Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives, and today I am with the one and only Judy Gold.

Judy was the first gay stand-up that I discovered back in the day.

She still regularly performs all over New York, as well as on tour.

Sandra Bernhardt has famously named her as her number one guest on her serious like

some show.

I first interviewed Judy over a decade ago when I was a writer, so I have loved her

forever.

Hi, Judy Gold.

Oh my God, I love you.

I love you.

But you know why that means so much to me?

You know, I had those people in my life, do you know what I mean?

And it's, and when you get to meet them and when you get to, and have a relationship

with them, and they're, they're good, they're not like, you know, like I never wanted

to meet Barbara Streisand because I don't want anything to change, you know what I mean?

Totally.

But the fact that, you know, I was doing, I was working my ass off and you were a little

kid and you were like, oh, I could do that.

You know, like I had people in my life that were like, made me think, I could do that.

Who did you idolize, like who were your people?

Well, I loved Joan Rivers was like my comedy mother, like I feel like it was

divine intervention that she died when she died, because first of all, she was at, she

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