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Comedy Has an Ouchie episodes
- Why Comedy Isn't a Veneer for Neuroses
In this episode, guest Rich Alfonso joins us to talk about mental health and comedy—from panic attacks before a show to playing that wooden bitch on the front of a ship, we cover all manner of difficulties the industry presents when we're struggling.
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52 min - You Shouldn't Have to Do the Accent
Guest and host of Nickelodeon's Tooned In Rama Vallury joins us this episode as we discuss playing unicorns, stereotyping and tokenism, and of course, Steve’s dog Totoro.
@RamaVallury
45 min - Here's What's Healing Comedy
In this episode, we celebrate Michaela Coel, closed captions, the movie Soul, creating on Tik Tok, and of course, vaccines.
48 min - To Be Asian Is An Honor
This episode, we're taking the space to grieve and process after the Atlanta shooting.
57 min - Auditions Are Inherently Unfair
This episode, we want to give a shoutout to FedEx for being there for us when no one else was! We may have arrived sweating to our inconveniently scheduled audition where auditors only laughed at white-centric jokes, went home stressed, and cried into our Half Baked ice cream, but we sure as hell showed up with printed glossy headshots.
52 min - I’m Not a Sassy Black Woman Sketch
In this episode with guest Sheri Flanders, we request less casting calls for one-legged asian-identifying goats, specific genetic features, and stereotyped black women in the wake of colorism. To all the agents out there: let Sheri play a villain!
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49 min - Comedy's Problems Are Rooted in White Supremacy
In this episode, boss ass bitches have honest conversations about performative allyship in institutions where the rules are tailored for white people's success.
49 min - Getting Paid in Exposure Won’t Pay My Landlord
Does capitalism sometimes make you feel like starting fires? This episode, join us poor and starving artists as we drown in student loans, praise AOC, and discuss how our country’s economy holds comedians back.
50 min - Idol Worship Is Super Dead!
Welcome to Comedy Has an Ouchie! In this part comedy, part therapy podcast, butt-hole clenching is normalized and success is no longer tied to arbitrary rules.
49 min - Introducing: Comedy Has an Ouchie
How do we turn the has been into the should be after a global pandemic and revelations about the failures of how our sacred comedy institutions have dealt with systemic racism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, and ableism has knocked them off their pedestals?
We have thoughts.
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What comedy and improv should be: A place to creatively, respectively, and openly express who you are.What comedy and improv has been: A place to creatively and openly express who you are...with a LOT…
of strings attached and gatekeepers making rules by which we've arbitrarily abided.How do we turn the has been into the should be after a global pandemic and revelations about the failures of how our sacred comedy institutions have dealt with systemic racism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, and ableism has knocked them off their pedestals?Steve Han, Phylicia McLeod, and Ashley Whitehurst have spent years inside the Chicago comedy scene. And they have thoughts.