Your weekly guide to comedy mastery with over 400 interviews featuring your favorite comedians.
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 Ginny Hogan joins us to promote her new comedy special Regression and answer your comedy questions.
Ginny Hogan: Ginny Hogan is an LA-based writer and stand up comic. She’s a contributor for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Observer, McSweeney’s, and Vulture. Forbes recently profiled her as a rising satire star, and she was on Paste’s list of top humorists of 2019. Currently, Ginny is writing YES WE MUSTARD, a scripted Audible Original series about a corrupt condiment company. She’s also working on I’M MORE DATEABLE THAN A PLATE OF REFRIED BEANS, a book of humorous essays, to be published by Chronicle Books in Spring 2022. In 2019, Ginny published a book of humorous essays, Toxic Femininity in the Workplace, with Morrow Gift, an imprint of HarperCollins, which was included on Vulture’s list of top 10 comedy books of 2019. It’s loosely based on men she worked with in the tech industry who were, by and large, annoying. Ginny performs stand up comedy all over the place. She’s been seen at The Westside Showdown, The Boston Women In Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, the Finger Lakes Festival, and the Park Slope Comedy Festival. She wrote jokes for the 2018 Friar’s Club roast of Gloria Allred. She’s also had sketches featured on Comedy Central’s digital platform. If you want to see some videos of her doing stand up, look no further than this tab. She tweets what can only be described as “a reasonable amount” @ginnyhogan_, and she deeply resents the owner of the handle @ginnyhogan. Vulture recently wrote an article about her Twitter account. Her tweets have been featured on a number of lists of top tweets, including here, here, here, and here. Her Twitter is the best way to find out where she’s doing stand up, what she’s writing, and what she ate for breakfast.
