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Speaker 2: My guest tonight is comedian and actor Quintin Brunson. She's
Speaker 2: here to talk about Abbot Elementary, the hit show she created,
Speaker 2: rights full and stars in.
Speaker 3: Quintin Brunson, Welcome to The Daily Show.
Speaker 4: Hey Trevor, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: He kidding me, Thank you for being here this show
Speaker 3: Abbot Elementary. I remember when I saw the first trailer.
Speaker 2: A lot of people we fell in love with it
Speaker 2: just in a promo. The idea was funny, the idea
Speaker 2: was special, and I'm so glad that it has lived
Speaker 2: up to expectations.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's talk through the idea, the inception of it all.
Speaker 2: Quince has always been somebody who's been very funny. But
Speaker 2: why does Quintin Brunson go, like, the funniest thing I
Speaker 2: want to do on the network show I want to
Speaker 2: make is going to be about school?
Speaker 3: Why that's well?
Speaker 4: You know, I got really inspired by going to visit
Speaker 4: my mother before. It was the year before she decided
Speaker 4: to retire. I lived in LA and I came back
Speaker 4: to visit her. My mom was doing basically a parent
Speaker 4: teacher conference with a parent on an open house night.
Speaker 4: The night started at twelve o'clock PM and ended at
Speaker 4: eight o'clock PM. Okay, okay, no parents came the whole time,
Speaker 4: and I was there with my mom waiting with her.
Speaker 4: A parent walked in at seven fifty eight, and I
Speaker 4: was livid. I was just like, how could you not
Speaker 4: get here earlier? There was so much time. But my
Speaker 4: mom didn't look at it that way. She was like,
Speaker 4: this is the time that this parent could get here,
Speaker 4: and she sat down and had the conference with her.
Speaker 4: And it was in that moment that something was sparked
Speaker 4: where I said, this is what I want to make
Speaker 4: a show about, because the whole time I'm there, I'm
Speaker 4: just thinking about how funny the place is. Her co
Speaker 4: workers in the situation. Yes, her and I started fighting
Speaker 4: about me, you know, doing comedy and her not retiring yet,
Speaker 4: and then this beautiful thing happens and I think, boom,
Speaker 4: I saw a show and I saw what I wanted
Speaker 4: to work on for the next however many years I'm
Speaker 4: able to You.
Speaker 2: Know, before I knew that your mom was a teacher,
Speaker 2: I was just like, man Quinca is just like in
Speaker 2: lovely teachers in a really beautiful way.
Speaker 3: And I know you all, but it explained so much.
Speaker 2: For instance, I remember seeing how you got this marketing budget,
Speaker 2: for instance, from ABC, and then you took a chunk
Speaker 2: of that money instead of spending it on marketing and
Speaker 2: billboards and everything, you gave that money to school so they.
Speaker 3: Could buy supply, so that they could get things.
Speaker 2: What do you think we don't understand about teachers, you know,
Speaker 2: having grown up in a teacher household.
Speaker 4: Just how much work they really put into the job.
Speaker 4: It is not a it's not a nine to five.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: First of all, my mother used to wakeup a seven
Speaker 4: thirty six, sorry earlier, because she had me, She had
Speaker 4: her own children.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I meant? Which we forget her own.
Speaker 4: Children that she has to get through school, clothes and feed.
Speaker 4: And then she would go to school deal with kids
Speaker 4: who were great, well behaved, but also kids who are
Speaker 4: minaces and parents who are menaces. And then she's identifying
Speaker 4: more than just these are my kids. This child has
Speaker 4: this learning issue. This child over here comes from a
Speaker 4: home where this is happening. This child is a selling
Speaker 4: too fast, and I have to make a little extra
Speaker 4: room for them. She's doing this for thirty kids all
Speaker 4: at once, my mom, and then after that she would
Speaker 4: stay later, she would stay until the last parent picked
Speaker 4: up their kid, because there always was a parent that
Speaker 4: would come in and be like, oh, man, pick ups
Speaker 4: at three up the same.
