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TARA CANNISTRACI: From Bronx Roots to Comedy That Heals | EPISODE 13
In this episode of The BASIC Show, stand-up comedian Tara Cannistraci joins host Viktorija Pashuta to share her journey from Bronx roots and Italian heritage to becoming a touring comic with a viral online following. With a background in counseling, Tara brings empathy and sharp instincts to the stage, showing that comedy can be both hilarious and healing.
From unfiltered stories about marriage and self-worth to insights on hecklers, social media hate, and the responsibility comedians carry — Tara opens up with honesty, humor, and heart.
You’ll learn:
· Why comedians feel a responsibility to help audiences escape and heal through laughter
· How Tara built her career from New York clubs to national tours in Tulsa, Atlanta, and beyond
· The role empathy and intuition play in connecting with people on and off stage
· Why self-respect (even in sweatpants) changes how the world treats you
· What marriage has taught her about compromise, confidence, and being truly seen
· How to turn pain, family struggles, and vulnerability into comedy that resonates
This episode blends unfiltered comedy, life lessons, and empowering conversation about resilience, relationships, and self-respect.
🎙️ The BASIC Show is hosted by Viktorija Pashuta — Editor-in-Chief of BASIC Magazine.
📍 Recorded at The Maybourne Beverly Hills
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Comedy will always humble you. I moved across the country to do a show in a furniture store. Yes. You think you're a star and then you struggle for 10 years. My dad has been, is an alcoholic. And I made very surface level jokes about it.
SPEAKER_02:And
SPEAKER_01:I never really dug deep. I'm gonna wear the silk pajamas to bed. And I'm gonna, every day is a special occasion. Nobody's ever too busy to make you a product. When they're really interested in you. When they're really into you. You have to Pick somebody who's gonna choose you, choose you when you're ugly. Do
SPEAKER_00:you believe that if you're not looking,
SPEAKER_01:you're gonna find something? We're loud, we're passionate, we're funny in our own... I'm like, all the haters that are commenting, I'm like, you're helping the video go further. When I meet people who tell me they don't have social media, I'm like, you are my idol.
SPEAKER_00:They say luxury is a lifestyle. I say it's a mindset. And this one comes with room service. Here at the Mayborn, where European charm meets California flair, I don't just check in, I reset. Because real power isn't loud. It's knowing when to ghost the noise and draft something far more lasting behind the scenes. The Mayborn, Beverly Hills.
SPEAKER_02:welcome
SPEAKER_00:to the basic show we have here tara Oh my god, yes! Even
SPEAKER_01:with your accent, that was incredible! I have doctors born here that can't say that. Thank
SPEAKER_00:you. I'm going to practice, Kenneth Tracy. Okay, I love your last name. It was just very sexy. Thank
SPEAKER_01:you. I hated it growing up, but
SPEAKER_00:now I like it. Yeah, so I want to talk about how we actually met. It's such a funny story. I went to a comedy show by Don't Tell Comedy, which happened in the furniture store.
SPEAKER_01:Comedy will always Please humble you. I moved across the country to do a show in a furniture store. Yes.
SPEAKER_00:And then I was thinking about you. I'm like, oh my God, this woman, she's like petite. She's sexy. She's super funny. And she's against all this man comedian. And I was thinking you should be on the show. And then all of a sudden, literally like two weeks ago, I'm walking down Beverly Hills, down the street, getting into the store. And I'm literally seeing you in the store. I'm like, is this Tara? And I even forgot your name. I'm like, I know you. I know you. I know you. I want you to be on the show. That's what we met right in the store.
SPEAKER_01:So it was just, it's one of those moments where I'll never forget. Like, first of all, I had been getting my hair done in the area. And I had not felt well all week. And I looked like I should not have been on Beverly Hills. No, you were not. You were really cute. It was not my finest moment. It was like sweatpants, no makeup on. And I was filming my special the following week. And I wanted to get a belt in that store. It's Le Jeans. Mm-hmm. And, well, I think that's how you say it. I don't even know what the name of the store was. And I was like, you know what? The store's right here. Let me just run in. Nobody's going to know who I am. And I go in the store and you come over to me so eloquently and so sweet. And you're like, I know who you are. And in my head, I was like, this poor woman has mistaken me for some washed up celebrity. No, Angelina Jolie. Yeah, Angelina, right. And then you said... I saw your show and I go oh my god she really did like she really knows who I am and then you go I saw your show in the furniture store and just the way it sounds which is not to say don't tell comedies are so incredible but it just you didn't say don't tell you said I saw your show in the furniture store and in my head it just like comedy will humble you at every second that it can because it's like it doesn't make a difference if you're doing the comedy store if you're headlining all over the country like you still perform I still say yes to performing everywhere and anywhere and you mentioned the furniture store in the middle of Beverly Hills while I was in my sweatpants and I was like this is where you are in comedy this is comedy
SPEAKER_00:well the furniture store was actually in Beverly Hills too it
SPEAKER_01:was
SPEAKER_00:so it was a fancy
SPEAKER_01:it was a fancy I couldn't afford any of the furniture in that store so it was definitely it was definitely a high end I only perform in high end furniture stores so if you want me don't come at me Ashley Furniture or Bob's I am only doing name brand
SPEAKER_00:furniture stores we need the finest stuff no that was incredible and so funny how synchronicity works because I swear I kid you not I was thinking about you I even looked through Instagram like you would be so perfect I really want to talk to you because I would love to talk people with interesting stories and you have a really unique story you are I mean let's start from the beginning you are a female comedian and heavily like male dominated you know industry how did you come about how did you even decide like one day okay I'm gonna be a comedian
SPEAKER_01:it was even I mean when I started it was even more male dominated you think now is a really great time for women in comedy. But when I first started, I was always drawn to it. I always wanted to do comedy. I think a lot of times as children, we have these ideas, what we think are grandiose ideas of what we want to be. And then we get older and we think it's not real or it's not, can't actually do it or make a living out of it. So I kind of suppressed it a little bit and did little shows here and there and then went to school and got a regular job. But just felt like... In me, I always felt like I wanted to do it and then a show came on TV called The Last Comic Standing and I was so excited because I had loved to watch stand-up comics and I would watch the show and I would start getting anxious or anxiety around it and I'm like, why aren't I enjoying the show? And I realized it was just because I never started it. So I put my big girl panties on, I wrote that first five minutes and I gotta be honest, once you get that first laugh, you're like, this is for me. And then you think you're a star and then you struggle for 10 years and get stopped in Beverly Hills to be reminded of the furniture store show you did. And you're like, I haven't made it yet. But no, I just loved it. And I said, this is what I wanna do. And I put everything else on hold to really be laser focused, to get a little, to climb up a little faster, up the ladder because it was hard. I had a few veteran comics, all men, by the way. Actually, one woman, Miss Pat, who helped me, who saw me and believed in me and kind of helped me get the next opportunity. And here I am in LA with you. So you're originally from Bronx, right? I'm from the Bronx. I was born and raised in New York my whole life. I still have a home in New York. So you're in between. I come back and forth. When I had first run into you, you asked me if I could do that Saturday I was like I'm on the red eye tonight I
SPEAKER_00:can't but this is better yeah this is great our theme of the show is secret garden so we would like to know all the secrets
SPEAKER_01:all the secrets all the safe words and I was told I could wear pajamas I was like this show is for me this show is for me
SPEAKER_00:yes because the previous episodes we were like wearing 90s suits and you know all proper I thought you know what let's get comfortable but in the fancy pajamas and I'm here for the fancy pajamas you look very extremely elegant and extremely luxurious thank
SPEAKER_01:you
SPEAKER_00:so you offer from Bronx. Let's talk about the audience, which audience or I guess which city is the toughest for you to perform it?
