Eliza Coupe is probably best known for her work as Jane Kerkovich-Williams on Happy Endings — a show we adore around here — and as Dr. Denise “Jo” Mahoney on Scrubs. Raised in New Hampshire, Coupe played ice hockey as a kid and is well-tattooed (her tats are covered for the show). Prior to her success on television, Coupe studied improv at The Groundlings, toured France in an all-female production of King Lear, and staged a one-woman sketch show at Upright Citizens Brigade.
Eliza was nice enough to take a few minutes out of her busy schedule recently to answer a few of our questions.
1. You walk into a bar. What do your order from the bartender?
Before I order anything from any establishment I use their bathroom first. I have a walnut sized bladder. Then I order a water with lemon to start….which makes me have to pee more, I’m a wicked good time.
2. Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter?
Hmmm…That’s a tough one…..I wanna say some news org to sound smart but really these are my top five peeps to follow: Damon Wayans Jr.: @wayansjr ,Tom Riley: @thisistomriley, Briana Venskus: @thevenskus, Thom Coupe: @ThomCoupe ,Erin Whitehead: @girlwithatail
They ALL make me laugh like a muthafuckah.
3. What’s currently waiting for you on your DVR/TiVO?
Downton Abbey
4. It’s your last meal — what are you going out with?
I play this game all the time when I’m eating my boring salads day in and day out. Ok, so it’s probs gonna be fettuccine alfredo, a burrito, a king sized snickers bar, cereal (a mix of all my faves), pumpkin pie, a couple of Cadbury eggs, toast with homemade raspberry jam, a grilled cheese sandwich and then something with peanut butter and chocolate. And then for desert…..
5. What websites do you visit on a regular basis?
I’m a real fashion whore and I used to frequent all fashion sites but now I get my fix on Pinterest. I have a real obsession with Pinterest. I hardly have any followers but I don’t care, I love it.
6. What’s the most frequently played song on your iPod?
Oh man, I dunno….. lately I’ve been back on a real Jack White binge. So basically anything from The White Stripes to The Dead Weather to even his short lived thing with The Raconteurs.
7. The first face that comes to mind when you think “punchable”?
Bush….. err… I mean a bush…a shrub…..urbs…suburbs….yeah, I wanna punch suburbs THAT’S what I meant….right, right.
8. What’s your favorite meme?
I don’t know what that is. I could take the time to look that up before answering this but I’m not going to so instead I’m going to risk looking like a real idiot and admitting to not knowing what that means…or shall I say: not knowing what that memes….?
9. Dogs or cats?
Dogs. Fuck cats.
10. Best concert of your life was…?
I saw Eminem in NH (where I’m from) and although I don’t remember much of the concert at all, I remember I had fun…or at least that’s what I was told…by the police.
11. What book are you most likely to give as a gift?
The Hunger Games.
12. What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
My parents having sex and giving me life is pretty nice thing right? Yeah, I think so too. Thanks mum and dad. 
13. South Park or Family Guy?
Family Guy all the way- I’m from New England.
14. You have an entire day to do whatever you want. What would you do?
Draw.
15. What movie can you not resist watching if it’s on?
Nottinghill
16. Android or iPhone?
iPhone
17. Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
Really, the BEST meal? I dunno, I mean we talking atmosphere and company or like, actual food…? I’m gonna say Marlow & Sons in Williamsburg where I used to live before moving to LA, the chicken there was fucking incredible and the place is just gorgeous and cool and low key and I always went with people I really love.
18. The last movie you saw in a theater?
I rarely go to movies. I have a hard time watching a movie in full so maybe the last one I saw in a theater was…I have no idea. Wow.
19. Who was your first celebrity crush?
Leonardo DiCaprio
20. What would you cook if Nic Cage was coming to your house for dinner?
Ha! Umm….. like an authentic Italian pasta dish of some sort and we’d eat it off some sort of Elvis memorabilia type of thing, obviously, like… a table cloth made from white leather pants or I’d use some gold rimmed sunglasses as the pasta sauce ladle and of course Hound Dog or Love Me Tender would be playing in the background.
You can follow Eliza on Twitter here.
Previously: Eugene Mirman
(Pic via Shutterstock)
![[avatar]](http://p.uproxxcdn.com/photo/41/thumb)
![[image]](http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/05/Screen-shot-2013-05-21-at-11.26.59-AM-150x150.png)
![[image]](http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/05/happy-150x150.jpg)
![[image]](http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/05/the-uproxx-20-drew-magary-150x150.jpg)
![[image]](http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/05/suck-150x150.gif)
I’m gonna go ahead and clarify that being from New England does NOT mean you like Family Guy more than South Park. She can still marry me though.
As a Bostonian born and bred, I’m with you. South Park all day.
All these people I respect keep picking Family Guy and it’s really letting me down
Dogs. Fuck cats.
*floats up into the sky on a cloud carried by cherubs*
Hockey and Jack White, fantastic. Eliza keeps getting better and better.
Wow, still hung up on GW Bush. Let it go sweetie.
Meh, there are people still hung up over Clinton and Regan, and there will be folks hung up on Obama well after his presidency. I just think there are faces way more punchable than Bush’s.
I just really want someone to say Guy Fieri so we can appoint our next pop culture deity. Someone like Bryan Cranston.
@JohnMatrix
She can’t let it go. She’s had two shows fail (so far) and still wants to work in Hollywood.
Has his face changed significantly in the last four years? Because that’s what the question was about; not presidential politics. Also, four years is not a very long time.
I read that as the band, Bush. Am I the only one?
I read it as Sophia Bush. Cat fight!
