Fortune Feimster

I do know U-hauling, yes.

Gentlemen, U-hauling is when you start dating, two lesbians start dating, and the joke is, what does a lesbian bring on the second date?

a u-haul they're ready to like shack up get married lock it down that's why lesbian bars are um few and far between because once lesbians pair up they stop going out whereas guys are still on the prowl guys are bike yeah even yeah even if guys are in a relationship they're still going to the bars they're still trying to meet people they're still hooking up lesbians are like well i'm done i'm off the market let's stay home don't we want to go get a cheap drink

Wait, you fell in the toilet?

Yeah.

Went swimming.

Very beginning. Yeah, at the very beginning.

Yeah. Jesus.

That's fun.

You're ruining my day.

You are ruining my day.

21 years. What were you doing before Chelsea Lely? I was a journalist. I was an entertainment journalist for eight years. That was my day job. And so I would write during the day and I started taking growlings like improv classes at night. And I started my own group. So we were doing shows around town. And then 2007, I started in the belly room at a comedy store.

Joe Coy had seen me do, I had this character, a Hooters waitress named Darlene Witherspoon.

Oh, that blew up. You were her.

So that was like, I put that on YouTube and it was like early days YouTube.

Yeah.

And he saw it and showed it to Chelsea. But nothing came of it for like a year. And then I submitted a writing packet when they were looking for a new writer. And she remembered me from that. Come on. Yeah. Well, I was trying to get on the round table. Oh, right. And they would... Oh. Darlene Witherspoon. Witherspoon, okay. Look at that grainy video. Feels like it... That's great.

I was trying to get on the roundtable back then before I was a writer and they said I was too low energy. So I was on the radar but not enough to be on the show.

Probably not. I was still pretty green. When I submitted the writing packet, I thought there's no way I'm going to get this. They had like 300 submissions. and they narrowed it down to like 10 of us, and they came, I was more of a sketch performer, even though I was doing standup. I had just done Last Comic Standing. They came to my grounding shows, and,

I didn't know when they hired me, they were kind of hiring me more for sketch. Because I had no, even though I was an entertainment journalist, I had no writer's room experience. So I felt pretty lacking in the writer's room for a while. It's a whole different animal. Yeah.