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Nerdette

Jessi Klein on her nerd origin story, Inside Amy Schumer and horses

Nerdette

WBEZ

Tv & Film, Self, Nerd, Books, Technology, Tv, Improvement, Culture, Wbez, Society & Culture, Pop, Nerdette, Nerds

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Emmy nominee Jessi Klein, a stand up comedian and head writer for Inside Amy Schumer, nerds out with Tricia and Greta about the Marx Brothers, Black Stallion and the fearlessly funny feminism of her sketch show.

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This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.

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Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.

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slash events.

0:13.6

I sleep on a food ton. I sleep on a futon. I've been using the same

0:21.3

Brita for three years. My roommate is a basis. You tell corporate

0:24.4

I'm not putting apple slices on my menu. What's next? No more chicken beaks and the everything. I'm Greta Johnson.

0:36.0

I'm Tricia Bobita.

0:37.0

And from W.BeeZ Chicago, this is Nurdette.

0:40.0

This week, Jesse Klein, head writer for the sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, tells us her nerd origin story.

0:45.8

I would not be interested in any way in meeting Brad Pitt, but meeting Popestones was such a big deal.

0:52.2

And what it was like to have a sketch from the show go viral with a beautiful

0:55.9

beautiful mockery of Aaron Sorkin. I wrote to you the letters came back.

1:00.1

Where have you been? I've worked my way up to being a GM of Aspar on Tel Aviv.

1:04.4

Then one day I'm stuffing Kuz Kuzkuz into a Cal zone and I realized a woman's life is worth

1:10.1

nothing unless she's making a great man greater.

1:13.0

Plus our take on the new HBO show The Leftovers and Your Nerd Confessions.

1:17.5

So I eventually became known as the girl who reads all the time.

1:22.6

Right here on Nurdette.

1:24.0

Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high.

1:29.7

Take a look, it's in a book a reading rainbow.

1:35.0

I'm Greta Johnson.

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