'Playing House' Creators & Hari Kondabolu

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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[r] Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham, creators of the TV show Playing House, talk about their real-life friendship and the marathon improv sessions that produce the show's jokes. Plus comedian Hari Kondablou on how he fits into the "alternative" comedy scene and on graciously accepting his audience's suggestions for jokes.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Ramesh, from Cleveland, Ohio.
0:04.0	I'm Jeff from New York.
0:06.0	Howdy, I'm Sarah Flamin from Houston, Texas.
0:08.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
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0:15.4	Just visit maximum fund.org slash donate.
0:19.0	It's Bolzai, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:20.9	When Jessica St Clair and Lenin Parham set out to make the TV show
0:24.1	playing house, they knew that other shows about female friendships
0:28.0	missed something. I think we just wanted to show like that women just don't really have it together.
0:36.0	We watch Sex in the City and we definitely connected to the emotional stuff and the friendship
0:41.0	part but the part where you're wearing a two-2 and like you know
0:45.2	that that fantasy the manolas all over town yeah you're not gonna find that in
0:50.0	playing house it's balls high. Coming up, I'll talk to
1:00.0	coming up I'll talk to Jessica St. Clair and Lenin Parham about how Playing House came together from training
1:06.1	with the Improv Comedy Veteran Ian Roberts. And about the Emotional Center of the show,
1:11.1	their real life friendship. You know you're always like just
1:14.0	one step away from like having a raisin stuck to your ass all day you know like
1:18.3	right and you're like and thank God you have a best friend or because no one else would tell you.
1:23.0	Guess what? You have a reason.
1:24.6	Then later, I'll talk to Hari Kondibolu.
1:27.2	Usually when comedians are starting out, they have to deal with a lot of hecklers.
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