97: Growing up Irish & falling into stand up with Eleanor Kerrigan

Be Here For A While

Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Eleanor Kerrigan is the latest in a long line of historically funny women who cut their teeth at the World Famous Comedy Store. Starting out as a waitress there, Eleanor learned the ropes of comedy, all the while making the best comics in the country laugh, in the kitchen of the club. It would take several years and lots of pushing from one of her biggest fans, Andrew Dice Clay, to finally get her to take her comedic talents to the stage. On this episode of Be Here For A While, Eleanor tells Rachael about her unique experiences growing up street-savvy in South Philly, as one of 10 children in a very Irish-Catholic family. She paints an uproarious portrait of her life experiences, beginning with her childhood in a three bedroom row home and moving to her adventures as an adult living in LA! Brooklinen sheets have changed my life! Get $20 off AND free shipping when you use promo code BEHERE at Brooklinen.com. Brooklinen is SO confident that they offer a risk-free 60-night satisfaction guarantee and a lifetime warranty on all of their sheets and comforters!

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0:00.0	But, Hello friends. I really got to stop singing. You know what? Okay, so the podcast coming up is going to be fantastic. It is with
0:30.2	Eleanor Kerrigan, who I kind of like pined after in like a non-creapy way.
0:38.4	I mean, I know I can tend to be creepy, but I, all right, well, maybe it is creepy
0:41.9	because I just had pined
0:43.2	uh after she's a she's a comedian that like I choose she's not my friend
0:49.0	but like I just think she's hilarious and I think she's probably one of my favorite female comedians of all time and we work the same clubs a lot and I've seen her perform a bunch of times and we've been on the same shows.
1:01.0	Additionally, she's also been incredibly nice to me. She's a little bit older
1:06.1	than me. She had a long career, not a long career. Well, I guess we hear it on the podcast because
1:11.1	she started comedy later in life and Eleanor by me
1:14.4	saying you're older is not a slam because you're gorgeous she's she's also
1:19.3	just fucking beautiful too anyways she so, she, so I guess I like, I idolized her a little bit because I think she's so
1:26.2	funny and we'd be on the same shows together and all that and she was also always so nice to me.
1:30.4	Anyways, you're going to love this podcast.
1:32.6	I resonate with her a lot.
1:33.8	She's, she has the same sort of like funny but like grumpy personality that I do,
1:41.9	except for I'm actually kind of positive as well.
1:44.0	She's Irish full Irish and she comes from a huge Irish Catholic family
1:49.0	which I also resonate with because my dad
1:52.0	My dad was raised Irish Catholic and he has like a hundred
1:54.8	siblings. Anyways it's gonna be a great podcast but before we get into the
1:59.5	podcast I have to tell you that this morning I did something that I'm not proud of.
2:03.4	So this morning I woke up I was like I'm going to do some work but I was really tired I was still in bed and
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