SPEAKER_01:You know, it's so funny because I'm so specific, like I'm so New York Italian. I feel like I was at an advantage being on the East Coast with all these shows. And then I was getting, I started getting, the bigger and the more I grew on social media, I started getting requests and my agent and managers were putting me in markets I normally would have never I never even thought to perform in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Irvine, California, Atlanta, and North Carolina. I cannot even believe I'm gonna say this, some of my favorite audiences. It was so validating. I think Tulsa, Oklahoma was the biggest one where I was like, there's no other Italians here. nobody else even really from New York. And here I was on stage and it was just a great show and the audience was so receptive and they all met with me after and I had gotten the opportunity from another comic who believed in me, this guy Josh Wolf and it was just one of those defining moments where I was like okay, this is like a real career. I'm across the country now and there's not one particular audience I can say was not for me. Now granted you have a heckler or there was a situation in Baltimore last weekend where a guy was drunk and his phone rang and I was like hand it over and I picked up the phone and I spoke to his wife and we got it on camera and I told her how rude her husband was and but all in good fun I hope it was his wife well it was yeah no it was it was definitely his wife or that or what it went really viral right forget it I would have been like the Coldplay concert right right but uh but it was it was his wife and she was a sweetheart and a great sport and So is he. I think in all the years I've been performing, I only had one couple recently walked out in Philadelphia. He was a much older guy with a much younger woman, and I easily mistook her for his daughter. And he couldn't recover from it. And then once he left, I was like, oh, it was past his bedtime, and I made a whole bunch of other jokes. I mean, if it affected him, it means something was wrong. Because if it doesn't affect you, it's nothing. You're sitting front row in a comedy show. show like don't expect not to not be you know for me not to talk to you I really meant it in an innocent way like I was like oh that you're not a couple like I said it you know I guess without thinking and which is what comedy is sometimes yeah the best comedy is when you're unfiltered and he couldn't he couldn't hack it but the audience was phenomenal everybody else in the audience was so great that it made it work it made it fun
SPEAKER_00:I'll be so afraid to stand in the front row I did it only one time and actually it was a female I'm a female comedian. I came with my sister. And I'm like, oh, God, they put us in the front row. And the first comment she said, oh, these girls definitely don't have to work. I mean, look at my sister. My sister's a pharmacist. And I'm like working 24-7. I'm like, girl, you're highly mistaken. It
SPEAKER_01:was a compliment to say you're so beautiful you don't have to work. Was that the underlying
SPEAKER_00:concept maybe? But we were not offended. I mean, I hate that word. But I was like, girl, I work a lot. I wish I don't have to work. But... People who are sitting in the front row, they're scared as hell. What about from the comedian perspective, right? Because you're on stage, you're in the spotlight. Are you actually nervous to picking on some people or it just comes naturally to you?
SPEAKER_01:I think if I'm going to talk to somebody in the audience, it happens organically. I don't aim to do it all the time. I think it also depends on the audience. I was in Baltimore at that show and I realized it was a really rowdy crowd. It was a late night show. People had been drinking and I said they were a little talkative during my opening act and I said you know what they kind of I kind of reel them in I got to make them part of this experience so I think I have a really good barometer to know when to talk to people and when to have them just be the audience and I don't think I'm nervous I think that's the easiest part for me like the crowd work and because I love I love people I find everybody interesting so I think having conversations with people and finding the humor almost anything is like what I do so that doesn't make me nervous there are times especially in the beginning where I'd be really nervous to get on stage even now I still sometimes get like a butterfly and I love that because I'm like wow that means I still really care like I'm not immune to how well I want to do and not even do well for me I think and you could attest this Victoria if you're going to a comedy show like you work a lot right like we all have things going on in our lives people who are sitting in those seats are trying to escape something they're trying to have a good time forget what's going and just laugh. So I feel that sense of responsibility. It's like a weight on me. It's like, I want to do my job well for them.
SPEAKER_00:You know, you're absolutely right. Because going back to the furniture store.
SPEAKER_01:This is never, this show is never going to, I'm never going to live it down. Thank you, Don't Tell Comedy. I am now known as the furniture store comedian.
SPEAKER_00:Going back to the fancy furniture store. I remember I was like kind of depressed and I was so sad. And I thought like, What's the thing that will actually bring me up and just set me in a good mood? And that was the first thing. I want to see a comedy show. And then you don't realize how much impact you have on ordinary people's lives. You think, okay, you may be stressed. It's your livelihood. But just from my perspective, no. It's almost like a life-changing experience. You go there. You feel so great. You meet people. And the furniture store will stay for the rest of my life with me. That experience, I mean... I can never forget that. It was a good show. Yeah. So in a sense, do you think you, I wanted to ask you about your background because being comfortable in front of people and also the ability to read the audience, I would say it's either you have to be a witch or you have to be like a psychiatrist. I have
SPEAKER_01:a degree in counseling.
