"When I was drunk at a party"— When Rachel Sennott predicted the first time she made Ayo Edebiri laugh

The comedians Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri met while studying at New York University. Their friendship blossomed after they performed together in a classmate's comedy sketch, and the two have remained close friends ever since. While reminiscing about the beginning of their friendship, Edebiri told Entertainment Weekly in August 2023 that they were both "attracted to each other's sensibilities."

Their camaraderie was on full display when they starred together in the three-episode miniseries Ayo and Rachel Are Single on Comedy Central in 2020. A few years later, they collaborated again on the satirical comedy film Bottoms, directed by another NYU alum, Emma Seligman.

While promoting the film on August 25, 2023, the longtime friends took the Buzzfeed BFF test, where they answered a series of questions about each other. While asked about "the first time they made you laugh," the Shiva Baby actress replied:

"When I was drunk at a party."

Edebiri corrected her, stating that it was right after their college sketch when they hung out together that Sennott made her laugh by going on about cookies.

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Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri play best friends in Bottoms

In Bottoms, Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri portray two lesbian best friends, PJ and Josie, who start an all-female fight club at their high school in hopes of hooking up with cheerleaders and losing their virginities.

Sennott co-wrote the film's screenplay with Emma Seligman. The co-leads are joined by Ruby Cruz, Kaia Gerber, Havana Rose Liu, Nicholas Galitzine, Dagmara Domińczyk, Miles Fowler, and Marshawn Lynch, among others in the cast.

In an interview with Variety dated April 2023, Rachel Sennott shared that Bottoms is a female take on coming-of-age teen comedies like American Pie and Superbad. She noted that the characters "use feminism to their advantage" and elaborated:

"The characters in the movie use feminism to their advantage. But we didn’t just want to copy another movie that’s already great and just put girls in it. We wanted to update it and make it personal to ourselves."

Bottoms was released in theaters nationwide on September 1, 2023, and received a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Rachel Sennott's last film role was in Saturday Night

A poster of the 2024 film Saturday Night (Image via Instagram/@satnightmovie)

Rachel Sennott starred in Jason Reitman's biographical comedy-drama film, Saturday Night. The movie chronicles the chaotic 90 minutes before the first live telecast of NBC's Saturday Night (now popularized as Saturday Night Live) on October 11, 1975.

Sennott plays the comedy writer Rosie Shuster, who was married to the show's creator, Lorne Michaels, played by Gabriel LaBelle. The film's ensemble cast includes Cooper Hoffman, Cory Michael Smith, Dylan O'Brien, Ella Hunt, Matt Wood, Finn Wolfhard, Lamorne Morris, Nicholas Braun, J. K. Simmons, Kaia Gerber, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys, and Andrew Barth Feldman, among others.

Saturday Night was released in theaters on September 27, 2024. While it received praise from critics, it underperformed at the box office. Made on a budget of $25-30 million, the film grossed only $9.8 million in worldwide collections, as per Box Office Mojo.

For his performance as Lorne Michaels, Gabriel LaBelle was nominated for 'Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy' at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards.

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