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  • @Swell | Welcome to Community Podcasting with Swell

    @Swell | Welcome to Community Podcasting with Swell
    Oct 10 2024
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  • @BehindTheJoke | Closet chaos – as a female comic, are there unique mental hurdles you face when choosing what to wear on stage?

    @BehindTheJoke | Closet chaos – as a female comic, are there unique mental hurdles you face when choosing what to wear on stage?
    Oct 16 2024
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    "Looks like you work at the onion. Funny or die. Okay, this is about me. Yeah. I feel like I have my, like, Tina Fey business look. That. That seems to work pretty well. I have, like, my jumpsuit look, which. Yeah, that seems to be. It's almost like the proletariat worker thing."
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    2 mins
  • @BehindTheJoke | Working dirty as a female comic. Empowering or Demeaning?

    @BehindTheJoke | Working dirty as a female comic. Empowering or Demeaning?
    Oct 16 2024
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    "And once I started doing some crowd work, it became even more fun because I would have, you know, point to the men and bring them in. And the real dance was, could I do it in a way that the men had fun? And they did, except for one male comic who got up after me, very famous back in his day comic, and made a point of saying, I hate the word vagina. It's disgusting. I like the word pussy. Tight pussy."
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    3 mins
  • @BehindTheJoke | Audition Mics at the Holy Trinity of Comedy - 7th circle of rigged hell? Or an exciting equal opportunity for all?

    @BehindTheJoke | Audition Mics at the Holy Trinity of Comedy - 7th circle of rigged hell? Or an exciting equal opportunity for all?
    Oct 16 2024
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    "And now, all of a sudden, the power structure is such that, that Rita the booker is sitting there and you're wanting desperately for her to say she likes you and that you're good and that you're funny and that you matter. And for me, stand up comedy has been the first pure form of not needing to ask for permission. There's no middlemen or women. It's just you in the audience, and if you're funny, you know, they'll laugh."
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    3 mins
  • @BehindTheJoke | The post-bringer show penny drop – wait – it wasn’t because I was funny??

    @BehindTheJoke | The post-bringer show penny drop – wait – it wasn’t because I was funny??
    Oct 16 2024
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    "And in the beginning, when you start out, it's pretty easy to do if you're of a certain age, as I am. I know so many people, and apparently they like me and already think I'm funny, so they're not scared to come out."
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    3 mins
  • @BehindTheJoke | Kill Tony and Roast Comedy Culture: why is being mean such a hot comedy trend?

    @BehindTheJoke | Kill Tony and Roast Comedy Culture: why is being mean such a hot comedy trend?
    Oct 16 2024
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    "So the whole, like, mean comedy trend, that's just huge right now, I have to admit. I mean, I respect it. I wouldn't say, like, hats off to kill Tony. Geez. Like, what a juggernaut. What a, you know, cash cow. Like, it's an incredible business that's flourishing, and he's excellent at it. I have to admit, the kind of gong show schadenfreude freak show aspect to it makes me uncomfortable."
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    4 mins
  • @BehindTheJoke | Comedians: From Imposter Syndrome to Genius. What’s real?

    @BehindTheJoke | Comedians: From Imposter Syndrome to Genius. What’s real?
    Oct 16 2024
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    "The point is, then I go to my car, and I'm sorry, I'm rambling, but I record myself again, and I record the dopamine high, and I'm doing it just, and I send these to my friend Dana, fellow comic, comedian. And she's laughing, but also, it's like, it's just evidence that, well, I'm not even sure what the evidence is. What was real? I don't even know. That's what's crazy."
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    3 mins
  • @DBPardes | Closet chaos – as a female comic, are there unique mental hurdles you face when choosing what to wear on stage?

    @DBPardes | Closet chaos – as a female comic, are there unique mental hurdles you face when choosing what to wear on stage?
    Oct 16 2024
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    "I'm dying to answer this question because I have been on stage for the better half of my life, whether it's as an emcee or doing comedy or mostly doing music. But the last few years, I pepper my life with going on stage, but it's not a regular thing. And I bring that up because I think when you're really jamming and doing it a lot, you've got, like, uniforms that you just throw on and, you know, they work."
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    3 mins