Vanessa Bayer Knows All About the Perks of Childhood Cancer

Vanessa Bayer loves cookie cake. No, really: She can’t get enough of the stuff. Which is why it appears in the pilot episode of her new Showtime series, I Love That for You. “They had so many cookie cakes on set that day I got to take one home,” she tells me over Zoom. That’s basically what happens in the show’s first scene as well. The series opens with a flashback to 1997, tracking a teenage Joanna Gold as she wanders down the halls of a Cleveland children’s hospital. Joanna—who’s got an I.V. in her arm and a pink scarf… Read Full Article