E345. Comedy Store Chaos - Eleanor Kerrigan’s Insider Stories

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Walk-Ins Welcome 345 Comedian Eleanor Kerrigan joins Bridget for a hilarious conversation covering how her dreams of being an actor led to an unexpected wrestling stint, a West Wing mixup, and the one woman show that led her to realize her true calling is comedy. She dishes on behind-the-scenes stories from over a decade running the iconic Comedy Store, being a caretaker for legendary owner Mitzi Shore, epic Pauly Shore parties, and blackout rages. They cover surviving tragedy, why ther...

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0:00.0	I'm with Eleanor Kerrigan, everybody. Welcome to Walkins, welcome.
0:03.6	That's my fake early morning. I love that it's like almost noon and you're like, it's early
0:09.7	morning. Disgusting. Somebody asked me if I wanted to go for a bike ride. They're like,
0:13.5	we could be wheels down at 8 a.m. I go, you could be fucking dead by 8.15. Are you shit
0:19.6	me?
0:20.4	8 a.m. Wheels down wheels down yeah that was fucking violent
0:23.9	that fucking killed me when he said that I was dying great guy I'll be wheels down with him on
0:29.9	Thursday at 8 a.m. No fucking way it's because it's so hot here yeah they're like yeah you got to get
0:36.9	done by noon.
0:37.6	I'm like, yeah, I got you.
0:38.6	I'm fine.
0:39.3	But I don't mind the heat.
0:40.7	Yeah.
0:41.3	I love the heat.
0:42.2	Is that sick? Even the Texas heat? Yep. Okay. I don't mind it either. Like, I did like a six-mile walk yesterday and people are like, are you crazy? And I'm like, why?
0:50.8	But I did it at 3 a.m.
0:52.4	I mean, 3 p.m.
0:53.4	Oh, okay.
0:54.1	Yeah, that's pretty hot.
0:55.1	Yeah, I enjoy it.
0:56.6	It's interesting.
0:57.8	Like, when I moved here from L.A., people were like, it's so hot. And I'm like, it is and isn't. It's a little bit like the valley weather sometimes. It's more humid. Yeah, I was going to say it's real dry in the valley. Yeah. Because it's boring. But it's the first summer we moved here because it is boring. I hate the valley. I'll shit on it
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