Speaker 3: Time every day.
Speaker 4: And come in at five point thirty. And then she
Speaker 4: would go home and she would short grade papers, which
Speaker 4: is the thing we all think is like, oh, that's
Speaker 4: what they do at home, but no, it's doing lesson plans,
Speaker 4: which takes up like an hour. It's learning new development
Speaker 4: material that the school district puts out.
Speaker 3: Because the teachers have to learn themselves exactly.
Speaker 4: And I can go on and on, but I just
Speaker 4: think people who maybe don't have a teacher so close
Speaker 4: in their life don't know how big the job is.
Speaker 4: And it's one of the reasons why I firmly believe
Speaker 4: they should be paid more.
Speaker 2: But I hope your show does this because you know
Speaker 2: what your show has done, I think a really great
Speaker 2: job of is that it shows the human side of
Speaker 2: being a teacher.
Speaker 3: Yes, we've only watched what.
Speaker 2: Seven episodes of the show, m already you have quadrupled
Speaker 2: your ratings from the first episode, which I didn't even
Speaker 2: know as possible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me either.
Speaker 2: I always thought it was like start at the top
Speaker 2: and then you just gradually. Network TV never does that.
Speaker 2: I the broken records, You've changed history, you know, congratulations
Speaker 2: to season two has already been you know all of this,
Speaker 2: and I think a lot of it comes from the
Speaker 2: dynamic of the cost.
Speaker 3: How would that happen? How is everybody so comfortable in
Speaker 3: such a new thing?
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness. I feel like I got to pick
Speaker 4: everyone I wanted for the cast, and I think that's rare.
Speaker 4: You know, usually there's some issue like you can't get
Speaker 4: this person you want because of this reason, right, you
Speaker 4: can't get this person, blah blah blah. But I also
Speaker 4: have like a personal connection to each person that I
Speaker 4: cast and knew what type of person they were. Ultimately,
Speaker 4: I think, you know whatever, everyone has different opinions. But
Speaker 4: I wanted my show to feel like a workplace. I know,
Speaker 4: it's TV, and TV can be crazy and we accept it.
Speaker 4: We accept like a bunch of crazy. Uh this church shit,
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, we were did the Today Show this morning,
Speaker 4: so like but we you know, we accept like bad behavior,
Speaker 4: We accept like so much. But I didn't want it
Speaker 4: to be like that because, you know, it's my show,
Speaker 4: and I was.
Speaker 3: In no asshole policy. Yeah, I believe in the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah way, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So getting all these people together in a room
Speaker 4: the first time we filmed the pilot, everyone's just energizing
Speaker 4: and feeling good about each other and feeling good about
Speaker 4: the show that they're making too. So I think everyone's
Speaker 4: happy to be there and.
Speaker 3: I love that. Yeah, I just you.
Speaker 2: You know, you may be one of the few people
Speaker 2: I know who has gone off of the Internet because
Speaker 2: of too much positivity. January, You're like one of the
Speaker 2: few people I know who's gonna guys, I'm going to
Speaker 2: take a break from Twitter.
Speaker 3: There's too many positive comments.
Speaker 2: I have to take a moment, please, And I think
Speaker 2: it's because of what you put out into the world.
Speaker 2: You know, I hope you never lose it. You you
Speaker 2: have this thing. It's so authentic that I know everyone
Speaker 2: asks you questions. I mean, it's there's a further around
Speaker 2: the show, which I hope never never ends. One of
Speaker 2: the more confusing things that happens to people was a
Speaker 2: video where all the kids are leaving and you know,
Speaker 2: you're saying it it's the mid season break. All the
Speaker 2: kids are leaving, but they're all saying goodbye to you
Speaker 2: as your character, you know them, like bye miss Tea.
Speaker 5: Bye bye, good day Monday, I see you on Monday.
