Beth Stelling Goes Full ‘Girl Daddy’

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Beth Stelling may have been the very last stand-up comedian to tape a special before the country shut down. Performed on March 7th, 2020 and released this past month on HBO Max, ‘Girl Daddy’ is Beth’s debut hour-long special and we should all be grateful she got it in under the wire. In this episode, we talk about how her own experience with sexual violence helped fuel some of the funniest #MeToo jokes ever committed to film and why she’s sick of answering for comedy’s male predators. Beth also talks about writing with past ‘Last Laugh’ guests Sarah Silverman and Pete Holmes, the experience of watching Richard Pryor for the first time during quarantine and why she is in no rush to get back on stage anytime soon.

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0:00.0	My guest this week is really sick of being called a female comic.
0:05.7	Thank you. It's so good to be here.
0:08.5	I've been traveling around the country, telling jokes, drinking white wine.
0:13.7	So I have no idea how many kids I have out there.
0:22.6	No clue. And I don't keep an address for that reason, so...
0:25.6	I'll never find me.
0:31.6	This is The Last Laugh.
0:33.6	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast,
0:36.6	and I am so excited that my guest today is the
0:39.5	hilarious stand-up comedian Beth Stelling. Over the past several years, Beth has appeared multiple
0:46.5	times on Conan and Jimmy Kimmel Live. She was part of the original crew of comedians to land a half-hour
0:53.1	special as part of Netflix's
0:55.1	The Stand-Ups.
0:56.8	Now she has her first ever hour-long special on HBO Max called Girl Daddy, and it is so good.
1:05.8	I think you are going to really enjoy this conversation, so let's get to it.
1:10.6	Here's me with the very funny Beth
1:13.0	Stellan. So we're talking today. Your special, as we talk, your special comes out tomorrow.
1:19.0	Yes. And when people hear this, it will already be out and they've probably already watched it like
1:23.8	six times and they press play at 1201 pst.
1:29.2	But how are you feeling with the special girl daddy about to drop on HBO Max?
1:33.9	I am really excited. I think there's nerves too. I think anytime you put yourself out there
1:38.6	and I think especially now it feels extra volatile. You know, even like like, comics are always, like, complaining about
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