#70: Funny Girl (Bonnie McFarlane)

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🗓️ 30 July 2012

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Bonnie McFarlane met me in Montreal to talk about this theory going around that women aren't funny. She just finished shooting a movie on the subject and she's a funny woman herself, so she had a lot of really good insight on the subject.

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0:00.0	I like the way that they walk, and it's chilly here to drop, and I can always make
0:29.0	your smile from my castle to the now, back in the day.
0:37.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to Ari Shaffer's skeptic tank. It's just down
0:41.5	hollow. I'm in some room in New York City that has hard floors, and it's a very
0:49.1	compact space. So, what sounds hollow? That's why. How are you guys? Welcome to the
0:55.1	show. On today's episode, I have Bonnie McFarlane on, and we are going to talk
1:00.1	about chicks in comedy. I saw in Montreal. This is comedy festival called the
1:05.1	Montreal Comedy Festival, and I went this year. I did my storyteller show there.
1:09.1	We did six shows of drug and alcohol stories. They're really good. A lot of good
1:15.1	stories. Who's that? But while I was there, I did a bunch of podcasts, and by a
1:21.1	bunch, I mean one, because I don't know. It's too busy doing drugs and shit. Some
1:28.1	mushrooms went around, and it made the whole event a lot more fun. I was there for
1:33.1	seven days. Comedy festivals, or my joy deers says this, and I agree. It's like
1:39.1	Sleepboy camp for comedians. Day one, we did a storyteller show, a mushroom
1:45.1	storyteller show, and some people in the show were on mushrooms, and I was, and
1:50.1	so was Dan Soder, a couple of the people pushed out, but they told mushroom stories
1:56.1	at least, and the rest of the week was just great. But then later, my friend, who gets
2:03.1	weird about drugs sometimes, so I won't say his name, but one of the guys who
2:08.1	pushed out said that he got a line on some mushrooms, so he got some, and he was
2:14.1	supposed to be Kelly, a quarter ounce. It's not going to be enough for me, you, and
2:17.1	so the person, and I'm like, yeah, that's going to be plenty, but like, fuck it.
2:22.1	Let's just get an ounce. You don't think anybody will want them? It was a hundred
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