Mae Martin: Comedy Versus Music, Gender Fluidity, New Album ‘I’m A TV’

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Tv & Film, Music

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Triple threat doesn’t quite cover it: Toronto-born Mae Martin is an award-winning comedian, screenwriter, podcaster, actor, author, and now a songwriter releasing their debut album ‘I’m A TV,’ a collection of intimate, mellow indie-folk, filled with deft one-liners and vulnerable confessionals. Most recently they’ve even started sharing their surrealist paintings, which is also something we also discussed when they joined us in the studio for the first time.

Martin initially came to prominence for their semi-autobiographical, 2015 Netflix dramedy ‘Feel Good,’ which follows a stand-up comedian navigating love, addiction, and self-discovery in a deeply personal and darkly humorous way. Since then they’ve moved from London to LA, published a YA book, ‘Can Everyone Please Calm Down? A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality,’ co-hosted podcast Handsome, alongside fellow comedians Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster, released a comedy special, hosted a doc series and is currently in the midst of editing their upcoming Netflix teen thriller series ‘Wayward.’

We chat with Martin about being ostensibly raised in the comedy circuit, crafting their debut album, rehab, psychedelics, dreams about eminem, psychics, DMing Steven Jenkins from Third Eye Blind, the ties between comedy and music, not to mention being non-binary in this Trump-ian dystopia.

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0:00.0	It's the Zach Sang Show.
0:03.0	Hi, beautiful human. I'm Zach. That's Shannon. We're welcome to the studio. May Martin's here.
0:08.0	Hey!
0:09.0	Thank you for having me.
0:10.0	Yeah, of course!
0:11.0	I'm so excited to be. I walked through like the TV section. I think I pitched a TV show in that other building.
0:17.0	Yeah, yeah, and Prime Video right across MGM studio.
0:20.0	And I bombed in the pitch. But look at you now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Prime Video right across. Yes, years ago. And I bombed in the pitch.
0:22.7	But look at you now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, I mean, genuinely, when you look back at those moments,
0:28.5	are they, you learn from those. You learn from bombing. Yeah, oh, 100%. I, I really don't mind bombing
0:36.2	at stand-up. I really, I get kind of a sick, perverse enjoyment
0:41.0	from it. It's so, it's so raw. And I like watching people bomb as well, because you really
0:47.4	see them just grasping for anything. And there's something really beautiful about it, though,
0:52.8	like someone really going i sat down
0:54.5	i thought this was funny i thought everyone was going to love it and now no one's laughed like it is
0:59.3	kind of beautiful do you find that you're when you're grasping for something can that ultimately
1:05.5	bring out the best or do you only get better by reflection and then doing it again?
1:12.6	Kind of both.
1:18.3	I find it hard to write punchlines and stuff without the adrenaline of having to do it in the moment.
1:20.0	So I do a lot of improvising.
1:24.9	And then afterwards I might listen back to it and find new tags and stuff.
1:28.7	But yeah, a lot of writing happens on stage, I think, because you have to.
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