SPEAKER_00:I thought so, right? I thought there would be something. I do
SPEAKER_01:have a degree in counseling. I was actually a school counselor at one point. No way. Can you imagine the advice those kids got? No. The hard one. Yeah, I'm a very I do have that like sixth sense about me. Recently, a woman came to my show and she was really excited to meet me. She ran into me beforehand and asked me if she could take a picture. But I noticed there was something off about her. And she said, oh, can I get a picture with you? My husband's coming. Can you wait? I said, relax. I'm not in a rush. The show's not going to start without me. We'll wait for your husband. We'll get a picture. And I said to myself, something has happened to this woman or she's going through something. like I just kind of knew it and then after my show she came over to me we took another picture and she said I'm going to message you on social media I had a great time I'm going to message you and about three days later I got a message from her and she said 13 years ago my son passed away and I have not allowed myself the ability to enjoy life out of guilt and it's been a real strain on my marriage and my husband and I found your comedy online and I worked through with my therapist coming to a live show and it was one of our first nights out. First of all, I'm like sobbing, right? And it's really important to get those stories and not that all of them have to be tragic. People have said to me, I had the worst day or my daughter's engagement got broken up with and I was like, I'm never gonna laugh again. My daughter's heart is broken and I came to your show and I laughed. It could be simple. It doesn't have to be something so tragic but I think we do have to find meaning in what we do And for me, being a counselor and then going full-time into comedy, I felt like the majority of my job for so long is like social media. And like Instagram is not as fulfilling as like helping someone. So when you find out you really are in your own way helping people, it's like, okay, I could do this a little longer. I could stay in this game if I'm really doing something that's like helping other people.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely. Have you ever thought... did it ever cross your mind that what you do might not be important as other jobs? In a sense, right? It's like in the fashion world, the entertainment world, you do something which you love, right? Yeah,
SPEAKER_01:people think, I'm like, this is so self-centered. This is so like, I'm on stage with a mic and it's all about me. And I'm like, no, I swear it's all about the audience. I mean, I do feel fulfilled doing it. And of course, I want to be funny. I want to know that other people think I'm funny. You told me, if somebody said you could have one compliment in your whole life, you're beautiful, you're funny, I'd be like, funny. I wanna be known. Even when I was single and guys would come up to me after a show and they would try and pick me up, I'd be like, what's your favorite joke? What was your favorite joke that I said? I cared more about what you thought of my comedy than my physical appearance. But a lot of times, I need there to be meaning in what I do. And fashion is so important to the climate and culture of where we come from or how we exist or past times or how we feel good about ourselves. I feel better in these pajamas, you know, like. But you look fabulous. And I just did a video because I went through my closet soon after I saw you. I think the weekend I got back from seeing you in that fancy Beverly Hills store and I probably put six big garbage bags full of clothes and said, I'm not wearing the ripped sweatpants anymore. I'm not just hanging around in, I'm gonna wear the silk pajamas to bed and I'm gonna, every day is a special occasion. Doesn't mean I have to be decked to the nines, but I want to feel good in my clothes. And fashion is such an important part of feeling good about ourselves.
SPEAKER_00:Not for somebody else, but for you. For me.
SPEAKER_01:Listen, I realize this now, married and with my husband for almost 10 years, they don't notice shit. Can I say that? They don't notice anything. He doesn't notice if my manicure matches my toes. He doesn't know if, you know, I could be dressed to the nines and he'd be like, you want to stay in tonight? And I'd be like, no! Three hours preparation. my hair done and makeup on like but I could have no makeup on sweatpants my hair could be dirty and he's like let's go out and I'm like no I don't I want you to showcase me the one the one day a week I don't look like a complete mess they don't see what we see and it also even if they do it's not as important what you what matters the most is what you see and for me it's like I want to feel good in the clothes that I'm in I want to feel good with my hair done a certain way I want to invest in myself that way
SPEAKER_00:you know interesting you say that because once you start treating yourself that way your surroundings will change the attitude of other people towards you will change because you respecting yourself you treating yourself that way right if you treat yourself okay i'm just gonna wear sweatpants that's fine you're comfortable but don't expect to get you know different treatment from people when you are dressed because it all comes with within and
SPEAKER_01:listen even if it's sweatpants i want them to be nice sweatpants i want everything i wear to feel nice and and look good. It doesn't mean a price tag. You know, I found really quality clothes at a great price point. There are certain things I'm really gonna splurge on because I feel good in them. And to me, that's really important. So I think fashion is so big in making people feel good about themselves. So how would
SPEAKER_00:you
SPEAKER_01:spoil
SPEAKER_00:yourself or
SPEAKER_01:how do you spoil yourself? For me, like my biggest things are like manicure, pedicure, massage, facial, skincare products. I'm a skincare junkie I have every cream ever made to man I will try any treatment laser like I I am obsessed with skincare products getting my hair done that to me is my real splurge and then now that I've basically thrown away all of my clothes I gave them away because they had some really great clothes in there that I I did that like I don't want do I really want to wear this well am I I held up every piece of clothing like am I going to feel good in this no
SPEAKER_00:maybe just emotionally some clothes you get emotionally old, right? Yes. They may be good clothes, but emotionally you're not there anymore. And they may
SPEAKER_01:be emotionally good feeling for somebody else. Somebody else who got those clothes may love the new clothes that they have.
SPEAKER_00:It's just not you anymore. It's just
SPEAKER_01:not me anymore.
SPEAKER_00:So what is Tara's style right now? Oh,
SPEAKER_01:that story you found me in, I shopped. She's a Tara too, the designer's Tara Rudan, I believe her name is. I love like the cute crop jackets. I love the big pants, but I I've always loved that. I'm not a real dress person. Like even when I got married, I was like, can I get away with wearing a jumpsuit?
SPEAKER_00:So speaking of your wedding, I researched, did you get married in the Bronx Zoo? I did. We want to know all the details. I did get married
SPEAKER_01:at the Bronx Zoo. Did you postpone it like five times or something? I did postpone it five times. Not because I had second thoughts. No, just kidding. I postponed it because my original wedding date was June 20, 2020. And New York City... was not having a 200 person wedding in any venue in 2020 or 2021. So my initial date was June 20th, 2020. Then I think from there we went to October 16th, 2020. Then we went to June 27th, 2021. Then we went to September 26th, 2021. And none of these dates equated to me feeling comfortable enough to bring everybody I know and love into a room together when we really still weren't completely sure was going on and there were too many guidelines you know people you know have to have a dance like a marks on the dance floor where they can dance it just wasn't so we waited the two years and had the party we planned two years wow almost two years to the day yeah June 25th we ended up doing it and it was so I very proud to be from the Bronx I feel like the Bronx has a real negative stigma to it so tell us more I've never been
SPEAKER_00:to Bronx where's your accent so I'm originally from Latvia okay but my heritage is from Ukraine my parents are Ukrainian but they immigrated to Latvia years ago during the Soviet time so I was born in Latvia so I'm kind of like a psychopath aren't we all I'm saying that I speak Russian but I ethnically I'm Ukrainian but I was born and grew up in Latvia I can say меня зовут Тара wow very good очень хорошо
SPEAKER_01:I don't know what you said but yeah
SPEAKER_00:no you said your name is Тара I
SPEAKER_01:love that you have actually a perfect accent thank you I took it in high school oh really Everybody else got to take Spanish. They put me in Russian. That's right. And all I can say is my name is. You could probably look a little bit like, you know, Eastern European. Yeah, I could take Eastern. I get Eastern European. I can get that. I get Persian sometimes. I get asked Spanish. I've gotten Jewish. I've gotten, believe it or not, because of the New York Italians, sometimes very
SPEAKER_00:similar. So how would you describe Bronx born American Italian? What does it mean to you? What is it? It
SPEAKER_01:was. It's the reason why I do, I mean, everything, my whole personality was from my upbringing. I was in a very Italian-American neighborhood. I think we were also, there were Albanian at the time, was also very similar in culture. We lived together. But my whole personality comes from being like this big mouth New York Italian, which is what we are. We're loud. We're passionate. We're funny in our own right. Yeah, we do. We have all these, you know, I always say I joke with my hands. But I thought that was going to like almost pigeonhole me in comedy because I was like, and you don't realize how many New York Italians moved out of New York and live all over the country and how many people say to me now when they come to see my shows and I'm like, I can't believe there's this many Italians in, you know, North Carolina or wherever I am, Charlotte. and it's how many people go you remind me of home and so I think that instead of hindering me being a New York Italian is probably the reason why I'm gaining
SPEAKER_00:success you know I'm a little bit jealous to be honest with you because I feel you have that community right you have a community who supports you for me being like a cosmopolitan I don't see like if I'm on the show like Latvia like yeah she's from Latvia you know it's like sometimes like damn like I wish I could have like my community like my people who would be of the same culture and instead me and cheer me up so I think I mean I assume there must be a really great feeling to have people who cheer you up because you're coming from the same cultural you
SPEAKER_01:know what it is there is something about it that people when people say thank you for representing us I'm like us right it's already a community it's a community and I go wow I it also added to the responsibility I felt to not mess up you know and to be really funny it's like there are people that feel I'm representing them. I never even thought of it that way until people started telling me that.
