Comedy Features
As much as this is a story about a comedian, singer, and actress, it really starts with a kid who wore a tiara to school every day… That kid grew up to be Scout Durwood. Many years before she made audiences laugh starring on MTV’s Mary + Jane and Oxygen’s Funny Girls, she knew that being different was her greatest strength. That free spirit defines her first album Take One Thing Off.
Produced by Dave Darling (Def Leppard, Queen Latifah, Tom Waits, Brian Setzer), the 19-track album intermingles a hysterical standup set taped at the underground Los Angeles club The Pack with songs, “loosely mapped over my life in New York,” says Scout.
“There’s a track for when I arrived, a track for when I started working as a Go Go Dancer, a big breakup in the middle, and my departure for L.A.,” she continues. “The idea is for it to be its own little show.”
With a music video planned for each song, Take One Thing Off undresses Scout’s musical world. Gleefully unveiled first, the handclaps, surf-inspired guitar, and impressive delivery of “Go Go” yield the ultimate “dancing in your underpants” anthem with a clever twist.
“The chorus is making fun of pop songs with love,” she laughs. “It’s fun to say fake words. At the same time, I came up in the queer world where there’s no worrying about being fat, your career, or finding a mate. It was so gender fluid. In the middle, there’s a queer ‘Hey Ya’ moment announcing how dividing ladies and fellas is insane. There’s a lot going on in there!”
In between making Take One Thing Off, Durwood turned heads as a main character on MTV’s 2016 breakout Mary + Jane executive produced by Snoop Dogg. The Hollywood Reporter claimed, “Durwood commits with gusto,” Voguecalled her, “Brazen, brass,” and The Los Angeles Times lauded the series’, “sharp satirical observations about stoner culture, celebrity, the Siler Lake lifestyle, and female friendships.”
Ultimately, Durwood always does things on her own terms, and that’s why Take One Thing Off will undoubtedly connect.
“I think I’m still that girl in a tiara who doesn’t know it’s weird,” she leaves off. “That’s become the heart of my comedy. I’m happy to be different, and I hope other people feel the same way.”
Read the full interview here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/comedian-scout-durwood-on-her-new-album-take-one-thing-off
Produced by Dave Darling (Def Leppard, Queen Latifah, Tom Waits, Brian Setzer), the 19-track album intermingles a hysterical standup set taped at the underground Los Angeles club The Pack with songs, “loosely mapped over my life in New York,” says Scout.
“There’s a track for when I arrived, a track for when I started working as a Go Go Dancer, a big breakup in the middle, and my departure for L.A.,” she continues. “The idea is for it to be its own little show.”
With a music video planned for each song, Take One Thing Off undresses Scout’s musical world. Gleefully unveiled first, the handclaps, surf-inspired guitar, and impressive delivery of “Go Go” yield the ultimate “dancing in your underpants” anthem with a clever twist.
“The chorus is making fun of pop songs with love,” she laughs. “It’s fun to say fake words. At the same time, I came up in the queer world where there’s no worrying about being fat, your career, or finding a mate. It was so gender fluid. In the middle, there’s a queer ‘Hey Ya’ moment announcing how dividing ladies and fellas is insane. There’s a lot going on in there!”
In between making Take One Thing Off, Durwood turned heads as a main character on MTV’s 2016 breakout Mary + Jane executive produced by Snoop Dogg. The Hollywood Reporter claimed, “Durwood commits with gusto,” Voguecalled her, “Brazen, brass,” and The Los Angeles Times lauded the series’, “sharp satirical observations about stoner culture, celebrity, the Siler Lake lifestyle, and female friendships.”
Ultimately, Durwood always does things on her own terms, and that’s why Take One Thing Off will undoubtedly connect.
“I think I’m still that girl in a tiara who doesn’t know it’s weird,” she leaves off. “That’s become the heart of my comedy. I’m happy to be different, and I hope other people feel the same way.”
Read the full interview here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/comedian-scout-durwood-on-her-new-album-take-one-thing-off
Comedian Todd Glass first began performing stand up in the early 80's in his native Philadelphia, personally witnessing some of the greatest performers of that era every weekend at The Comedy Works before finally getting on stage himself at the Wednesday night open mic, Eddie Murphy, Richard Lewis, Jay Leno, Rosanne Barr, Jerry Seinfeld and Gary Shandling were just a few of the incredible acts Todd watched in those early years. "I truly love it more now probably than when I started, I can't get enough of it," Glass says. The veteran comedian had a lot of profound insights to offer on topics ranging from political correctness, freedom of speech, taking personal responsibility for our lives and having the courage of ones convictions. The early years of Todd's career saw him opening up for huge musical acts such as George Jones, Patti Labelle, Aretha Franklin and Dianna Ross. His earliest TV appearance came in the late 80s on A&E's An Evening at the Improv, later as a contestant on Last Comic Standing and most recently as guest bailiff on Comedy Central's The High Court with Doug Benson. But beyond the wheels of fame and fortune Glass is perhaps what most would call an earnest and off the cuff truth teller. Much like Hicks and Carlin, Todd has an uncanny ability to cut through the dross and dig up the bare essentials, in both craft and in life, Glass knows that what matters most is being on the right side of history, comedy being one of the many ways we eventually get ourselves there. "If you don't stop the bullshit now it'll never end" Todd says. "Like anything else, I treat this like the triathlon, just nip it in the fucking bud right now." On comedy's role in our cultural and artistic landscapes, Glass had this to offer, "When you figure out a way you can tell the truth and get paid for it you can see why a lot of comedians in the past were truth tellers."
