All the World is Rollerblades with Marlena Rodriguez

Normal Gossip

Comedy

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week's episode features daddy issues, rollerblades, and comedian Marlena Rodriguez! Some of you will remember her from our Los Angeles live show. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to normal gossip. I'm Kelcina Kenny. In each episode of this
0:12.4	podcast we're going to bring you an anonymous
0:14.1	morsel of gossip from the real world. I am so excited to have with me today Marlena
0:19.4	Rodriguez Marlena hi! Oh bonsieur. It is a pleasure to have you here. Marlena Rodriguez is a first generation, Cuban Puerto Rican TV writer and comedian. She's written for Lord Miller's clone high, Tina Fay's Unbreakable Kimi Schmidt,
0:34.0	HBO, Silicon Valley, and much more.
0:36.0	Marlena performed stand-up around the world
0:38.0	and was named a comic to watch,
0:40.0	ooh, by Comedy Central.
0:42.0	And was one of the first Latinos to do a set on late night television.
0:45.2	What a beautiful bio!
0:46.7	What an honor. So here's a question I have for you which is you know the age old
0:50.8	mantra of comedy equals trauma plus time. Does gossip figure into that
0:55.8	equation at all for you? Like does gossip interact with the way that you come up
0:59.2	with jokes in any way? Well I will say that I am full of so much gossip I can't do anything with.
1:08.9	Like I'm under so many like showbiz friend dAs. I have never heard friend d. A so I would like to hear more about this please. Yeah, you know, friend d. A. It's happening in a lot of meetings that I'm having,
1:25.0	professional meetings.
1:28.0	I mean, I do think it brings us together, you know,
1:32.0	or it's like, can I tell you something and nobody's supposed to know in town?
1:37.3	Which means everybody knows it in town.
1:40.1	Yeah, because you're telling.
1:41.7	Yeah.
1:42.7	How gossipy is a town in your experience, the little town of Los Angeles.
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