Anna Akana warns us It Gets Darker

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

US comedian Anna Akana’s tagline might as well be ‘hello darkness my old friend’, because she travels into some pretty dark places for her comedy. This included talking about the stalker who hounded her so much she gave up standup for years, her sister’s suicide 17 years ago, and that time her dad ran off to fight in Ukraine. In this episode, she chats to our Mick about making that shit funny, her commitment to expanding how we talk about taboo topics and mental health, and making her UK debut with her aptly titled show, It Gets Darker, which you can catch at the Edinburgh Fringe and then London’s Leicester Square Theatre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Standard issue for all women.
0:10.0	Oh hey, hey, I'm... Standard Issue for all women.
0:14.0	Oh hey, hey, a warm welcome to the Monday interview.
0:17.5	It's Mickey, and Wave in.
0:19.5	Before I tell you about what's occurring in this episode,
0:22.0	let me give you some
0:23.0	info on what our goodness you can expect from the rest of the week.
0:26.7	Tomorrow Hannah is chatting to actor, writer and former standup turned current
0:31.2	stand up Juliet Cowan about getting back behind the mic stand
0:34.5	after 25 years, as well as some TV classics like This Life, Back to Life and Pulling.
0:40.7	Props to Hannah as ever for not making every interview she does about pulling.
0:45.0	On Wednesday the karate kid gets the rated or dated treatment I'll be doing the stalked
0:49.5	post throughout a recording so listening out for that.
0:52.3	We're having a little break from the news so no BT next Thursday,
0:56.0	but on Friday it is what it is is school and that sport is modern pent-ath bomb
1:01.0	because yes we are obsessed and Jen's chatting to 2024 European Champion an Olympic
1:06.4	Hopeful Kerensa Bryson. Jen will be riding a horse while fencing throughout that recording so do listen out for that.
1:13.0	Back to this here episode in which I had an excellent netter with US comedian and actress Anna O'Connor
1:19.0	who's about to make her UK debut with a whole month at the Edinburgh Fringe, followed by a couple of dates at
1:24.4	Leicester Square Theatre London. Now Anna's tagmine might as well be,
1:28.1	Hello Darkness, my old friend, because she
1:33.7	travels into some pretty dark places for her comedy,
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