Kate Flannery

And doing comedy live at clubs was a great way to do it. And so we kind of found a funky way to get in. So we were sort of in the cover band comedy world. So we were opening for people like Richard Cheese, for the Dan Band, for Pebbles Pity Party, Garfunkel Notes. There was a world of music and comedy that we were a part of. And that was great for me.

It was an audition.

It was an audition.

It was an audition.

And, you know, it's also like I didn't have an agent for a while.

I was told we're passing on you because of your age and your looks.

I think I was like 38 when that happened.

I'm like, what the hell?

But I was doing comedy because I had done Off-Broadway.

I had like a big hit with a show Off-Broadway that we did in LA first.

It was a stage production of the movie Valley of the Dolls.

I had a little buzz.

Like I had some yeses.

I had some attention.

I felt like I was getting recognized in New York.

Even if it was below 14th Street, you know, our show had sort of a Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following for a while.

And, you know, I mean, it was it was good.

And I also sang in a band in New York with one of the guys from They Might Be Giants.

They were big in the 80s and 90s.

Yeah, they had another band called Monopuff, and I was in Monopuff, and we would open for the Giants.