119. Rosebud Baker Returns: Pregnant with Jokes and People

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

Mygirlfriendsboyfriend, Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Sleepwalkwithme, Iraglass, Comedy, Thankgodforjokes, Thenewone, Mikebirbiglia, Dontthinktwice, Birbiglia

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rosebud Baker’s first appearance on Working It Out was in 2021. Since then she’s become a writer on SNL, written for That Damn Michael Che, and become a parent. Now Rosebud returns to talk with Mike about how being a parent affects comedy, and they dispel certain attitudes about filming a comedy special while pregnant. Plus, the art of pitching ideas for different types of sketch shows, and why Rosebud’s daughter has to call her grandfather “Mr. Baker.”

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What's your family's take on stand-up comedy?
0:02.8	I think I've had some like run-ins with relatives you know in the past where it's like you need
0:09.7	to make a public apology that that kind of thing.
0:13.6	But this is like way before anyone even knew who I was.
0:17.2	I'm like, public to who, like my Facebook, you know.
0:21.6	Wait a minute.
0:23.0	We gotta go to the public apology.
0:25.0	Yeah. Was it over a specific joke?
0:27.0	Yeah, it was a joke I told about my grandmother who I never met who was an alcoholic and basically it was like when we were
0:38.6	voting for Hillary or something people were dedicating their votes to other women,
0:44.0	and I think I said that I was dedicating my vote to my grandmother,
0:48.0	not because she would have voted for Hillary
0:51.0	because she was too drunk to drive to the polls or something.
0:54.8	It was, you know, it was like an easy, fun, I thought it was fun, but my family was not.
1:01.5	Wimsical.
1:02.2	Yeah, yeah, it's a whimsical joke about alcoholism
1:06.1	about a woman who died of alcoholism.
1:08.9	Oh my God.
1:10.3	That is the voice of the great Rose Bud Baker. Rose Bud Bager is a returning champion.
1:19.2	One of my favorite comics, she is back and since then she became a writer on S&L. She became a mom and she's just one of my favorite comics. That was always one of my favorite episodes. Before we get going, I just want to tell you this week I'm
1:33.5	heading to the Pacific Northwest. We're kicking off 2024. I just went to
1:39.2	Montana and I'm heading even further into the pack northwest.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.