Catching Up with Catherine Cohen

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Unless you're an essential worker, chances are your work travel has slowed down a lot recently. For comedian and actress Catherine Cohen, the world on pause has meant postponing her upcoming tour in Australia and swapping her weekly show Cabernet Cabaret, at New York City's Club Cumming, for Instagram live performances streamed out of the Berkshires cabin she's currently self-isolating at. We caught up with Cohen to find out what it's like to be a performer who, well, suddenly can't perform like she used to, why solo travel isn't for her, and all the places she misses in New York City. Plus, she shouts out a few of the comedy venues around the U.S. that need our support—and the women in comedy to watch right now.

And while we have you, we have some exciting news: The Women Who Travel platform is nominated for a Webby award! The People's Voice vote is now open, so head here by May 7 to vote. We'd love your support.

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0:00.0	Hi, Lale here. Before we kick off this week's episode, I wanted to announce some pretty big news.
0:06.0	The Women Who Travel Platform is nominated for a Webby Award. From our meetups and Facebook group
0:10.9	to online features and this very podcast, none of it would have happened without you, our
0:15.6	incredible community, and we'd love it if you could take two minutes to vote for us in the
0:20.2	lifestyle category.
0:21.7	The people's voice vote is now open and you have until May 7th to vote.
0:26.3	Just check this episode's show notes for the link.
0:28.9	Thanks so much.
0:34.1	Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condinas Traveler.
0:37.5	I'm Lale Aricogdu and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey.
0:42.3	Hi everyone!
0:43.3	This week we're chatting with comedian and actress Catherine Cohen, who, when she's not performing all over the US, can usually be found hosting her weekly show, Cabinet Cabaret, at New York City's Club Coming in the East Village.
0:55.3	Of course, she's holed up at home like the rest of us right now. But that hasn't stopped
0:59.1	her from live streaming her performances on Instagram Live to help us get through our
1:02.6	quarantines. Thank you for joining us. Oh my God. What an intro. I'm honored to join you.
1:10.7	Oh my God, we're honored to have you on.
1:13.1	When we first decided that we wanted to get you on the podcast, it was because we were fascinated
1:18.5	with what life as a touring comedian must be like, but obviously, like Lale said, you know,
1:24.5	staying at home means that events like comedy shows are kind of on hold, obviously
1:30.8	taking a new form. How have you been adjusting to living in quarantine?
1:36.5	Yeah. I mean, my life is so, so glamorous normally. No, obviously this sucks so bad i'm in psychic pain um i'm literally so
1:50.4	extroverted i'm dying to get in front of a crowd so because i'm addicted to attention i've
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