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One Bad Mother

Episode 539: It's So Funny It Hurts, with Zoe Friedman

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The healing power of laughter is wonderful, but somebody's gotta pay those bills. Comedy Gives Back co-founder Zoe Friedman sits down with Biz to talk about the mysteries of male puberty, parent/child friend boundaries, and how comedy can change the world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Biz and this is the final season of One Bad Mother.

0:04.6

So join us this last year as we remember to Judge Less,

0:08.8

laugh more, and celebrate all the OBS who have been on this journey with us.

0:14.7

This is still a show about life after giving life,

0:17.6

and yes, there will be swears.

0:20.6

This is one bad mother.

0:26.0

This week on one bad mother, it's so funny it hurts.

0:30.0

Too bad you don't have insurance.

0:31.0

Zoe Friedman from comedy gives Back joins to talk about the

0:35.5

benefits of benefits. Welcome, Zoe.

0:40.8

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to be here. All right, before we get going though, and we've already gone, so we're winning. Zoe, who lives in your house?

0:52.0

Currently in my house is my husband Steve, my son Gibson

0:56.6

who's 19 and two dogs, an old gal named Pepsi and a pandemic puppy who is now four named Molly Lama.

1:07.0

And yeah, if you asked me a year ago who lived in my house, my answer would be very like my mother lived in my

1:13.7

guest house. Like my life was a whole, the last year has been a very different

1:18.1

phase of life for me as a parent and a child, it's been wild.

1:23.3

So it's been quiet.

1:24.5

I'm a Perry empty nester, I guess.

1:26.5

Not quite empty nester.

1:28.4

I can relate.

1:29.3

My mother, we got my parents out here, God, just after the pandemic had, you know, been in it for like about a year.

1:38.0

And then, yep, a lot of what they like to call sandwich generationing.

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