Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone on Their Friendship and Filming Overcompensating

-I want to ask, so you have Charli XCX as a producer on the show. Her music's in the show. She does a cameo on the show. -Yes. Yeah. -I mean, that's a big get. And the way you went about getting her is very DIY. -Yeah. So I was at a party, and I had two margaritas.

-Just two. -I was about to meet floor. -Gotcha. -And I was like -- I told my boyfriend. I was like, "That's Charli XCX. I have to go pitch her my show." And he was like, "Maybe not, in a way. Yeah, maybe let her enjoy her night." But I went over, and, yeah, I said, "Will you do the music for my show?"

And she was like, "Send me the script, babes." -Really? -Yeah. And, you know, obviously we had a few Zooms. -That's fantastic. -Yeah, I think she responded to it, and she's brilliant. I mean, I think, um, it's very her to be into that and, you know, curious about everything. -You also have very funny cameos

from our friends here at the show, Matt Rogers, Bowen Yang. They're the best. -My favorite people, my heroes. -I can imagine, uh, on set, just knowing from just talking to them, they probably just bring so much joy and light to a set. -It was -- Wearing a harness in between Matt and Bowen

was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Um, I was breaking in every scene, though. So I was so happy to -- In the scene, I run off this couch, and they're kind of a psychotic couple, and I was very happy to leave, 'cause I was ruining every take. -There's some other --

You have music from, uh, Britney. -Oh, yeah. -And again, I just know from experience, like, one of the hardest things in the world is to get permission to use songs from pop stars at that level. -Yeah. -How did you go about getting permission for that? -Okay, so for that, I was instructed to write a letter,