4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York, |
| 0:09.4 | its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello everybody, this is great, so fun. |
| 0:28.3 | Hi everybody, welcome to Ask Me Another, Happy Spring. |
| 0:32.3 | I know. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, cold season is ended or as I like to call it me time. |
| 0:39.3 | Right now we have four great contestants backstage. |
| 0:43.3 | They are admiring our new logo and then writing a tweet complaining about our new logo. |
| 0:50.3 | But one will become our big winner. |
| 0:53.3 | And actually we're celebrating Women in Comedy Month. |
| 0:57.3 | This is our Women in Comedy Month, that's right. |
| 1:00.3 | In April, here on Ask Me Another, it is Women in Comedy Month officially justifying my existence on this show. |
| 1:08.3 | And also, I mean people might think, isn't there a lot of equity in comedy at this point? |
| 1:15.3 | And if you feel that way, let me just tell you, you have never been to an open mic in New York City or perhaps anywhere. |
| 1:22.3 | I mean, do the smell alone of all of those unwashed Andrews could kill a woman, I'm just telling you. |
| 1:29.3 | So yeah, all month long, on Ask Me Another, we are going to have only women guests. |
| 1:33.3 | So, jokes on you guys, you'll just have to keep it in you being on everything else. |
| 1:42.3 | So on theme, our special guest today are actor Gretelie and writer and director Leslie Headlin from Russian Doll. |
| 1:51.3 | So, for the few of you that don't know, the premise of the show is that a woman dies over and over again on her 36th birthday. |
| 2:02.3 | Which is kind of what it's like to be a woman in entertainment or perhaps just a woman. |
| 2:08.3 | The premise is that a woman keeps dying over and over again on her 36th birthday or as our intern called it her 50th birthday. |
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