The legendary Jackie and Laurie Show, with Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin, is conversations between two amazing woman comics with sixty years experience between them. They boost one woman comedian on their comedy list every episode. They also promote women comics on their live shows.
It’s beyond an honor to score a spot in the first 150 recommendations.
OK, so I’ve really only got my album, Gothic American, on Spotify but I’ll get more stuff up soon, I promise! Follow meeeee!
This is a list of reasons I am not speaking to other comics, it’s a funny meditation on the things we allow to divide us even though we’re all gonna be dead someday.
People I am Not Speaking To For Sexual Misconduct Reasons
People Who Defended Other Comics To Me, I.E. How Do You Like Your Cosby Now?
I Unfriended You Because Another Comic Asked Me To And They Are Back To Being Your Friend, So Fuck Me
I Am Scared To Speak To You Because I Might Have You Confused With Another Comic
I Refuse To Speak To You Because You Hurt My Feelings For Something I Don’t Remember What It Is
You Bought A Car From Me And Never Registered It And Never Paid Me For It (Specific)
I Basically Like You But Had To Turn Off Your Thirst Trap Feed
You Never Found A Spot For Me On A Show You Stopped Booking Years Ago
I Have A Crush On You And Am Embarrassed About It
I Understand That You Do Comedy But Not Why
I Understand That Other People Find You Funny But I Don’t
I Envy Your Career But You Close On A Poop Joke
Comics Who I Am Scared To Speak To Because I Think They’re Mad At Me For Something
You Are Too Extra For Me To Personally Cope With And I Feel Guilty But There It Is
You Have Never, Not Once In Your Life, Stayed To Support A Show After Your Set
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General Shit List
Well, it’s the holidays, and it’s a hard time of the year to do comedy. It’s the time when all the best-of and who’s-next lists come out, and you might not be on those lists. It’s also when shows go on hiatus or just die off, as the hosts say, well, don’t we have something better to do on a Tuesday? You say to yourself, well, I went to that show ten times last year in hopes of being booked on it and that was time wasted. It’s also the time of year when you have to justify to your parents what you’re still doing in LA.
And then it’s Spring, when all the festivals write to say you didn’t qualify to fly yourself to a small city and do unpaid shows, but it’s only because they had SO many comics apply for SO few spots. And who decided you didn’t make the cut? A guy who sleeps on his friend’s couch and lives on burritos.
Some festivals you’ve been applying to for so long that other people have started comedy, done that festival, and quit comedy again, all while you’re still sending in your thirty bucks. You realize that one festival has taken three hundred dollars from you, and you could have just flown yourself to New York to do unpaid sets. You’re on a show with a guy whose whole set is about how he likes smoking pot and how dating is hard, and he’s done every comedy festival you haven’t done. It’s a hard time of year to be a comic then.
After that is Summer, when you might hit the road and do some gigs, really remind yourself what it is to do comedy for real people, not those sycophants and ass kissers back home, except for every show you get to, everyone’s at the tractor pull or the air show or they’re just wandering the streets on a clear, warm summer night, holding hands and sharing a bag of kettle corn, like regular people, instead of spending the night trapped inside a sweaty comedy club listening to some LA asshole who can’t even get into festivals. And that’s a hard time of the year to do comedy.
After that it’s Fall, when your friends who write for television are up for Important Awards, and they look so great in their red carpet outfits. The new shows start and you’re not on any of ’em, I mean sure, you take some comfort in the fact that the pilot you didn’t get cast for didn’t get picked up, but it’s time to get out to the new comedy shows to kiss up to the new bookers, who two years ago were open mikers you wouldn’t deign to speak to but now you’re their Instagram friends, until they stop booking those shows and you quietly unfollow them. It’s a hard time of year to be comic, then.
And then, of course- it’s the holidays.
I’m always glad to pop in on my two favorite dorks and talk about draculas, Bad Venom, Godzilla, and Halloween! Listen here!
Yes, comedy fans, Bowie fans, all humanity- start making your plans for Saturday nights roast of David Bowie, where the ghost of David Bowie will be played by me, Virginia Jones!
Apart from Banksy shredding one of his paintings, this open mic simulator is best thing I’ve seen this week.
It’s a choose-your-own-adventure game about stand up comedy. Make sure to try ALL the options. Find the screenplay, the erotic tale, and the list of 1000 funny women that includes a shout out to yours truly!
This is a lifelike recreation of what it’s like to do open mic comedy in Los Angeles!