Read the full interview here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-todd-glass
Read the full interview here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-todd-glass
NYC based comedian Carmen Lynch is one of the most hard working comics around. In addition to touring the U.S. regularly, Lynch has performed overseas for the troops and in Spain, where she performs an all Spanish set. This year Lynch is gearing up for upcoming performances at the Edinburgh fringe festival. Most recently Lynch made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in addition to having performed past sets for Letterman, Conan, and Craig Ferguson.
Recently Lynch collaborated with actress and director Chloë Sevigny on a short film based on Lynch's stand-up, entitled Carmen, as part of Miu Miu's Women's Tales series, in addition to recording and releasing her very first comedy album, Dance Like You Don't Need The Money, at The Punch Line in San Francisco. We caught up with Carmen to talk about the new album, how she got started in stand up and life on the road.
Read our interview with Carmen here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-carmen-lynch
Recently Lynch collaborated with actress and director Chloë Sevigny on a short film based on Lynch's stand-up, entitled Carmen, as part of Miu Miu's Women's Tales series, in addition to recording and releasing her very first comedy album, Dance Like You Don't Need The Money, at The Punch Line in San Francisco. We caught up with Carmen to talk about the new album, how she got started in stand up and life on the road.
Read our interview with Carmen here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-carmen-lynch
For nearly forty years now, comedian and actor Eddie Pepitone has been the heart and soul of underground comedy. Uncompromising, steadfast and determined to get at the thing itself, Pepitone says like it is. When comedy opts for truth instead of distraction it is a potent weapon. In the rebellious tradition of George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Rick Shapiro and others, Eddie proves that comics are just as easily poets and painters, laughter helps the medicine go down.
Beginning in New York City’s improv/sketch scene (where he quickly became a regular face), and continuing on to recurring roles on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Eddie has also appeared on numerous comedy TV shows, including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Sarah Silverman Program, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Comic Standing, Community, 2 Broke Girls, Whitney, The King of Queens and Chappelle’s Show. Most recently he can be seen in the Netflix original show, Love. His comedy special, In Ruins, is also on Netflix. And he has his very own documentary, The Bitter Buddha.
Read our interview with Eddie here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-eddie-pepitone
Beginning in New York City’s improv/sketch scene (where he quickly became a regular face), and continuing on to recurring roles on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Eddie has also appeared on numerous comedy TV shows, including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Sarah Silverman Program, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Comic Standing, Community, 2 Broke Girls, Whitney, The King of Queens and Chappelle’s Show. Most recently he can be seen in the Netflix original show, Love. His comedy special, In Ruins, is also on Netflix. And he has his very own documentary, The Bitter Buddha.
Read our interview with Eddie here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-eddie-pepitone
Comedian, actress and writer, Erica Rhodes got a very unique start in show business. By age ten she was voicing the on air conscience of Garrison Keillor for A Prairie Home Companion, staying on through the years and eventually even writing skits for the show, performing on stage with the likes of Meryl Streep and Martin Sheen.
Rhodes has made recent appearances on ABC’s Modern Family, Fox’s New Girl, IFC’s Comedy Bang Bang and Comedy Central’s @ Midnight and Why? With Hannibal Buress. She co-hosts Bil Dwyer’s Stardumb!, a game and talk show comedy hybrid that has sold out three times at San Francisco Sketchfest, and stars major guest comedy players like Zach Galifianakis, Simon Helberg, Oscar Nunez, Adam Scott, Mike White, and Maria Bamford.
Read our interview with Erica here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-actress-erica-rhodes
Rhodes has made recent appearances on ABC’s Modern Family, Fox’s New Girl, IFC’s Comedy Bang Bang and Comedy Central’s @ Midnight and Why? With Hannibal Buress. She co-hosts Bil Dwyer’s Stardumb!, a game and talk show comedy hybrid that has sold out three times at San Francisco Sketchfest, and stars major guest comedy players like Zach Galifianakis, Simon Helberg, Oscar Nunez, Adam Scott, Mike White, and Maria Bamford.
Read our interview with Erica here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-actress-erica-rhodes
Modesto, California native and comedian Marcella Arguello may be the very definition of cutting edge. Never one to shy away from difficult subjects in her stand up, including gender, race, sexuality, family, politics, pop culture, her wit and humor still find that thin balance that allows a joke to both land some place you didn't know that it could and coax genuine laughter out of you. Marcella made her national television debut in 2015 on Last Call with Carson Daly and has since gone on to multiple appearances on Comedy Central's highly popular @midnight, winning funniest person on the internet three times. Paste magazine would agree, citing Marcella as one of the 75 best Twitter accounts of 2016. Sharing the stage with such comedic luminaries as Bill Burr, Paul Mooney and Robin Williams in addition to opening for David Alan Grier, Norm MacDonald, Hannibal Buress, and Aries Spears, Marcella's career is on the rise, (she is currently writing for the James Corden spin-off show Drop The Mic coming to TBS Spring 2017.)
Read our interview with Marcella here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-marcella-arguello
Read our interview with Marcella here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/interview-with-comedian-marcella-arguello
Brett Butler is an actress, writer, and stand-up comedian, best known for playing the title role in the comedy series Grace Under Fire in the 1990's. One of the first notable appearances for Butler was on Dolly Parton's 1987 variety series, Dolly. Parton subsequently hired Butler as a writer for the remainder of the show's season. Butler also had a recurring role as the bartender in the FX show Anger Management starring Charlie Sheen, as well as a highly charged dramatic role in HBO's Damon Lindelof series The Leftovers.
Read our interview with Brett here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/an-interview-with-comedian-actress-brett-butler
Read our interview with Brett here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/an-interview-with-comedian-actress-brett-butler
