Woke Comedians DESTROY Austin, TX (Episode 35)

About this episode

Laurie Kilmartin joins the pod to discuss the challenges of comedy and a notable joke that gained media attention.

Laurie Kilmartin ‪@lauriekilmartin16‬ joins the pod to talk about the end of the world, how exhausting comedy is, and the time she wrote a joke so good that Sean Hannity ran a segment on it Music (Transdemic Baby and YXI) by ‪@ekkoastral‬ Edit by Rose https://x.com/velroseplace?s=21 Follow / shutup_pod on Instagram Subscribe to / shenis on Patreon

People in this episode

Host: Stacy Cay

Guest: Laurie Kilmartin

Topics covered

• comedy
• end of the world
• exhaustion in comedy
• joke writing
• media commentary

Keywords

• comedy
• Laurie Kilmartin
• Sean Hannity
• jokes
• exhaustion
• end of the world

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Transdemic Baby, YXI

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