![]() But Amy really helps bring me out of my shell, because in those situations I'm a social recluse. Those festivals are very intimidating: There are so many people there, and I would typically hide out in my room. Maybe three or four years ago we started hanging out more-we both liked Chardonnay and we were at this comedy festival hanging out, at Just For Laughs at Montreal. I want to say I could, but if we're being real honest, I don't know. ![]() If I had a TV show I hope that I'd be the kind of person who'd be like, “Hey world, take a look at this friend of mine!” But in reality, who does that? Amy does that, because she's that great. Yeah, I've opened for her, I've been on the road with her, and because of that I've been asked back to some comedy clubs. Is that something you're going to continue doing? You've done comedy gigs with Amy Schumer, and you've been prominently featured on her TV show. And it's also the way I enjoy interacting with the audience because, you know, when you're single you've got to get your action somewhere, and for me it's onstage. I've always been a dirty-minded person-it's who I am and how I communicate. When I was on the swim team growing up, when I was eight years old, I was always going and sitting on the laps of the guys in high school in their Speedos. We did this thing called Automatic Vaudeville every couple of months at Ars Nova-they were just trying to give me a training ground, ’cause you just have to log the hours to get good, you know? And we met Michael Patrick King at the Aspen Comedy Festival and we hit it off, and we did At Least It's Pink.Īt Least It's Pink was pretty hardcore on the sex side, but your act has gotten even raunchier in recent years. Jason Eagan saw me doing it in 2004, I think, and was like, “Oh my gosh, you should do a show at Ars Nova!” So Kenny Mellman and I got together and that's what happened. I went there to do the same shit that I'm doing now: I'd just be on top of a bar, rip of my shirt, grab somebody, spit in their face. How did you start tapping into that as a performer? I was in my late twenties at the time, so it's sort of taken me a long time to hit my stride, but I saw the language that I wanted to speak. And then Murray Hill, and Sweetie at Cheese Wiz at the Parkside Lounge-It felt like my calling. We'd go every Sunday night, and we'd be the first people in line. Then my friend Zach took me to see Kiki and Herb at Fez, and I was like “Oh shit!” I was losing my mind, because I had never seen anything like that. I did one of those children's-theater tours and it felt like-I don't want to say prison camp, because that's harsh, but it was not what I moved here for. And then shit hit the fan in Arizona, and I was like “Fuck it!” I just got in a car and decided to move to New York. When I left Kansas, my heroes were all rock singers, you know? And I always remember thinking Debbie Harry was the coolest one, and she lived in New York, so I wanted to live there. And then I discovered karaoke, and that's when everything changed. I stayed in Arizona a couple years after college-I was singing a lot of national anthems at spring training games. But I didn't do a whole lot of operas, because I couldn't get cast in anything at Arizona State. I studied vocal performance at Arizona State, which is singing classically, whether it's art songs or arias or whatever. (Sample lyric: “Tell me, does this dick make my ass look big?”) We talked with her recently about sex, karaoke, being tender and not just being nice. Before that, though, is Everett's new show at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, Rock Bottom, which may be her filthiest yet. This combination has brought her prominent gigs on Inside Amy Schumerand an upcoming special on Comedy Central, which will be taped in November. ![]() But surprising sweetness and vulnerability lie just below the surface of everything she does. Prowling the stage in billowing fabrics, swigging Chardonnay and darting out her tongue lasciviously as she belts ultra-raunchy original rock songs, she scrambles hotness itself into a mess. Bridget Everett is not a blond bombshell-she's a blond nuclear missile. ![]()
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