Bridget Everett on ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ Amy Schumer and More

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With her raucous cabaret act, Bridget Everett has never been shy about putting all of herself out there for audiences to enjoy. But in her semi-autobiographical HBO series ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ which just wrapped up its third and final season, she is laying herself bare emotionally on a whole new level. In this episode, Everett opens up about the real life trauma that helped inform her revelatory performance, what she learned about being “relatable” from a previous pilot that didn’t get picked up and shares what it was like to get back on stage for the first time in two years. She also shares hilarious stories about getting cast in the ‘Sex and the City’ movie, meeting her friend Amy Schumer for the first time and getting in the middle of an epic feud between Jerry Seinfeld and Bobcat Goldthwait.

This episode was originally published on February 8, 2022.

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0:00.0	This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:08.8	I hope everyone out there is having both a wonderful Christmas and a very happy first night of Hanukkah.
0:15.2	We do not have a new episode of The Last Laugh this week, but we do have something that I hope will warm your heart anyway.
0:21.5	My conversation from a couple of years ago with the one and only, Bridget Everett.
0:26.2	I have no idea how many people actually watch Bridget's HBO show, somebody somewhere,
0:31.9	but it just wrapped up its third and final season this month and was definitely one of the shows
0:37.0	I enjoyed watching most this year.
0:39.6	I'm not going to say it's a show that you should fall asleep to, but it might be the perfect
0:44.1	show to watch right before you go to sleep. There's something so beautiful and calming about the
0:50.0	world Bridget created for herself and her fellow performers in this little, often quite
0:55.0	sad comedy show, which takes place in Manhattan, Kansas, and I think has something genuinely
1:00.5	positive to say about living in America, which is not all that easy to come by these days.
1:06.2	So I hope you enjoy this conversation Bridget and I had in 2022 when the show's first season was
1:11.8	airing. And just to get everyone in the mood, let's listen now to the trailer for season three
1:18.1	of Somebody Somewhere.
1:22.1	French toast for the table? Absolutely. No, no, no. We're going to get the body moving.
1:26.8	All you need is a glove and a great attitude.
1:29.3	Well, I don't have either one of those.
1:31.3	I have a date.
1:33.3	I just poured you a glass of wine.
1:35.3	You can have it.
1:36.3	I don't like Pinocrisio.
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