Rachael Harris Says She and Best Friend Cheryl Hines 'Can Find the Humor in Every Single Situation' (Exclusive)

Harris tells PEOPLE she is "so lucky that I have" Hines as she opens up about her loving friendship with the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' star

Rachael Harris and Cheryl Hines are best friends through thick and thin!

On Thursday, Oct. 24, the comedian stopped by the 2024 WIF Honors in Beverly Hills, Calif., which were presented by Max Mara to honor outstanding and groundbreaking women in the entertainment industry.

Speaking exclusively with PEOPLE on the red carpet, the Lucifer alum, 56, opens up about her long lasting friendship with Curb Your Enthusiasm star Hines.

"I've always said to Cheryl that if she ever leaves me, I'm going with her," Harris jokes. "So we've been friends since around 1995. And the thing that I like to say about Cheryl these days is I love her. She's the first person I want to talk to in the morning when I wake up. And the last person I want to talk to before I go to bed at night."

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"She is my heart," she gushes, adding that the actress lives just three minutes away from her, so they see each other increasingly often. "I'm so lucky that I have her because I'm dealing with school and work and the entertainment business changing."

According to Harris, the pair also remain so tight because of their connection to their comedy alma mater, The Groundlings, the sketch comedy school where the pair met.

"We can text all day and then also then have an hour-long conversation and still talk about nothing. But it's fun because we can finish each other's sentences and just laugh," the Suits actress adds of Hines. "And I think that we are in the Groundlings for a reason. We love comedy. We can find the humor in every single situation."

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Earlier this week, both Harris and Hines made an appearance at The Groundlings' 50th anniversary party — where Hines said that she was "feeling good" amid her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s alleged "personal relationship" with a New York Magazine journalist.

"That was amazing," Harris tells PEOPLE of the event. "That was just like a high school prom where you see everybody that you know and you laugh and you drink and you dance. And it just was so crazy to be surrounded by that much unique talent."

"I don't mean to make it sound special, but I'm just saying it was incredible to be surrounded by people that have come before you, that have changed your life by the way that they've directed you and put you in things," she adds, noting that her and the other Groundlings alumni got a chance to see the newest class of comedians take the stage. "It was a really, really fun celebratory night."

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Hines also spoke about her friendship with Harris at the event, describing to PEOPLE at the time how the sketch comedy group "changed everything" in her career before her time on Curb.

"I met my best friends here. Rachael and I have been best friends for a long time. We don't have to put a date on it. And I learned how to improvise at the Groundlings and do sketch comedy," she said. "And if I hadn't learned how to improvise, I would've never gotten part of Curb Your Enthusiasm. So, I mean, it just put me on a different path in every way."

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