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- My trophy case is full

'cause I'm such a good mom.

- A good mom.

Do you have a podcast?

(audience laughing)

(slow band music)

- [Alexa] Please welcome Tig Notaro.

- Hi welcome to Under A Rock with Tig Notaro.

I don't watch a lot of TV or film

so I have a hard time recognizing famous people

and on this show I interview famous people

to try and figure out who they are.

So please welcome

this person.

(slow band music)

- Hey.

- [Tig] Hi. - Hi.

You're Tig. - I am.

- Yeah, hi.

- Hi. - Hi.

(laughing)

- Thanks for being here.

- Yeah, you're excited aren't you?

- I am.

- You've no idea (laughs).

(laughing)

I love it.

- I do too, I appreciate you being here.

- Uh-huh,

- Um, I uh

- Me.

- What's that?

- Me. - You.

- You. - [Tig] Us together.

- Just being here.

- Yeah? - Uh-huh.

- Why would you do a show like this?

- I'm a fan of yours.

(audience laughing)

- Thank you.

- I like you,

even if you don't know who I am

I like you.

- I like you too.

- (laughs) You don't know who I am.

(audience laughing)

- Now here's a fun fact about you.

- Uh-huh.

- Your great-great-great grandfather

was the mayor of Pittsburgh.

- That is correct.

- Do you know my great-great grandfather

was the mayor of New Orleans.

- So we're practically related.

- Practically. (laughing)

Are you from Pittsburgh.

- No.

(audience laughing)

- You've had a pacemaker since your early 20s.

I know exactly who you are.

- I am.

- This doesn't tell me anything.

(audience laughing)

Why do you have a pacemaker?

- I don't really know.

- [Tig] Really? - Yeah.

No I just had some weird heart thing and they fixed it.

Do you wanna feel it?

- Really? - [Julie] Yeah.

- Well 'cause I had a double mastectomy

and this side of my chest goes like really goes in.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah,

okay so you see mine is right there it's not, feel that?

- Yeah.

- Make the face, make the face.

- Yeah it's like having a match box in there.

- Do you wanna feel?

- Yeah, I mean why not?

Oh that's not bad.

- [Tig] Well that's not bad either.

This isn't a competition. - [Julie] Okay.

(audience laughing)

I mean we're both dying.

- We both have suffered. - Have you?

- No. - [Tig] Oh.

(audience laughing)

- Really no, I mean--

- I feel like you're an actor-ess,

actress.

I have little props in here.

- [Julie] Let's see what you've got.

- I have this.

- Were you doing some algebra?

- Well I was gonna see if you could draw

a picture of what you do at your job.

Alexa can you give us a 30 second timer.

- [Alexa] 30 seconds starting now.

- I'm gonna try.

I'm not a very good artist, are you a good artist?

- I mean

my mother was an artist,

my grandmother was an artist. - But you were not?

- Well no I also but I don't wanna--

- Toot your own horn. - [Tig] Right.

- I don't have any artist in my family.

I think you're really gonna get it right here.

(timer ringing)

- I'm sorry but your time is up.

Alexa stop.

(laughs)

You sit on a couch.

- People recognize me on a couch.

- Wait are you a talk show host?

- No.

- So people recognize you from a couch.

- Ah.

- Are you a YouTube star?

- No. - Okay.

Here's what I wanna ask you.

I wanna ask for some clues that you can give me.

- [Julie] Okay.

- Let's see, you have a little bucket there?

(audience laughing)

This is supposed to help me?

- Technically.

- Did you bring this from home?

- I sure did not,

but it does reference my name.

It is-- - Bow?

- Correct.

- Your name is Bow. (audience laughing)

Okay so this is your bow.

- Bow is part of the name.

- Bow.

- It's one of the syllables.

- That's it? (audience laughing)

- What do you usually shoot with?

- Arrow.

- Right but then what's the phrase?

- Bowen.

Bowen, that's your name?

Bowen? (audience laughing)

- What's special about the bow?

Look at it, look at it Tig.

What's on it?

What makes it special? - Jewels.

- Jewels.

- Bowen Jules. (audience laughing)

(laughs) Your name is Bowen Jules.

- Almost.

Swap them around.

- Jelen Bows.

- Julen Bows.

That's got to be it.

- I figured out your name.

- What is that? - Jules Bowen.

- So I mean almost.

Can I tell her?

- No, no.

- You're so close

I mean it's like you're right there.

- Okay do you have another clue?

Mm, I can't wait. - My trophy case is full

'cause I'm such a good mom.

- A good mom.

Do you have a podcast?

(laughing)

I'm picturing you on a couch

like hi it's Jules Bowen

welcome to mom talk.

(audience laughing)

I--

Jules Bowen I feel like you're not Jules Bowen

and I give up.

I'm gonna go ahead and open the reveal.

- [Julie] Okay.

- Alexa could I get a drum roll please?

- [Alexa] Okay. (drum roll)

She's won four SAG Awards.

That's amazing. (audience laughing)

Two Emmy's (laughs)

and a Critics' Choice Award

for her starring role as Claire Dunphy.

(laughing)

- They should make every big headed actor sit here

and just go like

is it Dunfree how you say it?

- Is it Dunfree?

- Dunphy, Dunphy, yeah Dunphy yeah Dunphy.

- On ABC's (laughs) longest running comedy series.

(laughing)

I'm so sorry.

Modern Family (bell ringing)

which also happens to be Michelle Obama's favorite show.

- Yeah. - Huge accomplishment.

(laughing)

Modern Family has received 22 Emmy's

and will soon return for its 11th and final season.

Turns out my guest today

was Julie Bowen.

(band music)

(audience applauding)

Thanks for being here Julie Bowen.

- I'm going by Jules now. (laughing)

(cat meowing)