D’Arcy Carden on the Serum That Changed Her Life and Her Favorite Bedtime Playlist

In our series Sleeping With… SELF talks to successful people from different career paths, backgrounds, and stages of life to find out how they make sleep magic happen.

What would The Good Place be without Janet? Frankly, it’s a question we don’t want to know the answer to—and we’re glad we’ll never have to. Over the show’s four seasons, the last and final of which aired in late January, Janet, brought to life by actor D’Arcy Carden, swiftly became the audience favorite. Both Janet and Carden are equal parts earnest and hilarious, so much so that it is easy to wish Carden were your real-life friend.

Carden got her start training in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, where she performed for almost 10 years. Today her résumé includes a swath of some of the best female-led comedy television of the last decade—Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, to name a few. Though The Good Place just finished airing its fourth and final season, Carden is only just beginning. Next up on her roster? A television remake of A League of Their Own, where she will star opposite Abbi Jacobson, who is also writing and executive-producing the series.

Today, Carden lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jason, and her brown pit bull, Penny. While her days can vary as she prepares for her new show, Carden always makes sleep a priority. “There’s nothing heroic about sleeping four hours,” Carden says. “You’re a better person when you get to sleep eight hours. I would like to stand on a soapbox and yell that.” Read more on what it’s like to sleep with Carden (and Jason, and Penny) below.

On the luxury of letting her dog out

My sleep routine starts downstairs with my husband, Jason, and my dog, Penny. Usually Jason says he’s tired first. I could stay up all night, so I need someone to remind me that it’s time to go to bed and let Penny out to pee. I have a yard. Can you even imagine? I lived in New York for 10 years. The idea of even having a foot-by-foot space outdoors is unreal. It’s great.

I’m like [to Jason], “You do your thing and then I will do my thing.” So while he’s getting ready, I turn on the hot water kettle and I’ll make a cup of tea. It’ll either be peppermint or chamomile or Sleepytime. I put one Truvia packet and a little collagen powder in it. [Editor’s note: Carden is a Truvia spokesperson.] I’m sure there’s something about warm liquid that makes you sleepy, and I kind of have to make myself get sleepy.

I try to go to bed around 10 or 11. When I lived in New York, I went to bed at like, two, and now that I live in L.A. I go to bed at 10, and I get eight hours for sure. When I was shooting The Good Place and I had to be at work at five [a.m.], then I’d do the math to get eight hours.

On major toothbrushing

I overbrush my teeth. That’s not something I’m proud of. Like, I brush until my gums bleed. I don’t know why the hell that is—I brush them so much that my dentist is like, “You need to chill.”

I don’t use an electric toothbrush, but I think I should. They kind of buzz my nose and make it itchy. So yeah—major, major toothbrushing happens. We use Colgate Advanced Whitening toothpaste, and we’ve been using it for, like, 10 years. At one point they changed the box and I freaked out and then I was like, Okay, it’s the same.

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