SPEAKER_00:Well, the only Italian comedian I know, and I was a huge fan, is Sebastian Maniscalco. He's like my dream stand-up comedy guy. He's hilarious, but in a way that he's classy. He's like, you know, I could resonate with him.
SPEAKER_01:Which is what I love about him so much. I equate his comedy to almost like the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Because people watched my Big Fat Greek Wedding and as an Italian, I was like, I totally relate to this. And so I think he has a relatability factor to him. And his physicality, the way he moves is so relatable and funny. Even if it's like completely over the top and dramatic, right? It's not too over the top and dramatic where it's goofy. It's almost like, oh my God, I know exactly what this guy is talking about. And so to me, I think like when people say to me, which I I think it's so funny because they only had they only pull from Sebastian right that's the only reference we have of although there's been other Italian comedians he's so big now that it's really just a reference people have they'll go you're the female Sebastian which is like the biggest compliment but at the same time I'm like feel bad for him that that's the that's the comparison he gets no but it's just we are so different I guess in in comedy but I guess not I guess people see and hear that and like you know you know find it you
SPEAKER_00:know the attention to detail is like my sock take this plane into the pacific yeah yes yes he's hilarious I'm like yeah that's true you know it's noticing the little things and that's
SPEAKER_01:what comedy is
SPEAKER_00:right without being vulgar though right
SPEAKER_01:and it's just being observational I'm not really a big you know I don't curse a lot I don't a lot of my comedy I don't want to say I don't I don't I don't like kind of I have find the finally line of where it goes too far I make references that are funny about you know maybe sex to a certain degree but it's not like I'm not a dirty comment it's not gross right I'm not I like that so I think and that's really probably a big key to success in comedy because a lot of people come to see me now and they buy tickets for their parents or they buy tickets for their kids which is like a really good thing if you're making it a family affair I can't make it too awkward for you right so it's like but that's a great observation and that's what we do comics observe every
SPEAKER_00:day so that was actually my next question you absolutely have to be you know obsessed with little details do you make how do you create your jokes do you make little notes do you pay attention do they come to you like impromptu how do you yeah
SPEAKER_01:like my first of all sometimes I'm like I have to get better at writing these notes like I looked at my notes in my phone and they were like I have no idea what I was trying to say here like I'll just get like one word to be like birds and yeah birds, necrophilia. I'm like, whoa, where was I going? What was the idea here? But, so I have to get better at that. But I do think pulling, what people say, and I'll tell any new comic who wants to start, is you start with yourself. Because that's the subject you know the best. And you dig really deep into who you are. Because that's going to relate on other levels to other people. Like, I wasn't talking about being a New York Italian. And that ended up being, I didn't do that until like, 10 years into comedy. Meanwhile, that was the secret sauce the whole time. No, no pun on sauce. But like, that was really that was the key to becoming more popular. But how vulnerable are you ready to get for your jokes? So that's funny that you say that because my dad, but has been is an alcoholic. And I made very surface level jokes about it. And I never really dug deep. I made it like everything's okay. Don't be too uncomfortable. Everything's okay. But I would make fun of him but I would do it in a way that was like safe and now I'm kind of getting to the point in my career where I'm not playing so safe and I'm becoming a little more vulnerable about who I am and where I come from still making fun of it I don't want anybody to leave a comedy show being sad but I'm being a little bit more honest about it and that for some people is really refreshing because some people go oh I had a dad like that or I had a you know grandma I had I had that similar
SPEAKER_00:experience but how much volume How vulnerable are you willing to get for hype? You know, for hype or for likes? Do you believe the comedy shows should be so open and honest and raw just to get that attention?
SPEAKER_01:No, you better be funny. And I think Jerry Seinfeld said something like the more daring or like, I forget the exact word he used, the funnier it better be. People are coming to a comedy show. People are coming to, like I said, escape. So if I'm going to talk about something really raw and honest, I'm going to do it in a way that makes you know I am okay and this is funny. I'm not into the, I'm not doing a spoken word performance. I'm not doing poetry. I'm not doing anything dramatic other than my mannerisms, which may be a little extreme. I do believe comedy should be funny. And also not protective of of certain things. I think there's a real fine line with cancel culture, which I think there's a real pushback now from it. Because we realize we're all there for the same reason, which is to have a good time. And any seasoned comic is gonna make fun of somebody in the right way. So. There's always gonna be somebody who's gonna get offended by
SPEAKER_00:something. Then don't come to a comedy show. Then don't come. So is there
SPEAKER_01:anything that can offend you personally? No, I think personally I get offended when people make fun of the or I think that Italian Americans are like the one ethnicity that people really don't mind leaning in on and making fun of and they they have us look outlandish and sometimes you know uneducated or they make fun of us like we're these goombas which some of us are right like what is a goombas like like like you know just like kind of like a ratchet yeah like just like you know like a lower class like they have a car loud mama saying like Sopranos. Sopranos, so is it the Bronx Italian mobs? Well, that was Jersey Italian, but very similar. Yeah, Sopranos was Belleville. But, and everybody laughs about it. You know, there was a football player on the Giants who was Italian and everybody was making fun of him and, you know, and it's okay. But I think today, everybody's so hypersensitive and so protective about hurting any other ethnicity's feelings that they would never do it, you know, publicly like that. whereas Italians we're still great sports about it and we still aren't getting offended so easily I
SPEAKER_00:feel like as humans we always need to be bitching about something all the time I used to joke and say if tomorrow we announce that there will be a war between vegetarians and carnivores there's gonna be a flag a team yeah people go hard freaking rallies and things like that so we have to be aware you know things we hear and how it affects us right
SPEAKER_01:and also like take a second before you're offended. You know, like there's always two sides to a certain scenario. Ask why actually defends you. Why are you being why are you so upset by this? You know, even somebody got annoyed in the comments when I answered the cell phone. They're like, but if a male comic did that to a woman in the audience, it wouldn't be the same. And I was like, you're complaining about how offended people get and you're being offended. Like, just it's, it's I answered the guy's phone. He was a great sport. She was a great sport. Why did you have to turn it around? and say, but if you were a man and the guy was a woman, that's not what happened. Why are you so offended by that? So yeah, people will find a way. I did, I'll leave you with this, I did a, also I talk really fast. Am I talking really fast? No, no, you talk great. I love this. The
SPEAKER_00:speed is perfect.
