744- High School Days with Comedian Esther Ku

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Esther Ku (Last Comic Standing, Howard Stern, Joe Rogan, @Midnight) was thrilled to work on her school newspaper and as a comedian, she had a lot to say. The school however, was not thrilled and when Esther called out the class Valedictorian and the Homecoming Queen, the shit hit the fan.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's storyworthy. Today on the show, comedian Esther Koo talks about writing for the newspaper in high school.
0:08.0	I wrote this article, You know you live in Rosemont when. The Rosemont kids were always the rich kids.
0:16.3	But they went to our high school, but the rest of us, we were from River Grove, Schiller Park, Franklin Park, very working class, Italian, Polish neighborhoods.
0:25.7	The Rosemont kids, their parents, owned, you know, companies.
0:30.7	So I wrote this thing called, You Know You Live in Rosemont when you pay your way to the top, parentheses, homecoming queen,
0:41.3	comma, valedictorian.
0:43.7	Does shit hit the fan?
0:46.2	Today on the show, comedian Esther Koo talks about her high school days.
0:50.5	Stick around.
0:54.4	Hey guys, it's Esther Koo, and you're listening to Storyworthy.
1:10.8	Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California.
1:16.0	Whether you're a longtime fan of the show of 12 years, it'll be 12 years in July, or you're a new fan. Welcome to Storyworthy.
1:24.9	Now, I hope you guys enjoyed the show last week, which was actually Story Smash, the Storytelling Game Show.
1:31.9	I put that up last week.
1:33.3	But before that, we had on Coco Brown.
1:35.6	Coco Brown is so funny, and I'm so happy I discovered her.
1:40.5	Esther, Coo, do you know Cocoa Brown?
1:43.2	Of course I know Coco Brown. She's so funny. Coco
1:46.1	Brown, funny mama. Damn it. Why? I feel like such a knucklehead that I did not know Coco.
1:53.1	She is such a powerhouse. And so nice. Oh, that's great. Yeah. I laughed all day, you know, on the episode with her.
2:01.9	I laughed the whole time.
2:03.8	But I didn't know, I didn't know her act.
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