36: Firecracker Annabelle Desisto on that time Rachael sparked a rage stroke and nearly killed her comedy aspirations to writing for legend Joan Rivers
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🗓️ 12 January 2017
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys welcome back to the episode of Be here for a while I have one of my |
| 0:17.1 | favorite people on the podcast you guys probably already know who she is from |
| 0:21.0 | her very famous podcast Adirond-Oblements she is from her very famous podcast Adderon compliments. She is |
| 0:24.7 | hands down probably one of if not the funniest person I know and I am so proud of her for everything that she's doing with their podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | You guys are going to love her. |
| 0:37.0 | Annabel de Cisto. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi, that was such an unbelievably nice intro. I didn't even write write it I just said it on the spot that's what I think |
| 0:45.8 | man all those second city classes are paying off I mean listen they better it's been a year and |
| 0:51.5 | several thousand dollars I give you so much credit. You know I never even make it to my second improv class |
| 0:57.2 | Now is the is the story of the when you were wearing your improv clothes going to class was it to second city? |
| 1:05.1 | Yep. Do you want to tell that story? We need to explain where second city is |
| 1:09.6 | located on Hollywood Boulevard where if you don't live in LA you might think like oh my god it's cool. It's where the stars of the |
| 1:16.7 | Hollywood Walk of Famous it is the scariest place in Los Angeles just short of Skid Row like it's not a safe area. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah imagine Skid Row but with off-brand Elmo's and Superman and a random H&M and a |
| 1:31.4 | hooters. Yeah there's a couple it's like Times Square but worse. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, it is more homeless people, which God bless them. |
| 1:39.0 | Good for them, they're free, but it's it's just dirty. It's the urinal cake of Los Angeles. |
| 1:48.6 | Basically. So that's what it looks like, but that's where Second City is located the school which is an |
| 1:53.4 | improv school that like a lot of the SNL people came out of more more so in like the |
| 1:58.1 | Chris Farley times but it's what I like to do so Annabelle signed up for a class there years ago. I signed up for an |
| 2:07.5 | improv class and the first rule of improv you know it's like say yes say yes to life and I was like yeah new |
| 2:15.0 | year new me yes to more things so in improv class you're moving around and you're |
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