The cast of “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” sat down to do a FOX Lounge: Rapid Fire interview – watch it below!

After an Emmy-winning turn on “My Name Is Earl,” actress Jaime Pressly returned to television this fall with “I Hate My Teenage Daughter.”

With the advent of holiday break, the Ministry chatted with the star about her experience returning to work as the centerpiece of an ensemble comedy and raising her 4-year-old, Dezi.

“You know, in a lot of ways a multi-camera sitcom is amazing for a working mom,” Pressly told us recently via phone, “I’m picking him up and dropping him off, present with him. It’s amazing.”

“Tuesdays we tape ‘Teenage Daughter’ in front of the live audience, and that’s when Dezi sees his dad, so it runs very smoothly. I’m really lucky.”

Pressly said coming back to TV, especially after a cult favorite like “Earl,” wasn’t an easy decision.

“So many people loved Joy [her 'Earl' character], so I really needed something that was the right fit. And I’m so thrilled to say that, honestly, everyone on this show is incredibly talented and so down to earth. People say you become a family, but that’s what we are,” said Pressly.

As Annie Watson on “Daughter,” Pressly inhabits the shoes of a woman with an ultra-conservative upbringing dealing with her own free-spirited daughter. The Ministry wondered how much reflecting Pressly did of her own teen years.

“I was so strong willed and very driven,” Pressly reflected, “I started in the business so young, I was modeling at 15 and had to be emancipated from my parents so I could travel to Japan and work … but I’m grateful for that experience.”

Speaking of experience, she can compare notes with her costar Katie Finneran, who just announced her second pregnancy.

“Daughter” airs at 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays on Fox.

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You think surviving the holiday season is hard? Try raising a teenage daughter, that’s hard!

No one knows this better than Annie (Jaime Pressly) and Nikki (Katie Finneran) of Fox’s new comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter, whose daughters Sophie (Kristi Lauren) and Mackenzie (Aisha Dee) are harder to deal with than the lines at Target on Black Friday.

With just 12 days until Christmas (yes, really!), Annie and Nikki decided to spread the wealth and share their exclusive tips for making it through the holiday season unscathed…

Without further ado, here are Annie and Nikki’s tips on how to survive this holiday season:

1. Simplify things by dropping weird family traditions. You don’t need to knit your own stockings every year.
2. Give your teenage daughter her best present early to keep her on her best behavior. Butter her up like a Christmas turkey.
3. Remember to lean on your friends for support…and sometimes sending your daughter to their house.
4. If you want to guarantee you’ll see your rock musician ex over the holidays, buy a concert ticket.
5. If your teenage daughter is giving you a lot of trouble, take her for a nice ride to look at beautiful Christmas lights. Then drive slowly past the house of the boy she likes. Wave, honk, repeat.
6. There are only three ways to get your teenage daughter to help with holiday preparations: bribery, guilt and bribery.
7. A little extra rum goes a long way in your eggnog when trying to tune out your teenage daughter’s insults.
8. Get gift receipts for everything! Chances are she’s going to hate it…because you gave it to her.
9. Put on the most obnoxious, hideously ugly holiday sweater you can find and watch your daughter’s head explode from embarrassment.
10. Start a new tradition. This year we’re going to have a “Christmas Eve Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest.” I got this in the bag.
11. Have your ex-husband dress up like Santa and hand out gifts on Christmas morning. He’ll love that.
12. Threaten your daughter that you’re going to go caroling in the nude if she doesn’t spend some quality time with you. Blackmail is always effective.

I Hate My Teenage Daughter airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on Fox.

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Last night, Jaime Pressly was a guest on the talk show “Chelsea Lately”. You can now her interview right here!

This morning, Jaime Pressly was a guest on “Live! with Kelly”. You can watch her interview below!

Jaime Pressly’s new sitcom on Fox may be called ‘I Hate My Teenage Daughter’ but she says she’s loving her new job. The actress talks about her character on the show and doing a multi-camera comedy.

Jaime Pressly and her “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” co-star Katie Finneran were guests on “Good Day LA” yesterday morning. You can watch their interview below!

Who’s the dummy now? She spent years regularly hurling insults on My Name is Earl, but for Jaime Pressly’s return to TV, the tables have turned.

“In order for me to come back to TV — being that Earl is still on [in reruns] and that Joy was such a strong character — I have to be able to play something that was completely opposite of her,” Pressly told reporters on a conference call last week for her new series I Hate My Teenage Daughter. “And this character is definitely that.”

On the Fox sitcom, premiering Wednesday at 9:30/8:30c on Fox, Pressly is now the one being bullied as a single mother who begins to realize her spoiled teenage daughter is morphing into the type of girl that made her life hell in high school. While Earl’s Joy was known for her high hair, big ego and even bigger mouth, Pressly describes her new character Annie as “grounded” and “a bit of a dork.”

“It’s been incredible to be allowed to play a character against type. In this business, you can be pigeon-holed very easily,” she said. “If people see that you’re good at doing something, they either assume that that’s all you can do, or they assume, ‘Oh, that’s just who she is.’”

Pressly has found inspiration this time from being a mother herself. “I am a single mom, so in reading it, I loved the relationship between myself and Katie [Finneran]‘s character, because, honestly if it wasn’t for my best friends, I don’t know how I would have gotten through all these tough times,” she said. “You just do your best to deal with every situation and when you have a best friend with you to help you deal with it, it just makes things that much easier.”

Her own son, four-year-old Dezi, has a long way to go before hitting puberty, but Pressly sympathizes with her on-screen alter-ego.”It’s hard raising a teenager. They are in hormone hell. They think they know everything,” she said. “It’s not a mean-spirited show, but it is something that goes on. Quite frankly, the daughters bully their moms more than anybody.”

Although she says the show itself isn’t mean-spirited in nature, Pressly embraces the sitcom’s harsh title for its honesty about the parent-child bond. “Whether it’s upsetting them, or they like it and agree with it, its grabbing people’s attention and that was the point of it in the first place,” she said. “We’re just saying it for you, because it’s a moment that every parent has actually had where they just want to say, ‘Oh, my God, I hate my teenager,’ but you don’t really. Just, on occasion, they can do things that make you want to want crawl into a fetal position.”

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