154. Fortune Feimster: Don't Borrow Trouble

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Hot off her new Netflix special Crushing It, Fortune Feimster sits down with Mike for a candid chat about telling personal stories on stage, dealing with audience complaints, and Fortune’s coming out journey. Fortune also explains her dynamic with her Handsome podcast co-hosts Tig Notaro and Mae Martin, and she and Mike discuss why fancy doorbells and ice crushing machines are symbols of wealth.

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0:00.0	Have you ever had jokes in your specials or your tour where people have pushed back on it?
0:06.0	And said, hey, I wish you wouldn't talk about this.
0:09.0	I am gay. That's just part of who I am.
0:12.0	So, I'm not setting out to tell gay stories.
0:17.0	Sure.
0:18.0	It is just like, I'm telling you a story about being married.
0:21.4	I happen to be gay.
0:22.6	Right.
0:23.0	So that's just going to be part of it.
0:24.4	Right.
0:24.7	But because I'm gay, according to this person, I'm now telling a gay story.
0:29.1	Really?
0:29.7	Yeah.
0:30.2	So they were like, too many gay stories.
0:33.2	You're just, like, shoving it down everyone's throats.
0:36.6	And she goes, and your merch was gay.
0:39.2	And it was too gay.
0:43.7	What's your merch?
0:44.8	That makes me wonder, what's your merch?
0:47.2	Just all this, everything's gay.
0:49.9	That is the voice of the great fortune fiendster.
0:58.4	Love fortune.
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