Bridget Phetasy admires grit and authenticity. On Walk-Ins Welcome, she talks about the beautiful failures and frightening successes of her own life and the lives of her guests. She doesn’t conduct interviews—she has conversations.
Conversations with real people about the real struggle and will remind you that we can laugh in pain and cry in joy but there’s no greater mistake than hiding from it all. By embracing it all, and celebrating it with the stories she’ll bring listeners, she believes that our lowest moments can be the building blocks for our eventual fulfillment.
In this week’s episode titled It’s Never Enough, stand-up comedian Carmen Lynch stops in for a hilarious conversation with Bridget about women in comedy, their writing processes, Millennials acting like they’re old, how Gen X always gets skipped, how much comedy had changed, and what disasters they both are. They discuss living among the normies, why comedy is the antidote to being butthurt, how people need to be reminded of joy, being a late bloomer, why you’re never really ready for the things you want to do, waiting for the industry gatekeepers, the next steps for their books, why they always want more no matter what level of success they achieve, and how they’re all comparing themselves to Rogan.
Lynch was listed on Splitsider’s“2016’s Best Late-Night Sets” for her appearance on Conan. She has performed for the troops in Iraq and Kuwait and continues to tour in Spanish-speaking countries doing stand-up in Spanish. In 2017, Lynch performed a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with her show “Lynched.” She has also appeared at Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, Moontower Comedy Festival and Laughing Skull Comedy Festival. When Lynch is not on the road she can usually be found at The Comedy Cellar in New York City. Her comedy CD “Dance Like You Don’t Need the Money” was named “Comedy Album of the Year” by Sirius XM in 2017.
