She’s played practical jokes on some of your favorite celebrities, performed insane sketches with comedic legends, and continues to make audiences laugh all night long in the Los Angeles comedy scene. Not Cool w/ Sarah Hyland is a weekly podcast where comedian/actress Sarah Hyland sits down with her favorite friends, comedians, and entertainment figures to give you all of their opinions on the coolest and uncoolest topics and trends from the 90’s through today.
Sarah Hyland: Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Sarah grew up performing and creating characters for her family to make them laugh. It worked and she knew that was her mission in life, to make people laugh. Hyland’s comedy career started when she was living in Chicago while attending The Art Institute. She worked at a juice bar next to Zanies Comedy Club. Sarah was inspired by the comedians that would come into her work like Doug Stanhope, Lewis Black and Victoria Jackson.
She started at Second City Chicago and quickly moved to LA after dropping out of art school to pursue comedy. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Hyland continued her improv education at Second City LA, UCB and The Groundlings. She scored a series regular role on MTV’s Punk’d and Fox MADTv. Sarah been performing stand-up regularly at the World Famous Comedy Store in West Hollywood. Opeing for Margaret Cho and The Kims of Comedy with Bobby Lee. Hyland continues to perform at clubs all over Los Angeles and the country.
In this week’s episode, Hyland sits down with comedian/writer/podcaster Chase O’Donnell to talk comedy, life, art and more!
Chase O’Donnell: Chase O’Donnell is an LA-based comedian, actress, and writer. She currently features for Christina P. across the US. Her two-person comedy show ‘Too Blondes’ won the Broadway World Award and received praise in the New York Times. Chase has been a fan favorite on notable podcasts including “Dr. Drew After Dark” and “Where My Mom’s At”.
She also writes for National Lampoon’s Final Edition Podcast. Chase was chosen for Best of Fest in the Burbank Comedy Festival and won the famous Uncle Clyde’s Comedy Contest. She enjoys tea, rainbows, and Disney Plus in no particular order.
Chase has recently performed live on the very popular internet stand-up comedy series “Don’t Tell Comedy” and her most recent comedy special “People Pleaser” is hysterically brilliant and is getting rave views such as in Paste Magazine.
“O’Donnell’s writing is effective in introducing us to her as a comedian and a person. People Pleaser proves just how much O’Donnell deserves a full hour to properly showcase her talent.”
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