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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

What's It Like Being A Fierce Woman in Comedy? with Nicole Byer & Erin Gibson

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nicole Byer is a comedian, writer, and host of Netflix’s Nailed It as well as the Why Won’t You Date Me? podcast. Erin Gibson is a comedian, director/writer, creator of Gay of Thrones and the host of Throwing Shade. They join Jonathan live in Montreal at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival to talk Erin giving Jonathan his big break, being women in comedy & empowered content creators, Roseanne’s meltdown, and more. Find Nicole’s work at https://www.nicolebyerwastaken.com. She’s on Twitter and Instagram @nicolebyer. Find Erin’s work http://www.eringibson.com. She’s on Twitter and Instagram @gibblertron. Purchase Erin's Book Feminasty at https://www.feminasty.com. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious.

0:03.3

I'm Johnathan Beness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous 30 minute conversation

0:07.0

with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

0:10.3

This week it is even a double, gorgeous episode where like I don't even know if you're going

0:15.0

to be able to handle the fabulous that's about to fly it to over the next 30 minutes.

0:19.6

We are going to be talking to Nicole Byer and Aaron Gibson and it's really from our

0:24.6

Just For Laugh's gorgeous set from Montreal where we laughed, we cried, we stand, we stood,

0:30.2

we sat, we did everything, we loved each other.

0:32.5

So take a listen, it's gorgeous.

0:34.5

We sing again, Charlie says how we know, hey.

0:41.0

So I'm going to introduce our two guests and the first one, and I'm going to bring them

0:51.8

out at the same time.

0:53.6

I want to explain them first.

0:55.9

So the first one is Aaron Gibson and she is the creator of Gay of Thrones.

1:01.4

I like to say that she's like the usher to my Justin Bieber.

1:04.3

She is like, I met her in Los Angeles in 2010 or something and we became fast friends

1:13.2

and then we started doing her hair and then one day, one fateful December day in 2012.

1:18.0

I was like, she was like, do you watch Game of Thrones and I was like that sash and this

1:21.2

and that and she was like this and she was so contra post-o and like, and she was like,

1:25.6

you really need to do that for funding your diet and then that's what happened.

1:30.1

And so she's been someone that has changed my life so much and she's, she hosts an amazing

1:33.4

podcast called Throwing Shade, she's a powerhouse, she's a power writer, she's a powerhouse person,

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