139. Catherine Cohen: How to Make Your Doctor Laugh

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

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mike welcomes the multi-talented Catherine Cohen to the podcast to discuss making doctors laugh, lessons learned from the Ashley Madison documentary, and the medical ordeal that Cat went through last summer. She and Mike break down the best ways to work out a long story in small increments and how to ease an audience to heavy subject matter. Plus, jokes and stories about 1980s parachute pants, and falling down drunk on a candle.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	On your podcast, on your podcast, you ask your guest three questions.
0:05.0	Who were you? Who are you now and who do you want to be?
0:09.0	So I'm just going to ask you those questions.
0:11.0	Oh, okay, okay, who was I? Yeah. I was chubby, no boys liked me. I'm a girl in Texas wanting attention. I am glamorous, star of stage and screen, and I want to be that on a bigger level.
0:30.0	Wow. Do you like that? It's bald.
0:34.0	Why not?
0:35.0	That is
0:38.0	That is the voice of the great cat Cohen. Welcome back to working it out.
0:45.0	Great episode today.
0:46.3	Cat Cohen is a very original and funny comic, writer, actor, she has a Netflix special called The Twist.
0:54.6	Dot, dot, she's gorgeous, which is fantastic.
0:58.6	She wrote a book of poetry called God,
1:00.4	I feel modern tonight.
1:02.0	She hosts a podcast with another funny comic Pat Regan called
1:05.3	seek treatment. Cat is a one-of-a-kind performer. She grew up in Texas, came to New York to be an
1:11.4	actress, started doing improv.
1:13.0	She is in Edinburgh, French if you're in Edinburgh, Scotland,
1:17.0	in the month of August doing a new show called Come For Me.
1:20.0	I am on tour right now with the new tours called Please Stop the Ride.
1:25.0	I was in SAG Harbor. In the fall, I'll be in Red Bank, New Jersey at the Count
1:30.7	Basie Theater. I'll be in Seattle. I'll be in Portland. We added a third and final show in Portland, Oregon.
1:36.6	San Francisco, Oakland, Philadelphia, and a beautiful hall in Philadelphia. I'm so excited about that.
	...

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.