Chapter 1: What does Michelle Wolf share about her background in comedy?
break you know people that are like older like in their like you know 60s have been working yeah 50s and 60s have been working at the company like 20 and 30 years and it was just it was a very depressing time um not to mention you know society was also on the verge of bankruptcy collapse yeah and you know um but all the like you know the bigwigs all the banks were like
But, I mean, it was an accident. Right. So sorry.
What happened?
I thought we were friends. I mean, we knew, but we didn't know. Yeah.
I mean, they warned us, but we didn't know. I mean, there was that one guy that made a billion dollars betting on our failure, but we had no idea.
And we set ourselves up for success, but we didn't know. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: How did Michelle transition from Wall Street to comedy?
I'm here by myself to introduce a TCB infomercial Tuesday with a very funny special guest, Michelle Wolf. Just to, you know, let's call this an aperitif after your Thanksgiving holiday.
And as is the tradition here at the commercial break, after any Thanksgiving holiday, I have been in my bed for the last five days with some kind of terrible stomach virus, foodborne illness, monovirus, COVID slash flu slash I don't know what the hell I have. You know I get this every Thanksgiving. After every Thanksgiving, this happens to me. Almost six years running.
Five years running at least. Maybe six if we count the first year. I've had salmonella. I've had, let's see, norovirus went around the house. I had COVID one time. Last year, everyone was throwing up. And it happened again this year. Just happened again this year. I don't know.
Chapter 3: What impact did the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner have on Michelle's career?
Something about Thanksgiving. It rubs me the wrong way. I love it. It's my favorite holiday. And then I end up five days in the bed. Who knows? But anyway, Chrissy's not here. I'm keeping her out of the, as I would call it, peach tree dish that is my house right now. So I'm doing this intro and outro to Michelle Wolfe by myself. Michelle re-recorded right before the holiday.
If you don't know Michelle Wolfe, you should go ahead and give her a goo, as the kids would say. Give her a goo. because she's a very, very funny lady. Very funny human, I'll put it that way. She worked at Bear Stearns from 2007 to 2008 as Bear Stearns went directly out of business.
Chapter 4: What does Michelle think about the current 'offense economy' in comedy?
The business that was too big to fail that failed. She then went on to work for JPMorgan Chase before deciding there were better pursuits in life. And she went on to improv comedy, then hired by, I mean, some other things happened, but then hired by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where people started to take note.
But it was the 2018 correspondence dinner at the White House that really set the world aflame about Michelle. Now, this has been a long time, like seven years ago. So I'm not going to get all into it with Michelle because she's already answered every question about this. But she went right after the Democrats, the Republicans, Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, which caused her death.
Quite the kerfuffle in a good way and a bad way, as they say, no press is bad press. And I have to agree because she, as she has said on interviews before, and she'll probably tell us here when I ask her about it, she wouldn't change a goddamn thing. Michelle has just had a little one, so we're going to give her some grace because she probably has a little bit of mom brain.
I don't know how many children I am in. Nine, 13, something like that. I'm nine or 13 children in. I'm at least three years from the last one, and I still have dad brain.
Chapter 5: How does Michelle balance motherhood and her comedy career?
I don't think that goes away, actually. I think I'm just... This is my fate. My fate is just to be forgetful, stumble around the house, and eat late night as much as possible until I explode, literally. Or until I get another bout of salmonella that causes me to lose 20 pounds. The good news about the Thanksgiving stomach drama, it always resets my weight. So there you go.
Not doing it on purpose. Not saying you should do it on purpose. But, you know, it's good if you can get it and you want to lose a couple pounds. Just...
find me i'll give you some norovirus okay let's do this everyone calm down links are in the show notes as they always are michelle's special is available currently you should go watch it and uh we'll ask her about any upcoming live dates that she has chrissy and i will return this thursday to a live audience on Twitch and YouTube and Kik.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Michelle offer on the importance of making yourself laugh?
People have been asking about the YouTube videos. Those are now under the live section because we are actually going to be putting those out as soon as they are broadcast. So we're recording them and they are being broadcast live at the same time, if that makes sense. Recording for the podcast to be broadcast later on the RSS feed. And if you tune in at that time, you'll be seeing it live.
You can interact with us, chat with us, and then soon you'll be able to jump in the video chat also. Lots of changes coming to TCB. Stay tuned. Season... Are we on season seven? Holy shit. Season seven is going to be a lot different than any of the previous seasons. So stay tuned. But now let's all focus our attention, please. Class, settle down.
Chapter 7: How does Michelle view the evolution of comedy and its societal implications?
Settle down. Put your pencils and erasers away because Michelle Wolfe is coming up and she is just good enough to deserve to demand our attention. Okay? I'm going to go drink some fluids and... Get some Sprite and saltines. You listen to Michelle Wolf, Chrissy, and I babble on. We'll be right back.
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Chapter 8: What can listeners expect from Michelle's new special, 'The Well'?
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And Michelle is here with us now. We are quietly talking so we don't wake up the little one. Welcome, Michelle. Who's with her right now. Welcome, Michelle. Thank you so much for joining us.
Thanks for having me. I feel like you guys are much more quiet with your voice than I am. The sleeping baby right here. I've got to get this baby acquainted with my voice. That's right. They've got to know how to sleep through this.
Uh-huh.
we do a podcast in our house and all three of my children i mean the first one was already born but the other two were born while we were doing the podcast so they are well acquainted with all the yelling and hijinks and shenanigans is this is is this one an easy sleeper is he easy yeah he's a big sleeper loves sleeping oh that's nice he's like an alarming amount during the day He's like a cat.
Yeah. I'm sort of like, are you going to sleep tonight? Like what's happening? Yeah. Okay.
That's the, this is the best time though. My opinion. I mean, they're all the best times. If you just pay attention and focus a little bit, you know, they're all the best. You can find the joy in the moments, at least so far. I only have ones that are seven or below. So when they get to 13, I'll reconsider my opinion.
Yeah.
Yeah. But when they don't crawl and they don't talk back, And all you have to do is just feed them and then let them sleep and occasionally change a diaper. It's such a joy because they really do need you so much. They're just like little cuddle bugs.
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