Bright lights, big city, and loads of controversy….welcome to the world we call Annie.
She’s delivered hilarious but trashy details with her friends for many Tuesdays and toured the country with some of the best comedy legends in the world. Now, one comedy’s most recognizable stars is ready to turn the U.S. comedy scene upside down all on her own in the form of a solo podcast.
Comedian Annie Lederman stars in Anniewood, a weekly podcast where the Los Angeles, CA comedian will be joined by fellow comedians, celebrities, social media influencers, and more to discuss life, entertainment, latest news, and share hilarious stories along the way.
In this week’s episode titled We Burned the House Down for Fun, Lederman is joined by one of her excellent friends, comedian Beth Stelling.
As you can tell by the title, there was some fire play involved in this episode, and things got out of hand fast! They talk about Beth’s new special on Netflix, the horrors of freezing eggs, babysitting crazy kids, and much more!
Annie Lederman (@annielederman): Annie Lederman is your favorite comedian. A stand-up comic, podcaster, writer & actress. She is co-host of the hit podcast Trash Tuesday along with Khahlya Kuhn and Esther Povistky. When she isn’t hosting her own podcasts she is usually talking with her friends on theirs. She can regularly be heard on The Joe Rogan Experience, Tour Moms House, The Church w/ Joey Diaz, WTF w/ Marc Maron, among many others. Most recently Annie can be seen featured in Showtime’s hit documentary miniseries The Comedy Store alongside Jay Leno, David Letterman, Joe Rogan, and many other Comedy Store legends. Additionally, Annie has been seen or heard on all your favorite TV networks including Comedy Central’s Lights Out w/ David Spade and This Is Not Happening, MTV Girl Code, E! Chelsea Lately, & Tru TV Comedy Knockout, The Soup Investigates, and Adam Devine’s House Party. After Chelsea, Annie hosted her own short lived pop-culture talk show We Have Issues. Additionally acted alongside Ron Livingston in the 2017 Cannes darling The Long Dumb Road. On the writing front, Annie starred and wrote, Stand Ups, a scripted Comedy Central pilot, produced by Dan Powell (co-creator of Inside Amy Schumer). She also wrote for Impractical Jokers as well as BORAT. Additionally, she was a producer and writer on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Showtime series Who Is America?
This Week’s Special Guest:
Beth Stelling: Starting stand-up in Chicago, Stelling became a member of Chicago Underground Comedy and hosted a Sunday night variety show in Boystown with her best friends, The Puterbaugh Sisters, for many years called Entertaining Julia (Julia was the bartender). The show is now called The Puterbaugh Show and runs in Los Angeles at AKBAR in Silver Lake the first Sunday of every month.
Beth was named “Best Stand-up Comedian in Chicago” by The Chicago Reader in 2010. Soon after she was a New Face of Comedy in Montreal’s renowned Just for Laughs Festival and re-located to Los Angeles in 2011. Within her first year in L.A., Beth made her late night TV debut on CONAN and released her debut album “Sweet Beth” on Rooftop Records. She also appeared on comedy programs such as Comedy Central’s @midnight, Chelsea Lately and The Pete Holmes Show.
Beth was asked to perform stand-up on Jimmy Kimmel Live after Jimmy saw her perform at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. That year Beth filmed her first half hour stand-up special with Comedy Central in Boston, and Vulture named it one of the “Best Stand-up Specials of 2015”. In conjunction with her Comedy Central special, Stelling released her second comedy album “Simply the Beth”. The Interrobang and Splitsider named it one of the top ten albums of 2015. Her second half hour stand-up special was filmed in L.A. and is now streaming on Netflix as part of The Standups series (season 1, episode 5). Beth’s first hour stand-up special “Girl Daddy” produced by Conan O’Brien and Team Coco is available now on HBO Max. The New York Times called it “The Best Debut Special of the year,” adding, “It’s a virtuosic performance, conversational while dense with jokes.”
As a writer, Beth has written on I Love You America with Sarah Silverman, The Last O.G. on TBS, HBO’s Crashing, Another Period on Comedy Central, Apple’s upcoming animated series Strange Planet and she is currently writing for season 8 of Rick and Morty for Adult Swim. Beth is a go-to hire for punch-up on features, after getting her start as an on-set writer and Associate Producer for the hit summer film Good Boys written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
On the acting front, Beth has a recurring role on Peacock’s comedy Rutherford Falls opposite Ed Helms and Jana Schmieding. She can also be seen in season 2 of Amazon’s series Red Oaks opposite Jennifer Grey, as well as guest starring on Comedy Central’s series Corporate. You’re welcome to listen to Beth’s podcast (hosted with her mom Diane) called We Called Your Mom which has two seasons on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Checkout more episodes of Anniewood featuring Beth Stelling, Jetski Johnson, and Josh Potter, along with news including tour dates from Annie Lederman here.