Speaker 6: Guys, be careful you see.
Speaker 3: Anyone's watching this video.
Speaker 2: And some people thought, yeah, that the kids don't get
Speaker 2: paid and the kids aren't It was very confusing for
Speaker 2: some piece.
Speaker 6: It was very confused.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure they jumped there until we don't pay it.
Speaker 6: We take a few steps before we get.
Speaker 3: To later think the world is a bad place. People
Speaker 3: think the world is a bad place.
Speaker 4: And nothing else that really showed it to me. I
Speaker 4: was like, no, no, no, no, we would never not pay
Speaker 4: the kid, Like why would you jump there? Please don't look.
Speaker 4: People were very confused. But the way our step operates
Speaker 4: with the mocumentary style camera work, the kids aren't viewing
Speaker 4: it as a typical TV set. They know that some
Speaker 4: people are moving around with cameras, but they can't bank
Speaker 4: on where those.
Speaker 3: Cameras will be. Oh you okay, so it doesn't look.
Speaker 2: Like this, So to them it almost feels like they're
Speaker 2: in a classroom and someone's making a documentary.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and our classrooms look so real because they they
Speaker 4: also have school.
Speaker 3: There where the kids actually have school there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because studio, you know, they have to have school.
Speaker 4: So they don't know me as Quinta bruntson girl from
Speaker 4: you know, the Internet and TV. They just know mistigues,
Speaker 4: and sometimes I have to tell them to be quiet
Speaker 4: as mistigues. They would raise their hand and be like
Speaker 4: miss Teas. He hit me, Miss Teas out to the bathroom.
Speaker 4: And I would just have to play the part so
Speaker 4: we could get through the Yeah, so we could get
Speaker 4: through the scene. And they know they're acting. By the end,
Speaker 4: some of them kind of started to figure out. They're like, uh,
Speaker 4: this is a set. I was like, yeah, I'm on
Speaker 4: TV so and your name is Quinta. My mommy told me.
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, you're not figuring out anything groundbreaking, but
Speaker 4: all right, that is the door.
Speaker 3: See. I love it. I love everything you do. Thank
Speaker 3: you once again, Thank you and.
Speaker 4: Thank you for your continued support. I feel like you've
Speaker 4: always been so supportive career. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: My guest to life is actor, writer and comedian io Edibris.
Speaker 2: She's here to talk about starring in the new FX
Speaker 2: show The Bear.
Speaker 3: Please welcome, Io Aediversy. Welcome to the show. Thank you
Speaker 3: for having me, Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2: I feel like you shouldn't have time to be here
Speaker 2: with all of the work that you're doing. I mean,
Speaker 2: we just saw a new show of yours that's going
Speaker 2: to be, you know, coming out on FX. And then like,
Speaker 2: just take me through everything else that you're doing right now.
Speaker 2: So you're acting in the show, and then your rights
Speaker 2: as well rights, and then you're a stand up comedian, yes,
Speaker 2: and then on top of that, I feel like there's
Speaker 2: two other things I'm forgetting that you're doing.
Speaker 5: Big man mouth maybe and trying to get sleep.
Speaker 3: I think, how was that going?
Speaker 7: I could call my parents more that too, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: All the things they'd be doing.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: Congratulations.
Speaker 2: It really has been just like a like a wild
Speaker 2: ride for you, you know. Sling shot and the beginning of
Speaker 2: your journey is one that intrigues me the most because
Speaker 2: I read things about people. I do the research, and
Speaker 2: then sometimes it doesn't seem true.
Speaker 3: Were you studying to teach?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was studying to be a teacher.
Speaker 5: I wanted to be an English teacher.
Speaker 7: Okay, and then I did my student teaching and did
Speaker 7: you know that teenagers are really scary? And they will
Speaker 7: tell you when you're not a good English teacher.
Speaker 6: So I was like, hmm, maybe change careers.
