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Happy To Be Here

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

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

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

4.6924 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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0:00.0

I sleep on a futon. I've been using the same breader for three years. My roommate is a basis.

0:08.5

You tell corporate I'm not putting apple slices on my menu.

0:13.8

What's next? No more chicken beaks in the everything?

0:19.6

I'm Greta Johnson.

0:21.7

I'm Trisha Bobita.

0:24.9

And from WBeeZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

0:30.6

This week, Jesse Klein, head writer for the sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, tells us her nerd origin story. I would not be interested in any way in meeting Brad Pitt, but meeting Paul Poundstone was such a big deal.

0:37.3

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

0:41.4

mockery of Aaron Sorkin.

0:43.2

I wrote to you. The letters came back. Where have you been?

0:46.8

I worked my way up to being a GM of Asparo in Tel Aviv.

0:50.1

Then one day I'm stuffing cuss-cus into a calzone, and I realized a woman's life is worth nothing

0:55.6

unless she's making a great man greater.

0:58.1

Plus, our take on the new HBO show The Leftovers and your nerd confessions.

1:02.6

So I eventually became known as the girl who's used all the time.

1:07.5

Right here on nerdette.

1:08.7

Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high. Take Right here on Nerdette.

1:21.6

I'm Greta. I'm Greta Johnson.

1:24.0

And I'm Trisha Bobita.

1:25.1

This week on Nerdette, we talk with Jesse Klein.

1:27.6

Some of you super NPR nerds may know Jesse as a frequent panelist on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

1:32.3

But she also just got an Emmy nomination for her work on Inside Amy Schumer. You have willingly

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