‘The Other Two’ Star Heléne Yorke on the Return of TV’s Most Underrated Comedy
Despite playing the often monstrously narcissistic Brooke Dubek on the criminally underrated comedy series The Other Two, Heléne Yorke finds herself able to relate to her character more than she would like to admit.
In this bonus episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Yorke previews Season 3 of the show, which returned on HBO Max this week, and reveals how she ended up on one of the funniest shows on TV. She also shares hilarious stories about making the leap from Broadway to the screen on shows like Louie, 30 Rock, and High Maintenance and recalls that time she almost pooped her pants on stage as Glinda in Wicked.
When I tell Yorke how excited I am that her show is finally back for its third season, she replies, “I agree,” before revealing that when she was watching The White Lotus and HBO Max suggested The Other Two as “more like this,” she decided to revisit the early episodes. “I was like, ‘Don’t mind if I do!’” Aside from the Molly Shannon connection, Yorke thinks the two shows share an affinity for “bizarre, pathetic, completely selfish people.”