Fortune Feimster Has Arrived
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Stand-up comedian Fortune Feimster made her TV debut 10 years ago on ‘Last Comic Standing.’ This week, her first-ever hour-long special ‘Sweet & Salty’ lands on Netflix. In this episode, Feimster talks about finding the comedy in her unique life story as a “tomboy” growing up in a small North Carolina town who didn’t realize she was gay until arriving in Los Angeles after college. She also shares stories about auditioning for SNL and finding mainstream success on ‘Chelsea Lately,’ ‘The Mindy Project’ and as the “female Homer” on ‘The Simpsons.’
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| 0:00.0 | Now I was considered to be a tomboy back then, |
| 0:04.0 | which was a more appropriate term for future lesbian. |
| 0:10.0 | As my mom would say, it's a phase. |
| 0:13.0 | It is a phase. |
| 0:15.0 | She is gonna grow out of those umbrose. |
| 0:18.0 | I just know it. |
| 0:20.0 | It is a phase. Turns out it wasn't a phase, |
| 0:30.0 | and Fortune Feemster is here to tell us all about it. It's the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein |
| 0:35.0 | from The Daily Beast. Today on the show, I am joined by the hilarious stand-up comedian and all-around wonderful |
| 0:42.3 | person, Fortune Feinster. |
| 0:44.9 | You may recognize Fortune from Last Comic Standing, Chelsea Lately, or The Mindy Project, |
| 0:50.7 | but today marks a huge milestone in her comedy career. |
| 0:55.1 | That's because her first ever hour-long stand-up special is now streaming on Netflix. |
| 1:01.2 | It's called Sweet and Salty and contains some of the most personal material she's ever performed |
| 1:07.0 | about growing up as a, quote, tomboy in a small North Carolina town and eventually coming out of |
| 1:12.8 | the closet to the world and to herself when she moved to L.A. after college. If you like this podcast, |
| 1:19.9 | please leave a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and let us know what you think. Maybe you enjoyed |
| 1:25.5 | last week's episode with Michael Schur and just want to tell |
| 1:28.1 | me how great it was. You can also go to rate thispodcast.com slash laugh to rate this podcast |
| 1:34.5 | wherever you listen. All right. Here's me with Fortune Feimster. I love that. That's awesome. So yeah, |
| 1:41.9 | I mean, congrats. It's your first uh hour long special right thank you yeah |
| 1:45.6 | i've done two half hours and this was my first full hours so i'd been when i got asked to do the |
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