Speaker 5: But I was doing stand up and stuff at night,
Speaker 5: and all my friends were studying writing, and it felt
Speaker 5: like people were doing this. I don't know, and I
Speaker 5: don't know. I just was like that one life might
Speaker 5: as well try.
Speaker 3: I love the fact that the kids were so terrible.
Speaker 3: You just changed your perspective on life. They just shifted
Speaker 3: you in a new direction.
Speaker 8: It was like the opposite of any of those like
Speaker 8: movies were like a teachers like, you know, coming in
Speaker 8: the classroom and standing on the desk, Like I stood
Speaker 8: on the desk and they were like, sit down, we
Speaker 8: go home.
Speaker 3: Did you tell journal? Did you tell them you were going? No?
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 8: I think if I told h thirteen year old my dreams,
Speaker 8: I don't really think that would have gone great.
Speaker 6: You know, they might have had notes.
Speaker 2: They are, I mean, like the reason behind all of
Speaker 2: your success.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 2: I feel like you should thank them now because they've
Speaker 2: sent you into a very successful career.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like doing it and you're crushing it
Speaker 3: at everything.
Speaker 8: It was like, tell the teenagers made me sad?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's talk about the show on efics.
Speaker 3: Is it? Is it a comedy?
Speaker 2: Because the moments where I feel like it's a drama,
Speaker 2: and there's moments where I find myself laughing out loud.
Speaker 5: I guess drama ed I write that down copy right,
Speaker 5: making money? Yeah, I think it is kind of in
Speaker 5: that dramedy space. It's it's definitely I it's I mean,
Speaker 5: I identify as a comedian.
Speaker 6: I don't know if other people identified.
Speaker 5: Me of that, but I identify as a comedian. And
Speaker 5: it was it felt very funny to like be showing
Speaker 5: up to work and being like, oh, okay, I'm the
Speaker 5: most serious person.
Speaker 8: I'm saying like the least funny stuffs hilarious, I'm like
Speaker 8: actually acting.
Speaker 6: I think I think it is.
Speaker 3: I think it is good.
Speaker 2: It's funny, it's heartfelt. I mean, because it's it's a
Speaker 2: story about like really it seems like a ragtag restaurant.
Speaker 6: You know that it's a deeply motley crew.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the food looks is it real food?
Speaker 6: It's real food. We're cooking real food.
Speaker 5: We're working in a real kitchen. Our set designers and
Speaker 5: our production designers are geniuses, and they created a real
Speaker 5: kitchen that felt really small, like a real kitchen in
Speaker 5: a working restaurant would, but they created just like a
Speaker 5: little space, enough space for a camera to be able
Speaker 5: to move through.
Speaker 2: And I like that it has it has the feeling
Speaker 2: of like, you know.
Speaker 3: The nice were real? What was fire? Yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 3: seem safe.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, hey, oops.
Speaker 2: The you know, the story is really great because it's
Speaker 2: it's it's it feels like it's a commentary on the
Speaker 2: family we have versus the family we choose.
Speaker 3: You know, we see your character's.
Speaker 2: Journey, we see everyone starting to fall for each other
Speaker 2: and be in that world. It made me wonder where
Speaker 2: you feel your biggest family is, like in what industry?
Speaker 2: Because some people, let's say they're on Broadway and they
Speaker 2: act on TV, They'll go like, oh, but the broad
Speaker 2: my Broadway family.
Speaker 3: You're in so many different worlds.
Speaker 2: I want to know, is there like one world where
Speaker 2: you feel like I'm at home, this is me.
Speaker 6: What if I was like Trevor with you first time, I.
Speaker 2: Would I would say thank you, thank you, and that's
Speaker 2: very creepy because we just met.
Speaker 3: That's what I would say. But I would be flattered.
Speaker 3: I would be flattered.
Speaker 6: No, I feel really lucky.
