Interview With an Oscar Nominee: Pamela Ribon Joins the Broads

On four years of My Year of Dicks, the reality of red carpets, and communing with Lady Gaga

The coolest thing about Pamela Ribon is not that she’s Academy Award Nominee Pamela Ribon. It’s that when you talk to her, even now — even after Moana and Ralph Breaks The Internet and Samantha Who? and penning both graphic and prose novels, and, yes, getting nominated for a freaking Oscar — she is never anything but your fun, warm friend Pam, who tells the best stories, genuinely cares what you’re up to even though her stuff is way more exciting, will turn on a dime and fit you into her crammed schedule when you ask if she’d mind doing a last-minute interview, will give you more than the time you asked for… and probably winces inside when you call her Academy Award Nominee Pamela Ribon. Because Pam is a Big F’ing Deal, but she isn’t gonna Big Time you. That’s not her way.

So we’ll do it for her. Pull up a cushion, kids, and let us tell you about prehistoric times, when the Internet was dial-up and a little site called Mighty Big TV (later Television Without Pity) had to explain that i…