Samantha Irby on Hollywood, Toilet Taboos and Being ‘Quietly Hostile’

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Humorist Samantha Irby is known for her all-too-relatable essay collections, including 2020’s bestseller “Wow, No Thank You,” and she’s written some of the knockout punch lines on shows like “Shrill” and “And Just Like That.” Her new essay collection, “Quietly Hostile,” explores how success and Hollywood aren’t as glamorous as her hate mail assumes. And with a light touch, she gives toilet etiquette, describes her love for Dave Matthews in playlist form and celebrates thinking about whales when high. Irby joins us to share how she writes about — and finds funny in — the grossness and anxieties of everyday life. Guests: Samantha Irby, comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer, author of the new essay collection, "Quietly Hostile." Previous books include "We Are Never Meeting in Real Life" and "Wow, No Thank You" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.9	Coming up on forum, humorist Samantha Irby is known for her all too relatable essay collections,
1:24.5	including 2020's bestseller, Wow, no thank you. Her latest, titled
1:29.3	Quietly Hostel, begins with the sentence, this is not an advice book. But it does give some
1:36.0	advice about what to say when someone yucks your yum, and her suggested rules for using a public
1:42.1	bathroom. Erbie joins us to talk about the sometimes gross, sometimes funny, but always fascinating
1:48.3	realities of her and our human behavior.
1:51.9	That's next after this news.
1:57.7	This is Forum. I'm Ariana Prail in for Mina Kim. You might know Samantha Irby for her best-selling essay collection,
2:09.7	we are never meeting in real life. Or laughed at her punchlines. She's written for TV shows like
2:15.3	shrill and the Sex in the City reboot and just like
2:18.0	that. Well, Irby has a new essay collection, her fourth, titled Quietly Hostel. And in it,
2:24.6	she covers everything from her thoughts on writing in Hollywood, being a proud Dave Matthews fan,
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