Author Samantha Irby Wants To Put Normal On TV
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Samantha Irby released her third book, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, this year, but it’s her first collection of essays that is being turned into a TV show. Last year, FX bought the rights to Meaty, Irby’s first collection of essays. Now Irby, who grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago, is working with Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Inside Amy Schumer’s Jessi Klein to write for television for the first time. For Irby, almost everything is on the table when it comes to her work — whether it’s body image, digestive issues, or applying for The Bachelorette.
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| 0:36.3 | And I'm Trisha Bobita. |
| 0:38.3 | And this week we're talking to one of my very favorites of all the people, author Samantha Irby. For those of you who already know her, you probably |
| 0:43.6 | will not be surprised that this conversation is a bit PG-13, maybe even kind of R-ish. There's a lot of |
| 0:48.7 | adulting and sex things and poop things. So if you have youths in the area, just, you know, beware. Beware if there are youthful ears, but keep listening otherwise because this conversation maybe is |
| 0:59.3 | going to make you cry laugh or laugh cry, which is also the experience of reading Sam Irby's |
| 1:03.4 | blog, Bitch's Got to Eat, which she's been doing for eight years. |
| 1:06.3 | From detailed stories of her many bouts of unexpected diarrhea, To dedicating her book to the drug clonopin. |
| 1:12.6 | To dubbing herself a champion masturbator. |
| 1:15.6 | There's maybe nothing that Sam won't talk about and is able to make funny. |
| 1:19.7 | Sam's the author of two essay collections. |
| 1:21.5 | Her first one, Meaty, is now in the process of becoming a TV show. |
| 1:25.4 | And she's working on it with two pretty amazing women. Abby Jacobson |
| 1:28.8 | from Broad City and Jesse Klein from Inside Amy Schumer are both going to be a part of making the show |
| 1:33.7 | that's kind of about Sam's life, but turned into a TV show. We can't wait to talk more about that. |
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