SPEAKER_01:I did a video. I was on my honeymoon in Sicily and there was a beautiful golf course in Sciacca, Sicily. And my husband said, why don't you come I want to shoot a few rounds. I said, all right, I'll come. It's my honeymoon, right? I'll do what you know. I'll drive over the cart with you. And it was beautiful. I mean, there was wine. There was pizza on the course. There was things for me to do. But I said, I'm going to take my phone out. I said, and I'm going to make a few. I'm going to video us doing it. And I made simple observations about golf. Are you familiar with golf? Because I wasn't. Yeah, a little bit. But I would just say things to him. Old people sport. Yeah, I was like, why are you? I'd be like, why are you? hitting so many balls or why can't you just hit the ball straight? That's what she said. But I would just state these little simple things. This video went so viral. I mean maybe now across platforms maybe 20 million views. Like that's how crazy this video went. And people who loved comedy or loved that I was being like an Italian wife on the golf course were like this is hilarious. This is so funny. And then PGA golf memes reposted it. And the hate I got on this reel where you can clearly see I'm a comedian. My husband's hitting the ball in the thing and I'm like, two-pointer, foul ball. I'm screaming completely idiotic things. Other sports references, I'm complaining, I'm laying out on the field trying to get the sun. I'm like, where's the spot? It said golf and spa. And people in the comments were like, I would rap it. a nine iron around her forehead. Her husband should drive the golf cart off a cliff. The comments were so visceral. They were so mean. And I
SPEAKER_00:was like... But have you been on the other side? Have you actually ever in your life under fake profile tried to comment something negative? No. So I tried under my profile and I remember I had a bad day. I tried to type in. I'm like, okay, come on, hold on. I erased it. I'm like, this is not what I want to put my energy into, right? Speaking of those haters, they have to question what they're spending their lifetime minutes, precious minutes on.
SPEAKER_01:100%. Like there are times people write like diatribes and I'm like, you have so much time on your hands. Or I'll respond to people. I'll correct their... I'll like do... I mess with people back a little bit. I should also ask myself why I'm getting so offended by somebody else being offended. It has the algorithm. It does. I'm like, all the haters that are commenting, I'm like, you're helping the video go further. Like, I don't know if... I'll say that to some people. I'll be like, thank you so much for all of these mean words. They've helped the video go further. Like, I don't even know if they're understanding what I'm saying, but I just keep throwing it back. I put hearts in the comments so that the... algorithm thinks I'm saying something nice.
SPEAKER_00:And they'll see more of your content. Yes, and I'm like, yes, I
SPEAKER_01:respond to everyone, good, bad, and ugly. And I've really become less offended now. Like when I see the mean comments, it's hard. When you first, like you're vulnerable online. People will make fun of the way I look, the way I sound, but you know, nobody's safe from it. People will make fun of you any chance they get. They will find the one thing they think you're insecure about and go for it. I don't, it doesn't faze me anymore. If I read too many a day I'll go I don't want this subconsciously in my head so sometimes I'll steer away from the comments but for the most part I go right back
SPEAKER_00:do you think by getting negative comments it means you made it I mean it's kind of like you made it you know if you are doing things that nobody's interested about nobody's gonna
SPEAKER_01:comment if I've created this much passion right good or bad it's where
SPEAKER_00:something's working but I must I can't even imagine Imagine being a public person. And we're not robots, right? Like, for example, recent campaign with Sydney Sweeney, right, the American genes, and so much like positive comments, negative comments. And then I saw she posted a video crying saying, even though she's a big star, it affects her, right? We're humans. And I think it's important to really spread the message that, okay, you're sitting behind the screen, right behind the phone, nobody sees you. But your words that you just typed in, you know, and forgot about them might influence and impact somebody to the point that, you know, they may commit suicide. or there were cases. There has been. Cyberbullying is
SPEAKER_01:a huge, so many, and especially young kids have killed themselves through cyberbullying. And just because somebody's at a certain level of success or fame doesn't mean they're immune to that. You know, I think even the actress in Light Lotus really came down on SNL because of how they made fun of her teeth and her aesthetic. Meanwhile, she's beautiful, but that didn't stop her from being upset about it. It's like at the end of the day, before you hit those keywords, remember you're speaking to another human being with a heart, with parents, with kids, whatever it may be. I think we feel so safe and so nobody can touch me as I put these things. Some woman came at me really hard telling me that she hopes that I can never have kids and that if I did, a girl, that she would die. It was one of the worst messages I'd ever seen. I didn't really get upset, but I said, there's something really wrong with her. And unfortunately for her, her profile had been made public, and I contacted her employer. I said, she works with, you know, in an environment with other people, and I think that somebody who, and I never, like, the Italians never rat anybody out. She was very young, and I said, I don't think you should come down, she's young, and I just think that she should know that anything she puts out there, I used to tell this to my kids, what you put on on social media is gonna last with you forever. Be careful with your pictures and your boyfriends that you trust, that you do things with, that are videoing you. What you do can live with you forever. And in 20 years from now, you may want to forget that you did that. And so I think it was just a lesson for her that it's like, you just can't come at people and go about your life posting pictures of you at brunch with all the money you're making when you're speaking to other people the way you're speaking. I don't know how they handled it, but they were like, we are going to speak to her about this because this
SPEAKER_00:is not a good look there's definitely some mental issues have you heard about the case where a young teenage girl was bullied for a few years and at the end of the day she found out it was her own mother I mean sick
SPEAKER_01:I mean people have been catfished by their own cousins like this social media as great as it is and as it's the source of my income now because I have to have my own audience it it really there's a fine line there from like really sick and demented people to other people just trying to be creative.
