Interview: Audie Cornish on 'She's Funny'

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Audie Cornish sits down with Sam Sanders to discuss her She's Funny series: conversations with female comedians Hannah Gadsby, Margaret Cho, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jenny Slate and others. In a series of vignettes, Audie and Sam discuss how these women charged forward in their careers and what risks they've taken through the years. Plus, Audie's extended conversation with comedian Jenny Slate on what the culture is really like at Saturday Night Live.

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0:00.0	Listeners, this episode we're gonna give you another side of a voice of a person.
0:05.7	You probably think you already know very well.
0:08.4	What would the first joke in the Audi Cornish comedy special be?
0:14.1	You thought about this before.
0:15.4	Oh no.
0:16.2	It's usually something like,
0:18.7	uh, hey, you don't look like what I thought either.
0:22.3	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
0:25.9	Works every time.
0:27.3	Yes, that is the Audi Cornish, one of the hosts of NPR's,
0:30.8	all things considered.
0:32.5	She is my guest today and she is talking comedy.
0:36.2	What would the name of the Audi Cornish comedy special be?
0:40.6	Oh, um, not safe for work with Audi Cornish.
0:43.4	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
0:45.1	From NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.
0:47.0	It's been a minute.
0:48.3	For the last few months,
0:54.2	Audi has been interviewing some really amazing and funny women
0:58.2	for a very special NPR series called She's Funny.
1:01.9	For this series,
1:03.0	Audi interviewed Margaret Cho,
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