1494 Francesca Fiorentini + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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My conversation with Francesca starts at about 34 minutes in to today's show after headlines and clips
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Journalist, activist and stand up comedian Francesca Fiorentini has spent most of her life comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable -- from the streets to the screen to the stage. As a host and producer, Francesca helped Al Jazeera Media Network successfully launch the online news channel AJ+ in 2013. She has captured online audiences with viral hits like "The Real Deal with the U.S. Mexico Border"and "How America is Already Socialist."
In the Spring of 2016 Francesca launched Al Jazeera's first comedy show. (That's right, the BBC of the Middle East does comedy.) Newsbroke is a weekly scripted deep-dive into nuclear power, the war in Afghanistan, immigration policy and other totally non serious topics. As head writer and host, Francesca's monologues and sketches include viral hits like "How the Rich Want to Keep you Dumb" and "White Fragility in the Workplace."
Francesca has also been a correspondent with "Explorer" on the National Geographic Channel since 2016. She has played matchmaker in Japan, toured a cadaver farm in Texas, and met Oklahomans demanding accountability for fracking-induced earthquakes. For her NatGeo work on draconian abortion laws in El Salvador she won a Media Excellence award from Planned Parenthood in 2018.
In 2019 Francesca hosted "Red, White and Who?" a special that aired on MSNBC, which looked at the state of healthcare in the U.S. She traveled to Texas, Utah and New York and spoke with doctors, patients and politicians to understand how ten years after Obamacare, healthcare in America is less of a right and more of a luxury commodity. The special concluded with a sit-down interview with 2020 presidential candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders.
Francesca regularly speaks dick jokes to power on stage as a stand up comic. She has been featured on the podcast Lovett or Leave It (2018), the BBC Arts Hour (2018), and has been part of SF Sketchfest (2017-2020), SF Comedy Day (2017), and the Asian-American Comedy Comedy Festival in LA (2015). She is also a regular contributor to the progressive news network The Young Turks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my Friday episode. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm very happy to have you here. |
| 0:07.2 | Thanks for press and play. |
| 0:08.2 | Thanks for choosing me. |
| 0:09.2 | Thanks for everybody who sent me the image of their Spotify, wrapped or best up. |
| 0:14.2 | Many of you had Stand Up as your top podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | That's so cool to see. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm so grateful for you and grateful to have you here and in the community |
| 0:22.4 | that we have built together not everybody is a participant many just listen to the podcast most |
| 0:28.4 | in fact but so many of you of course come to the hangouts and maybe you'll join us again in |
| 0:33.2 | Vegas in april april april ninth pod jam three is on but we had a great hangout last night, almost three hours. Thanks to everybody who came. If you didn't make it, but you want to watch it or relive it, there's a link in the subscriber email today. All right. Joining me on the show today, very special guests. We're very excited to have her for the first time ever. See, I don't always only have the |
| 0:55.2 | regulars. I've got a lot of new guests all the time. And today I've got Francesca Fiorentini. |
| 1:01.7 | She is of the Bituation Room podcast and YouTube channel. She's a longtime journalist, comedian, |
| 1:08.6 | and commentator. And I'm very happy to have her |
| 1:11.7 | joining me for the first time ever on the show. |
| 1:13.3 | We had a great conversation about an hour. |
| 1:15.9 | And if you want to jump to it, it starts at 3040 minutes. |
| 1:19.8 | But I do have your headlines and a clip show for you, as I normally do. |
| 1:24.8 | Sorry, I wasn't here yesterday. |
| 1:26.9 | It was because I was in the city on Wednesday |
| 1:30.1 | taping an episode of Nagine Farsad's great podcast, Fake the Nation with the brilliant and |
| 1:37.1 | thoughtful, thought-provoking Naima Raza and I were both guests, and I'll tag that episode |
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