10 Good Things from Maria Bamford, Lena Dunham, Stephen King, Sarah Silverman, etc.
Also: Jealousy, Taomedy, and specificity.
💥 Gotta admire the chutzpah of comedians, a bunch of narcissists incapable of healthy relationships, giving dating advice on podcasts sponsored by BetterHelp. What's next? A MasterClass on ethics from the Fyre Fest guy sponsored by SimpliSafe!??
💥 Great joke from Maria Bamford's latest album:
[In] any major religion they ask you sometime between the age of 8 and 14 to publicly double down to say, "I’m all in on this extremely complicated set of ideas! I cannot read a bus schedule, but sign me up for the duration!"
Great example of how specificity can really make a joke sing. The bus schedule thing is the perfect analogy.
💥 Life advice: Don't show up to a comedy show with someone you're not supposed to be seen with. Those days are over. There's now a 75% chance you're gonna wind up on social media and someone's gonna send your aunt a video of you with your mistress and/or secret gay lover.
💥 Caitlin Peluffo talks to The Comic’s Comic about how a weird interaction with a crowd member wound up on her new album.
She was hammered…My producer, Jessica, she was like, you have to keep that in. I was like, I do? And she said yes, because you're an off-the-cuff-person. This is shit that happens. And you know, we rarely get to capture it on an album recording. So I was like, 'All right, leave it in.’
Up ahead: Jealousy, Lena Dunham, Netflix and comedy, Stephen King, Sarah Silverman, and more.
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