then to win, that just would be such an exciting moment at the show.
What’s he gonna say? I just would really love to see that.Washington: Yeah, he seems like he wou...