You have to hold production for two hours for the blood vessels to constrict. Everything grinds to a halt because they’re like, “Her neck’s getting red!” Then the makeup team flies in, and they’re trying to powder this red neck and there’s sweat and it’s awful. It’s a terrible curse because then production stops. I know a woman whose throat turns red when she performs. It’ll be a nice memory of this phone call.Īnd don’t let your neck get red, because that’s also awkward. It doesn’t happen often but it does happen. You have to be a surgeon with your hands. When you’re holding a mic, it’s even more visible when you have shaking hands. Do your knees knock? It’s the worst feeling in the world. It’s obviously a mental disorder that causes us all to go into performance because it’s terribly nerve-racking. I feel like I’m going to forget all my jokes, and then I’ll shit myself. But doing stand-up sets on television makes me very nervous. A lot of things make me nervous, though not many of them are performance-wise. That is what I was trying to remind myself. I don’t like to do that, and I don’t often do it, but it could happen. Also, on my show, if I make a terrible mistake we can redo things. It wasn’t the most balanced way to perform something, but it’s a skill set I feel pretty comfortable with. There would be times when I would go out and be cold reading on a teleprompter. Then we go rewrite it, and then I say it out loud. We tape around 5:00, so before that we do a rehearsal for camera blocking and stuff around 1:00 or 1:30, and that’s pretty much it. How many times do you run your stuff before you’re taping your show? I just want you to feel comfortable making as many jokes as you can in five seconds without preparing. I’m gonna ask you 30 questions in 12 seconds, and you answer them with immense wit and keep them all really short. I never do well when people are like, “Okay, here’s the fun part. There’s lots of things that you’re physically thinking about, and it’s very uncomfortable. That’s not fair. You’re just trying to stay together and not flash your underwear. Yeah, like, let’s go through each of the candidates and talk about who’s viable. Not me, because I was doing stand-up, but it was her and Mark Cuban - and because Mark Cuban was there, James Corden started asking a lot of political questions. It’s interesting, because on that show they do the interviews together on a couch. I was respectful of touching her body in her velvet dress. I didn’t put my fingers in her hair, but I wanted to. I saw Connie Britton on the red carpet at, I think, the Emmys, and I went directly to her. Yesterday I taped The Late Late Show, and I got to hang out with Connie Britton for a minute. I’m not exactly sure when or in what capacity. ![]() ![]() I think you’re so great.Ĭameron Esposito: It’s great talking to you. Samantha Bee: Cameron, I’m so excited to be talking to you. We figured that the only thing better than seeing the two comics on their respective solo programs would be a conversation between the pair fortunately, they agreed and spent a lively 20 minutes talking about dealing with the physical signs of onstage nerves, why pregnancy can be hilarious, and how to deal with all the odious woman-hating that’s been bubbling up this election season. Then, this week, another important, unique voice made its way into homes and on to devices with the release of comedian Carmen Esposito’s stand-up special, Marriage Material, on Seeso. The onscreen comedy landscape gained a necessary dose of perspective last month with the premiere of longtime Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee’s TBS weekly talk show, Full Frontal. Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson and Photo by Getty Images
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