![]() But now Joel, this new person in her life, is opening her up again and we like what they do for each other. “Even on the grief side of this story, the last person Sam opened up to was her sister. “This show, at the heart of it, is about Sam and Joel and their tight friendship and the adventures they go on and the trouble they get in,” Bos said. Since then, the momentum behind this 45-year-old-whose original songs include lyrics like, “You got them little nippy titties, put ’em in the air!”-has only increased.When the series opens, Sam finds herself in a new friendship with her aspirational coworker Joel (Jeff Hiller), a former high school classmate who once idolized her and is now her gateway to living again. Fuck off!’ ” Still, it’s comic Amy Schumer who helped raise Everett’s visibility in 2013, with invitations to appear on Inside Amy Schumer and, in 2015, with a part in Trainwreck. Everett says, “If anybody ever walks out of my show because they think it’s too much, I’m like, ‘Gloria Steinem doesn’t have a problem with this, bitch. And it isn’t only those in the front row of Joe’s Pub who worship the Bridger: She has acolytes including Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz-who plays in her backup band, the Tender Moments-and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who attended Everett’s live show in 2013. All awesome forces of nature, but only one 6', unhinged alt-cabaret superstar is likely to spew chardonnay in an audience member’s face right before sitting on it. ![]() ![]() Photograph: Tawni Bannister ↑Entertainer Bridget Everett “I don’t pitch anymore.” Jillian Anthonyįor the full interview with Ashley C. I’m unstoppable because I won’t stop.” And, this time around, she’s accomplished something many freelance writers never do: “For the most part, I have editors reaching out to me,” she says. “And it kind of makes me feel like I’m unstoppable, and not because I’m perfect or a superhuman. “I’ll always, always get back up and try again, and now I know that about myself,” says Ford. But through perseverance and under the mentorship of friends like writer Roxane Gay, she reached the other side. She admits that the first time she tried full-time freelance writing, she was frozen with fear, missing deadlines and messing up. ![]() But she didn’t just slip into the warm bathwaters of success when she moved to Brooklyn in 2014. Oh, and in her spare time, she’s writing a memoir about girlhood in Indiana and growing up with an incarcerated father. I’m the thirtiest.”) As of October, she’s the host of the daily Brooklyn-arts-and-culture– focused TV show and podcast, 112BK. (She turns 31 in a few weeks and is enjoying this new era. Her hustle paid off in a big way this year: Forbes named her on its 30 Under 30 in Media list. It should just be you.’ ” Desus, not skipping a beat: “ ’Cause, also, who’s gonna tell Spike Jonze he’s wrong? The guy made a movie about fucking computers.” Tim Loweryįor the full interview with Desus and Mero click here. “We were talking about doing a graffiti backdrop, and Spike Jonze was like, ‘No, you guys are the graffiti,’ ” Mero says about getting the show together. It’s a refreshingly off-the-cuff approach you just don’t see on TV. Visiting celebs range from Erykah Badu and Seth Rogen to New York Times food editor Sam Sifton and Diddy subjects like “Trumpito,” rap beefs, bee sex and why Malcolm-Jamal Warner has a tongue ring are all fair game. (True to this spirit, they don’t even have a writing staff or rehearse bits.) In each episode, the pair simply sound off on newsy or viral or completely random clips-all topics are listed on the top right corner of the screen-and then welcome a guest. The only difference in watching their quick-thinking, off-the-cuff back-and-forths in person versus on the show is that one is taped. Ah, you mad? You want to bomb the Ukraine?” Back to Desus for the layup: “That’s his rainbow: ‘I’m sorry, America.’ People are like, ‘Oh, I see him in a new light now.’ ” Both crack up, moving on to the next goof. Mero chimes in, as Putin: “Come on, my nigga. “I’d be like, ‘Why’d you hack our election?’ ” says Desus. Discussions of being recognized on the street lead to the topic of Barack Obama (a fan of the Bronx-born and -bred comedy duo), then pivots to trying to nab Vladimir Putin as a guest. the Kid Mero) tackle only a handful of questions, inevitably stretching each answer into an improvised routine often miles away from where they started. Over the course of their conversation with Time Out New York, the hosts of Viceland’s late-night show (Daniel Baker, a.k.a. Photograph: Tawni Bannister ↑ Illustrious TV Hosts Desus and Meroĭesus and Mero can’t turn it off.
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