Naomi Ekperigin: Netflix’s Most ‘Inclusive’ Comedian

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

With a fiery new half-hour special as part of Netflix’s ‘The Standups’ series, Naomi Ekperigin is more ready than ever to achieve that next level of comedy success. And she does it all while remaining far more “thoughtful” about how her jokes affect the audience than many of her anti-woke peers. It’s been a long road, as she explains in this episode, from starting out as a writing assistant on ‘Broad City’ to her current role as a writer and guest star on the final season of ‘Search Party.’ We also talk about her risky decision to burn any potential bridge to ‘Saturday Night Live’ by calling out the show for its lack of Black female cast members and why she felt “less excited” about being on Netflix after the Dave Chappelle controversy exploded.

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0:00.0	If you want to know more about where my guest on this week's show is in her life right now,
0:05.3	look no further than the work of the great Nancy Myers.
0:08.9	When I want to practice self-care, all right, when I want to get away from it all,
0:13.2	I like to imagine I'm a protagonist in a Nancy Myers movie.
0:17.7	That is. It's about when I'm trying to feel good.
0:19.7	If you've never seen a Nancy Meyer's joint, like,
0:22.6	something's gotta give, it's complicated, the holiday,
0:26.0	whenever Diane Keaton is feeling frisky, okay?
0:28.4	If you've never seen a Nancy Meyer's joint,
0:31.4	I will break it down for you very simply, okay?
0:34.0	First, imagine I'm a white woman.
0:36.4	I'm in my 50s, I'm a white woman.
0:43.5	I'm in my 50s, I'm in my 60s, I'm living in the hot flash, okay?
0:44.8	I'm in a moment in time.
0:46.5	I'm in a moment in time.
0:49.5	My name is Margo with a tea.
0:53.1	And I'm wearing tote.
0:53.9	I'm wearing cream.
0:55.0	I'm wearing beige. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:59.0	Egg shell, it crew.
1:01.0	And whatever I'm wearing is loose, but also fitted.
1:05.0	That's my vibe.
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