Catherine O’Hara played drunk better than anyone

Moira Rose (Catherine O’Hara) appears in a commercial for Herb Ertlinger’s fruit wine in an episode of Schitt’s Creek. Screenshot by NPR

Screenshot by NPR

Catherine O’Hara played the best drunk.

Over the course of her career, she had occasion to tackle many different women under the influence; every time, she delivered a performance that married the close observational skills of a skilled actress to the comic chops of a funny-in-her-bones comedian born to make