$2,250/week as a comedy writer! Comedian Heather McDonald gives the Juicy Scoop to her wild success through her podcast, navigating the comedy scene and writing for late night
Trading Secrets
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5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jason is joined by the wildly successful comedian, author, and pop culture podcast host, Heather McDonald!
Heather burst onto the scene in the late nineties working as writer and actress for various TV shows through Hollywood. She first gained popularity through her standup comedy shows throughout Los Angeles and eventually landing a role as a writer and roundtable regular on the hit E! Series Chelsea Lately. When Heather isn’t headlining theaters across the country with her comedy acts or spending time with her family, she is diving into all things pop culture on her top rated podcast, Juicy Scoop.
Heather gives insight to why she went to USC for communication with a business minor when she wanted to work in entertainment, how her family and friends encouraged her to go into standup, why going to an all girls high school made her a standup comedian, how her main source of income was from being a real estate agent with her parents, and how she got back into comedy. Heather also reveals what facilitating a date on the Bachelorette was like, why she thinks the Bachelor franchise needs to reinvented, what she wish she knew earlier when going into auditions and interviews, the big mistake she made at her first late night show writing gig, and how she has been able to monetize on her podcast. Did she have to pay or did she get paid to host a date on the Bachelorette? What was the first late night show she got paid to write for? Where does she think stand up comedy will be in 40 years? How did her podcast Juicy Scoop get started?
Heather reveals all that and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a DR Media Production. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. Today we are joined by the wildly successful |
| 0:21.2 | comedian, author and pop culture podcast host Heather McDonald. Heather burst onto the |
| 0:26.7 | scene in the late 90s, working as a writer and actress for various TV shows throughout |
| 0:31.4 | Hollywood. She first gained popularity through her stand-up comedy shows throughout Los |
| 0:35.7 | Angeles and eventually landing a role as a writer and roundtable regular on the hit E-Series |
| 0:41.4 | Chelsea Lately. When Heather isn't headlining theaters across the country with her comedy |
| 0:45.9 | acts or spending time with her family, she is diving into all things pop culture on |
| 0:50.9 | her top rated podcast. Juicy Scoop. So we're going to dive into behind the scenes of the |
| 0:55.8 | world of the show business, the difficult path to success in Hollywood, especially as |
| 1:00.1 | a comedian and how comedy has changed in recent years and where she thinks it's going. Heather, |
| 1:05.1 | thank you so much for being here. We're excited to have you have a show of secrets. |
| 1:08.0 | Who wrote that? Who wrote that for me? Yeah, yeah, no one's ever asked me that. So if somebody |
| 1:12.3 | you put it together and wrote it. Yeah, so every episode I have someone that works for me. |
| 1:16.6 | Can you email us for me? That's kind of nice. Do you like that? Yeah, I actually really |
| 1:19.5 | liked it. It could also work for my own eulogy and I really love it. Stephen, you hear |
| 1:25.2 | that? Heather is going to start working for you. I'll give you his contact information. |
| 1:28.9 | I don't take him from me. Heather and I were just talking before I came in. The last time |
| 1:33.0 | we saw each other, we were behind the scenes when Caitlin and Tasha were hosting Katie season |
| 1:38.1 | and you were on that season. Yes, I did like facilitate help facilitate a group date. |
| 1:42.8 | What do you think about are you a bachelor fan? I was such a bachelor fan. I watched them |
| 1:47.6 | all I got into it and talked about on the show on my show, Juicy Scoop. And so they asked |
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