Out Loud: A Queer Comedy Podcast · Corbin Willmorth

Episode 5 - Brittany Holden

·1 hr 35 min·3 clips

Key insight from segment 5

Corbin opens Out Loud with a birthday note and thanks everyone for listening. He says he is 25 and jokes that makes him a senior citizen in gay years. He also mentions Fallout season two premiering the same day, then admits he had to sell his PS5 for bill money. The show checks in on its analytics next, and Corbin is amused that the podcast has gone international. After that, the conversation settles into comedy-scene talk. They riff on a video idea about reviewing the worst stand-up specials of the 2020s so far, with a joke that 2020 alone had more than enough specials to fill a weekend. They talk about Gen Z comics and who is actually getting seen online. Corbin says he hates Matt Rife, though not for the reason the guest assumes. He says he mostly finds new comics because the algorithm keeps pushing them at him. The guest says she likes when the algorithm surfaces a nobody with a good bit. Corbin agrees and says he is generous with the thumbs-up for lesser-known folks, especially when they deserve a bigger push in the algo. Then Corbin asks about the weirdest or funniest gig the guest has done. She tells the story of a murder-mystery dinner that paid $300. The event involved private-event improv actors being flown in and hiring local people on the spot. She was supposed to play the host's girlfriend. The host was apparently about 55 and painfully awkward. He introduced her to everyone as if the setup were completely normal, and the whole room stared like it all made perfect sense. The story lands as the kind of painfully specific stage memory the show likes to linger in. The close folds in a Rachel Dolezal joke, thanks the guest, plugs the show notes, and ends with Corbin's familiar sign-off.

As heard by us

A loose queer-comedy hang about algorithms, odd gigs, and scene chemistry.

This birthday episode stays close to queer-comedy scene talk: how the algorithm surfaces comics, which names get passed around, and what kinds of gigs actually pay.

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Why you'd press play

For when you want a queer-comedy interview that moves from identity into comedy-community talk, plus one very awkward gig story.

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