Kat Timpf: How Laughter Can Give You Power

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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You Can't Joke About That is Kat Timpf's new book details all of the topics that society deems untouchable, and why people need to start joking about things considered taboo. FOX News Contributor and Gutfeld! Panelist Kat Timpf joins to talk about how stand-up comedy shaped her life in the wake of her mother's death, and how laughter can help anyone through times of hardship. Later, Kat talks about her road to becoming a FOX News Contributor, from working as a cashier at Boston Market in Los Angeles to working in the field as a reporter for Barstool Sports. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.9	Welcome to the Untold Story podcast, everybody.
0:46.7	I'm super excited today because I have Kat Timp joining me,
0:48.9	and she has just written her first book,
0:52.2	which is such an exciting milestone for any of us.
1:02.3	And her book is called You Can't Joke About That, Why Everything is Funny, Nothing is Sacred, and We're All In This Together. She is swinging a microphone and sitting on a coffin. Yes.
1:11.5	In job of it. Hi, Kat. Hi. I'm great. I thank you so much for having me on. Well, I'm really excited about you. You know, I feel like everywhere I go now everyone goes,
1:16.7	oh, I love cat temp. And I'm like, yeah, her office is next to mine, but we have very different schedule. So we don't overlap all that much. But it's great to be with you. And I always try to
1:21.8	start these podcasts. It's called the untold story. And I try to stick to that. I'd love for you to tell us.
1:28.2	In the beginning of the book, you kind of talk about the lean days.
1:31.1	Yeah.
1:31.4	And I think that it would be great for people to hear a little bit about your beginnings in the business and what it was like for you.
1:39.5	Yeah, absolutely.
1:40.7	I mean, I was an intern, actually, at Fox News right out of college. And I write about this in my book that the plan. You went to Hillsdale. Yes, I went to Hillsdale. And so I had a fellowship where they would, you know, offer housing for two months, but then there was two weeks left in the internship. My plan as a 21 year old was I was going to use the housing stipend. And then for the last two weeks of my internship, I was going to move in with my college
2:03.4	boyfriend for just two weeks.
2:05.0	And then we were going to break up.
2:06.4	And I was going to move to New York City to go to Columbia.
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