BOBBYCAST - Heather McMahan on Meeting Joan Rivers, Doing IVF Wrong & Shooting Her Shot with Jeff Foxworthy
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Comedian & actress Heather McMahan joins Bobby to talk about building a comedy career by trusting her instincts, finding material in real life, and why her husband has become one of her best sources of inspiration. She shares the story of sending a DVD to Jeff Foxworthy, what it was like meeting her hero Joan Rivers, and how those early comedy moments helped shape the performer she is now. Heather also opens up about the chaos of doing IVF wrong twice, talking about fertility on stage, life on tour, comedy cruises, and learning when to finally take a break.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.7 | I had a nurse DM me. |
| 0:12.5 | She said that in her clinic, |
| 0:14.2 | they have a problem with older men. |
| 0:15.9 | They will come in. |
| 0:17.3 | And instead of giving their proper sample in a cup, |
| 0:20.2 | they will spit in the cup instead. |
| 0:24.0 | All right, today's guest is Heather McMahon, comedian, actress, the host of the podcast, |
| 0:30.8 | absolutely not. She blew up on Instagram after moving back home in Atlanta. We talk about this |
| 0:36.6 | in just a second. You're going to hear the whole story. A very tough time in her life. And that turned into a lot of what she is now, and she is massive. When I told my friends, she was coming up to do this podcast, all of them wanted to come and sit in. And you know what? They all did. Turn the camera. Okay, we can't turn the camera, but they're all here. |
| 0:55.6 | Heather McMahon's here. Go see her tour. It's the bamboozled tour right now. And she has a cruise coming, which we talk about. Tickets, HeatheronTor.com. Here she is. The reason that everybody's in the studio right now, the very funny, Heather McMahon. Heather, great to meet you. |
| 1:10.9 | Hey, lovely to meet you. |
| 1:12.3 | My wife sent me with information. |
| 1:14.9 | Yes. right now, the very funny Heather McMahon. Heather, great to meet you. |
| 1:29.4 | Hey, lovely to meet you. My wife sent me with information. Yeah. I've listened to your podcast a lot through my wife. Yeah. Which is probably how a lot of dudes hear you, right? Yeah, they're laying in bed at night, and they're, like, trying to get some love and attention from their wives, and they just hear my voice over and over again. So they either have like a love-hate relationship with me. |
| 1:29.3 | And then they'll like come to a show and they from their wives, and they just hear my voice over and over again. So they either have like a love-hate relationship with me, and then they'll like come to a show, and they'll act like they don't want to come, and then they're there, and they have a blast, and then they're the ones hanging out afterwards at the meet and greet being like, hey, can I just get some solo photos? And you're like, yeah, Rick, I knew you liked me. Yeah, but I love that that is the gentle entrance for a lot of men into my comedy is, you know, through their spouses. And that's a beautiful thing. Well, my wife says, tell her that my wife and I went to Italy for the first time a few years ago. We've been a couple times since. And she didn't say it was you at first. She goes, hey, we got a recommendation to go to this restaurant. Okay. And I was like, great. |
| 2:01.0 | So it's a place called Perron. |
| 2:02.7 | Perione. |
| 2:03.3 | Yeah, that's what it is. |
| 2:04.1 | Treacheria Perione. |
| 2:05.1 | Shout out. |
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