Chloe Fineman makes me laugh out loud weekly on Saturday Night Live, whether she’s doing spot-on impressions or an unhinged dance bit with Harry Styles. I got to sit down with the comedian—and newly appointed unlicensed shower therapist—on behalf of Olly Body Washes to chat about some of her favorite moments on set this year and how she gets unready after a late night at work. I also had the distinct pleasure of explaining to her what a shower beer is—and she was repulsed. Read on for more.
Do you have any favorite moments from work this year?
“So many. I’m really having fun. I made a decision that I’ll come back for this year, and I just have to enjoy it—otherwise there’s no point. And I love working with everybody. I mean, I loved Harry Styles, what a cutie. I made him laugh, and that was fun. He’s like one of us, he’s the best.”
Tell me about your shower routine after getting home late from work.
“I’ve got it lined up, actually. I feel like no one talks about their shower lineup, but I’ve got it: toothbrush, toothpaste, razor blade, in the shower, baby, oil cleanser, gel cleanser, we’re doing it all. It’s on lock. Phone down here, repeating an Instagram I can’t get out of because my hands are wet, which happens a lot—and if anyone knew what video was being repeated constantly, it’s like Julia Fox talking about something, a Pivot podcast video repeating or a short-circuiting TikTok video.
Then I’ve got my Olly Body Wash ($7) that I’m mixing and matching, I’m renewing, I’m calming. I like to make a bubble bath. I’m more of a bath person, I’ll be honest, but if I’m really in a pickle, I’ll take a shower. I like to think of myself as French, spiritually. None of me genetically is French, but there’s something very French about a bath. I’m just kind of soaking, and that’s my power tub or power shower. It’s flow state in the tub. It really is all in the tub. The toothbrush is the last step, then I spit it in my sink because it’s right there, but I’ll oil cleanse and gel cleanse in the tub, and I kind of sit in the tub, and I go like pretends to dip face in bathwater that.”
So you’re basically motorboating the bathwater?
“I literally motorboat the water. I do motorboat the water. I did that today. It’s refreshing. You have the body wash in there, and it’s all happening. I don’t have a UTI yet, so it’s working.”
It is very impressive to have a bathtub in a New York City apartment.
“Yeah, I found my apartment by looking for a bath. I just needed a bath. I went on StreetEasy, and I put in ‘bath’ and ‘brick’.”
Have you ever had a shower beer?
“A shower beer is really dark, I’ll be honest. That’s so dark, that’s darker than me brushing my teeth in the tub. A shower beer? Ew! No!”
What credentials do you have to be Olly’s unlicensed shower therapist?
“My credentials are that I’m a woman and I am in my 30s. I’m not going to tell you my age, but I’ve lived some life, maybe more than you think. I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but I’m not doing badly, and I feel like I have a lot to say. We’re all living our lives and being chaos queens, but there’s a lot of wisdom to come from moi to you.”
What mood of yours do you wish could be fixed by a body wash?
“My mood that I would like to fix is to be calm because I’m not calm ever. Since moving to New York, I feel like it’s turned me into…I feel like I need a new name. Like I’m Chloe, and I become Chlodine or something. I kind of pop off a little bit. Everything is really loud, every day is a journey of hell, but I love it! I have a mouse problem right now. At every turn, I’m not calm, so it’s really nice that Olly has created this beautiful body wash where I can breathe in these scents that change my mood and make a calm wash over me.”
