In the weeks leading up to, and then during the fifth and final season of Hacks , Megan Stalter has run her own kind of Kaufman-esque publicity tour for both the Emmy -winning show and her personal brand. Gossip accounts like DeuxMoi and Stalter’s own social media channels have been flooded with clips of the actress prancing around Los Angeles looking very much like she wants attention while screaming at onlookers that they’re invading her privacy. In one video , she’s reading aloud from Britney Spears ’ memoir , 2023’s The Woman in Me . In another , she seems to be parodying Addison Rae’s 2024 sideboob paparazzi shot. It’s a masterful marketing stunt that keeps her front-and-center of the zeitgeist but also lets her fanbase in on the joke. Article continues below “My favorite kinds of comedy ,” Stalter tells me, “is not knowing where the bit ends. I like to explore that and, like, to create experiences and feeling.” She adds: “If I'm on stage, I want, at times, people to be like, ‘Wait.…