Whenever I do a cover it’s usually an extension of a story I want to tell. How do you choose the cover songs you perform? The only time I ever get a job is when a friend gives it to me. I always walk into a casting room thinking everyone hates me when that isn’t the situation at all. Casting agents know I am just a disaster in the room. Filming is never the problem, it is just getting there. The trouble is that I am three times more nervous to do an audition than go on stage I end up with diarrhea and nausea.
BRIDGET EVERETT TONIGHT SHOW TV
TV has been a really positive way to take me to the next level. I do a show in New York for 200 people and if they leave happy and tell more people, there are still only so many people through word of mouth. Yeah, Amy has given me jobs on her show with small acting stuff. Have you enjoyed more acting roles and being brought into the public eye more? I just kept slugging away on the stage hoping for a chance. Most people can say, “I’m like the guy on King of Queens” or “I’m an Amy Sedaris meets Peewee Herman” and I’m not any of those things. Somebody has to take a chance on you or nothing will ever happen. Has it been hard to brand yourself as a performer? I go to these meetings all the time and they say, “Oh I love you, but you aren’t quite right for our network.” So I’m just gonna have this show that is never going to make it to TV? Comedy Central has supported me for a long time and I was really fired up and excited to do the special. You don’t see a lot of cabaret on Comedy Central they were obviously willing to take a chance. I’ve wanted to do it forever, I was excited and a little shocked. Comedy Central asked if we’d rather do a special instead. I was working on a pilot with Comedy Central with Kathleen Hanna and Adam Horovitz and it never got to a place where we were all happy. How did you decide it was the right time for the special, or did opportunity strike? I was saying I’m not ready, I’m not ready, but I needed the money! Chardonnay is like my best girlfriend, I can’t go out there alone…I need her with me. Marc Shaiman bet me $1,000 I wouldn’t go onstage without any Chardonnay. The nerves go away pretty quickly once you step out and it’s do or die. I have a couple glasses of Chardonnay and go and meet the guys backstage and I’m always pacing back and forth like, “What the fuck was I thinking? Why am I doing this?” I’m nervous, then I go on stage, the footlights kick in and I rise to the occasion.
BRIDGET EVERETT TONIGHT SHOW FULL
I do my little vocal warm-ups and stretches because it it’s a full body experience. You see each other in the hallway and start skipping’ and nobody knows why.Įvery night where I’m going on stage I sing like such a maniac that I really need to take care of myself.
That was my high school experience – doing a musical and then spending the other 11 months of the year singing those songs to yourself. Anyone who has ever been in a musical knows that it’s like having an affair with twenty people, except nobody wants to touch anyone’s body we just want to sing our notes. Yeah, I was also in show choir which was pretty ridiculous but really fun… going to choir competitions and shit like that. We sang around a piano and I would sing the loudest to get attention.ĭid you do drama in school? I think that is where most people get drawn to the stage. I’m the youngest of six kids and you sort of had to fight to get any attention. I sang in the choir since I was a little girl, so I guess it was as soon as anybody would listen.
I spoke to the performing powerhouse about music theatre, Miley Cyrus, and her ta-tas. It premieres tonight on Comedy Central and is not in any way a standup show – producing an alternative cabaret show is forward-thinking commendable action for the channel. Her new special Gynecological Wonder was filmed live and guarantees the spontaneous feeling of a real show. Her energetic cabaret shows are a hit where she mixes song and comedic story with a full band including the Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock. The brash approach means the wild and sexually charged show completely breaks the fourth wall, where Bridget is known to smother men’s faces in her bosom. Wherever you’ve seen her, you won’t soon forget it. You may have seen her on Inside Amy Schumer, singing with Patti LuPone, or her live show at Joe’s Pub in NYC.
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