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Dinner Party: Harper Steele

The comedian and writer from Will & Harper sets the table for her dream dinner party

By Jenny Changnon
Illustration by Barry Falls
Jan. 17, 2025

Harper Steele has seen America through the windows of her trusty station wagon on many occasions, but the cross-country journey documented in the film Will & Harper is different. The former Saturday Night Live head writer and comedian had recently transitioned when longtime creative collaborator and friend Will Ferrell made an intriguing pitch: a road-trip documentary that explored not only the country but uncharted territory in their friendship.

Directed by Josh Greenbaum (The Short Game), Will & Harper follows the comedic pair as they explore the spaces Steele had grown accustomed to visiting on previous voyages — dive bars, diners, sports bars — as her true self. “It’s really a drag when you are yourself and you can’t be that everywhere,” says Steele. “I know, from the other side of it, the weirdness I felt navigating the country as not myself. I say that everything I do now, I haven’t [done] before — even [if I did it] before I transitioned. Everything’s new to me.”

Steele and Ferrell share quite a few meals throughout Will & Harper, including an assortment of Pringles in the parking lot of an Indiana Walmart, a glamorous feast in Las Vegas, and tzatziki and pancakes at a Greek diner outside of New York City. So naturally, Steele knows a thing or two about how to sustain oneself while on the road. Here, the self-proclaimed vagabond details who would join her dream road-trip dinner party — alongside her and Ferrell — and what’s on the menu.

I would take Carol Burnett because she’s my comedy hero. I would take Imogen Binnie because she wrote one of my favorite novels, Nevada, and I would take Candy Darling because she seems like a beautiful mess of a human being, and I like a little chaos on a road trip. Diet Coke and McDonald’s coffee are what fuel me driving across the country, but I’ll stop for pie almost anywhere. As for cheap snacks usually found in a rest stop or a truck stop, Moon Pies or yellow Hostess CupCakes are my go-tos.

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