Forum From the Archives: Tiffany Haddish Wants to ‘Curse You With Joy’

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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You may know actor and stand-up comedian Tiffany Haddish best for her riotous performance in the 2017 film "Girls Trip." Or for her Emmy Award-winning turn as host of Saturday Night Live...or for her voicework in “The Lego Movie 2” and other animated films. But her successes came hard-won against a backdrop of childhood trauma and mental health challenges. “I know what it feels like to hurt and what it feels like to see other people hurt,” she writes in her new memoir "I Curse You with Joy." We talk to Haddish about her career, her life and what's bringing her joy right now. Guest: Tiffany Haddish, author, "I Curse You with Joy"; stand-up comedian; actress, "Girls Trip," "Night School," "Nobody's Fool" and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.6	... ... From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.
0:52.3	Coming up on forum, Tiffany Haddish, actor, comedian, author, has a new
0:56.5	collection of essays called I Curse You With Joy, and ever since her breakout role on the 2017
1:01.6	film Girl's Trip, Haddish has been on a journey, with the highs and lows of fame, processing the
1:06.9	traumas of her childhood. I chew up my pain and bring it into me, she says,
1:11.5	so I can metabolize it and spit it out funny.
1:14.4	I turn my pain into other people's joy,
1:16.9	and that brings me joy.
1:18.8	We'll listen back to my May conversation with Haddish
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