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Over lunch at a Manhattan hotel shortly before Glee's April 13 return from a four-month hiatus, Lynch characterizes the show's student singers, without irony, as "a group that just wants to make a joyful noise." She tears up recalling her own high school choir experience. She bursts into song. Five times. And though she says Sue Sylvester "doesn't live too far from the surface," the Glee character she feels the most kinship with is Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz), a wallflower who fakes a stutter to mask her shyness and generally confines herself to the chorus...
...pattern that could just as handily describe Lynch's career. After years of acting in commercials, minor films and TV shows (her 1988 turn in Vice Versa, she half jokes, is "a hard thing to watch"), she caught a break as a lesbian poodle trainer in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary, Best in Show. ("She's as smart as anyone I think I've probably ever met," says Guest, who tailored the role to suit Lynch's talents.) Over the next decade, she delivered impeccably timed comic performances in a slew of roles, among them a porn star turned folksinger...
...that spring, she ran into Christopher Guest in a local restaurant; the pair had worked together six months earlier on a Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercial. He asked her to drop by his office, she recalls, and by the end of the day, Lynch was cast in Best in Show. The film - a loose, often improvised look at the odd world of competitive dog breeding - suited the appetite for collaboration that Lynch whetted at Second City: "I'm not playing small by being in an ensemble," she says. "It's my favorite way to work." Her co-stars enjoy...
...every turn to thwart the group's success. But she also gets her own story lines. In one plot twist, for instance, scheming Sue was revealed to be the loving caretaker of a sister living with Down syndrome. In the forthcoming second half of the season (Fox put the show on ice in December, reportedly to clear the decks for American Idol), she will sing, get bullied and collaborate on a music video with Olivia Newton-John (one of Lynch's go-to choices for real-life karaoke - "'Sam' is my favorite," she says, singing a few bars...
...arguably the nicest boat in Boston Harbor,” with two dance floors and four decks. All told, this sounds like a great way to finish off your last day of lecture—but unless you’re a strong swimmer, be sure to show up on time...