Lauren Weedman may not claim to be a stand-up comedian, but if she did she could give quite a few stand-ups a run for their money. L.A. Weekly recently likened her to a female Robin Williams, and after interviewing her I can see why. Her long list of accomplishments include being a correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," appearing on many VH1 programs including the ever popular "Best Week Ever," and, of course, her one-woman shows.

Along with her acting appearances, Lauren is also a playwright and gifted writer. Her book of short-stories entitled A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe is scheduled for release on September 28th, but if you need a Lauren Weedman fix until then you'll want to make sure to check out her hilarious episodes of the web series "Our Bodies, Myself" at Oxygen.com/ourbodiesmyself/. You can also visit her website at LaurenWeedman.net for up-to-date information everything else she's working on.

With apologies to our other editor Simon Thorn, whose enjoyment of Best Week Ever is jokingly referred to throughout the conversation, our in-depth interview with Lauren Weedman is below.

SA: I noticed you've done a lot of the VH1 shows, including I Love the 80's, 90's, Toys.

LW: Yeah, I do a lot of that stuff, which, you know, I couldn't be prouder. I'm in New Hampshire right now at this writer's colony and the other people are awesome, and nobody knows who I am. I went to the kitchen, and the kitchen staff is all eighteen and nineteen year old high school kids that are working their summer here at this little artsy colony, and I go to scrape my plate off in the kitchen and they're all like "Oh my God, are you on VH1? Because I totally recognize you." And now there's no respect amongst the people here that are like "I've written five novels" and "I've won a Pulitzer." But I go in the kitchen and they're like "You are so funny, you had that thing where you were wearing a hat." The hat was backwards and they think it's hilarious. So basically it's like, gosh, I can't believe Simon watches that show, what an idiot.

But no, I'm so glad that people recognize me. But again, I feel like I got fired from that Best Week Ever. It's kind of awkward; I'm so inconsistent and moody. Some days I'm hilarious, and other days I'm like "Nothing. Pass."

SA: So they give you different questions and you can just pass on them?

LW: Yeah, I do all the time, but I act like I'm in control and I've chosen to pass. Like, "I'm not talking about Britney today, I'm not doing that." Instead of the fact that I have no idea what the news is on her.

SA: I'm the same way; I get all my news off MSN.com when I open my webpage.

LW: That's me too, and then I don't even understand the headlines and I just go from there. Like, "Can you believe that eight were killed in a tech fire?" And then that's all I know.

SA: So you can start off a conversation, but just can't really continue with it.

LW: Yeah, just like what was on Best Week Ever where I'd do "Oh my God, what's she going to do now?" and then I'd just sit there and they'd tell me to keep going and I'd be like "No, ‘what's she going to do now?' that's all I've got."

I don't think I got officially fired, but I got a note back that said "She's inconsistent."

SA: They actually give you a grade?

LW: Yeah, I got a grade. I guess "Inconsistent" is like a "C." Right? Because it's not like "She sucks" and it's not like "She's the best one!" Because sometimes I'm an "A" student and sometimes I don't study. But I still do the other VH1 stuff; I think they still like me.

SA: Like the Best of the 90's?

LW: All of those. I don't even know what I've done, because I've done so many random ones. They're like "Best Lips of the 70's That Sold Coke." You know what I mean? Because it's always something weird. So I've done a bunch of those.

I did one for Country Music Television as well, because I'm such a whore. Which was a delight, by the way. I was going in there thinking "I don't know that many inbred jokes, so I don't how long this can last." And it was super fun, and then, you know.

SA: I lived in North Carolina for a little while, so I can understand that.

LW: Yeah, my heart opened to the country people. They were much more fun, because sometimes with the VH1 thing they don't laugh as much; the producers that you work with. Or they're like "That's funny, that's good. Funny." And the Country Music people are constantly like, "Turn the camera, I gotta get my breath." It was fun to do it for them as opposed to other people that don't enjoy it.

But if I were even Paul F. Tompkins. Oh my God, he makes me laugh so hard. I know him, but I'm just not a stand-up. And I think that a lot of the people that do those shows are stand-ups.

SA: Well, I've heard a lot of great things about your one woman shows.

LW: You just Googled! Let's stop the charade.

SA: No, I used MSN Search.

LW: Oh ok, nevermind. Thank you.

SA: In fact, I was the third person to go to your website.

LW: You were the third person? You could tell that only three people visited my website?

SA: Yeah, one was you and one was your mother, right?

LW: No, I would not let my mom look at that. God, now I'm wondering who that second person was.

SA: I don't know; I bet it was Paul F. Tompkins.

LW: Oh God, I hope so. I'm intrigued. But you know, a lot of people say they still recognize me from Best Week Ever, so I wonder if they must replay things that you've done or something.

SA: I hate to admit it, but I've never really watched Best Week Ever.

LW: It's a cultural, I don't want to say phenomenon, but people definitely seem to enjoy it.

SA: I like those VH1 shows, it's just never on when I'm flipping channels.

LW: Yeah, because when's your fucking schedule. I'm concerned now about Simon, because is he tuning in every week like, "I can't wait to see Best Week Ever!" That's not a good place to be.

SA: Actually, he has three different alarm clocks that go off when the show is about to air. And then he has his VCR record it in case his TiVo doesn't work.

LW: Oh my God, what is he, schizophrenic? It turns out that he's like mentally ill and obsessive to a point where he's cutting out everybody's faces and he's pasting them on the wall. Or he has to touch you five times every month.

SA: No, only three.

LW: Three times, that seems fair then. I was on a comedy show one time and they had a guy who had some kind of autism where he'd come by the studio and he'd have to bounce a rubber ball off one of the actor's heads. The guy was harmless and never hurt anybody, but he would wait every week to bounce the ball four times off one of the actor's heads and it had to bounce a certain way.

SA: Where were you working at?

LW: That was in Seattle. It reminds me a little bit of Simon and I'm wondering if he's like, "I have to bounce this ball off of Paul F. Tompkins."

SA: I would've predicted that that would've been during your time in Amsterdam.

LW: Yeah, that does seem more stoney doesn't it? This was flat out autism, or whatever it is.