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, Rachel Feinstein sits down with Bridget for a hilarious comparison of their lives. They relate over what disasters they are while they’re both married to super-organized men, their confident toddlers, their similar moms, Rachel’s fireman husband and Bridget’s fireman brother, and why neither one of them likes to tell other moms that she’s a comedian. They talk about their previous dating lives, their affinity for working class alcoholics, how their husbands keep them together, how Rachel got into comedy, and the mean nickname the kids in her class called her when she was seven.
AV Club says “Feinstein’s acute observations create silly, sympathetic characters keeping her subtly, exquisitely attuned to her audience.” She has had three Comedy Central specials, including her one hour special Amy Schumer Presents Rachel Feinstein: Only Whores Wear Purple.
Most recently, Rachel was featured on Amy Schumer’s Parental Advisory which was filmed as part of Netflix Is a Joke and released on the platform June 2022.
Rachel appeared on the first season of Life & Beth for Hulu. She also recurred on the Steven Soderbergh Amazon series Red Oaks and on Judd Apatow’s HBO comedy Crashing. Her past credits include Trainwreck, Top Five, The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
She has co-hosted The View on multiple occasions and several appearances on Inside Amy Schumer which she also contributed to as a writer. You may also remember Rachel co-hosting alongside Shaq on Upload with Shaquille O’Neal. Feinstein has also lent her voice to Adult Swim’s Venture Brothers and the phenomenally successful Grand Theft Auto video game franchise.
