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, Bridget sits down with comedian and writer for The Daily Show, Dina Hashem to talk about her new comedy special Dark Little Whispers.
They discuss Dina’s unexpected entry into comedy, how she started writing for The Daily Show, how crazy the COVID times actually were and how much we’ve supressed, the challenges of self-promotion, being your own brand, and how the algorithms have reintroduced the gatekeepers to the industry because you need people who know how to work the algorithm and that takes money. They also cover religion, those who don’t believe in God but who’ve made something else their higher power, learning to incorporate the voice in your head into your standup, the challenge of producing a standup special, the differences required when it comes to filming men vs filming women, the “Disposable Generation,” raw dogging on flights, and their biggest pet peeves.
Previously seen on series like Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, 2 Dope Queens, and This Week at the Comedy Cellar, she’s also worked in voiceover for Apple TV+’s Central Park and will next lend her voice to Ramy Youssef’s upcoming animated series #1 Happy Family USA for Amazon and A24, where she will additionally serve as a writer.