SPEAKER_00:So how do you protect yourself
SPEAKER_01:from that? I mean, for me, I definitely engage more than I should, but I've got myself to a place where I am no longer believing the words that are there, right? I know myself enough, but I'm a 45-year-old woman. 30 years ago, if I was a 15-year-old girl and those comments were me, I wouldn't have been able to handle it.
UNKNOWN:So,
SPEAKER_01:So I think as parents, people have to be really careful about what they let their children do online. And even adults who can't take it, social media, with or without it, it's not the end of the world. When I go on vacation now and I unplug, it is the happiest times. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love what I do, but being unplugged sometimes is like the best thing in the world. When I meet people who tell me they don't have social media, I'm like, you are my idol. Yes.
SPEAKER_00:this is my sister yeah she's in pharmacy i'm like you're so lucky girl i feel like digital detox it's like modern luxury right you feel so free it's an addiction yeah it is it is especially for us people who are in the entertainment business right this is our livelihood like we communicate with our audience it's our tool right we can't i mean we can't really progress without it it's not like you okay you remove instagram and you know you remove instagram i'm done yeah right you don't exist yeah
SPEAKER_01:It's crazy. Yeah, I'm grateful for it in the same, but I'm careful with it now.
SPEAKER_00:So is there certain restrictions that you have in your family? Like, I don't know, phones, no phones at dinner? I've been no
SPEAKER_01:phones at dinner now. I've been no phones at dinner, no phones while driving, which you think would be commonplace or like common sense, but we all, it's right there in the cup holder and I use it for my ways. I use it for directions. No, I won't pick it up now. And after I want to get to the place where after a certain time at night I don't check it I haven't gotten to that place because I've been doing some late night posts but I want to get to a place I would love ultimately I just spoke to a girl this week I love engaging with my audience people love that I respond back to them some people go is this really you responding back and I'm like yeah it's me I'm responding back you said something wonderful or you've said something touching and I want to make sure you know I've seen you or I've heard you but I would love to get to a place where somebody else can run it for me that's my dream my dream is to be so successful and do all the furniture store shows that I possibly can and you have a clone who's gonna respond but that I have somebody yes I wish it could be a clone but in the meantime I'd love to hire somebody to handle some of the other logistics of it for me
SPEAKER_00:because it could be draining it's draining to have that much communication you know
SPEAKER_01:that's why when people come over to me and go it's so meaningful what you do I go oh thank god you know right now I thought I was just a robot. So what does your husband think about what you do? He's always been supportive. He had to be. There was no choice. He met me. I was a comedian. Oh, I see. So how did you meet guys? I met him old school in a restaurant. Wow. Nobody meets that way anymore. I can't believe that. I know. Everybody's so socially awkward right now. I know. I met old school in a restaurant. What do you think? He asked me out and I was like, no. Wait, so you were already out? I was out with a friend. Yeah. She wanted to go out. I was not, I was, she pulled me from my house. I had jeans on, sneakers. I was not like, you know, hair up. I was like not, and we just went early to this restaurant at like five o'clock. Nobody was in there. And by like seven o'clock, the restaurant was packed. And he had owned the restaurant at the time. And he had sent over dessert to our table. And I was like, I'm not interested in him. And she's like, why? I go, I'm just not, I'm not interested in him. And he, on the way out, I thanked him for the dessert. And he said, let me take you out some time. Why don't you go? Why don't you stay? Have a drink with me. And I was like, I go, I go. He goes, oh, you're a comedian. I'll come to a show and heckle you, which is like the worst line you can say to a comic. And I was like, I hate this guy already. Like, please don't. He already thinks he's funny. I'm like, oh, really? Here's my card with no phone number. It only had my email address on it. I was like, never. I'm not giving this guy my number. And like 20 minutes later, I had an email that said I left my sunglasses there, which I had, which he thinks I did on purpose to go back. But I promise you I didn't. And consciously and he had he had like some awkward guy who now I know is his best friend with my sunglasses on at the bar and he sent the picture and I said that's really funny and I went back to get my glasses and I said okay I'll have one glass of wine with you and
SPEAKER_00:that's how the love story started and that's how it started so it's crazy do you believe that if you're not looking you're gonna find something because obviously you didn't prep you didn't like dress you didn't probably you know thought you're gonna meet somebody that definitely did not
SPEAKER_01:I mean listen I met you that way I've met him that way from now on it's makeup no i just said i was i was throwing out all my old clothes i'm going to get them back apparently i'm only going to be successful in finding things when i have no makeup on and sweatpants that's the best because they like you at the worst condition
SPEAKER_00:you are so they see the real you you met me
SPEAKER_01:it was in this beverly hills i mean you look freaking it was right on beverly it was right in beverly there's no makeup i promise you assure you i was not looking my best in a fashion store and you're telling me you have a fashion magazine in and I'm like what is she is she I was like who is she talking to right now that she wants to
SPEAKER_00:I recognize you right away and it's so I know
SPEAKER_01:who you are and I was like no she doesn't yes
SPEAKER_00:and I'm like the
SPEAKER_01:iconic and then I was almost insulted that she recognized me looking like that and I was like and then you said furniture store and
SPEAKER_00:yeah he's like yep this is it it's gonna haunt me forever this is and here we are yeah but it's it's interesting because I feel maybe intentionally when we put too much pressure we're forced things we kind of reject and push the things that meant for us in a sense or maybe you just were so comfortable you being yourself right not pretentious
SPEAKER_01:I think I thought like it's a weekday at five o'clock nobody you know like I just thought it was like not gonna be anything and then I think too I was so I think I was so comfortable in who I was and knew exactly what I wanted at that point which is why I didn't think it was him that I was like unfazed I was like I wasn't even though I was older and I didn't have kids and all my friends had been married the girl I was out to dinner with was engaged I never want it was never a goal for me and I just figured it's going to happen when it's supposed to happen and when I met him it was just one of those things where I was like I had planned to go to a matchmaker two months from when I met him I said I'm going to give myself the rest of the spring and then I do kind of want to meet someone I it was the first time I felt like I wanted to meet someone and two months before I thought I was gonna like plan for it and like go see someone and matchmaker and you know pictures and fill out a profile there it was eating lobster mac and cheese
SPEAKER_00:wow so clearly it wasn't a love at first sight right so what was the moment or actions or deeds that he did that you like you know what it's like it's it had a switch in your mind that you actually like this guy
SPEAKER_01:so the first date I thought he hated me and because I he was just like he was, you know, a good looking bachelor who owns a restaurant. And I was like, it's going to be so full of himself. Right. And I was like, I don't want anything about this. And I was just like, really, I was as raw as you can be, like just myself. Like he would say something I didn't agree with. And I'd be like, no, is this what you say to women? Because you think I was like a literally like challenging. I'm like, is this what you say to girls? Because they think you're a challenge and they want to change you. I don't want to change you. I don't even like you. Like I was just like, I don't. This is a first date. Like this conversation.
