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It's the Sound of Young America I'm Jesse Thorn. This week more audio from our trip to the

Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival in Seattle, Washington. On this podcast,

Janine Garofalo.

Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to the show, Janine. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

I read on the internet that you won't believe some of Barack Obama's outrageous background. No,

I read on the internet that at your first ever stand-up comedy show,

you wrote all of your material on your arm and hand. That is true. Fascinating story.

Fascinating story. I also read on the internet that you were surprised that you got a

stronger reaction from the fact that you were reading it off of your arm and hand than your actual

material. Well, at the time, I started doing stand-up when I was a junior in college,

and I really didn't have much material to speak of, but I wanted to write bullet points of what

I wanted to get to, and I just jotted down buzzwords or what have you on my hand and arm. And

apparently buzzwords and what have you? What have you? Web 2.0 social media. I wrote the

actual phrase buzzwords and what have you on my arm, and I have since had it tattooed to my

forearm, but I guess the audience found it funny because it was natural, the way I was doing it,

which when I did it again later, because somebody said you should do that, and unfortunately,

I took that advice. You should never take advice in the world of stand-up, but it was false,

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