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Before she joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, Maya Rudolph was doing high school improv with another future comedy great.
The Emmy Award winner, 51, explained how her former classmate Jack Black helped her get into acting when they both attended the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California.
'My drama teacher put us together, and he was my improv coach for an improv competition we did,' she recalled on The Drew Barrymore Show.
'And he got me into the improv class, and he took me to my first Groundlings show, which is where I ended up,' added Rudolph.
She raved that Black, 54, 'was the most inspiring,' noting that he transferred to her school when he was a sophomore and she was in eighth grade.
Maya Rudolph explained how her former classmate Jack Black helped her get into acting when they both attended the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California
'He took me to my first Groundlings show, which is where I ended up,' said Rudolph of her former classmate and improv partner
'First of all, you have to understand something about Jack,' she said. 'Jack has been the same person since the day I met him. The exact same person.
'He's just that guy. He's just special,' added