Well there’s a difference in being hung up and not being happy with how they are portrayed in media or intellectual culture. For instance Clinton is supposedly peaceful and not like Bush, when in fact his policy was almost exactly Bush’s policy of preemptive war he was just nicer when presenting it. Also Reagan is considered to be a champion of free markets but he had one of the most protectionist stances on foreign imports than any other president.
So yeah there’s being hung up on wanting to punch someone, that’s stupid. And there’s rational discussion and arguments against a presidents policies which are misrepresented. It’s kind of important to remember this history though because it shapes things so dramatically. What isn’t smart is just saying “Oh new guy, clean slate” when we know that’s not true.
Whoa! She just Kaepernicked Elisha Cuthbert.
I liked Scrubs 2.0. Not as much as I like Happy Endings though. Oh God. It’s going to get cancelled now, isn’t it?
It was getting cancelled already.
I really liked Scrubs, but Scrubs 2.0 was worse than AfterMASH (ask your parents). She was the best thing in it, though.
I tried to watch Happy Endings last night after hearing so much about it, but I had to check out on the third or fourth time the male and female friends started jabbering at/over each other about investigating. Just terrible.
You’re such an asshole, just can’t get over Bush even now that we have a Liberal Jackass in the White House. Blame his dumb-ass for another $4 Trillion and rising debt you stupid bitch!!
Shh shh shh shh. Its okay, daddys got you.
Seriously, how would someone like you even stumble on this site? I mean, even if you have a Google alert set for “Bush”, this has got to be about the ten millionth site that would come up, right?
He probably noticed this article after he checked his Jessica Simpson Google alert.
“Liberal Jackass” would be a great show.
“Hello, I’m Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I’m about to do an ollie in my wheelchair and then kick Hitler’s ass. Welcome to Liberal Jackass!”
There are some people here who don’t think GWB was the worst person ever to walk the earth. And probably even more people here who wish entertainers would just read the words on the cue card and keep politics out of the (allegedly) funny.
That said, Colorado Computers needs to calm the hell down and maybe not post on everything he sees.
But seriously, go fuck yourself.
Obama added to the deficit because he (a) put the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the books for the first time and (b) cleaned up the epic clusterfuck created by Bush.
The administration of George W. Bush and Dick “Reagan Proved Deficits Don’t Matter” Cheney did more to add to the debt and deficit than any other in American history. Far fucking more than Obama.
And no, we won’t let it go. I blame Bush for what he did wrong. I’m sorry if that makes you poop your Pampers, numbnuts.
That single answer (which, I should point out, was not a question of politics, but of punchable faces) makes her an asshole and a stupid bitch? You’re clearly at the pinnacle of mental health.
Weed’s legal in Colorado now. I recommend starting out with a sativa. It’ll mellow you out while letting you remain relatively functional, i.e. you’ll be slightly surprised that Papa John’s delivery guy isn’t Peyton Manning but you won’t think he’s there to take your guns.
Bodie at the Rocky Mountain High will straighten you out, and if he’s not there just ask for the other Bodie.
Oh God Dammit Otto. I read your first comment, laughed, and said “man, I’m glad he didn’t take that bait.” Then, two comments later, you tried to defend deficit spending in a 50-word Uproxx comment. C’monnnn man
Yeah, I was just going to laugh off the tardery, and then I remembered that our government is currently being held hostage by the exact same kind of clueless morons, so fuck it.
@ILovePaleHoseandPaleHos The only thing I can think of is that this was linked to in a couple of places that might have sent a jackass or two over. I highly doubt he’s a regular reader.
Yeah we get it now Otto, liberals good, republicans bad…I see a bright future in store for you and CO Computers. Sort of an odd couple thing but you’re both uptight.
More like liberals deal with facts, conservatives live in a fantasy world.
Cheney did say deficits don’t matter. Bush did massively balloon the federal debt and deficit.
That’s not good or bad. That’s fact. I’m sorry if it all makes you sad, pumpkin.
And yeah, I get uptight with know-nothing shitheads intentionally try to destroy this country. Again, sorry if that hurts your fee-fees.
You don’t need to get all angry, though I suppose that’s what happens to liberals when they denounce God and openly embrace godless-communistic television shows like Happy Endings.
Liking Family Guy more than South Park is a sin against all that is decent and pure. She can wear the hell out of some stripper heels, though.
Her last meal choice made me heart her more than i hearted her before, and i didn’t think i could heart her even more.
in conclusion: heart.
She’s hilarious, gorgeous, has good taste in last meals, and apparently likes drawing. Yep, I’m crushing. Disagree with her feelings on cats, but I guess no one’s perfect.
i followed her on twitter. shes hot and hilarious on happy endings, but she thinks shes WAYYY funnier than she is in real life.
She was totally the best thing in Scrubs 2.0. She’s arguably the best thing in Happy Endings. She’s just the best.
Ugh, she likes Family Guy over South Park… that’s one celebrity crush less for me!
No biggie, I’m sure Chloe Moretz loves South Park.
The first 3 seasons of Family Guy are Gold. The rest is w/e but don’t deny the greatness of this show when it first aired.
Family Guy over South ParK and she has multiple tattoos… so she’s stupid, skanky and diseased.
No teenagers on Uproxx, please
chicks with tats are hot brah
Chick seems pretty cool.
there’s something charming about actually being proud of being from NH. she’s the best, though.
She really doesn’t need to be eating boring salads every day.
Another person we like who doesn’t know about memes…Why is something we love so much so obscure to those who dwell in the light above the basement level?
I already loved her, but I love her more for admitting she is fantasizing about eating real food while eating salad all the time. Also, seriously, fuck cats.