Alice Murphy is one of the most morose and unpleasant characters on the TV show, Workaholics — or possibly any other show. She’s what you get when you mix a bad day, a bad temper, and an unsatisfying desk job, then manifest them in human form. She’s not the kind of person you would want to get lunch with.
Maribeth Monroe, who plays Alice Murphy on Comedy Central, is much the opposite: charming, charismatic, and extremely talented. She joins us in the GigSalad Greenroom to discuss her role as Alice, her path to success, and a few other projects she has coming out soon, including an upcoming blockbuster called Keeping Up With the Joneses.
Show Highlights:
- How Maribeth went from cocktail waitress to improv actress at the same venue overnight (3:44)
- How she got drunk off of cough syrup while performing in Annie as a teenager (7:28)
- Why Alice Murphy might not be such a bad person after all (10:01)
- What Maribeth tells herself to keep in character when she wants to laugh (11:34)
- Alice Murphy paraphrases some quotes from Forrest Gump, Casablanca, and other iconic films (13:58)
- What it’s like to work on set with Matt Damon (16:54)
- When things started to get flirty on the set of Keeping Up with the Joneses (18:16)
- Maribeth’s take on the relationship between professionalism, happiness, and success (21:20)
- Why performers should quit looking for their “big break” (23:21)