Speaker 5: To be embraced and feel like I get to learn
Speaker 5: in so many spaces, and I feel like I have
Speaker 5: a lot of curiosity and I want to do a
Speaker 5: lot of things and do them well. And I feel
Speaker 5: like the places that I've been able to work and
Speaker 5: the people that I've been able to work with, like
Speaker 5: a lot of them are just really great mentors and friends.
Speaker 5: And so I feel like in a lot of spaces,
Speaker 5: in writing and in stand up, and I guess now
Speaker 5: in acting, like I have people who I so deeply
Speaker 5: earnest the stand up in me is like, oh, but
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I feel like there's a lot of I.
Speaker 3: Think it's good. I think it's good to be honest.
Speaker 2: I feel like you should be proud of what you've done.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not an easy journey. Are your parents proud?
Speaker 8: My parents are backstage age, so I hope that they're proud.
Speaker 8: They told you they're backstage tapping their toes.
Speaker 6: They're like, oh, we got notes. This is weird.
Speaker 3: So where are your parents from?
Speaker 5: My mom is from Barbados, and my dad.
Speaker 8: Is from where you just did that accent from. He's
Speaker 8: from Nigeria. And no, he was backstage and he was
Speaker 8: watching and he was like, I'll take that.
Speaker 3: That's a standing ovation from a day. I'll take that.
Speaker 3: I'll take that.
Speaker 2: It's been great meeting you. You know, congratulations and.
Speaker 3: Everything you're doing.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's not just you who identified.
Speaker 2: Everyone who sees you goes you're a comedian, You're funny,
Speaker 2: You're amazing.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being on the show. Having I felt
Speaker 3: at home with you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: My next guest is a writer, actor, and stand up
Speaker 2: comedian with two hit Netflix comedy specials and the film.
Speaker 3: Always Be My Maybe.
Speaker 2: She has a new book called Dear Girls, Intimate Tales,
Speaker 2: untold Secrets and Advice for living your best life.
Speaker 3: Please welcome Ali Wong. Welcome to the Daish Alley one.
Speaker 6: Thanks Trevor. It's my first time being it is your
Speaker 6: first time being here.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's.
Speaker 2: It's been way too long because like I watch everything
Speaker 2: you do and I'm like a giant fan, and then
Speaker 2: I see you everywhere else and my.
Speaker 6: God, you're like stalking me.
Speaker 1: No for real.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on everything you've done. I mean, like we watched
Speaker 2: you blow up and stand up, which everyone loves, and
Speaker 2: then the thing that really brought me.
Speaker 3: Joe was just.
Speaker 2: Seeing how you kick ass and movies as well.
Speaker 6: Oh thanks, so you're a movie star.
Speaker 2: Now you realize that, right?
Speaker 5: Whoa?
Speaker 9: It was really fun and I got to mac on
Speaker 9: those three fine ass dudes.
Speaker 6: You watch the movie, right?
Speaker 3: I know? Yes?
Speaker 6: It was like who wrote this? Like whose idea was this?
Speaker 6: Who was in charge?
Speaker 2: You have Keanu Reeves fighting over you? I mean, and
Speaker 2: then he came to your show, didn't he?
Speaker 9: He came to my show, which was amazing. He was
Speaker 9: so sweet and he was like in such a good
Speaker 9: mood afterwards too, who's really smiley?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: The people had confused though, if like Keanu Reeves plays
Speaker 2: your boyfriend in a movie and then they see him
Speaker 2: at your show, isn't someone like, uh I think it's real.
Speaker 6: No one no one.
Speaker 9: I mean like I'm cute or whatever, but no one thinks.
Speaker 6: That he really wants to date me. They were like
Speaker 6: that movie was straight up fiction.
Speaker 9: Like all my friends were like, Ali, You're you're cute,
Speaker 9: but you ain't that cute.
Speaker 3: You have fans of your stand up, you have fans.
Speaker 2: Of your movies, but a book is a very different
Speaker 2: medium for us to engage. Ali Wong in your first book,
Speaker 2: and it's also an interesting style of book.
