Debbie Millman
speaker
229 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2 Apr
Debbie Millman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Totally.
Is that when you decided to take your stand-up more seriously?
I was going to ask you that.
How were you able to pay your bills doing stand up comedy?
Open mic nights don't pay very much.
How does one go about creating stand-up comedy?
How did you get comfortable with the idea that you were likely going to fail in the pursuit of being funny at stand-up comedy?
And how do you manage that?
How do you handle that?
What did those first earliest open mics teach you?
I didn't do an open mic for comedy.
I didn't open mic many, many years ago where people were reading essays or poems, things like that, almost like a slam, but not really.
And then after I finished reading, someone came up to me and told me I was being derivative of Karen Finley and I should be ashamed of myself, and I've never done it since.
And Karen Finley, like,
Was your meeting other people at these open mics the way you got into writing for television or was that a separate path?
And was that Wyatt Sinek's problem?
Talk about Wrong Answers Only.
Yeah.
That is, I think, still ongoing.
In 2020, you created a one-person show titled How to Stay in Love.
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