69: Storyworthy's Christine Blackburn on how to tell a solid story

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Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

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🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Comedian and brilliant storyteller Christine Blackburn joins Rachael on this episode of Be Here For A While. Christine is the host of Storyworthy, a lively show featuring true, personal stories told by Hollywood’s most interesting talents. Christine Blackburn hosts this weekly show who’s guests include Adam Carolla, Bobcat Goldthwait, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Phil Rosenthal, Dana Gould, Sugar Ray Leonard and many more talented comedians, writers and actors. As a producer, writer and skilled interviewer, Christine Blackburn and her production company, Story Worthy Media, have produced over 450 episodes of her weekly show Story Worthy and dozens of live performances of her gameshow- Shotgun Story Worthy. She is the author of the book “PIT To LAX: My Story Worthy Life” and she hosted Ready For The Weekend Movies on USA Network. She is a regular contributor to Huff Post and is a 3 time MOTH Story Slam winner. She performs storytelling all over Los Angeles and has appeared in over 100 commercials. Christine enjoys being a mom, playing tennis, guitar, and eating sushi.

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0:00.0	The Hey guys welcome back to the episode of Be here for a while I have an awesome
0:19.3	guest today but I'm going to do a little intro solo before she gets here just to like chat with you guys about some stuff.
0:28.0	I'm going through something right now. It's pretty serious. It's about my hate for musicals and for some reason it's just really got under my
0:40.0	skin lately. Maybe it was after I saw this carpool karaoke video of Ariana Grande and
0:45.8	Seth McFarland, both very talented, I hope to work for Seth one day. They were great
0:51.0	in the in the song, but it it ruined my morning. I just you know I saw someone
0:57.2	tweet it and I was like all right. Well, watch that and I was pissed for the rest of the day. I just, I couldn't get over it.
1:05.0	I was, it just, it ruined my day because I don't understand, like, I don't understand in,
1:10.0	well they were seeing like show tunes. I was like something Seymour.
1:12.9	I don't know.
1:13.8	I'm sure it's a famous song,
1:15.1	but I don't listen to musicals or show tunes or whatever.
1:19.6	And so for me, I was like, what is this piece of garbage?
1:23.0	But also, Hamilton's coming into town
1:27.0	and everyone's talking about him buying tickets.
1:29.5	And I'm pretty proud of myself. I actually one of my greatest accomplishments that I'm going to go my whole life and never see Hamilton and I'm proud of that I think it means I'm going to go in places.
1:41.0	It's you know and it's not about the content of Hamilton don't freak out it's just
1:45.8	because I can't fucking stand musicals like I don't understand why you have to
1:49.8	break into song why can't you just tell me how you're feeling? Why do you have to all
1:54.4	a sudden break into song and dance when you're happy or sad when you're overcome
1:59.1	with emotion just you look like a pussy you know know? It's horrible. It's like just like don't sing about being poor on the streets. I think it's like this that lame is like, like go forage for food. Don't just sit there singing.
2:13.7	Nothing is going to get accomplished by that.
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