SPEAKER_00:That's why he wanted even more because he didn't jump. He went up. He got up
SPEAKER_01:and went to the bathroom. I texted my friends he hates that he's out with me whatever this guy is probably dropping me off right after this and he came over to the table and I'll never forget he kissed me on my forehead he's like are you having as good a time as I am and I was like oh nobody's ever challenged this guy before and boy did he make a mistake because then I've challenged him every day since for eight years but he it was just one of those things where it was like he was so on board he was so receptive to me being who I was and when I said to him there were things I didn't like about his life lifestyle or certain things I said I'm never going to change this guy's in his 40s it was he said okay I'll make the changes like this is when you want it like when people come to me and say I want to be with this guy or I want to be with this woman but this is in the way or they're really busy right now or they don't I'm like nobody is too busy to pay attention I literally am on a I'm in LA by myself and there's still attention at home like there is nobody's ever too busy to make you a priority when they're really interested when they're really into you and I think my husband had to change things and I had to change things and a lot of times you know I would go okay this isn't a sacrifice this is a compromise because in return I'm getting something and that was kind of his mindset so when people go you know we can't you know the person won't change this or do that or I'm not saying you have to change your identity but like Yeah, it's work and it's compromise. It's the hardest thing I'll ever... I say it's harder than building a comedy career from the ground up. For me, being set in my ways, I was older when I met him. He was older when he met me. It's hard to change and compromise and to share a life with somebody. It's the hardest thing you're ever going to do if you want a healthy, successful relationship. So for me, it's like there's no excuse. If you want it and they want it, you make it work. There's no way you can't find there's no way you can't find the common ground like there's nothing there's no outside factor that should and listen people have kids you know other people have kids or blended families you want it to work you'll find a way to make it work
SPEAKER_00:do you believe how do how important guys looks are to you do you believe in 610 that a 10 girl always should be with the guy who is a 6 and that's for the research the happiest relationship
SPEAKER_01:really yeah yeah well that's like me I'm a 10 and my husband's a 6 but no if you ask him he thinks he's the better looking no I you're very beautiful thank you but coming from a beautiful woman that is very nice to hear but you can't say that because right I mean to me it's like I think appearance and attraction to me is like there's so many factors to it I know aesthetically having somebody look a certain way I was never of the mindset, and this isn't to insult any former boyfriend who may see this. I never really went for like the best looking guy. You had to have an aura about you. You had to have like, you had to have like, I don't know, an energy of like charisma. Like there needed to be something about you that made me go, oh my God, like this guy has like, I don't know, I wanted to feel like mesmerized almost by somebody. And sometimes the good looking guys are so into themselves and I'm like, Boring. Because
SPEAKER_00:they don't have to put any effort to gain girls' attention, right? Usually a 10 and a 10, never happy. You've never seen 10 and a 10.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Happy relationship, right? I
SPEAKER_01:feel like, you know, there are times when I've met couples that I'm like, this is odd. But then you speak to them and you get to know somebody and you're like, oh my God, this person is so attractive to me right now. Whether it be a man or a woman because of the way they carry themselves or the way they dress. I think today, especially with fashion, right? You can make yourself you can make a six look like a ten if they're dressed right right that's right like there are so many factors you're not ugly you're just poor right oh and here we get canceled sydney sweeney i'll be crying with you very shortly after this episode airs i'll be like i didn't mean what i said i don't think petite is pretty um i i mean i think there's just i think everybody has something to them right and
SPEAKER_00:i don't know i think energy is so important even for women right even if you ask the guy the most thing they would say they're attracted to women she's nurturing she's charming she has a sense of humor versus okay she's just beautiful doll right you need to have a personality and energy to you to be attractive there has to
SPEAKER_01:be something more to you because at the end of the day you have to sit across from somebody and have a conversation you know majority especially now and I hate when they portray women as not sexual beings or that it's always men want sex that's not the case but I think there's just so much more to building a life with someone. Like I saw this video the other day and I sent it to my friend who's dating a guy. I don't even, she's not even dating him. I don't know what she's doing with him. It's a situationship and it's so not, it serves her zilch. Like there's nothing that she gains from this. And she'll say she wants something meaningful or like, oh, I want what you have or I want what this person has. And I saw this video the other day and it's like the person you marry may have to see you through the death of both of your parents or they may have to be there and speak for you when you're too you know upset or you know they may have to talk to a doctor for you or they like pick who like yes there's one thing about attraction but like to sustain a relationship through and grow with somebody there are so many other factors like I have goosebumps the way you say it it's you know you have to pick a person who's just on your team at the end of the You have to pick somebody who's going to choose you, choose you when you're ugly, because that doesn't just mean in ripped sweatpants when you're having a, I get really bad PMDD, which is like, you know, PMS on steroids. You know, like I could be ugly in a lot of other ways other than appearance, right? It could be you at your worst, you sad, you upset, you know. To me, it's like you have to pick somebody that's still going to say, I want what's best for you. I want what's best for us. I choose you. I choose you, I choose our marriage. That's not easy to do every single day. And if you're doing it with somebody because you think they're good looking, that's gonna fade so quick. That
SPEAKER_00:is gonna fade. It makes you feel bad, you know, at the end of the day and makes you value for yourself. Like your self worth will be so low. You wouldn't even want to, you know, continue. You listen,
SPEAKER_01:you need attraction. I believe that. If you're attracted to somebody who the other the world doesn't see, I brought home guys where they've been like, Like, oh, him? And I'm like, yeah, isn't he great? And they're like, okay. But I think
SPEAKER_00:confidence is what's more important in guys, right? You can have the ugliest guy in the room, but he'll be so confident. You're like, wow, this is it. This
SPEAKER_01:guy. Funny, confident. Yes. A little swag. Oh, done. I'm yours. So to me, it's like... There's just that's you have to be attraction attraction has to happen You have to be attracted to somebody that could be a chemical thing so many other facets go into not just appearance But like chemically we are drawn to certain people. I've been in a room with somebody I've been like, oh my god, this guy right now is like Exuding and my friend next to me could be like that guy You know, and I'm like, it's just a chemical thing. Mm-hmm. There's you
SPEAKER_00:know, that's why I call it chemistry Was it like a scientific research? saying that a woman can pick a guy, know if that guy is for her within the first seven seconds. The pheromones or something. The pheromones, the scent, the body language. That's what's saying before you go on a date, actually do like a phone call or FaceTime and you will know right away. I
SPEAKER_01:think women pick up on those things way more. We're such a, sorry not to say this, but we're such more socially, emotionally intelligent in those areas. I think naturally, by nature we are. So I think those are where... is, you know, I think men first see just the
