Episode 145 - Whitney Cummings

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We're back, with Whitney Cummings! She starts off with some personal thoughts about love, then discusses her self-perception, being so-called "mainstream", seeking validation as a comedian and person, dealing with self-deprecation, reflecting on high school insights and growing up in a chaotic home that brought her closer to comedy, which led to college success and growth in her field, finding work in Los Angeles, flourishing as a woman in comedy, gaining the lessons she learned in her 20s, facing criticism in the New York Times, navigating show-running and real life, discovering the comfort of stand-up comedy as well as what exactly women are thinking, and finally...finding a voice and loving it.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. Being good at comedy was really hard for me because to be a good comic you really have to
0:18.8	master a lot of your demons and that was the hardest part.
0:21.8	Getting on stage, writing jokes like that was the easy part. Getting on stage, writing jokes,
0:22.8	like that was the easy part for me.
0:24.4	But I realized I really had to be able to be authentic,
0:27.4	be able to like make eye contact with people.
0:29.2	Like shit that I just like never got,
0:31.6	shit that I never learned, I had to like pick an opinion.
0:35.1	Like so, you know, my shit was so much like, oh, you're into punk rock?
0:41.2	I'm into punk rock.
0:42.0	You're into country music. I'm in a country. I was like a shapeshifter just because I wanted people to like me so badly but that doesn't work in comedy.
0:47.3	You have to have a really specific opinion. You have to say what you mean. You have to mean what you say and you have to be okay with people disagreeing with you
0:54.0	you have to want people to laugh at you but you can't need people to like you
0:59.6	that was Whitney Cummings I'm San Sam Fregoso, and this is Talk Easy.
1:05.7	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. I'm Sam Fregoso. This is Talk Easy and we've been on hiatus for the past month, but we are back and every Sunday morning from now through I believe Christmas
1:46.4	There may be one week on for Thanksgiving or something, but I think until Christmas
1:51.4	We will have a new episode for you every Sunday morning so if you
1:57.4	like this show or if you're listening for the first time please come back and check out who we have on. So many good people have decided to sit down
2:08.9	with me. A short list includes Peter Bogdanovich Justin Simian Gloria Steinem, Laura Dern
2:16.4	there's other people too. Wesley Morris so many wonderful talented talented, smart, interesting folks.
2:26.0	So if any of those people sound a little bit interesting to you,
2:31.0	be sure to come back.
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