Sam Jay - I Feel Funny

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Original Air Date: May 1, 2019 Sam Jay has a hot new HBO show called Pause and we love that because she’s hysterical and she’s had a really fascinating life. We talked about her journey from Boston to professional comedy in this 2019 interview where she gets into how she couldn’t be her best self onstage until she fully came to grips with who she really is. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock
0:07.9	Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies,
0:14.4	playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing.
0:18.3	Here we go!
0:19.3	I'm for a drum and bass!
0:21.3	Oh, just 110 pounds! Tom Bola! Open for fun!
0:27.0	Terms apply 18 plus. Please play safely. Sam Jay is a writer for Saturday Night Live and an amazing comedian.
0:45.0	She's the writer behind Them Trumps.
0:48.0	But if you go into the mind of many great comics, there's a lot of pain.
0:52.0	This story is no different. Sam grew up in Boston, not far from where I grew up,
0:55.6	and she spent a long time coming into herself. She had to really get to know herself as a person and as a
1:01.2	lesbian before she could really truly commit to doing stand up in the right way and tearing up stages.
1:08.0	We talk a lot about really getting to know yourself because that's one thing a lot of people have told me on this show.
1:14.4	It's hard to show up as the best version of yourself if you haven't done the work to really find
1:20.5	out who you are.
1:22.1	Sam did that work over many years, quite often while she was sleeping
1:26.0	on one girlfriend's couch or another, and now she's living her best life and writing for Saturday
1:31.2	night live. I'm so proud of her, so please welcome Sam Jay to Toracia.
1:36.7	I feel like comedy tips are like tips is like
1:46.0	like tips is like don't listen at anyone.
1:48.0	Follow your own,
1:51.0	your own, your beat up your own drum.
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