#overcoat of bo burnham

[standupcomedyhistorian]

It's still Kate Berlant Month on my website, and I have a new article up: 10 fun facts about Kate!

You can find out about her acting career, her amazingly creative family (hint: they have a connection to the king of mockumentaries haha), and her relationships with other famous comedians, including Bo Burnham (she says he runs comedy right now lol), Reggie Watts, Rory Scovel, Sarah Silverman, and site-favorite Maria Bamford.

Enjoy, and keep it here for more Kate Berlant and comedy fun! ✌🏼🐔

[tandonshows]

Hello! It's me, Marissa Tandon, and I want to tell you about my new thing. Sappy text post incoming.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on this website, keyboard smashing and meta tagging (and, ok, sometimes horny tagging, let's be honest with ourselves) about my favorite movies and TV shows. During the day, I spent hours trying to work through high school and extra curricular activities with the looming threat of applying to college very much breathing down my neck. And then after (and, okay, sometimes during) I consumed media and talked about it online like it was the elixir of the gods, escapism, and mental health.

I put a lot of that feeling into my latest audio drama, That Vampire Show, and into Kat's journey. But when I made that show, I also found myself so nervous to talk about it. Would people laugh when I said I was making a show about fandom? Would they roll their eyes when I talked about fan fiction and the community that can come out of it? Would they think I was weird for finding comfort in absolutely hyper fixating on media?

But I found something better: when I told people about That Vampire Show, they started to open up. People told me about the piece of media that they hyper fixated on, wrote fan fiction for, blogged about, and found comfort in. They shared about hard times in their life and how media and characters and online communities helped them get through it. And, at the end of those conversations, everyone said the same thing: I never get to talk about the stuff I love like this.

Growing up, I used to say that if I could just make being a fan a career, that's what I would do for the rest of my life. I'm not exactly there yet, but hosting You Are What You Love is one step closer to that. Every Wednesday, I sit down with a new guest and ask them one question: what piece of media changed who you are as a person?

They are some of the most joyous conversations I've had in a long time. There are five episodes out so far:

Lauren Grace Thompson (voice of Kat Wright) talked about Supernatural

Mike Schubert (host of Potterless, The Newest Olympian, and others) talked about seeing Bo Burnham live for the first time

Lauren Passell (writer of Podcast The Newsletter) talked about Calvin & Hobbes and Disney

Gabriel Urbina (writer of many things, including Wolf359) talked about Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Ashley Quach (writer, director, and children's book illustrator) talked about John Finnemore

And some more incredibly exciting guests are coming up soon (including Daniel Kibbelsmith (Marvel), David K Barnes (Wooden Overcoats), Molly Burdick (Pod & Prejudice) and so many others!). I hope you'll give the show a listen, and join me in trying to be more open and loud about the things that we love.

If you're into text posts like this, you can also subscribe to my newsletter, which I send out with every episode of the show.

Listen to You Are What You Love here.

[taliawinters]

I got tagged by @copperclawed to name 10 favourite female characters from 10 different fandoms! Here’s some current and some always faves:

Talia Winters (Babylon 5)

Michael Burnham (Star Trek: Discovery)

Antigone Funn (Wooden Overcoats)

Theodora (The Haunting of Hill House)

Isabel Lovelace (Wolf 359)

Bo-Katan Kryze (Star Wars)

Esther Roberts (ars Paradoxica)

Jesse Faden (Control)

Amaryllis of Exile (The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel)

Billie Lurk (Dishonored)

Tagging @loewenherzen @nonbinarycas @silviya7 @benevolentsam @electrictype @deadeelss @interstellarstorms @justalibra @karliahs @mlmsam

[standupcomedyhistorian]

Good morning!

I've recently watched an INCREDIBLY informative interview that I think any Bo Burnham fan would enjoy!

Kate Berlant, Bo's frequent collaborator, was on Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast and she went into great detail about the two projects she worked on with Bo as her director in the past few years: Her FX special Cinnamon in the Wind and her one-woman Off-Broadway play Kate.

Since I am currently conducting email interviews with people who had attended at least one of Kate's performances in New York City (PLEASE DM me if you'd like to participate!), this episode was basically made for me haha.

First the BIG NEWS Kate officially announced—her play will be in LA in the Pasadena Playhouse from mid-January to mid-February next year! (I hope I can get my finances together by that time to go 🤞🏼)

And here are some fun tidbits I had picked up while watching it:

Mike gets asked constantly if he knows Bo

Kate says her special was "sneaking under the Overcoat of Bo Burnham here" (how PERFECT is that!) and Mike calls Bo the "Avatar of Comedy" (is he referring to the James Cameron movie or just the representation of comedy in general? Both? Let me know what YOU think!)

Kate took 9 months to write her play...it is truly her baby! 😉

Kate said she took advice from Bo to focus on the STORY and not get bogged down in minor details (always good to keep in mind when writing!)

Kate's childhood nickname is Kitty (her parents still call her that)

Mike described the opening night of Kate's play as a "Murderer's Row of every comedian ever," including half the cast of SNL

Don't forget that I will have a LOT more content on Kate Berlant on my website in the coming weeks, including the audience interviews, a collection of ALL the Kate images I could find at the 3 shows I had attended, and a 10 Facts about Kate post.

I may also do a Kate Berlant primer...still considering that one. Please let me know if you're interested in that.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the interview, and keep it here for more comedy fun! ✌🏼🐔