105. Kate Berlant: The Comedy Special That Almost Didn’t Come Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Mike lost his mind laughing at Kate Berlant’s new comedy special “Cinnamon in the Wind.” So he dropped her a line and asked her to discuss it on the podcast. Mike and Kate discuss working with director Bo Burnham, the looseness of the special, and how the special almost didn’t come out. They discuss Kate’s solo show “Kate” which was an off-Broadway sensation and is now heading to London at the exact same time that Mike brings “The Old Man & The Pool." They talk about Kate’s comedy special with John Early called “Would It Kill You To Laugh?” that was just nominated for an Emmy. They discuss how Kate has always been suspicious of “cool” people but now- between her three hit shows and appearing in movies by Quentin Tarantino and Boots Riley- she may have become one of them.

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0:00.0	coolness has always been this thing that I've always been like since I was a
0:03.6	child like suspicious of and also on the outside of and like so I can I think
0:08.0	about like adolescent or previous attempts to be perceived as hip or cool are
0:15.1	always like treacherous. So you've always been suspicious of cool but then what's
0:18.8	funny you know that irony of that. I want to be cool. Well you're cool now. Oh
0:21.8	god. You're cool to all the kids. The young kids coming up doing sketch
0:25.2	comedy and stand up. They're like oh she's she and John are the cool ones. I
0:30.2	fucking did it that is the voice of the great Cape Berlant. This is Mike
0:42.5	Barbiglia. You're listening to working it out. This is a fun episode. There's
0:47.5	a whole bunch of stuff that I want to recommend about Cape Berlant. She is a
0:52.0	comedian and actor. She's been in tons of stuff. I saw her solo show in New
0:59.1	York City. It's called Kate directed by Bob Burnham. It's going to London at
1:04.2	the same time that old man in the pool is in London in September. You can see
1:09.3	both of them. You could make it a double header a London double header. Kate's
1:13.4	show is also going to be in Los Angeles. That was breaking news on the show
1:17.2	today. How this conversation came about is that Kate came out with a bunch of
1:22.3	specials lately. Actually two. One is a two-person sketch special on peacock
1:27.8	with John early that just got nominated for an Emmy. It is so funny and so
1:32.4	strange. We're talking about that a bit today. And then I've just been watching a
1:36.6	lot of Kate Berlant comedy lately. I watched this one called Cinnamon in the Wind
1:40.2	on Hulu and my wife Jenny and I left so hard. And so we talked about it on the
1:46.2	episode today. Kate is very candid about how that special almost didn't come
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