For the Love of Funny: It’s Funny Where Life Takes Us Sometimes: Anjelah Johnson-Reyes
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast
Jen Hatmaker
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s so fun when we get to have guests back on the show that we love, but it’s especially fun when we get to catch up after we haven’t talked to them for awhile! This guest joined us in the very first year of our show in the For the Love of Laughter series, and she was fire then, and she’s fire now, 5 years later. We’re talking about the amazingly talented and hilarious Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, one of our favorite comedians in the whole wide world! You know her from her awesome Nail Salon comedy sketch, which launched her career, or as her character from MadTV, Bon Qui Qui, and from her amazing comedy specials. When Anjelah was with us last time, she shared that she and her husband had chosen to pursue their careers to the fullest and had made the very personal decision to not have kids. But it’s funny what can change in five years, and Anjelah is now the proud mom of 3 month old Rosie Harlow Reyes. She shares what led to the decision to have a baby, what she’s learned in this season - which she also candidly shares on her YouTube channel via a series of videos called Postpartum Confessions. Whether she’s on stage doing comedy, acting on TV and in movies, or hosting podcasts with her husband Manny, Anjelah gives a great perspective on how life can take us where we least expect to go, and how we can laugh about it a little along the way.
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Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
Anjelah’s Latest Special at the Ryman in Nashville
Who Do I Think I Am: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams by Anjelah Johnson
Anjelah’s Podcasts Including Manjelah
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. This is Jen Hat. Make sure you're |
| 0:06.2 | comes to the For The Love podcast. Welcome to the show. Oh, you're going to get a nice |
| 0:10.4 | surprise today. We're in a series called For The Love of Funny. And today's guest is |
| 0:16.1 | really like one of my favorite people, like one of my favorite people, Korean, certainly |
| 0:20.6 | one of my favorite people to follow. She's doing this actually in the very first year |
| 0:25.5 | of our show when we had a similar series called For The Love of Us Blaster. And she was |
| 0:31.0 | fire then and she's fire now. And so we became friends on that show. That's how I made |
| 0:36.5 | her my friends. And they have kept up with each other ever since. And I just am so happy |
| 0:42.2 | that she's back on. And this whole interview is so special and so different than what |
| 0:46.9 | I expected to really let us into her story today because today I'm talking of course |
| 0:51.2 | about the phenomenal Angela Johnson Reyes, one of our favorite comedians in the whole |
| 0:57.3 | way world. So you know her probably initially from her awesome nails to long comedy sketch. |
| 1:03.3 | That was what said her viral and really like one short career. And her character on |
| 1:09.2 | that TV, her amazing comedy specials. Maybe you've seen her on tour. So five years ago, |
| 1:16.0 | life was a lot different for her. Well from both of us frankly, I was married. Nobody |
| 1:21.6 | ever heard of childhood. Angela was just six years into her marriage. Her career was |
| 1:25.9 | like a red hot. And she and her husband Manuel had just decided we're not going to have |
| 1:34.7 | kids. We're we're career folks. And we're just going to be married forever without kids. |
| 1:40.0 | And then she wrote a bunch of sets around that. And then thinking about what life was |
| 1:43.4 | to pass sometimes doesn't it pandemics happen and marriages and and babies get born. |
| 1:49.0 | Angela had a baby this year. We're going to talk all about this really all about it. Her |
| 1:53.2 | baby Rosie, Harlow, Reyes, just turned three month last week. It is a whole story, which |
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