SPEAKER_00:physicality. And I think sometimes, especially nowadays, I feel, person, that women don't trust their instinct. We get so distracted that when we have that ick, that feeling like, you know, it's going to be fine, which I think we should listen to it more. If you feel something is wrong, then probably something
SPEAKER_01:is wrong. Trust your gut. Every single time I met a person that I didn't like immediately and then gave them a second chance, I almost always regretted it. was always like this person showed me who they were or I got that feeling like there would be times where somebody be really nice to me and be like I don't like this person in my in my gut I knew it and then eventually I'd be like this is why I don't like this person and I think now as I get older because I'm wiser and I'm so protective of like the energy around me I've limited access some people don't have that I don't care how close I was once was once with them even if It's family. I limit my access to people. I limit their access to me, I should say, because I don't want to be around toxicity. I don't want to be around negative energy. I work so much that now when I do have the time to be around people, I want it to be really quality time and quality people. And if you, of all people, are investing in your partner who's not a quality person, the rest of your life is miserable. there's no happiness because you're attracted to someone. I'm like, grow up, grow up. You're attracted to him. He doesn't, he doesn't take you. You haven't gone out to dinner. What are you attracted to? Guy hasn't come to your house. You haven't been outside with him. Like, you know, find what's important to you. That's the biggest thing. Write down what, what the most important things are to you. And then if, if you find somebody that can't share the core values that you have, move on unless you can use somebody you know you can just you know how
SPEAKER_00:do they say I think there's a word for it it's called pro-manning we were just talking about it earlier pro-manning it's like you kind of probing if you have the same values long term to be in a relationship with that person so you put attraction second but you see if your values are alive if your goals are aligned that
SPEAKER_01:should be the biggest thing trust your gut have a feeling and attraction absolutely but like not if you want to long relationship not even marriage even if you just want like a healthy relationship it should not be there should be important like key factors that make you go okay I can move forward with this person listen if you just want like a lot of people say oh my 20s were for this my early 30s I was like I just want I don't want a relationship I want if I'm attracted to somebody I'm going to go off that feeling but that's why I froze my eggs at 34 because I was like I can't have this idiot knock me up right like I I'm not with him for his jeans. So it's like, so I'm like, I don't think this is going to happen to me in my 30s. I want a comedy career. But yeah, no, I don't. There's no dating foolishly after a certain point.
SPEAKER_00:So I want to test your gut. Okay. And I want to play a little game since we spoke about the gut. And I want to test your instincts. Okay, here we go. A little game. What we're going to do for those who cannot see us, we have a blindfold that we're going to use and showcase you exotic objects. And you have to guess what those exotic objects. Exotic, exotic objects. Exotic objects because the theme is the secret garden. The secret garden. And speaking of femininity and the instinct and your gut, we want to see how well your gut works for you. All right, the secret garden. All right, let's see. Going
SPEAKER_01:back to the Adam and Eve day. here guys
SPEAKER_00:this is the show time all right I mean
SPEAKER_01:you have this girl coming in this is I am a family comic I don't know what you have me doing here
SPEAKER_00:we're testing your basic instincts on the basic show all right let's see I'm ready it's good we're doing it at the end of the show so not to mess up your beautiful makeup
SPEAKER_01:okay luckily this is my last podcast of the day so my mascara can run all right so you can go crazy all
SPEAKER_00:right so we have here we go he's gonna come closer to you and he has a few interesting objects okay and just you know relax um dive into your instinct your feminine following my gut here following your gut so we're gonna show you object number one what do you think i'm not sure we're gonna give it to you okay so what is it well
SPEAKER_01:My good girl instinct is going to say it's a banana.
SPEAKER_00:Wow. Ten out of ten. Look at you. And it's matching your pajamas, by the way. What's your
SPEAKER_01:name? Amin. Amin. I was going to say it was your finger, but... Your third leg. Okay. This is a leaf, a flower.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. It's a beautiful flower. It's a flower.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Good. Wow. So far, your instinct Did not betray you. Let's see. All right, let's get to a little bit more complicated one.
SPEAKER_01:What do you think that is? I think this is... See, I'm observational, right? As a comedian, I'm always seeing things. So this to me is the sugar cookie that I saw in the plate. Wow. Was it shaped as a heel? Close. It's related to fashion. Okay. I know that it was definitely something as a sugar cookie the shape um very close
SPEAKER_00:uh definitely fashion related i don't
SPEAKER_01:i
SPEAKER_00:don't look at you paying attention you could be a spy i i i literally scan the room i
SPEAKER_01:literally thought it was it's a blow dryer i actually
SPEAKER_00:could be if we didn't know what that is actually you
SPEAKER_01:you you
SPEAKER_00:okay so it's a dress
SPEAKER_01:oh
SPEAKER_00:okay yeah it's a dress i wouldn't You were pretty close. I'm surprised to guess it's a cookie. Okay. Well, I saw them. Yeah. Wow. Look at the observation. Okay. That's the skill of the true comedian, right? To pay attention to details.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Well,
SPEAKER_00:okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:No. Put your hand down and pet it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Is this, is this you? Yeah. Is this a shoe? It is a shoe. Am I squeezing?
SPEAKER_00:Okay. Wow. Bravo. Wow. 10 out of 10. So you can take off your blindfold now, Tara. You did amazing with our very extremely exotic object. The cookie is the thing I'm the most proud of.
SPEAKER_01:It's only because I haven't had lunch. They don't feed me here at Basic Magazine. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_00:Well, we have some desserts. I'm going to have a cookie now. I'm going to have a dress cookie. And you deserved it so well. Thank you. Well, thank you. so much of being on The Basic Show. Thank you. It turned out way better than I anticipated. I didn't even ask even one question. Oh, no. But I feel
SPEAKER_01:like we thought you were going to be a drag. So I wrote all these questions down because we're like, this girl looked unhoused in Beverly Hills when I saw her in a fashion store. Poor girl's doing comedy shows in furniture
SPEAKER_00:stores. Let's just get her in here. I feel bad for her. You know what? The questions I had were about dating related, but I feel we went so much deeper on the different and level that many women, many people would relate to and go back into their own experience and ask the right questions. I feel it's important to know which question to ask.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Well, that was great. Honestly, I felt like the conversation flowed. I'm like, did she look down on her paper or are we just talking?
SPEAKER_00:No. I mean, it's all
SPEAKER_01:here. I mean, I couldn't even come up with a better question. I'm a fast talker too. So if anybody has any questions, we're going to put subtitles in what I've said. Subtitles. New York Italian. We're just going to put
SPEAKER_00:words here. Italian subtitles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you did absolutely great. It was such a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you for being on The Basic Show. Thank you for having me. You look beautiful. Thank you. You too. I'm going to keep the
SPEAKER_01:pajamas you gave me now.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah. Sure. You can. It's actually a really beautiful brand from Moldova. So all the way shipped for this show specifically. Thank you. Well, bye. Bye.