Speaker 3: You've written.
Speaker 2: This book, Dear girls, it's specifically written to your children.
Speaker 6: Letters to my two daughters.
Speaker 9: I have two girls who are under the age of four,
Speaker 9: and the first one was in that striped dress when
Speaker 9: I filmed Baby Cobra, and the second ones in the
Speaker 9: lepard dress. And they're very aware of it too, like
Speaker 9: they know which which ones they were. And uh, I
Speaker 9: wanted to My dad wrote me this letter before he
Speaker 9: passed away, and my real name is Alexandra, and it
Speaker 9: was started with dear Alexandra, and he like reflected a
Speaker 9: lot on our relationship and how I had affected his life.
Speaker 6: And it was a short letter and I love it
Speaker 6: so much.
Speaker 9: Wow, But I wish that he had written me more,
Speaker 9: because after he passed it was too late to ask
Speaker 9: him all these questions about who when he when I
Speaker 9: was born, like he was already the successful antesesiologist. And
Speaker 9: in the same way like when my girls were born.
Speaker 9: They only know me after I filmed those two specials,
Speaker 9: and they don't know like what it took for me
Speaker 9: to get where I am and how I was.
Speaker 6: The grind before.
Speaker 9: And I think that's so that's such an important life
Speaker 9: lesson and I want them to know that I wasn't
Speaker 9: you know that I struggled a lot and then I
Speaker 9: had to work really hard.
Speaker 2: So it really is an interesting book because you know
Speaker 2: when when when I first got the book, they're like,
Speaker 2: oh no, Ali wrote this for her two daughters, and
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, it's gonna be like a cute,
Speaker 2: little like kids book.
Speaker 3: Oh no.
Speaker 9: And then she writes about like a rectile dysfunction, yeah,
Speaker 9: like that.
Speaker 6: She experienced in New York.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, this is this is like
Speaker 2: it's very it's graphic and it's real.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, it's real. Like I'm assuming it's not
Speaker 3: for them now.
Speaker 9: No, they're like reading like they're watching Daniel Tiger. I
Speaker 9: hope they watch Like it's so there's so much like
Speaker 9: dirty content in there that they're even more dirty than
Speaker 9: My specials that I hope that they watch the specials
Speaker 9: long before they read the book, right.
Speaker 2: But I mean, as much as it is for your daughters,
Speaker 2: it really is for women in general. That's what That's
Speaker 2: what I love about the book because you're telling your
Speaker 2: story and for instance, you share stories about stand up
Speaker 2: comedy that I would have never thought of and have
Speaker 2: never experienced because I'm a man in stand up. So
Speaker 2: for instance, you just talk about how much you have
Speaker 2: to love stand up as a woman, when like you
Speaker 2: talk about like going to like walking your car. Yeah,
Speaker 2: one am by yourself.
Speaker 9: I think the reason, I think a big reason why
Speaker 9: there are more women who do stand up it's not
Speaker 9: getting on stage is the easy part. That's the fun part,
Speaker 9: and being funny is the fun part.
Speaker 6: But going on the you have.
Speaker 9: To go on the road to be a great stand
Speaker 9: up because you have to test out your material and
Speaker 9: all these different cities in front of all these different audiences,
Speaker 9: and that's.
Speaker 6: It's a safety issue.
Speaker 9: I think that's why more women don't do it, because
Speaker 9: when you go on the road. The first day you
Speaker 9: go out, as you know, you get into a car
Speaker 9: with four strangers.
Speaker 6: Always from your from you, and it's crazy. You just
Speaker 6: like get to a car and I've never met this
Speaker 6: person before.
Speaker 9: They could kidnap and you're very kidnappable, but you could
Speaker 9: defend them.
Speaker 2: But no, but this is I mean like because like
Speaker 2: when we started was before uber, before any of that,
Speaker 2: So like what would be funny is it gets like
Speaker 2: a random town.
Speaker 3: This is what happened. Like every comedian has a story.
