Actress Cameron Esposito - #MeToo, work ethic and the reality of podcasting
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to American comedian Cameron Esposito about reliving trauma for art, queer therapy, gender norms, being treated like a novelty, the democratisation of comedy, tweaking the google search results for 'rape jokes' with a one hour show, the #metoo movement, making sure the story stays with the survivor, knowing your creative strengths, work ethic, fusing art and business, extending the boundary of safety, marriage equality, editing ourselves, the reality of podcasting, Queery, being in a field where it's shameful to talk about money, feeling like you need to be tough, taking breaks and the many forms of self-care.
Trigger warning – sexual assault
Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus
Jingle by Bailey Lenart
Produced by Sarah Garvey
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| 0:00.0 | I think I get asked questions about the state of comedy, about other comics material, about men who do comedy, about men who have bad behavior. |
| 0:09.0 | I think that like dude comics just kind of get asked about their jokes. |
| 0:14.6 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:19.6 | We're all made of humans. You are listening to the Made of Human |
| 0:26.0 | You are listening to the Made of Human podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | My name is Sophie Hagen. I'm your host. |
| 0:30.0 | I am a stand-up comedian from Denmark and I currently live and work in the UK and if this is your first time listening |
| 0:37.1 | this is a podcast in which I speak to really |
| 0:40.8 | interesting and nice people about life. |
| 0:43.4 | Initially I wanted to find out how to do life |
| 0:46.2 | because I was unsure of how to do that. |
| 0:50.0 | And then I quickly found out that no one has any idea |
| 0:52.4 | and now we just kind of have a chat about how we cope |
| 0:56.2 | with not knowing how to do life. |
| 0:58.2 | That's what's happening. |
| 0:59.4 | And I loved speaking to Cameron. |
| 1:01.1 | And I will let you listen to the conversation in just a bit I have two |
| 1:04.9 | big announcements you've heard me if you follow me on any social media you know I've been going |
| 1:11.1 | on about this for a while. My brand new comedy |
| 1:14.8 | podcast is called Secret Dinosaur Cult. I am doing it with the |
| 1:20.4 | incredible former guest Jody Mitchell who is everyone's favorite she's incredible and I'm so proud of her I'm so happy working with her I've |
| 1:31.4 | never had this kind of relationship with someone on stage before. |
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