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Chapter 1: What motivated Beth Stelling to pursue stand-up comedy?
Kings Network.
Yay.
Look how happy she is. You saw that was not feigned enthusiasm. That was sincere. She's happy to be here on South Beach Sessions. Beth Stelling dot com is where you go. She's got a new special. I love the name of it. Before I get to the name of it, what was second place on? Could you name things? Well, this is my I have a favorite thing you've named before. It's not this.
And so I want to go through it with you. But we're looking for people who do huge numbers on social media.
Chapter 2: How did Beth's childhood influence her comedy style?
It's a bit of a mouthful.
Yes, I tend to name things long, but powerfully. The runner up for this one was to the highest bidder.
And what is your favorite named thing? Because I've got a favorite.
The funny thing is, is after you do it, once you have to say it for a long time or people are like, I like this or they get it wrong enough or whatever it is. Excuse me.
Wow. You really let that fly.
I grew up in an all-female household.
That is the best burp that has ever been on this show. You can let it fly in all the ways here.
That was actually a performance piece from my last special. We're looking for people who do huge numbers on social media. It is actually the origin of one of the jokes.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Beth face as a female comedian?
I'm drinking LaCroix and it made me burp. Okay. And then I'm trying to think about my favorite named thing. You just get sick of them after a while.
Simply the Beth.
Oh, okay. Thank you.
Because you've got a lisp.
Yeah. Simply the Beth.
I don't think you've done better than that, but you're sick of all of them you're saying?
Not all of them. I don't know. It's just like after a while they just change for you or more for all those things. I also like If You Didn't Want Me Then, but it's a...
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Chapter 4: What role does control play in Beth's approach to comedy?
What do we call it? Titular, right? When it's like the title is part of the thing. Is that what I'm looking for?
Well, titular, you got me. I've got a pretty good vocabulary, but you've stumped me and now you've made it awkward. Sorry.
And I said tit.
Yeah. And you did do that. And you burped as well. So I'm pleased with your comfort so far. I should tell them that comedian, writer, actress, the thing that you like best of these, the answer is always comedy, right? Stand up. What is it that lured you at the very beginning to this?
Chapter 5: How has the comedy industry changed over the years?
I think I was always fascinated with it, and it seemed so scary and impossible to achieve because, you know, especially back then, there weren't exactly stand-up classes for me or things I could find in Dayton, Ohio, or even when I went to college a little further away in southwest Ohio, so... Um, but it was a friend of mine. I did speech and debate.
I was like in the humorous category, which was like my first sort of foray into solo performance of comedy. And my friend Will Allen burned me the Jim Gaffigan CD. And I remember thinking like, oh, okay, this is what that is, you know, and, and being so curious about it, because there's stuff you just don't know. Like, did he write it all? And he thought of it all and performs it.
So
Those were the first examples for me of stand up comedy because we didn't have cable. So I wasn't like sneaking stand up. In fact, I was never a student of stand up. If anything, I loved comedy movies. So I loved I got my laughs early from imitating Jim Carrey and Robin Williams.
My introduction literally to stand-up is seeing Jay Leno on David Letterman and just having no access to what any of that was.
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Chapter 6: What personal experiences does Beth share about relationships?
Like how it was happening, what it was. Yours, you have no path at this point, right? You're seeing something on television sometimes.
Yeah, I didn't see any stand-up I recall on TV. Like it was always just... Those – maybe I knew they did stand-up or something, but they were just comedic actors that I loved and would imitate. And same for like Mike Myers and I loved Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock. But it was in their movies. I wasn't like who needs – It was maybe until high school.
One of my boyfriends would taught me a little bit about Chris Rock stand up, like who needs jail when you have the tossed salad, man. So it was like that was introduced to me by little bits from someone else. But I didn't really get fall in love with stand up.
until I guess just doing it and I also once I decided I wanted to try it I was obviously scared but I didn't want to watch any stand-up because I was terrified that I would steal someone's persona or like mimic because that's how I had gotten my laughs for so long so I just didn't watch any until much later didn't study and didn't really dream of it didn't have a path and were scared Yeah.
Chapter 7: What insights does Beth provide about mental health and comedy?
Yeah. And I was a theater kid and not like necessarily in the classic sense that the term is used, like which essentially just means like annoying and and overreact overactive. I just studied theater and it was a liberal arts school. It wasn't a conservatory. So I got to act a lot.
But why would you be attracted to being scared of it?
Well, that's not what attracted me. I don't think. I think what attracted me to it was not having to rely on anyone else. That's a theme. Not having to rehearse with anyone. Not having to do material that I didn't care for. Because that's what theater is. You're not shopping for what theater company is doing the play you want to do. You're begging for a role in Euripides.
Chapter 8: What is the significance of Beth's latest special on YouTube?
Yes. You know, it's like you're showing up to do your monologues to maybe be in Birds by Aristophanes and be like, I hope I get to play an emu, you know?
Oh, so what's appealing to you is the ability to do your own thing. Yeah. It's all control. There's no one but you is the master of the creative.
Yes. And it's all on me. I don't have to rehearse. And I was barely getting paid in theater anyway. So it was a way for me to be like, not have to rely on anybody. And, and I've always, I've been like that a lot. Like, don't like, you know, even just earlier, like, I'm just don't, I got it. Like, I'll do it myself. I can't rely on anybody to do anything.
But what's happening there? Why?
I guess... I mean, I'm sure a lot of things date back to my childhood, of course. I think we all have those pathways formed really early. But I'm trying to think of characteristics of me as a kid. It was very much... I hated... having my grandma do my hair. And it was like, I was a gymnast early. And so like, I would like slick back my hair, you know, put it in a tight point.
It was like everything needed to be like kind of perfect and controlled. And I think that's how I feel most safe. So there's probably maybe a scotch of OCD in there a little bit, but I've never been, I say that reluctantly because I see qualities in my dad, but it's more in the realm of Like my sister had an overhand washing thing, but my dad is more like clean, clean, pick up, pick up, pick up.
And so I think that's part of it. Also, we had to live with our grandparents for a little while. And my grandpa was a World War II vet. And it was very much like don't touch the walls, no shoes, use only a few squares of toilet paper. You know, it felt very limiting. And I don't know. I think that's probably all related to me feeling like safe now.
Like I've had issues with that, you know, depending on how comfortable or happy I am in my life. You know, I can tell like if I'm dating someone or starting to see someone, I have them over. And after they leave, I clean my entire apartment. That's a sign that maybe I'm not like super comfortable with them or just in my life I'm not feeling comfortable. Yeah.
So that's – thankfully it's not something I can't control. The times it has gotten out of control, I can notice it. And I'm not saying like it's good that I've never had to take medication. I think that can work for people. But I'm not there. So that's why I'm reluctant to say like I have this. But I notice things getting out of hand at times.
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