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Ginny Hogan: Toxic Femininity & Zoloft

Berner Phone

Des Bishop

Stand-up, Comedy

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ginny is a comedy author and stand up. She shares with Hannah her creative process for writing articles, books, comedy, and tweet. She also opens up about her anxiety because, well, she's in hell.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/berninginhell/support

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0:00.0

I was like, wonder why I took like Zolloth like every one I know is on Zolloth and she was like,

0:03.3

is it working for them? And I was like, no, not really.

0:19.9

Okay, let's get to party started. What is up you guys? I am in the scary dark depths of hell.

0:25.9

It is a very, very hot one today. I am with comedian writer, Ginny Hogan, also tweetmaster flex.

0:35.1

Thank you so much. I'm so happy you've come to hell today. You're like one of those people I'm

0:40.7

excited to have on because I could tell already that you're smarter than me. You're a stand-up,

0:44.3

but you also write for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Cosmo, the Observer,

0:49.1

Forbes profile you as a rising satire star and you're also a top humorist of 2019. You also have

0:56.5

published a book of humorous essays called toxic femininity in the workplace and you have a lot

1:02.3

of projects coming up as well that you were writing for, but also I love talking about any kind

1:07.8

of toxicness in the workplace. And I did some research on you. Can you give us a brief background of

1:12.6

kind of like what you did, how you came into comedy, that spiel for me? Yeah, so I used to work in the

1:18.6

tech industry. I had this like really boring job where I had just like crunch numbers all day and

1:24.6

I started doing stand-up comedy because one of my bosses quit and then I like didn't have a new

1:28.9

team for like a month so I didn't have any work to do so I just was like writing jokes and I started

1:33.2

going to open my sense of Francisco and then from there I think kind of like spiral out of control

1:38.7

and I had like put my tech job within like a year because I was so burnt out. And then yeah,

1:42.7

it was like for you when you got burned out. Like 25, but the year that I did stand-up and worked in

1:48.1

tech, I like at some point my job kind of came back like I got a new boss and I was like just like

1:53.8

I just had these like insane hours because I was leaving work really early so I was getting to work

1:57.6

really early. And then I just kind of like decided I would crash my parents' house in New York

2:01.4

for a few months and then I stayed for like two years and just did comedy. I thought I would go

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