E371. The Dark Queen of Comedy - Adrienne Iapalucci

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Original Air Date - November 16, 2024 The Dark Queen, Adrienne Iapalucci joins Bridget for a hilarious conversation about having a love-hate relationship with comedy, constantly contemplating quitting, being fearless when tackling controversial topics, the inability to be a conventional employee, and why Adrienne loves pissing people off. They cover drug escapades, allowing politics to divide families, being “white lady nuts,” career aspirations, and how her new comedy special The Dark ...

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0:00.0	All right, I'm with Adrian Appalucci, everybody. The Dark Queen. Welcome to Watkins. Welcome. Back to
0:05.6	walk in. Yes. Thank you for having me. Hey, this is actually, hey, you're like, she's coming now. We'll have a lot of energy.
0:12.7	What is happening? You, the last time we talked, we're going to quit comedy. I'm still going to quit comedy. Nothing has changed. I know.
0:21.0	It doesn't change for me.
0:21.9	You actually give up the vibe on stage. You might quit in the middle of your set. Sure. Almost every time I'm on stage, I tell an audience, I'm like, I'm never coming back here. I say that to every. And it's like a joke, but also I'm like, maybe I won't. Somebody actually in my mentions when I posted something about, no, I posted that I was doing comedy with you. And I don't know if they knew your joke about Peoria or if they were just saying you should come to this comedy club. And it was very funny. That is very funny. I'm not sure if you know how Adrian feels about
0:54.4	I don't hate you. I don't know. But I was just like I remember when I went there,
0:58.5	they were like, this is a dangerous city. And I'm like, I live in New York City. This is nothing.
1:02.0	Yeah. So we were locked down when we spoke last. Yes. Yeah. You were in a pandemic. Yeah.
1:09.9	You weren't sure. You were you were talking about how you'd been doing comedy for a long time and you were like, I think I'm just done. Yeah, I think I'm still just done. And I tried to talk you back into staying in comedy and now here. I'll never quit. Like, it's just like a dysfunctional part of my life. But I've just been in dysfunction my whole life.
1:29.5	It just seems normal.
1:30.3	Like most people that start stand up and if they're like adjusted in reality, well,
1:35.3	they'll quit.
1:36.8	Do you know what I mean?
1:37.5	Like I just keep going because I'm like, this reminds me in my childhood.
1:41.1	It's like not a good situation.
1:42.9	Do you love it? I think I love it like my family. It's like not a good situation. Do you love it?
1:45.4	I think I love it like my family.
1:47.0	Like it's part, like I love them, but I also hate them.
1:50.1	Yeah.
1:50.4	You know, I think it's kind of similar.
1:52.8	I mean, I can't imagine not doing it.
1:55.0	No, I think the longest I went was during the pandemic.
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