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Hot Breath! is the award-winning weekly podcast designed to be “your weekly guide to comedy mastery.” What started as a platform to highlight Atlanta comedians has since evolved into a masterclass on the craft of comedy that performers and fans alike have voted to be the “Best Atlanta Podcast” in Creative Loafing and featured in Atlanta Magazine.
Your host, comedian Joel Byars, conducts well-researched interviews with comedy’s most influential players with one goal in mind, to educate and entertain.
This week, host Joel Byars sits down with tax expert Tammara Buckey as most comedians prepare to receive a visit from Uncle Sam for their yearly payment. Learn everything you need to know about accounting and taxes to keep your comedy game on point.
Originally from Los Angeles, Buckey is still adjusting to Dixie friendliness. “Being from L.A. you don’t talk to strangers on the street and if someone waves at you you’re just like, ‘Who the hell are you? I don’t know you.’ People here are just genuinely nice.” She’s also lived in Texas, Ohio and Mississippi. “What’s funny in one place might not be funny in another. Even living here versus living in Mississippi, there’s a difference.”
Tammara manages project milestones, workload, and team members for a variety of projects using agile and waterfall techniques, as well as Lean Six Sigma methodologies wherever possible. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Agile Project Manager specializing in process improvement, focusing on fraud prevention. She has over 16 years of DoD financial management experience in budgeting, manpower, operations, policy, and accounting, as well as audit readiness, remediation and response with an eye on fiscal law and internal controls.
With her DoD financial management and process improvement experience, Tammara has successfully led small project teams that address high-profile and complex federal issues. She has extensive experience supporting the U.S. Department of the Army and DoD federal agencies in solving unique challenges through policy analysis, process improvement initiatives, reconciliation efforts, tiger teams, and lean six sigma projects for multiple federal appropriations, including security assistance and cooperation funding.
Buckey’s favorite comics include Mitch Hedberg, Dane Cook and Jim Gaffigan. Since those are all guys it makes me wonder – in an era when Lena Dunham, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy are becoming increasingly prominent – if any female comics resonate with Buckey. “I do like some female comedians, especially Tina Fey,” she says, “but a lot of them have a bad rap of being A.) man-haters and B.) just being bitter about life in general. I can’t relate to them.”
Tammara earned her M.B.A. and M.P.A from Syracuse University and her B.S. in Business Management and Accounting from the University of Maryland.
