THE AWL: How long have you been in LA?

MCALEER: I had my third year anniversary on July 2nd. I didn't really pursue anything too hard my first year in LA, because I was just really freaking out about making a paycheck and trying to support myself to stay here. When I got my job at HBO, working on This Just In, which was like their answer for Huffington Post, I didn't have the time do anything else. I was putting in insane hours there, and not even by their request! I was putting in like 18 hour days working for them, because I was like, that's the only way I'm going to get ahead. So after that I didn't have time for stand up. And then when I moved to Defamer, that's when I really started getting involved with UCB, because it allowed me have more time to take improv classes and get back to my roots. I was a big sketch comedy nerd in college. That's all I did.

THE AWL: Were you planning on having that be your life thing, or was it more of a hobby?

MCALEER: I went to Boston College and paid a lot of money, I think like forty grand a year or something like that, to basically be in a sketch comedy group. I stopped going to class, stopped caring about studying. Somehow I miraculously graduated despite the fact that I was completely just invested in my extracurricular activity. I've always been just a wacky outcast weirdo, which is a complete cliché to say, but it's the truth about me. I was just a weird girl growing up. And my uncle offered me $50 to try out for the sketch comedy group because he had wished that he had done that when he was college. I'm from a pretty funny family. My whole family is a lot funnier than I am.

THE AWL: Do you still do improv?

MCALEER: I like to say I improv all day, everyday. I have not taken a class at UCB in a really long time, which I do regret, but they are expensive, and it's a big time commitment. I just can't commit to being in the same place every Sunday at 3 o'clock. My whole life revolves around me filling in the blanks between other people's schedules.

THE AWL: So, in reading about you, I could not find much Molls backlash. Which surprised me, based on what I've seen with other people putting so much of themselves out on the internet.

MCALEER: I get comments on my blog occasionally that have been really mean, and I can get some really mean emails. I've found that a lot of people that do something like that are people I have corresponded with. I feel like it's a part of my job to keep up with the people that follow me, and it's those people who feel like I've let them down or they feel like I owe them something. And it's always a disappointment, because I don't want to feel like I've ever hurt someone or offended them. There was one hate site about me. It was when I was doing the to-do list at Defamer, there was a guy who thought he could make the videos much more prolific than whatever I was doing. But in some ways that's the bane of my whole situation, that I don't have more people that hate me, because I feel like that would mean I'm doing more things right. Sometimes people send me really nice emails, and I'm like that's great, but do you have a friend that hates me? Because that would be a lot more interesting. I'm lucky I guess, question mark? I don't know.