They met and they fell in love and started dating and they came and visited us and saw me in The Nutcracker, which I was in at the time. He came out and met my mom and they got along great and she said, вЂњYou should meet my sister, Jenny, who lives in New York.вЂќ So, she wrote him this email asking him to do that and he agreed. She actually knew his brother and had went to school with him. She asked Garrison to do a fundraiser for the orchestra because they grew up in the same hometown in Minnesota. My mom is a violinist and she founded this orchestra in Boston and she grew up in Minnesota. How did that start and what is your relationship to the show now? Yeah, you were on A Prairie Home Companion at 10 years old, which is really young. That was probably the first really big reaction I got from a huge audience. I was just saying the words and my voice is very high and already funny and I think I just played it very straight, it worked really well against his baritone booming voice. When I started on that show, I was 10 and I played Garrison KeillorвЂ™s conscience. Jake Uitti ( Under the Radar): When did you get your first great laugh?Д®rica Rhodes: I would say the first big laugh I got was probably on A Prairie Home Companion. We caught up with the comedian to ask her about her first great laugh, who in her family is funny, what she loves about language, and much more. Removed are the sweeping claps, replaced with honking cars. The funny thing about the new special, though, aside from the multitude of RhodesвЂ™ jokes, is that her audience is in their cars, socially distanced. Rhodes, whose new special, La Vie en Rhodes, premiered on Amazon Prime and other outlets this past Tuesday, brings this deep care and consideration for communication to her work. Sometimes she even takes it directly to sentence parsing and grammatical choices with jokes that dig into the difference between вЂњlayвЂќ and вЂњlie,вЂќ for instance. Today, Rhodes, who has appeared in shows like New Girl and Modern Family, brings that same level of care to her standup comedy.

Early on, Rhodes realized the power communication can have between people-whether that meant bursts of laughter or depth of a conversation. Her father was witty, sharp, and made people laugh. Growing up, her mother cared obsessively about grammar. Comedian, Erica Rhodes, cares about the things she says.

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