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Ask Me Another

Nicole Byer: Nailed It!

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ask Me Another heads to Seattle! Comedian and host of Nailed It!, Nicole Byer reflects on how she went from waiting tables to performing stand-up, and why celebrating failure is important. This episode originally aired on June 28, 2019.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the more theater in Seattle, Washington, it's NPR's

0:10.4

hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.

0:14.9

I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:19.6

Hello everybody!

0:24.2

Yeah, excellent fun.

0:29.6

We have a great show for you.

0:31.8

We have four brilliant contestants.

0:33.9

They are backstage getting hit in the face with a fish, and soon they will be out here

0:39.5

playing some nerdy games with us, and one of them will be our big winner.

0:43.1

You know, I have to say, there are some stereotypes in every city that ring true, and, uh, yep,

0:48.8

I have to thank you for wearing your evening face.

0:51.9

Thank you.

0:52.9

I'm sure there's some high heel marbles in the audience.

0:57.6

Your good Gore-tex, they put on their good Gore-tex.

1:01.3

I used to live in Vancouver, and that is all I owned, all I owned, and then you moved

1:05.5

to New York, and you realize that if you wear that people think that you, uh, you're working

1:09.7

on their garden.

1:15.2

We have an amazing guest on our show.

1:17.0

We have comedian and a host of Nailed It on Netflix, Nicole Byer.

1:27.6

Nailed It of course builds on that internet trend that we all love of watching cake

1:32.0

fails, one of my favorite things, cake fails.

1:34.6

And I feel like cake fails really bring us all together as Americans, right?

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