Kaitlin Olson says hearing fans yell her vulgar “Hacks” catchphrase at her would bring her 'so much joy'

Kaitlin Olson wants her fans to crank up their profanity.

The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia actress said that she'd be thrilled to hear fans shout her Hacks character's catchphrase from the comedy's roast episode — "What a c--t" — when they see her in public. "It's a home-run punchline," Olson said in an interview with Seth Meyers on Late Night.

"Has a fan ever yelled that out to you?" Meyers asked.

"You know, that would bring me so much joy. It hasn't happened yet," Olson said, noting that people do sometimes shout a running joke from Sunny. "I do get a lot of 'Dee's a bird,' but no 'What a c--t' yet. Much to my children's dismay. They did see the episode and they do love yelling at me."

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Olson's character, DJ Vance, repeated those three fateful words numerous times while roasting her on-screen mother, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), on stage during a season 3 ep of the HBO series that premiered last May. "There were questions around whether or not it would work, but we were like, in Kaitlin's hands, it absolutely will," creator Paul W. Downs said of DJ's catchphrase in an interview with Entertainment Weekly last year. "And it felt right for DJ that she'd be like,' I'm going to do this and stick to my guns,' even when Ava [Hannah Einbinder] suggests maybe she not — and it works."

Olson reflected on repeating the line during a joint EW interview with Smart after both actresses received Emmy nominations in August. "I'm a big fan of not boring myself when I have to say the same thing over and over. Especially if you make someone laugh the first time you say it, it's not going to land the same way if they hear it the second time, so you have to kind of say it differently," the actress said. "So it definitely was a goal to try and figure out different ways to say it, but it made it more fun with DJ doing it because I felt like she was playing around with what would land better, where to put the [emphasis]. Obviously, you put it on the word c---."

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Smart praised her on-screen daughter during the same interview "I hope you had as much fun as it looked like because you were so flipping funny," she said. "On paper, the line, 'What a…' I couldn't imagine how she was going to deliver those lines, and it was just brilliant. It had me on the floor. But to watch you sort of getting off on the laughs and getting more and more confident, it was incredible."

Elsewhere in the Late Night interview, Olson discussed the challenges of raising funny children who haven't quite figured out the appropriate comedic filters yet. "They're both very funny, but at this age, the sense of humor they've adapted from us is just so horrifically inappropriate," she said of her two kids, who are 14 and 12. "We're like, 'Ooh, you're so close! A few more years, you're gonna fine-tune that and be so funny, but you can't say that at school!' It's really, it's such a fine line. They make us laugh, but it's a fine line."

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She continued, "I talked to my therapist about it. She was like, 'Okay, okay, you can laugh. But what you need to say is, Now, I think that's funny. But let's imagine you're out in the real world and people don't understand who you are. They might think you're a rapist or a murderer.' Oh my God, this parenting thing is a lot harder than I thought it would be."

Watch the full conversation between Olson and Meyers above.

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