Maria Semple
speaker
519 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Maria Semple’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I kind of, like, fully shut it out.
I just thought...
Right.
And you keep going and that's what it was.
And then when Me Too happened, it just really blew everything open because suddenly there's words for it.
That's right.
And there's a whole different framework to look at it.
That's right.
And to me, what I went through at the time was that I felt really kind of guilty for being part of the system, which was just to kind of be on these shows.
And I feel like comedy at the time, really, there was so much misogyny in it.
And I didn't...
I can't say that it made me feel really bad about myself and I thought there was anything wrong with it.
Like I thought that was comedy.
I thought that's what you had to do to be a comedy writer.
I was often the only woman on the writing staff or one of two.
And so I just kind of went along with it.
And so I felt really guilty for being part of that, but also I felt really angry about what had happened to me.
And so this combination of like guilt and rage- All of that gets- Yeah.
So I thought like, wow, there's something right about it.
So I usually start with my protagonist.
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