Amanda Seales's Catcalling

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Seales does a lot. Besides being an actress, poet, musician, DJ, lecturer and activist, she's also a great comedian. Jesse and Amanda talk about her natural progression into comedy after being a prominent figure in all other forms of media, and a joke about catcalling from her 2019 HBO special I Be Knowin'. While the joke itself stems directly from Amanda's experience, it took shape after her appearance on a CNN panel in which a white male panelist asserted that catcalling is a compliment. Jesse looks at the differences between the joke as it appears on her special and the version in her Late Night with Seth Meyers appearance, highlighting Amanda's ability to adjust her material on the fly. Follow Amanda on Twitter, and catch her on her Smart Funny & Black Tour this summer, and check Also included: Amanda's first-ever time performing comedy on-stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast. Hello, I am Volcher Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. And welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes.
0:21.0	Each episode a comedian comes on to play and talk about
0:24.0	one of their jokes. This week's guest is Amanda Seals so you can see this summer
0:28.0	live on her Smart Funny and Black tour and she picked her joke about cat calling from her recent HBO special, I be known.
0:35.0	Of the things she be known is herself.
0:37.4	I say that because, compared to most guests on the podcast, Amanda has relatively less
0:42.1	stand-up experience. By time she filmed her special
0:44.7	she had only been doing stand-up for about five years or so. That said, you
0:48.2	wouldn't be able to tell that from the Confidence Seals displays on stage and in
0:51.8	her writing. Amanda likes to say she's not for everyone. Now she writes with
0:56.1	intention and purpose. This is because of Amanda's many varied successes in poetry,
1:00.8	hosting, acting, and Music
1:02.8	before she ever tried Stand Up.
1:04.8	Amanda spent the early part of a career
1:06.4	or finding exactly who she was as an artist.
1:09.0	Just took finding Stand Up until she had an art form
1:11.1	where she could properly express exactly who that was.
1:14.8	So here is Amanda Seals.
1:20.6	We're dealing with real things.
1:25.0	Women are still dealing with cat calling.
1:27.0	Why? Has it ever been proven effective?
1:30.0	No.
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