The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper is opening up about working with Mariah Carey. Klepper, 45, appeared in a Funny or Die holiday sketch alongside Carey in 2015, playing one of the singer's managers. At the time, the "All I Want for Christmas Is You" songstress teamed up with Funny or Die for a series of sketches to celebrate Christmas.
"She was awesome," Klepper said on the Thursday, June 27, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. "She was a little under the weather so the production was running 10 hours behind. They literally brought her back on set and they were like, 'We have to do 10 hours of work in an hour,' And they just ripped through it and she was frickin' great."
Klepper continued his praise of Carey, adding, "She was improvising. She was funny. She was a pro." Host Andy Cohen then quipped, "You'll never get that 10 hours back," to which Klepper responded, "You'll never get that 10 hours back but if you can do it in an hour, why not?"
"So they had 11 hours banked for the shoot and then it was condensed?" Cohen asked Klepper for clarification. "Yep," responded Klepper, who added that the "creative had to be changed completely" to accommodate Carey, 55. "I don't think she was willing to move a ton so they rewrote it in that hour and I gotta tell you, it came out great," Klepper said.
In the 2015 sketch, Carey asks her two managers - one played by Klepper - to take charge of casting a Santa Clause for a Christmas performance but the power goes to their heads, leading to all of the auditionees walking out.
(Us Weekly)
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