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The JV Club with Janet Varney

Anna Fields

The JV Club with Janet Varney

Maximum Fun

Comedy Interviews, Jv, Arts, Maximumfun, Interview, Janet, Leisure, High School, Club, Varney, Comedy

51K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Episode 256 brings us author, documentarian and screenwriter (and a bunch of other great stuff) Anna Fields, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the history of women in comedy causes JV to ask her to create an online class… but for now you can settle for her wonderful book and upcoming documentary film, “The Girl in the Show.” Plus: Neuroscience! Constitutional Law! Mac and Cheese!

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0:00.0

Hey guys welcome to episode 256 of the podcast I hope you all enjoyed boys of summer as much as I did

0:07.9

I am very excited to head back into interviews with wonderful ladies, and I can't think of a better person

0:15.4

to start out with than Anna Fields.

0:17.9

You may not be aware of her in the

0:25.0

sense that she isn't a star of a television show,

0:23.6

but the reason that I think that she is such a great person

0:26.4

to ring back in the ladies with

0:29.6

is that she is working on multiple documentaries, already has a great book out called The Girl in the

0:38.9

Show and has done other projects prior to this that also are fantastic.

0:45.1

So the girl on the show, I won't, we talk about it a fair amount in the interview coming up

0:50.7

here in the conversation, but it is really giving kind of an amazing account of what it's like to be a woman in comedy.

0:57.8

So it just feels like Anna is our ambassador back into all ladies and so I hope you enjoy the

1:06.1

episode I think he will it's a nice longy and I think that's it for the time

1:10.6

being shadow-wise I just wanted to thank Hassan and

1:14.8

Surai for your emails and I will get caught up on some other shout out soon

1:18.3

but in the meantime I hope you are all having a wonderful September and I'll talk to you soon.

1:25.3

Now entering Nerdist.com. Oh, I don't know why I didn't just include that part when I was talking to you about

1:58.0

let me start with the intro where I say thanks for waiting while I went and put on deodorant that is a classy statement yeah it's

2:06.0

classy and that I did put on deodorant well it's classier than that before and you smell

2:10.2

nice now Anna thank. I also appreciate that like what someone was just teasing me about this like when I, when I,

2:20.6

when you're like when someone's like hey and they go into hug you and you say I'm really sweaty but and then they feel they have to continue with the hug even though they probably don't

2:29.6

Yeah, so they still do and then it's just like a sort of like, oh, why didn't, why did we do this?

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