Speaker 2: You get to random town. You're performing in a random
Speaker 2: comedy club, and then they just tell you like Gym
Speaker 2: is going to pickup and you're like, who's Jim.
Speaker 3: They're like, he works with the club. You're like at
Speaker 3: the club or with the club?
Speaker 6: No picture?
Speaker 3: Do you know who Gym is?
Speaker 9: Some guy's coming in some like nineteen seventy five to
Speaker 9: Corolla that smells like the ghost of like a dead
Speaker 9: cock expirm and you're just like, are you like is
Speaker 9: this for real news?
Speaker 2: Every time you get in the car, there's always there's
Speaker 2: always like you get in the car and the person's, oh,
Speaker 2: you can just throw that on the back seat. There's
Speaker 2: always something on the back that.
Speaker 6: Throws like old freedoms.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, So I can imagine how unnerving that must.
Speaker 9: Be for a man that's like, oh this is gross,
Speaker 9: but so is my apartment who or whatever. But for
Speaker 9: a woman, it's like, am I gonna get killed?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 9: Like every time you know, you think about that and
Speaker 9: it's a.
Speaker 6: It was like, I think about the days when I started.
Speaker 6: I would never want my daughters to go through that.
Speaker 2: You also talk about like like just the journey of
Speaker 2: of of your rise in comedy. You know, you talk
Speaker 2: about your success, the grind that came behind it, but
Speaker 2: then you talk about like just the experiences that you've
Speaker 2: had with someone.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Many people, in fact, try to reduce you to just
Speaker 3: you know, you'll you'll you'll factor.
Speaker 2: So they went like, oh, you're getting you're successful just
Speaker 2: because just because even now there, because you'regnant.
Speaker 9: There's so many There was a guy who I won't
Speaker 9: name names. He's not a very successful comedian, so I
Speaker 9: don't even know if you would know who he was.
Speaker 3: I don't, but he came up to me.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't know, you're you're out of there now.
Speaker 9: But he like came up to me while I was
Speaker 9: pregnant the second time, and he touched my belly with
Speaker 9: his like fat, sweaty hand, which is so gross.
Speaker 6: To begin with. It's like it's like, why don't you
Speaker 6: finger me while you're at it?
Speaker 9: This is so not okay, Like just because I'm pregnant
Speaker 9: doesn't mean it's okay for you to touch my belly.
Speaker 9: And he was like, oh, so this is your shtick,
Speaker 9: This is like your thing now, right, And I'm like
Speaker 9: I was like, getting pregnant is not rainbow suspenders, not
Speaker 9: a shtick. And then he was like, you're so lucky, Ali,
Speaker 9: because you get all of this attention because you're both
Speaker 9: a female and a minority. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 9: because you know, historically that's always been the winning combo.
Speaker 6: For recognition and success.
Speaker 9: And he was like and he was like, you know
Speaker 9: what I mean, Like me, I'm just another white guy.
Speaker 6: And I was like, be a better white guy. There's
Speaker 6: so many successful There's like there's Jimmy.
Speaker 9: Kimmel, there's Will Ferrell, there's Nick Kroll, there's John Mulaney.
Speaker 9: I can name, like, I could go on this whole
Speaker 9: show for like thirty five days.
Speaker 3: Successful white comedians.
Speaker 2: Just be a funnier white guy.
Speaker 3: Like that's it. So the girls are gonna read the
Speaker 3: book Girls Out.
Speaker 2: They will read the book. Women can read the book.
Speaker 6: Men can read the book. To Trevor. Yeah I did,
Speaker 6: I did. Yeah, I did, I did.
Speaker 7: Girl.
Speaker 6: My husband wrote the afterword too. It's very sweet.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 2: He wrote a beautiful thing about how like you consult
Speaker 2: with him about the jokes that you will tell about
Speaker 2: him on stage, which is really nice. Congratulations on another
Speaker 2: successful Endeava.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you for.
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