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PROFILES IN PANELISM: Frangela’s Favorite Things
You can catch BWE favorites Frangela hosting Best Day Ever every night this week at 11pm ET on Vh1. We sat down with them to talk about the origins of Frangela, their favorite things in pop culture, and some very alarming plans they have for The Jonas Brothers. Check it out! Here’s the most important question. Do people call you Frangela individually? Yes - and we prefer it that way - it keeps people off balance, they never really know who is Angela and who is Frances. Where are you from? How did you two meet? Angela is from Detroit, and Frances is from Chicago - you may know them as two of the cities where our country keeps its black people. We met because we were both working at Chicago Second City and Angela moved into the same building as Frances - to the apartment right above Frances, in fact. We have been inseparable best friends ever since…touchy feely moment coming. We think we've probably been friends in every other life we've ever had. We are each other's other half…ahhh. Are you married? Any kids? Pets? Frances is married to a very old man and they have a beautiful brilliant daughter named Abbey - yes that's right they didn't name her after her godmother Angela. Angela has two dogs and has refused one marriage proposal because of her decision to not get married until it's legal for everyone to get married - equal rights people. Well, that, and the prison wouldn't let her use an outside caterer for the reception. Read the rest after the jump! How much time do you really spend together? All of it. And we generally refuse to be separated. The hospital wouldn't let Angela in the room when Frances had her baby, some crap about the father being important blah blah blah but other than that unfortunate incident, we are never willingly away from each other. Do your boyfriends or husbands mind how much time you spend together? Not at all! Frances' husband is like a brother to Angela and he often accompanies us to movies, etc., if only to be our designated driver. Angela's boyfriend, Keith Olbermann, is not aware that he's dating Angela and so he is completely supportive of her relationship with Frances. What does Frangela do when they're not doing BWE? So many things, really, we just give and give and give. We have a number of hobbies such as collecting white girls, which means we act as life coaches to 'black up' a variety of white girls including Jessica St. Clair and Melissa Rauch - two of our favorite white girls. We also like to stop at strangers’ homes and rate their house and landscaping as a free service. We spend a great deal of time judging people and telling them how they should live their lives, while making none of those changes in our own. What are the kinds of gigs you ladies like to do when you’re not in front of BWE’s construction paper backdrop? It's about the art for us and the ability to reach people and change the world, so basically we'll do any gig that's got at least fifty bucks in it for us. Come on…don’t be modest. Isn’t one of you basically a superstar with Disney Channel fans? Yes, we hang around toy stores and ice cream trucks so that Frances can act surprised when hundreds of children assault her for her autograph. She plays "Roxy" on Hannah Montana, and is desperate for the adulation of minors. So, you do go your separate ways once in a while. Does Angela have any solo plans in the offing? Later this summer Angela will fulfill a life long dream in the Ana Farris film, "House Bunny”, in which she will play a mean prostitute. Hopefully it will lead to real prostitutes wanting Angela's autograph. What TV shows would you want to be on? We have been desperately trying to get auditions for The Tudors, Deadwood, Big Love, Gossip Girl and Brothers & Sisters. You must really love those shows, especially Deadwood, because that’s not even on anymore…what else are you currently obsessed with? TV shows: Lost, South Park, Top Chef, Project Runway, Weeds, Intervention, Celebrity Rehab, Entourage. Any show about prison - basically any show with junkies, criminals or marginally talented people. Fave books for Frances: The Good Earth, anything by Tom Wolfe or John Irving. Harry Potter. Fave books for Angela: On War by Claus Von Clausowitz, Moby Dick, Native Son, Mrs. Dalloway, anything by Robert Greene, Harry Potter series, Beloved, Invisible Man, and anything else about how badly black people were treated Fave comedians for both: Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, Bob Newhart, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle (pre-Africa). Fave moisturizer - Butter. Fave snack - Butter, or white boys, or butter on white boys with a brown boy chaser. Let’s hear about some of Frangela’s fantasies… Fantasy Job: Personal assistants to Paul F. Tompkins. Should we send him our resume? Fantasy Weekend: Watching movies while lying on a couch in our slankets (A blanket you can wear! They rock!) while Frances’ husband, Tom BBQ's and serves us Pomosas (Pomegranate Mimosas). Oh and then we'd do something for the environment. Fantasy Man: Robert Downey as “Iron Man” but without the power of speech…or those Jonas brothers when it's legal. ALL of them. Besides the fact that you’re planning to eventually divide three Jonas Brothers between the two of you, what would people be most shocked to learn about you? Frances is a Dead Head - way into the Grateful Dead, and Angela loves country music - current faves are Gretchen Wilson, Dixie Chicks, Brooks & Dunn and Sugarland. Frangela Bio Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton are satirical writers and performers who have written and starred in their own Fox pilot and the award-winning, animated show, “Hey Monie,” for Oxygen and BET. While you know them best from Best Week Ever, you may also have seen them on The Today Show, Dateline, CNN, Headline News, The Mike and Juliet Show, MSN’s The Big Debate, The Reelz Channel, The Big Show, Red Eye, TV1, Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Name is Earl, and Hannah Montana. Want more Frangela? They can be heard weekly on NPR’s The Stephanie Miller Show and on their own radio broadcast, “The Week According to Frangela”, at ktlk.com. You can also find out anything you didn’t learn in this interview at frangela.com.