Mindy Sterling

You Might Know Her From

Yeah baby! We’re closing out the year with none other than Groundling alum and fellow wig lover, Mindy Sterling. You Might Know Her From: The Goldbergs, Desperate Housewives, Drop Dead Gorgeous, iCarly, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, ConMan, and the Austin Powers trilogy. We go deep with Mindy on her iconic lesbian role, Frau Farbissina, but also dig into the lesbian subplot lurking beneath Ron Howard’s Grinch film. Plus: working with kids and dogs, her repartee with the late, great Leslie Jordan in the Alan Tudyk web series, ConMan, the surprising generosity of Teri Hatcher, and why Jim Carrey was more method than Mike Myers. It’s a doozy of a way to close out 2022. Shagadelic!

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Discussed this week

Natalie Zea interview (Episode #71 of YMKHF)

Guinevere Turner interview (Episode #6 of YMKHF)

Meghann Fahy in White Lotus

Fahy was in The Bold Type

Fahy can sing!

Mink Stole (Ep #64 of YMKHF) cosigned my lesbian trope, Guinevere Turner didn’t

Christine McVie, Irene Cara, Kirstie Alley all passed this month RIP

For Richer or Poorer trailer

Kirstie Alley is in The Last Don, not Bella Mafia

Fat Actress

Rachael Harris interview (Ep #62 of YMKHF)

Celine Dion announcement

Did Clarnella raise the Grinch with a sister or a gf?

Was Baranski in prosthetics for that movie?

Has been on the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs for 6 seasons

Plays Mitzi on Desperate Housewives opposite Drea de Matteo

Lesley Ann Warren told us (Ep #78 of YMKHF) that DH toxicity was at a 12

Teri Hatcher asked crew to get Mindy a mat for her pratfall

Workshopped Austin Powers character with Mike Myers at The Groundlings (Julia Sweeeney brought him in)

Austin Powers Super Bowl commercial

Recurred on A.N.T. Farm and iCarly and played grandmother on The Dog Who Saved Christmas

Emmy nominated for ConMan (Alan Tudyk’s web series that went to Syfy)

Worked with the late Leslie Jordan and they were so good together

Dad was comedian Dick Sterling and mom was a dancer named Booky

Played a drunk in Spring Breakdown. Bridesmaids stole the ending from that movie

Parker Posey as Freda Black in The Staircase

Jim Carrey was more method than Mike Myers (Jim was post Man on the Moon)

Mom and Two Faced Toaster in The Brave Little Toaster

Phil Hartman a good guy.

Credited as “additional voices” while looping for Despicable Me

Grilling sausages in Saved by the Bell: The College Years

Timmy from Passions was Baby Grinch (not Jonathan Lipnicki)

Joyce Van Patten talked to us about Desperate Housewives (Ep #36 of YMKHF)

Seth Green a good guy

Anne reads her fan letter to Jenna Elfman in the Frances Turner interview (Ep #28 of YMKHF)

Do you bring up the unexplained death of Natalie Wood during this interview?