#605 - Heather McMahan on Meeting Joan Rivers, Doing IVF Wrong & Shooting Her Shot with Jeff Foxworthy
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Comedian & actress Heather McMahan joins Bobby to talk about building a comedy career by trusting her instincts, finding material in real life, and why her husband has become one of her best sources of inspiration. She shares the story of sending a DVD to Jeff Foxworthy, what it was like meeting her hero Joan Rivers, and how those early comedy moments helped shape the performer she is now. Heather also opens up about the chaos of doing IVF wrong twice, talking about fertility on stage, life on tour, comedy cruises, and learning when to finally take a break.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, this is Robert from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | Joe and I are both lifelong Star Wars fan, so we're celebrating May the 4th with a brand |
| 0:11.8 | new week of fun, thought-provoking Star Wars-related episodes. |
| 0:15.5 | Join us as we tackle science and culture topics from a galaxy far, far away, such as the |
| 0:20.3 | biology of taunons and wampas |
| 0:22.2 | on the ice planet hot, or the practicality and corporate business sense of the Sith rule of two. |
| 0:28.3 | Listen to Stuff to Bo Your Mind on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 0:33.5 | podcasts. It's your podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | I had a nurse DM me. |
| 0:46.2 | She said that in her clinic, they have a problem with older men. |
| 0:47.3 | They will come in. |
| 0:52.0 | And instead of giving their proper sample in a cup, they will spit in the cup instead. |
| 1:01.0 | All right, today's guest is Heather McMahon, comedian, actress, the host of the podcast, |
| 1:02.0 | absolutely not. |
| 1:06.0 | She blew up on Instagram after moving back home in Atlanta. |
| 1:07.5 | We talk about this in just a second. |
| 1:08.3 | You're going to hear the whole story. |
| 1:09.9 | A very tough time in her life. And that turned into a lot of what she is now and she is massive when i told my friends she was |
| 1:18.3 | coming up to do this podcast all of them wanted to come and sit in and you know what they all did turn |
| 1:22.9 | the camera okay we can't turn the camera but they're all here Heather McMahon's here go see her. It's the bamboozled tour right now, and she has a cruise coming, which we talk about. Tickets, Heather on tour.com. Here she is. The reason that everybody's in the studio right now, the very funny, Heather McMahon. Heather, great to meet you. Hey, lovely to meet you. My wife sent me with information. |
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