Comedian Jena Friedman - American politics, online trolls and edgelords

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Jena Friedman about being a Jewish woman making political comedy in Trump’s America, getting into comedy through writing an anthropology paper, improv, dealing with online trolls, the history of abortion in the USA and introducing edgelords to feminism in her TV show Soft Focus.

Trigger warning – Trump, abortion, state violence, nazis, white supremacists, inherited trauma, imposter syndrome, Woody Allen, cults, death, trauma, online abuse, death threats, racism, segregation, rape, incest, ectopic pregnancy, Hitler, sexual assault, guns, mental health issues, police brutality, therapy, OCD

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

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Produced by Dave Pickering

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0:00.0	We virtually harassed male gamers, but we did it in such a way that we got consent. The door was unlocked. We made sure they felt safe. I actually approached every single subject as if they had trauma before coming in.
0:12.1	So I wanted to be respectful
0:13.8	while fucking with them in a very sweet way.
0:16.3	You are listening to Made of Human,
0:19.0	also known as the Mopard,
0:21.5	a podcast hosted by Sophie Fagan who is a Danish comedian
0:27.0	Mow. Trying to find out how to do life? Mopah.
0:34.0	But it turns out.
0:36.0	Nobody knows Mopah.
0:40.0	It's
0:42.0	Mopah. It's Jenna Friedman on the podcast. You, I was going to say you know her, you love her. I assume you do.
0:52.0	It's one of the first things I said so
0:54.8	Jenna was you're famous right because in my head she is but also I don't know
1:02.2	anything right like I have no frame of reference, so I don't know if you know Janet Friedman. What I'm saying is, you probably should know Janet Friedman. You should come and see his shows. You should check her out online. She's very, very bright, and I am sure and very hopeful that you will love this episode with her.
1:20.0	Now, just before I let you listen to that that I want to remind you that I'm going to the
1:25.2	Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a brand new show called The Bumswing and the Bumswing is about
1:30.3	memory and bums and it's probably the show I've don't think I've ever been
1:36.1	happy with the show than with this one I'm just so excited to do it and yeah I'm
1:41.2	really excited for you to see it so come and see it and I will also probably be taking it on tour.
1:48.0	So sign up for my new setter to find out where I'm going to be going with that after the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
1:54.1	Also I got secret dinosaur cult. Secret dinosaur cult is my other
1:59.4	podcast and I'm so proud of it and it's a live comedy podcast that I do with Jody Mitchell
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